Michael W Lucas

You asked.He didn't answer.The We Get Letters column of the FreeBSD Journal has been called "a tsunami of bile disguised as experience and erudition," "a torment to the eye and a stain upon the soul," and "the corroded battleship anchor that will drag an otherwise illustrious Journal to an ignominious demise." If you ask people who aren't the columnist, you'll get a less luminous view. Perhaps even negative.We sincerely apologize.This six year collection illustrates how rapidly Lucas abandoned any pretense of answering questions usefully-or, indeed, paying any attention whatsoever to his correspondents. It is unacceptable. What the editors conceived of as an innocent letters column quickly transcended bitterness to become elevated, even elegant enmity. Against everyone.Apologies are insufficient.In an attempt to keep these columns from teaching other articles bad habits, we have confined them in their own private volume. The publisher expects it to be presented as evidence at his inevitable competency hearings, as well as most of the civil suits. Next week's suits, at least."While we appreciate Mr Lucas' unique contributions to the Journal, we do feel his specific talents are not being fully utilized. Please buy his books, his hours, autographed photos, whatever so that he is otherwise engaged." - John Baldwin, FreeBSD Journal Editorial Board Chair

You Against the Email EmpireMessage services appear and disappear, but email remains. One of the Internet's oldest and most open protocols, email reaches everywhere. Dominated by a handful of carriers, yet still manageable by the rest of us. If you do it right.Setting up the email server is the easy part. The protocols that support email? Those are hard. SPF. DKIM. DMARC. BIMI and MTA-TLS and TLS-RPT. DNS standards that apply to nothing else on the modern Internet. Block lists. Graylisting.Email is a protocol unlike any other, yet among our most essential.Never surrender the protocols.Reclaim your connections.Run your own mail server.

"Many users assume that their advanced filesystem is better than UFS because they have so many features-snapshots, checksums, compression, sophisticated caching algorithms, and so on-while all UFS has ever done is muck about putting data on disk. But, conversely, UFS users believe their filesystem is better for exactly the same reasons."-Hitchhikers Guide to OpenBSDDisk management is the core of system administration. Nobody can tell you how large that database is going to grow or how many files that archive must eventually support, but for everything else there's OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. This guide takes you through the latest in OpenBSD storage management, including: - OpenBSD's cross-platform storage stack- MBR, GPT, and disklabel partitions- The Unix File System- Growing, removing, and repairing filesystems- Memory file systems- The Buffer Cache- Why you need swap, and how to live with it- Coping with FAT, NTFS, EXT, and more- The Network File System- iSCSI- Software RAID- Encrypted filesystems- Encrypted installsAnd more Partition yourself for success and grab OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems now.

"Many users assume that their advanced filesystem is better than UFS because they have so many features-snapshots, checksums, compression, sophisticated caching algorithms, and so on-while all UFS has ever done is muck about putting data on disk. But, conversely, UFS users believe their filesystem is better for exactly the same reasons."-Hitchhikers Guide to OpenBSDDisk management is the core of system administration. Nobody can tell you how large that database is going to grow or how many files that archive must eventually support, but for everything else there's OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. This guide takes you through the latest in OpenBSD storage management, including: - OpenBSD's cross-platform storage stack- MBR, GPT, and disklabel partitions- The Unix File System- Growing, removing, and repairing filesystems- Memory file systems- The Buffer Cache- Why you need swap, and how to live with it- Coping with FAT, NTFS, EXT, and more- The Network File System- iSCSI- Software RAID- Encrypted filesystems- Encrypted installsAnd more Partition yourself for success and grab OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems now.

Become the Writer you Want to Be A hundred thousand gurus offer contradictory writing secrets. You must outline You must free write You must write at a standing desk with your feet in cold oatmeal The gurus are all correct-and all wrong.In Domesticate Your Badgers: Become a Better Writer through Deliberate Practice, full-time author Michael W Lucas demonstrates how to build a personalized plan to transform yourself into the best author you can be. Writing is a set of skills, and deliberately stocking your tool chest makes each piece you write better than the last. Want to be a pro? Use the same techniques pros use.Stop flailing.Start learning.No badgers were harmed in the writing of this book.Contains no badger or badger by-products.Regulations on badger domestication vary by location.

DNSThe world's most successful distributed database-and the most na ve.The Domain Name System is one of the Internet's oldest protocols, designed for a network without hostile users. Intruders targeting a network start by investigating their DNS. DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, hardens DNS and brings it into the 21st century. Learning DNSSEC required wading through years of obsolete tutorials, dead ends, and inscrutable standards.Until now.This new edition of DNSSEC Mastery will have DNS administrators deploying DNSSEC with industry-standard software in hours instead of weeks. You will: Understand what DNSSEC providesConfigure your servers to resist attackVerify your environment supports modern DNSDebug DNSSEC and the Chain of TrustSign your zones and attach them to the Chain of TrustConceal zone data with NSEC3Automate DNSSEC maintenanceRoll over keys to maintain integrityImplement DNSSEC on private networksSecurely distribute security-critical information via DNSAnd more DNSSEC Mastery transforms DNS from a headache to a solution.

