Nonfiction

I write for fun. My technology books are specifically designed for practicality and easy reading. If you like your computer texts arid, you probably won’t care for mine.

Books

Network Flow Analysis, 2010

Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2nd Edition, 2009

Absolute FreeBSD, 2007

PGP and GPG, 2006

Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2004

Absolute OpenBSD: UNIX for the Practical Paranoid, 2003

Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD, 2002

Various books have been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portugese, and Russian. (I considered presenting a matrix of books and languages here, but that would involve digging into my big box of translations and nobody cares that much.)

Articles

USENIX

;login:, vol 30 no. 5, FreeBSD 5 SMPng.

O’Reilly Network
I had a column with the O’Reilly Network called Big Scary Daemons from 2000-2005. (The name is an acronym for BSD.) It’s part of their BSD DevCenter.

BSDToday.com
Nov 2000: Configuring Shared Libraries (no longer available online)

Sys Admin articles
No longer available online

Maintaining Patch Levels with Open-source BSDs

Linux under FreeBSD

FreeBSD for the SVR4/Linux administrator

FreeBSD Firewall Tools & Techniques

FreeBSD’s Sysctl Interface

Linux.com

This article originally appeared on Linux.com, but they’ve cleaned out a bunch of their older stuff.

Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower

LinuxWorld.com
no longer available online

Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel for the Linux Administrator

UnixReview.com
No longer available online

The State of the Daemon

review of Multiview Catalyst