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- Real Estate Investment Business
- Boycott Robert G. Allen!!!
- Allen's classic! Still a best seller.
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Nothing Down: How to Buy Real Estate With Little or No Money Down
Robert G. Allen
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Customer Reviews:
Real Estate Investment Business.......2007-08-25
So straight forward.
Even 30+ years after it was written, its still relevant to the real estate market - everywhere.
Let this be your property investment bible.
Boycott Robert G. Allen!!!.......2006-05-20
Robert G. Allen is a notorious and relentless internet spammer. If you should happen to somehow end up on one of his email lists like I did, he will send you several junk emails a day. Unsubscribing doesn't work, and trying to block the sender's domain is useless because the emails are sent from a different domain every time. The funny part is that the emails aren't even coded properly. They always show up as just a bunch of html code. Would you really take internet money-making advice from a guy who can't even code html properly? Anyway, his spamming practices are completely illegal and it's only a matter of time before the law catches up with him. But that shouldn't come as any surprise considering that mister Allen has been in trouble with the law before. He's had several run-ins with the IRS, lawsuits against him, and a chapter 7 bankruptcy. I would also stay away from his Nothing Down real estate methods. Many of those practices are illegal, and the president of the Nothing Down club in Atlanta wound up in federal prison because of it. For more info on Allen, visit johntreed dottcomm, click on Real Estate Investing, then click Real Estate Guru Ratings. Bottom line, don't trust this guy and don't buy his books. And if you're reading this Mr. Allen, take me off your @%#&*$ mailing list!!!
Allen's classic! Still a best seller........2005-09-28
This was the book that piqued my interest in real estate. The two words that got my attention were "Nothing Down" because at that time, I had nothing to put down on a property.
While many have followed, Allen was the first to bring to the masses the efficacy of using No Money Down techniques.
These techniques are time tested and proven. They work. This version started it all. I would recommend that you get Nothing Down 2000 which is the newest, update version.
The book that started it all!.......2005-09-25
My intro to Robert Allen was actually through his book Creating Wealth over 20 years ago! After reading Creating Wealth I added this book and went to work investing in R.E. the Robert Allen way. And just in time too. In 1986 the democrats pushed congress to pass new policies in the tax code taking away the huge tax deductions that the ultra rich were enjoying in R.E. This created an incredible selling market for the uninformed and an incredible buying opportunity for Bob Allen students who understood Real Estate.
What Bob Allen predicted in Creating Wealth about the "Upcoming Enormous Profit in Discounted Mortgages" also became fact and many of us enjoyed incredible 20%-50% or higher returns (and still are today) with this fantastic strategy.
I have since replaced my original dog eared copy of Nothing Down with Nothing Down for the 90's.
Bob Allen, great book. Thank you!
The All-Time Real Estate Classic.......2005-09-25
I came across this copy in a used book store. I bought it for a few bucks but it has made a small fortune for me. Nothing Down provides all the strategies you need to take advantage of real estate investing and launch yourself to financial self reliance.
This book has a very special place in my library and in my heart.
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Little Book Of Horror: Frankenstein (Little Book of Horror)
Steve Niles , and
Scott Morse
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In this special re-telling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, writer Steve Niles (Wake the Dead) works from the original text of the novel, presenting the tale in prose excerpts, each accompanied by a full-page spread from award-winning illustrator Scott Morse.
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Oh, darn, there I go again! You know, I just can't help speaking Latin.
Ecce, denuo ago, sicut soleo! Non enim possum facere quin Latine loquar.
It's so second nature to me, sometimes I don't even know I'm doing it!
Adeo huius mihi rei natura facta est, ut interdum nesciam quidem me sic facere!
