Anyone I run into at conferences and the like that happens to have a copy of
the book I will happily sign. I will be utterly confused as writing in books
reduces the resale value, but I will sign. :o) Unfortunately I won't be
sending out complimentary copies to everyone. It seems according to some of
my friends who know other authors in non-computer fields that with some
books the author will get a case or two of books to give out, I think I get
10 and my family is pretty adamant on where those are going even though they
will never read them.
Going and presenting to book clubs and doing book signings.... Well that,
that I probably wouldn't get into a whole lot. I am the guy who likes to sit
in the back and heckle as necessary versus stand up and tap dance on the
stage. I only take the reins if they are dragging on the floor or pulling
the person holding them around. :o)
In high school my hair was half way down my back (a complete shock to anyone
who has met me in person as I keep my hair very short now) and I wore a torn
up denim jacket (it was supposed to be white) and jeans (and not from a
razor blade) and was constantly accused of cheating on tests though everyone
else around me in the back of the room tended to do much worse on their
tests than I did. The only time I actually tried to sit in the "front" of
the class was in band when I played Coronet and I liked being first or
second chair because I could hear the better musicians clearer so I could
get better. When a concert came up and the first three chairs were expected
to stand up and play solos I would make sure that I was firmly down around
12th or 13th chair, had no desire to stand up and play like that. Also I
ended up down in those slots any time new music was given to us because I
couldn't read sheet music and had to spend time learning the songs by
listening to everyone else play them. Even now with guitar I find that I do
better listening to the song and figuring it out versus reading tab. I will
look at the tab to find out if there is any funky capo business going on and
what the main chords are, but after that I just pluck away until it sounds
right to me. It is a family trait I think, I have an uncle who is a
professional piano/organ player for piano bars and bands and such and has
been doing it for what seems like hundreds of years. I remember being
dragged into some exclusive after hours clubs in Traverse City (resort town
in Northern Michigan) when I was just a young kid staying up all night
listening to him play and sleeping until noon when I would visit him. He
can't read music to save his life, but you start to hum a song and whether
he knows it already or not he will be off and running.
Bringing that back around to anything resembling anything on topic, that
playing by ear I think trained me to not be so reliant in computers on the
books and documentation and the way things are supposed to be done versus
figuring out what I need done or what I would like to see done. It helped me
pick out the differences and see patterns, etc. When troubleshooting I don't
always know whats wrong right away but seem to be able to zoom in on things
that aren't quite right until I can chase down what is actually wrong.
joe
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:43 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory 3rd Book
Hey Joe, If I buy it. Will you autograph it? I already asked Robbie to
present at our user group and do a book signing. Would you be interested as
well?
Sincerely,
Jose Medeiros
ADP | National Account Services
ProBusiness Division | Information Services
925.737.7967 | 408-449-6621 CELL
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of joe
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:23 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory 3rd Book
Not available yet, it is Active Directory Third Edition. From O'Reilly
publishing. As soon as Amazon has it available I will have a link to it from
my website - http://www.joeware.net and announce it in my blog
http://blog.joeware.net. If you don't like purposely enflaming blog entries
I recommend pointing the RSS feed at the tech specific links though you
still won't avoid them, just the non-technical ones. :o)
joe
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Etts, Russell
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:20 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory 3rd Book
I'm sorry for coming into this late - can you give me the exact name of the
book so I can look for it??
Thanks
Russ
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 10:55 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory 3rd Book
Interesting, O'Reilly doesn't even have it listed yet. I just heard from the
O'Reilly that it is finally out of copy-edit.
On the co-author piece. Alistaire wrote the initial edition, Robbie did the
2nd Edition update, I did the 3rd Edition update. You may want to ask the
reviewers (they almost all read and response heavily on this
list) but I am quite sure there is sufficient updates to warrant someone who
has the 2nd Edition to get the 3rd Edition. There should be a chapter that
will be floating around for the book that you can look at, I requested that
it be Chapter 11 which is the security chapter as I spent considerable time
reworking it. If someone is familiar with an older edition they will almost
certainly note the changes.
I go into great detail on the evil that is SBS and why it shouldn't be used.
Or did I??? Hmmm the SBS folks will just have to buy it to find out. ;o)
joe
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Irwan Hadi
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:34 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] Active Directory 3rd Book
The Active Directory 3rd Book with Joe as co-author seems will be released
somewhere in February 2006 based on
http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0596101732 .
(Bookpool is having discounted O'reilly book sale this month, and accept
pre-order, though I do not have any relation with bookpool other than being
as a customer who is looking to buy a couple books and noticed this book)
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