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I eventually decided to do theoretical CS for my research, but all of these books showed me as a student what attention to detail really meant. In fact, the ty

by sn41 4y ago

I eventually decided to do theoretical CS for my research, but all of these books showed me as a student what attention to detail really meant. In fact, the typesetting of these books also made me look into groff and play around with it. I vaguely remember that there was a phrack prophile on W. Richard Stevens just around the time he died. Such a great loss. Thank you for your inspiring books!!

teleforce 4y ago
Yes indeed, the typesettings for these books are really awesome. The template is also being used by other authors notably by Jon Snader in his VPNs Illustrated book and if it's not obvious enough the name of the book is paying homage to the original TCP Illustrated series [1]. Co-incidentally Jon also wrote 44 Tips for TCP/IP network socket programming before the VPN book [2]. [1] VPNs Illustrated: Tunnels, VPNs, and IPsec: Tunnels, VPNs, and IPsec: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/vpns-illustrated-tunnels/032124544X/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/vpns-illustrated-tunnel... [2] Effective TCP/IP Programming: 44 Tips to Improve Your Network Programs: https://www.informit.com/store/effective-tcp-ip-programming-44-tips-to-improve-your-9780132651608 https://www.informit.com/store/effective-tcp-ip-programming-...