So you thought you'd already soaked up as much scire facere (savoir faire) as you could by reading that howlingly funny yet highly literate guide to all things Latin, the best-selling Latin for All Occasions. Well, you still have some things to learn. Henry Beard, having already freed former altar boys and Latin-class alumni and alumnae from their previously held assumption that Latin is dead, is now going all out to bring this formerly moribund language into the twentieth century. Henricus has realized that he simply cannot stop when there are people in this world who don't know how to say. "Please don't squeeze the Charmin!" in Latin ("Sis, noli Volvivoluptatem comprimere!"), so he has prepared an entirely new, even funnier way to deal with all possible situations. You can impress your friends as never before on St. Patrick's Day when you yell, "Hibernia in aeternum!" ("Erin, go bragh!") and wow a tour guide by musing, "Scire velim ubi taberna munusculorum sit" ("I wonder where the gift shop is"). Break into show biz with your impressions of Marlon Brando, "Proeliator fuissem" ("I could've been a contender"); Cary Grant, "ludaea, ludaea, ludaea" ("Judy, Judy, Judy"); and James Cagney. "Tu, rattus turpis!" ("You dirty rat!"). Breeze by the stiffest of maitre d's by saying, 'Cauponas percenseo" ("I'm a restaurant reviewer"). Your Latin education simply isn't complete without it.
Tete oblecta! (Have fun!)
Customer Reviews:
Just a repeat of things already done in his other book.......2007-01-20
About 90 % of this book is the very same identical entries that were in his first book, "Latin of all Occasions"
Unless you are a Latin scholar or a linquist, this is not the book for you, don't waste your time or money. I got a copy from the library and did not buy it
Quate Tuam Togam!!!.......2006-10-12
Having passed the first 2 years of Latin (failing the third miserably), AND having married a Latin teacher, you have to admit there IS a certain IRONY to that...and that's where Henry beard comes in...
His impeccable tongue-in-cheek manner of illustarting how Latin has been (and can be) used in our language is not only one of the best learning tools I have encountered, but also one of the most humorous!
He leaves no stone unturned in his pusuit to avail us of just how "commonplace" a "dead" language can be in everyday conversation.
He covers things such as sports, great books, snappy comebacks, and even a letter to Santa...!!!
He's like the George Carlin of ancient Rome...only without the blue language, (imho)...this is informative AND hilarious at the same time!
A must read..even if you never studied Latin (or failed it like I did)!
Deja vu.......2003-07-05
After Beard's first book, 'Latin for All Occasions', one might say this book is a case of deja vu, or prius visum, as the Latin would have it.
Who said Latin wasn't useful? Henry Beard, in this volume and its predecessor, demonstrates that it is very useful, and not just for identifying a dish on a menu in Rome that looks suspiciously like the Latin word for 'eel'.
This volume begins on a fun note: French sounds even better in Latin:
Savoir faire = Scire facere
Nouveau riche = Novissime locupletatus
Merde! = Merda!
From there we proceed to philosophy:
Cogito, ergo sum
Sum, ergo edo.
Cogito sumere potum alterum.
(I think, therefore I am. I am, therefore I eat. I think I'll have another drink.)
And lest we forget, the memorable Latin phrase for use at a toga party:
Toga! Toga! Toga!
(memorise this, for it will be on the test)
There are things in this volume for sports fans, pop culture fans, those about to celebrate and those who want to be casual. If you want to sound intelligent while saying you think you've just spotted Elvis in the crowd, this book can tell you how to bring up the subject intelligently.
If Caesar had had this book, he might have rephrased his famous utterance as Veni, vidi, nates calce concidi! (I came, I saw, I kicked butt!).
Divinissimum est!
Proving once again, some people have far too much time on their hands. And we are more fortunate for that!
Great for e-mail signatures!.......2002-11-01
As a whole, the book is mildly amusing. But it is full of great material to use at the bottom of e-mail signatures. Impress your friends! *Age . . . Fac ut gaudeam*.
A must-have for anyone who struggled through Latin 101.......2000-09-09
This book and its predecessor (Lingua Latina Occasionaibus Omnibus) will make anyone who struggled through Latin 101 the division of Gaul into three parts proud to be a Latin speaker. A great tool for Classics teachers who want to make Latin a living language for students doing translation, and wonderful for those of us who want to know how to say "I hate Astroturf" in the world's most distinguished language.
