A list of my favourite books/resources.

Unix Administration

• Unix System Administration Handbook - Evi Nemeth, ...
• Unix Hints & Hacks - Kirk Waingrow
• Think Unix - Jon Lasser
• Unix in a Nutshell - O'Reilly
• Anything by O'Reilly

Unix Internals

• Solaris Internals - Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro
• Unix Internals - Uresh Vahalia
• The Magic Garden Explained - Berny Goodheart, James Cox
• The Design of the Unix Operating System - Maurice J. Bach
• One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish - Dr. Seuss
• Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition - John Lions

Unix Performance Tuning

• Solaris Performance and Tools - Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg
• Configuring & Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform - Allan N. Packer
• Sun Performance and Tuning - Adrian Cockcroft, Richard Pettit
• Configuration and Capacity Planning for Solaris Servers - Brian L. Wong

Computer Security

• Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (Fiction)
• The Cuckoo's Egg - Cliff Stoll
• Secrets and Lies - Bruce Schneier
• The Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick
• Hacking Exposed - McClure, Scambray, Kurtz
• Tangled Web - Richard Power
• Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schneier
• The Tao of Network Security Monitoring - Richard Bejtlich

Programming

• Solaris Systems Programming - Rich Teer
• The Art of Unix Programming - Eric S. Raymond
• The Unix Programming Environment - Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike
• Anything by O'Reilly

Perl

• Anything by O'Reilly

IT History

• Just For Fun - Linus Torvalds
• Life With Unix - Don Libes, Sandy Ressler
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
• Nerds 2.0.1 A Brief History of the Internet - Stephen Segaller
• In the Beginning was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson

Misc Favourites

• Skunk Works - Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos
• The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Management

• The Dilbert Principle - Scott Adams

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