Good Reference Books

Hi,

I was just wondering if anybody has found any particular books they find themselves refering to regularly for help with technical work.

I am also looking for a good guide to Linux. All the books I find are either thin, this is how to install linux books, or massive thick tomes on recompiling the kernal.

I would love a middle of the range book, explaning some of the standard things ppl use linux for, like, how to setup SAMBA, sendmail, a web server, and perhaps setup a internet proxy server.

Any thoughts?

For hardware i use this big-a$$ tome called the complete guide to upgrading and repairing PCs (mark minasi)from SYBEX. Good info but becomes dated rather quickly. This is the book i studied for the h/w part of the A+ exam.

"The Complete guide to Maintaing and Repairing PC's"

O'Rielly books (anything is good - particularly their Linux stuff)

"Linux Complete" by Sybex
MS Windows NT Resource Kit
TechRef
PC Dictionary (for some of those DA#$ acronyms.)
Novell's complete Guide to NetWare 4.11 (and 5)
Windows 2000 Administrators Pocket Guide

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Windows 2000 Administrators Pocket Guide</strong><hr></blockquote>

love that lil book :D

MS seem to put out some pretty good reference books

Mike Meyers' A+

This is hands down the best text.

I like the O'Reilly "animal" books, and have a whole collection of their * In A Nutshell books. Saved my arse more than once.

I can't recommend the TechRef and/or Pocket PCRef highly enough. I wore out my Pocket PCRef when I was working at CR, and literally consulted it at least twice a day. I always carried it around in my back pocket. The TechRef came in real handy when I was working a desk job at Sensormatic. (They are almost the same, except the TechRef is larger, has larger print and has a few extras like printer control codes and company addresses, while the Pocket PCRef is much more portable.)

Thanks guys... :)

Also,

About the best thing I ever did was get an old dayplanner - tear out the guts and create a ton of templates with frequently used information in it. As I found a trick, looked something up for the second or third time, determined some network information, whatever it is I wrote it in my "Little Black Book" and THAT has become the BEST reference material I have ever used.