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Two-vol. set of by-now classic send-up of all things Latin. Qui hoot.
Customer Reviews:
Bene bene..........2005-11-17
This is an audio-tape compilation of two of Henry Beard's books, 'Latin for All Occasions' and 'Latin for Even More Occasions'.
These wonderful little books were presented to me many years ago after I had completed a Latin seminar. It was a wonderful gift, and I have found much use for the various phrases, and an extraordinary amount of humour that can be derived from the blandest of statements when translated into Latin. For example, the innocuous phrase 'Darn! There goes my beeper!' becomes quite funny in Latin:
Heu! Tintinnuntius meus sonat!
One has visions of Caesar fumbling through his tunic for some beeping object.
So, if you need a little Latin on the golf course (Alterum ictum faciam); on the tennis court (minime latum!), at the beach when spotting a shark (Pistrix! Pistrix!), or you just need to say Illud Latine dici non potest (you can't say that in Latin), you'll be prepared with this volume.
It even comes with a section on what to say when at the Vatican (where it might truly come in handy). For instance you might need to say 'Ubi possum potiri petasi similis isti?' when passing a cardinal or nun (translation: Where can I get a hat like that?).
After Beard's first book, 'Latin for All Occasions', one might say his second book was a case of deja vu, or prius visum, as the Latin would have it.
Who said Latin wasn't useful? Henry Beard, in this volume and its predecessor, demonstrates that it is very useful, and not just for identifying a dish on a menu in Rome that looks suspiciously like the Latin word for 'eel'.
Beard notes that even French sounds even better in Latin:
Savoir faire = Scire facere
Nouveau riche = Novissime locupletatus
Merde! = Merda!
From there we proceed to philosophy:
Cogito, ergo sum
Sum, ergo edo.
Cogito sumere potum alterum.
(I think, therefore I am. I am, therefore I eat. I think I'll have another drink.)
And lest we forget, the memorable Latin phrase for use at a toga party:
Toga! Toga! Toga!
(memorise this, for it will be on the test)
There are things here for sports fans, pop culture fans, those about to celebrate and those who want to be casual. If you want to sound intelligent while saying you think you've just spotted Elvis in the crowd, this book can tell you how to bring up the subject intelligently.
If Caesar had had this book, he might have rephrased his famous utterance as
Veni, vidi, nates calce concidi! (I came, I saw, I kicked butt!).
Divinissimum est!
Proving once again, some people have far too much time on their hands. And we are more fortunate for that!
So, don't waste your time on watching reruns of Insula Gilliganis or game shows such as Periculum and Rota Fortunae -- pick up this book today, and merge the worlds past and present.
Die dulci fruere. (Have a nice day.)
Latin with a kick in the natis.......2001-12-07
A short book about latin. How to impress your friends with 'fun' latin conversational expressions. A little humor and upbeat slant for the latin language.
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Latin for Even More Occasions.
Henry. Beard
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"Bernard Gordon was the writer behind some of my favorite movies (but I never knew it). Now, he tells his most riveting story--that of his own colorful career. . . . Fascinating!" --Joe Dante, director "As a blacklisted screenwriter, Bernard Gordon was never completely silenced, but it is still thrilling to hear him have his say in a memoir of Hollywood's darkest era. . . . Gordon's story is a testament to the everlasting vitality of creativity in the face of scare tactics and coercion." --Kirkus Reviews "Gordon's book is . . . a remarkable story of how he not only survived, but lived a high life in Europe as a much-in-demand writer--although denied recognition [for] his craft--until 50 years later by both [writers'] guilds and the Academy." --Variety "His portraits of the brilliant Philip Yordan and Samuel Bronston, the producer-financier duo that virtually created the 'runaway' (offshore) production game, are unforgettable, as are his accounts of making, among a dozen other films, 55 Days at Peking, The Thin Red Line, Krakatoa East of Java, Day of the Triffids, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers and Horror Express. . . . His adventures as a writer and producer sparkle in this generous, well-illustrated account." --Foreword "A born storyteller, [Gordon] writes with warmth and humor, and there's an emotional edge to his razor-sharp recall." --Publishers Weekly The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon was one of them. In this highly readable memoir, he tells a engrossing insider's story of what it was like to be blacklisted and how he and others continued to work uncredited behind the scenes, writing and producing many box office hits of the era. Gordon describes how the blacklist cut short his screenwriting career in Hollywood and forced him to work in Europe. Ironically, though, his is a success story that includes the films El Cid, 55 Days at Peking, The Thin Red Line, Krakatoa East of Java, Day of the Triffids, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Horror Express, and many others. He recounts the making of many movies for which he was the writer and/or producer, with wonderful anecdotes about stars such as Charlton Heston, David Niven, Sophia Loren, Ava Gardner, and James Mason; directors Nicholas Ray, Frank Capra, and Anthony Mann; and the producer-studio head team of Philip Yordan and Samuel Bronston.
