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For some value of now, that is. I just realized I forgot to post this.

My November 11, 2015 mug.org talk about SSH is now on YouTube. This is one way to lose 90 minutes.

I’ll be doing a 20-minute presentation on Tarsnap at the mug.org meeting on 12 May 2015, at the Farmington Hills library.

As you might guess, it’s somewhat based on my Tarsnap book. I only get 20 minutes, so it won’t be a complete overview, but it will get you started.

Assuming all goes well, we’ll get video again.

The ebook of Tarsnap Mastery is now on Amazon, iBooks, and Kobo. All DRM-free, of course.

I’m working on the print version this week.

Once I have the print version available, the 3-format ebook bundle will be available from www.tiltedwindmillpress.com

The FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials page now offers Chapter 10: SMART, as a sample.

I think this is the shortest blog post I’ve ever done, but… hmm… nope, that’s it. If you’re dubious on the book, here’s how you can try it for free. Have a nice day.

The book is finished, and available at most major ebook retailers. It’s still working its way through the system at Kobo, and Smashwords hasn’t fed iBooks yet, but it’s coming.

More details at the FM:SE page on my web site.

Working on print this week.

Here’s an early version of the cover for FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials.

The text is subject to change, but the art (from the inimitable Eddie Sharam) is final.

You might also be interested in the painting Liberty Leading the People.

…at least not now.

This is a “post it now so I can point to it later” piece.

I met Michael DeHaan, the Ansible creator, primary author, lead, and probably Grand Poobah, at AnsibleFest in Boston. We discussed the possibility of an Ansible book. He’s certainly open to the idea.

But we agreed that Ansible is moving too dang quickly to document in a book. By the time I finished a book, progress in Ansible would make the book obsolete. Ansible development will slow down at some time, making a book much more realistic.

I’m also not convinced that I’m the right person to write this book. I use a narrow slice of Ansible features, and other folks use a much greater set of Ansible features. My use is expanding, but still, I’m more likely to write a series of small Ansible books that reflect my growing understanding as opposed to one massive tome.

I’ll continue to document what I learn, and we’ll see what the future holds.

Amazon now has the print version of DNSSEC Mastery available.

I set the initial price assuming that they would discount. How much will they discount it, and when? No idea. Amazon is not inscrutable, but scrutling them exceeds my abilities. SSH Mastery print has ranged from ~$14 to ~$17 at various times, based how much coffee Bezos fed the cloud that morning.

Two reviews came out over the weekend, one from Peter Hansteen and the other from Justin Sherrill.

Apparently this book also does not suck. Yay!

I’ll be giving a live dramatic reading from the book — er, that is, teaching a course on DNSSEC — at BSDCan Wednesday morning this week.