[Book Review] Don’t Get Pwned! How to protect your child online

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Where real safe online begins? Do you have any answer for this?

If we look back ten years ago and we compare with we have now days, we see that there is a big leap regarding how we get information. Everyday, we step into digital world that you might not imagine ten years ago.
You starts and end your day using smart devices that help you to work and enjoy your day. You are (almost) connected 24 hours with digital world. It does not see how old you are. Everybody, pre-school kids, teenager, adult and senior people are connected to online environment.
The question now is how you know about real identity that you access/talk to. They are hidden by a Profile. You may not know exactly who he/she is. It can be a ‘predator’ who want to prey on someone especially children.

Then, the question on top becomes important to answer to protect yourself and your family. It starts with the parents. Yeah.. you.. Mom and Dad. Why?
By right it is simple, Mom and Dad are a role model for a family. You teach what real love, respect, honest and trust to your children. So, your children will not be mislead by false version of those.
It is your responsibility to build confident, trust and respect because a confident child is naturally less of a target for predators.

I can say that this book is a guideline for parents to protect their family. I agree with the authors that building relationship is important. How to make your children trust and are able to talk you about his/her issues when he/she is online.
This book teach the parents how to teach their children to use internet safely. The authors also give a good explanation about chat rooms, instant messaging, social networking and some tips to avoid sexual predators.

I recommend you to read this book so that you can get benefit from the authors’ experiences.

 

[Book Review] Don’t Get Pwned! How to protect your child online

[Book Review] Visual Quickstart Guide – Unix and Linux

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I need to refresh my knowledge about basic commands in Linux. I browse some reference books but I do not want to read detailed information. So, I try to find some linux pocket books. I get ‘Visual Quickstart Guide – Unix and Linux (Fifth Edition)‘ by Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray.

Overall, yeah.. it is not for advanced users or one who is looking detailed information. It lists only common commands that we can use in daily administration tasks. Those are:

  • How to work with Directories and Files (e.g. ls, mkdir, find, touch, tar, gzip, etc)
  • How to manipulate files and control their ownership and permissions
  • How to write basic scripts
  • How to edit files using vim and nano
  • How to sending and reading emails
  • How to access internet (e.g. using ssh, telnet, ftp, etc)
  • How to get information about the system
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    Beyond that, this book also provides references about commands, flags and arguments. Those can be used as your handy utilities when you do your tasks.

    [Book Review] Visual Quickstart Guide – Unix and Linux