About the Authors

Dave Taylor has been in the computer industry since 1980. He was a contributor to BSD 4.4 UNIX, and his software is included in all major UNIX distributions. He is an award-winning public speaker and has written thousands of magazine and newspaper articles. He is the author of more than 20 books, including Learning Unix for OS X (O’Reilly Media), Solaris 9 for Dummies (Wiley Publishing), and Sams Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing). A popular columnist for Linux Journal magazine, he also maintains a customer tech support and gadget reviews website, askdavetaylor.com.

Brandon Perry started writing C# applications with the advent of the open source .NET implementation Mono. In his free time, he enjoys writing modules ...

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