first long-form review of “Vicious Redemption”

At Electric Well.

SSH Mastery now #2 best-seller on Smashwords

Smashwords is an ebook retailer that sells books in ten different electronic formats in one purchase. If you want a book in .pdb for your Palm Pilot, in PDF for your laptop, and epub for your Nook, that’s where you go.

I just saw this in their best-seller list.

I’m at #2 site-wide, right . . . → Read More: SSH Mastery now #2 best-seller on Smashwords

SSH Mastery Review from Peter Hansteen

Peter has already read and reviewed SSH Mastery. While a few of my readers have been kind enough to post reviews on Amazon and Smashwords (which I very deeply appreciate), Peter’s is the first long review.

And here I should confess something: The very existence of SSH Mastery is Peter’s fault.

Peter will be doing . . . → Read More: SSH Mastery Review from Peter Hansteen

SSH Mastery Round-Up

I went to bed last night, satisfied that I had gotten SSH Mastery uploaded to the various ebook sites. I figured that I’d contact some people about doing reviews this weekend, maybe generate one or two sales. Awoke to discover ten copies sold while I slept. And I received a whole bunch of messages via . . . → Read More: SSH Mastery Round-Up

SSH Mastery available at Smashwords

To my surprise, SSH Mastery is available at Smashwords.

I don’t know if this version will make it through to Kobo and iBooks, but you can buy it now. If I have to update it to get the book through the Smashwords Meatgrinder and into third-party stores, you’d get access to those later versions . . . → Read More: SSH Mastery available at Smashwords

SSH Mastery ebook uploaded to Amazon and B&N

I just finished uploading the ebook versions of SSH Mastery to Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The manuscript is en route to the print layout person.

Amazon should have the book available in 24 hours or so, Barnes & Noble in 24-72 hours. Once they’re available, I’ll be able to inspect the ebooks to check . . . → Read More: SSH Mastery ebook uploaded to Amazon and B&N

Consistency in Writing

For the last couple of weeks, the SSH Mastery copyeditor has said “There’s something wrong with Chapter 13, but I can’t figure out what it is.” I told her that I had confidence in her ability to figure it out and to just do her best. (I wasn’t actually confident, but telling her that would . . . → Read More: Consistency in Writing

New fiction collection: “Vicious Redemption”

My first collection of short fiction, Vicious Redemption: Five Horror Stories, has started to appear in online bookstores. So far it’s available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.

Today it’s ebook only. I have a few marketing things to finalize before it goes to print.

Within a couple weeks, it should appear in . . . → Read More: New fiction collection: “Vicious Redemption”

enable DNSSec resolution on BIND 9.8.1

With BIND 9.8, enabling DNSSec resolution and verification is now so simple and low-impact there’s absolutely no reason to not do it. Ignore the complicated tutorials filling the Internet. DNSSec is very easy on recursive servers.

DNS is the weak link in Internet security. Someone who can forge DNS entries in your server can use . . . → Read More: enable DNSSec resolution on BIND 9.8.1

SSH Mastery Cover Rough

Here’s the cover rough for SSH Mastery, by my pet artist the highly talented Bradley K McDevitt. If you see anything wrong with it, please say so now.

SSH Mastery Cover