Customer Reviews:
How an avowed communist dealt with the Blacklist.......2000-06-13
I read this book to understand more about communism in America mid-century, how America could castigate some citizens and how some citizens could "worship" another country's ideals while living here. I was pleased and somewhat let down.
The book has two distinct parts but needs a third. First, he quickly explains why he was a member of the communist party. I still believe this fascination was a liberal viewpoint which was carried to an extreme given the recent depression. This section discussing life in Hollywood under fear of subpeona was very interesting and compelling as written from a struggling screenwriter.
Section 2 then deals with his life as a screenwriter working mainly in Spain and Paris. This section really didn't deal with the politics of the time but instead is a personal memoir into his life in the business. I learned a lot of the movie business from a different perspective but actually found this part to run a little long. His description of his side trips in Europe was also very interesting.
There are two important pieces I felt were left out. A more in-depth discussion of his involvement with communism and his current feelings. When he came back to America he talks of how pleasing the return was but he never closes the chapter on what his current feelings are about communism. I think anyone that condemns this man's thoughts without listening are short-sighted. But I also think that he should more fully explain his thoughts, how they have developed and what his thinking is now since that was the premise for the book.
The final item left out of the book were the last 20? years of his life. Since I invested this much time reading about him, at least he could have given a short description of what he has been doing once he left the business. What's happened in the last few years. He mentions what his daughter is doing. What about him? He does mention his wife dying and I was very touched as they seem to have had a very good marriage in a business where there are so few.
Overall, I enjoyed this book. It taught me and showed me a life with which I was not familiar. It also addressed some of my unanswered questions as to the fascination with Communism in the mid-century. But it also left some questions unanswered. If the Author reads this review, I wish he would contact me and explain some of his beliefs in further depth than the book.
Nostalgic.......2000-01-21
Gordon's book brought back memories of the old glory days of the gulag archipelago, Kolyma, midnight knocks at the door and the tank treads red with the blood of pulped hungarians. Though Gordon spent much time suspiciously in Franco's Spain, it is obvious that he is still an old comrade at heart. A wonderful book that should be forced reading in today's schools.
Workers of the world unite!.......2000-01-21
A masterwork of progressive thought. Beria and Father Stalin would be proud. All unenlightened thinking must be purged. All counter-revolutionaries must be liquidated. You can't have an omelette without breaking eggs. Hail freedom of approved speech!
Complaint.......2000-01-12
This is not really a review. I am the author of the book and wish to call to your atfention that you are running the Janis review twice. That is exactly a repetition of the original review. Since Janis is clearly political opponent with an axe to grind, one version of his vitriol should suffice. Please eliminate the duplication. Thank you.
Hollywood Exile.......2000-01-06
This book is a wonderful surprise. Although it deals with very serious matters, it is vastly entertaining, plum full of tasty anecdotes about people whose names we know, people we wish to know. Movie makers and movie stars are dealt with without fear of favour. Among them are Ronald and Nancy (Davis) Reagan. Ronnie denied there was a blacklist although when president of the Screen Actors Guild, he was secretly and treacherously supplying the FBI with the names of his members he considered radicals; Gordon, while blacklisted, was secretly writing love scenes for Ronnie and Nancy in the film, Hellcats of the Navy. This became one of the First Couple's favourite films and was run repeatedly at the White House.They never knew who had put the words in their mouths.