DNSThe world's most successful distributed database-and the most na ve.The Domain Name System is one of the Internet's oldest protocols, designed for a network without hostile users. Intruders targeting a network start by investigating their DNS. DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, hardens DNS and brings it into the 21st century. Learning DNSSEC required wading through years of obsolete tutorials, dead ends, and inscrutable standards.Until now.This new edition of DNSSEC Mastery will have DNS administrators deploying DNSSEC with industry-standard software in hours instead of weeks. You will: Understand what DNSSEC providesConfigure your servers to resist attackVerify your environment supports modern DNSDebug DNSSEC and the Chain of TrustSign your zones and attach them to the Chain of TrustConceal zone data with NSEC3Automate DNSSEC maintenanceRoll over keys to maintain integrityImplement DNSSEC on private networksSecurely distribute security-critical information via DNSAnd more DNSSEC Mastery transforms DNS from a headache to a solution.

People want to give you money for your art? Congratulations Now what Business is all about cash flow, and cash flow is just a game. A game with simple rules. A game you can win, with the ultimate prize: a life doing what you love.Ask that helpful cousin with the business degree for advice and they'll gleefully prattle on about LLCs and deductions and accountants and the tax tactics of C versus S corporations. It's entirely accurate and completely unhelpful. Books about businesses like pet shops and burger franchises? Even less useful.You need advice from a creator who pays the mortgage with his craft.Cash Flow For Creators provides a map and a flashlight for building an artistic business from the ground up. Do you need a business bank account, and why? Should you incorporate, or make an LLC? How do you cope with accountants, regulations and deductions? Can you get your family on board? How do you pay taxes? What about keeping a business going, not just year after year but decade after decade? In the bewildering torrent of business rules, which matter to a creator-and which don't? Cash Flow for Creators has you covered, and tells you the secret no other business book will: Business is easier than art.Once someone explains the rules, and tells you how to win.

People want to give you money for your art? Congratulations Now what Business is all about cash flow, and cash flow is just a game. A game with simple rules. A game you can win, with the ultimate prize: a life doing what you love.Ask that helpful cousin with the business degree for advice and they'll gleefully prattle on about LLCs and deductions and accountants and the tax tactics of C versus S corporations. It's entirely accurate and completely unhelpful. Books about businesses like pet shops and burger franchises? Even less useful.You need advice from a creator who pays the mortgage with his craft.Cash Flow For Creators provides a map and a flashlight for building an artistic business from the ground up. Do you need a business bank account, and why? Should you incorporate, or make an LLC? How do you cope with accountants, regulations and deductions? Can you get your family on board? How do you pay taxes? What about keeping a business going, not just year after year but decade after decade? In the bewildering torrent of business rules, which matter to a creator-and which don't? Cash Flow for Creators has you covered, and tells you the secret no other business book will: Business is easier than art.Once someone explains the rules, and tells you how to win.

"I'm glad someone's finally giving ed the attention it deserves."--Ken Thompson, co-creator of UNIXLet me be perfectly clear; ed is the standard Unix text editor. If you don't know ed, you're not a real sysadmin.Forty years after ed's introduction, internationally acclaimed author Michael W Lucas has finally unlocked the mysteries of ed for everyone. With Ed Mastery, you too can become a proper sysadmin.Ed Mastery will help you: understand buffers and addressesinsert, remove, and mangle textmaster file management and shell escapescomprehend regular expressions, searches, and substitutionscreate high-performance scripts for transforming filesYou must be at least this competent to use this computer. Read Ed Mastery today

The Simple Network Management Protocol, SNMP, empowers you to invoke ancient standards from the void. SNMP exposes the secrets of your network and servers, and--if you're careless--reconfigures them into unspeakable nightmares. It exposes your inadequate brain to the vast alien dimensions underlying modern computing.SNMP is authentic dark magic.Abdul Alhazred's infamously rumored Networknomicon, or SNMP Mastery, has long been blamed for the Spanish Inquisition, the Second World War, and Cleveland. While nuclear "testing" was thought to have eradicated all copies of the manuscript, an astute student with a baggy shirt and considerable mob debts recently liberated one tattered survivor from the Miskatonic University Library of Computer Science.Tilted Windmill Press is pleased to present this facsimile edition, freshly translated from Alien Syntax Notation.1 into English by dubiously acclaimed and unquestionably foolhardy author Michael W. Lucas.The publisher is not responsible for extradimensional incursion, overloaded monitoring systems, bouts of madness, saltwater in servers, nonexistent colors, rats in the walls of crumbling ancient data centers, triangles with too many degrees, unparseable MIB files, sojourns out of Time and Space, self-medication, self-trepanation, self-destruction, Lego-induced foot trauma, or any other harm, transformation, or impact of any sort, that might be plausibly or implausibly ascribed to this tome.