Books on Shivanand Velmurugan — Product leader. Systems thinker.

Sometimes, they are useful for a lifetime

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

And sometimes, they barely hold your attention. However, the recent acquisition is the former. I got the mammoth of a book, over the weekend; it weighs a ton and I’ll be sleeping with it, clutched tight in my hands.

If you already have the tomb by tanenbaum of similar name, the unix programming interface, you probably are not going to glean much value from this one (you can thank POSIX for maintaining a modicum of consistency over the years and some would vehemently contest that). That said, if you write code for *nix systems, it definitely deserves the shelf-space as much as any other programming book.

Guess what I'm getting in a week or two?!

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been waiting for this for a while now! Gary I hope it is all that I expect it to be. If I don’t read this the day I get it, and jump up from my bed at 2 AM crying “crush it” … well … I bet I will.

Review: A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke

rating: 5 of 5 stars
If you are on your way to Paris, or on the way from Paris, or in Paris, or … nevermind… just read this book if you are associated, in any way, with Paris. You’ll love it.

(If you are French, read this too, get angry, rebel and then revel in the glory! :) )

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SNMP tutorials

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0000

SNMP being the bread and butter for me, I decided to dig up some tutorials and links regarding the same.
For the uninitiated, SNMP is short for Simple Network Management Protocol, and is a protocol used to manage network devices such as routers, switches etc.

Simple Web - Introduction to SNMP, and good set of tutorials
Simple Times - technical articles and featured columns
Cisco - SNMP Overview
Cisco - whitepaper
SnmpLink - Links to almost every possible SNMP resource