Read about David Niven, Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner (not so good); Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, James Mason (good) and many others. Most of all, read how Gordon, laughing much of the way, turned the tables, built a fascinating career and refused to be destroyed by the blacklist.
This book is not just about Hollywood. Europeans will be surprised to read of the involvement of their contrymen in the McCarthy period. The British and Spanish film industries gain new stature as places where Gordon finds he can work without having to suppress his independent spirit.
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Presents a broad spectrum of critical approaches that question traditional sport history.
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The Saga Continues . . . .
·Deadly in-depth combat techniques
·Effective leveling up strategies
·Full stats and advanced tactics for all five main heroes and every vital NPC
·Essential complete walkthrough for every quest and subquest
·Locations of all hidden items
·Exciting Dragon Ball Z® history
·Interviews with the game developers
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DBZ Returns on the GBA!.......2003-09-10
This is a worth while helpful guide and as an ADDED BONUS that Amazon forgot to mention, the Guide Comes with a Movie DVD with a Complete movie of one of their Series, Previews of other videos they sell and Complete Previews and an eppisode rundown of the next Series to be shown on the Cartoon Network,
DRAGONBALL GT! (Grand Tournament).
there is also a new DBZ game comming out for the GBA and Budikai for the Gamecube and I heard a rummor that they will have an exclusive secret area accesable when you link the games together using the GBA to Game Cube Cable!
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I would like to see this book updated.......2005-04-26
Great book but needs to be updated.
While it's still a nice introduction, it has become dated.......2003-04-27
This 2nd edition of Cockroft's classic on Sun Performance Tuning was a step up from the somewhat meager meal served in its 1st edition.
At the time of its writing this book filled a void, since there was not much "out there" covering performance tuning in general as well as for Sun boxes in particular.
Mike Loukides' "System Performance Tuning" still hung around in its 1st edition, and thus had established itself somewhat as the grand-daddy of UNIX performance tuning books, but was already pretty outdated. It's 2nd edition was still years away.
While Adrian Cockroft's "Sun Performance and Tuning" today still provides some interesting insights, and therefore could be a welcome addition to a Sun system administrator's bookshelf, there's another book which should be considered first: "Resource Management" from the Sun BluePrints series, which he wrote in collaboration with Richard Mc Dougall, and various others.
only if you're just starting out.......2001-10-25
After reading the other reviews I had high hopes for this book. The book is not geared to people that already have basic sysadmin skills. And in one case the book makes a rather dubious statement. They list a few ndd parameters and state "The other values should never be changed on a production system." Well, they left out tcp_ip_abort_cinterval. And they don't mention tcp_ip_abort_linterval at all which so far seems to be an undocumented Sun Microsystems parameter. A book about tuning should cover all the tunable parameters and explain cause/effect. Simply stating that you never change the other parameters without explaining why isn't why you buy a book on Performance and Tuning.
If you're just starting out with Sun administration and do not know a lot of the unix commands to administer and monitor a Solaris box this book will help. The book does cover much of the basics and background that someone starting out needs. The book does leave out a number of higher level concepts and doesn't cover all tunable parameters so it doesn't really help much beyond already available text/webpages which you'll still have to research and scour to really learn the whole story on Solaris performance and tuning. But if you already know some of what you're doing you're money is better kept in your pocket.
Indispensible.......2001-08-26
The first 5 pages alone helped me to tune my systems, setup cachefs, etc. Definitely worth the money if you are responsible for the care and feeding of Solaris boxes.
Best book on SUN Performance...so far.......2000-06-20
There is no question that if you are involved in performance related issues on the SUN Sparc platform, you have to buy this book. It gives you invaluable information and helps you determine what is actually happening on a given system. Having said that, I wish it was better written and organized. This book is intended, I feel, for the intermediate to advanced systems administrator.
