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Title: Wireless Hacks by Rob Flickenger ISBN: 0-596-00559-8 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Very broad, very poor. Only for the very beginner
Comment: This is the kind of book that will tell you that a packet-capture program is a "hack"... Spends a lot of pages describing common features or well-known programs (Kismet, NetStumbler).
The book tries to cover Windows, Linux and MacOS and achieves that in a very low degree.
Save your money, everything on this book can be found on the internet, with even a better structure than the "index style" this book has ("Hack#1", "Hack#2" and so on).
Very disappointed. Makes me wonder if other posts came from O'Reilly itself.
Rating: 5
Summary: For the serious wireless freak
Comment: This is an amazing book about wireless. It's coverage of everything from the operating system level stuff, to drivers, to cards, to hacking cards, to building your own antenna, to doing shotgun wireless is just incredible. If you are a serious wireless junkie you will love this book. For the casual coffee shop surfer, this is probably not the right book, but you probably don't have any issues with wireless anyway.
Rating: 5
Summary: All things wireless....
Comment: Rob Flickenger has done it once again and this time he actually used the word "hacks" in his latest book on wireless networking, fittingly entitled, Wireless Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools. The explosion and growth of wireless technology has a familiar feeling that takes one back to version 1.0 of web browsers and dialup connections that opened our eyes to a whole new world. From, imagine... I can see inline graphics, to, wow... I am streaming live content while sitting on my deck enjoying a cool one!
Wireless Hacks isn't a traditional book, but as the title implies, it is composed of one hundred tips, tricks, suggestions, DIYs (do it yourself), tools or simply *hacks* regarding all things wireless. Open it up to the index and browse for something that catches your eye. This book really is not meant to be read front to back although you can if you want. I found myself using my trusty old magazine technique of folding over pages of things I wanted to try out or that were quick solutions to current problems. There are enough nuggets in this book to make it worthwhile even for wired users (check out #36 Estimating Network Performance or all of Chapter 3: Network Monitoring).
Glen Flieshman mentions in the foreword that "... Rob Flickenger is an early adopter's early adopter" which sums up the value Rob brings to the table. He is a wireless pioneer paving the way to unplugging but yet staying connected and the really cool thing is that he is willing to share.
To find the Table of Contents, errata, sample chapters and purchasing information for, Wireless Hacks, see [the website]
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Title: Windows XP Hacks by Preston Gralla ISBN: 0596005113 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 22 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Building Wireless Community Networks, 2nd Edition by Rob Flickenger ISBN: 0596005024 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 23 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks by Scott Fullam ISBN: 0596003145 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Security Warrior by Cyrus Peikari, Anton Chuvakin ISBN: 0596005458 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools by Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest ISBN: 0596004478 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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