Complete Guide to Networking
Author: Peter Norton, David Kearns, Dave Kearns
List Price: $29.99
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ISBN: 0672315939
Publisher: SAMS (15 October, 1999)
Sales Rank: 164,002
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 1 out of 5
Save your money.
David Kearns, the actual author of this hound, has produced another of his yawners. He's pointlessly snide and irritating - viz, his insistence on "octet" where anyone else would call eight bits a "byte"- but at least he's incomplete: he essentially ignores Linux, gives the cold-shoulder to Unix, and is flat wrong in his limited knowledge of MacOS. This falls somewhat short of most definitions of "Complete", especially with the rapid growth of Linux as a low-cost network server alternative. If you're new to networking, you may get the impression this book is over your head. It isn't. It is incomplete, irritating, and wrong. Keep looking.
Rating: 1 out of 5
another dust collector
I knew I wasn't going to like this book as soon as the author complained that 8 bits were an octet, not a byte, and to beware of experts who used the second term ('they've been spending too much time with programmers' he laments). I was thereafter reminded of this unjustifiable and incorrect moaning every time he used the word octet. I would have gotten over it if I had ever been distracted by actually learning something from this book. Some people have a gift for teaching, that is, an ability and desire to explain things well, this author does not. I suspect the author's motive here was primarily to be published.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Too many errors
I realy hate this book. A lot of errors, no word about Linux. I will never bye any other "Norton" book. I also tried to get some answers from the author but the silence was the answer. There are so many good book around! Buy someone else.
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