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The easy way to solve a performance problem--and the one to which hardware manufacturers love to call attention--is to apply more horsepower to the application in question. It's safe to bet that a server upgrade will speed things up. True information technology professionals, however, won't take the easy way out when dealing with an increased workload for older systems. They'll do their best to wring top performance (with required reliability) from existing hardware, thus improving their organizations' return on capital investment and demonstrating their own engineering skills. The second edition of System Performance Tuning offers advice on where to look for bottlenecks in applications--both local and networked--that run under Unix. It also offers advice on provisioning new systems, which is to say it offers advice on deciding how much computing power is enough for a new system to be implemented.
Emphasizing Solaris 8 and, to a lesser extent, Linux, the new version of this book represents a significant revision (the first came out in 1990 and was pretty badly obsolete). There's coverage of advances in hardware--multiple processors, RAID storage, faster and cheaper memory, and networked devices--as well as consideration of changes in the demands placed on machines (after all, few people were concerned about Web server performance in 1990). Administrators will get plenty of value from the authors' discussion of what goes on during, for example, a series of large store-to-disk operations, and be better able to optimize their systems. --David Wall
Topics covered: How to get top performance from computer systems (those running Linux and especially Sun Solaris 8) without adding processor capacity, memory, and other resources at potentially great expense. The authors explain the ways in which operating systems and applications use processors, memory, persistent storage, and networks, and point out potential bottlenecks. They also show how to use tools--such as execution timers--that you can use to benchmark performance changes.
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System Performance Tuning answers one of the most fundamental questions you can ask about your computer: How can I get it to do more work without buying more hardware? In the current economic downturn, performance tuning takes on a new importance. It allows system administrators to make the best use of existing systems and minimize the purchase of new equipment. Well-tuned systems save money and time that would otherwise be wasted dealing with slowdowns and errors. Performance tuning always involves compromises; unless system administrators know what the compromises are, they can't make intelligent decisions. Tuning is an essential skill for system administrators who face the problem of adapting the speed of a computer system to the speed requirements imposed by the real world. It requires a detailed understanding of the inner workings of the computer and its architecture. System Performance Tuning covers two distinct areas: performance tuning, or the art of increasing performance for a specific application, and capacity planning, or deciding what hardware best fulfills a given role. Underpinning both subjects is the science of computer architecture. This book focuses on the operating system, the underlying hardware, and their interactions. Topics covered include:
- Real and perceived performance problems, introducing capacity planning and performance monitoring (highlighting their strengths and weaknesses).
- An integrated description of all the major tools at a system administrator's disposal for tracking down system performance problems.
- Background on modern memory handling techniques, including the memory-caching filesystem implementations in Solaris and AIX. Updated sections on memory conservation and computing memory requirements.
- In depth discussion of disk interfaces, bandwidth capacity considerations, and RAID systems.
- Comprehensive discussion of NFS and greatly expanded discussion of networking.
- Workload management and code tuning.
- Special topics such as tuning Web servers for various types of content delivery and developments in cross-machine parallel computing
For system administrators who want a hands-on introduction to system performance, this is the book to recommend.
Customer Reviews:
Thoroughly Disappointed.......2006-03-08
I have relied on O'Reilly for many UNIX SA topics. System Performance Tuning was a very boring read for me. It seemed to cover too many topics, none in enough depth. I really was eager to learn about the intricacies of the vmstat, iostat, etc. commands. While the book does discuss them, it sprinkles the use of them throughout the book, and relies very heavily on the Solaris variety of them.
I was under the impression that this book would be targeted for seasoned SA's. I was very wrong- there is no need for discussions on how "threads are not processes" or generic definitions of what RAID or a network is; prior knowledge of these should all be assumed in this kind of book.
Not only was the book poorly constructed and not nearly deep enough, but there were also technical mistakes throughout. This really bugs me: once I see a single glaring mistake in a technical book, I begin to second-guess anything that doesn't appear right (even though it may be correct!)
I hope the next version is better done.
Indispensable place to start.......2005-07-25
It is generic and only dated to the extent that there is more information now. The concepts and methods are still sound and can be applied to today's systems.
Want to know about SAR?
When you time an application do you want to know what the user-state CPU time and systemstate CPU time means?
Many of the pertinent questions and answers to System Performance Tuning are in this book. The chapters are:
* Introduction to System Performance
* Monitoring System Activity
* Managing the Workload
* Memory Performance
* Disk Performance Issues
* Network Performance
* Terminal Performance
* Kernel Configuration
* Appendix A Real-time Processes
* Appendix B A Performance Tuning Strategy
This book has helped point to the pertinent manuals on several flavors of UNIX.
Good when it's right, but be careful..........2003-05-14
I had looked at the first edition of this book many times, but not bought it because of the age of the information. At long last--a second edition! Completely updated, and current!
Many parts of this book are top-notch. It does an excellent job of drilling down the process tree, caching processes (memory and disk, and the structures of both), and bottlenecks such as latency. I learned a lot, and I've got a fair background in performance tuning.
However...
The "Solaris and Linux" part is a joke--they could have eliminated all of the Linux tuning instruction/reference, and the book might have lost 15 pages. Clearly the authors aren't nearly as familiar with Linux as they are with Solaris. Not a big deal, but it's misleadingly marketed.
Furthermore, there are many MANY mistakes in the text--mistakes that, if read as given, run absolutely counter to the way the system behaves. Weren't there ANY proofreaders for this book? Also, the sections on disk performance and reliability (i.e. RAID arrays) were confusing and inconsistent. This is a subject I know and know well, and can only assume that the authors simply don't 'get' some of the stuff they're trying to present.
Buried in all of these mistakes and shortcomings is a 5-star book just screaming to get out. If they fixed the things I've mentioned, this would be THE standard reference--the performance tuning version of Evi Nemeth (et. al)'s Unix sysadmin handbook.
As it is, it's very useful, but get a second reference on anything you can't puzzle out--you might be right.
A comprehensive, "user friendly" technical sourcebook.......2002-05-06
Now in a newly revised and expanded second edition, System Performance Tuning by Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci (Research Engineer, Performance and Availability Engineering Group, Sun Microsystems) and Mike Loukides (Editor, O'Reilly & Associates) is a comprehensive, "user friendly", technical sourcebook, guide, and reference for UNIX system administrators who seek optimum speed and overall performance. Tacking complex problems for which there are no simple solutions, individual chapters address workflow management, disk arrays, code tuning, and much more. A first-class resource, System Performance Tuning is an invaluable and highly recommended tutorial and continuing reference work.
An excellent guide to system performance and architecture.......2002-02-15
The second edition brings a well known classic in system administration up to date, focusing on both the theory and principals governing system performance, along with a set of excellent practical examples that can be applied to see immediate results.
The book is great for both introductory and advanced administrators, and covers the full gamut of performance, from code to disk to CPU. What is especially refreshing is the focus on practical performance tuning, helping to make tuning you do have maximal benefit for your applications.
Customer Reviews:
HP-UX Tuning and Performance: Concepts, Tools and Methods.......2005-03-29
This book, "HP-UX Tuning and Performance: Concepts, Tools and Methods," is the Second Edition with 560 pages of material for concepts 2004 by Robert F. Sauers, Chris P. Ruemmler, and Peter S. Weygant.
The prior First Edition is only 296 pages of material but useful for concepts vintage 1999 by F. Sauers, and Peter S. Weygant.
I own both copies and I have taken the H4262, "HP-UX Tuning and Performance" class. The Second Edition book is offered as a supplement to the H4262 class.
If your funding is limited, then the First Edition may be a useful introduction. Lastly, the Second Edition is more relevant to HP-UX 11i.
If a deeper understanding of HP-UX is required, then I strongly suggest the "HP-UX 11i Internals (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books (Hardcover)) by Chris Cooper."
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