For some unfathomable reason I have received four emails containing various Ruby related ebooks:
Pragmatic Programmer, From Journeyman to Master.pdf
Syngress - Ruby Developer's Guide.pdf
The Pickaxe.pdf
Game Programming with Python Lua And Ruby.pdf
The Ruby way.chm
Ruby in a nutshell.chm
To my knowledge none of these are free, anyone else get them?
For some unfathomable reason I have received four emails containing various Ruby related ebooks:
Pragmatic Programmer, From Journeyman to Master.pdf
Syngress - Ruby Developer's Guide.pdf
The Pickaxe.pdf
Game Programming with Python Lua And Ruby.pdf
The Ruby way.chm
Ruby in a nutshell.chm
To my knowledge none of these are free, anyone else get them?
They came from Mubin Aktan <biyokuantum@yahoo.com> and the to list was obiefernandez@gmail.com, pat.eyler@gmail.com, paul.umbers@gmail.com, peter@semantico.com, petermichaux@yahoo.com
I also received four Emails, but deleted them as spam. I haven't looked at the contents.
For some unfathomable reason I have received four emails containing various Ruby related ebooks:
Pragmatic Programmer, From Journeyman to Master.pdf
Syngress - Ruby Developer's Guide.pdf
The Pickaxe.pdf
Game Programming with Python Lua And Ruby.pdf
The Ruby way.chm
Ruby in a nutshell.chm
To my knowledge none of these are free, anyone else get them?
For some unfathomable reason I have received four emails containing various Ruby related ebooks:
Pragmatic Programmer, From Journeyman to Master.pdf
Syngress - Ruby Developer's Guide.pdf
The Pickaxe.pdf
Game Programming with Python Lua And Ruby.pdf
The Ruby way.chm
Ruby in a nutshell.chm
To my knowledge none of these are free, anyone else get them?
They came from Mubin Aktan <biyokuantum@yahoo.com> and the to list was obiefernandez@gmail.com, pat.eyler@gmail.com, paul.umbers@gmail.com, peter@semantico.com, petermichaux@yahoo.com
Yes, I got them too, with four or five other people on the to list.
Unfathomable is right. I can't begin to figure out what's behind
this. Sheer malice springs to mind.
David
--
David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net
"Ruby for Rails", from Manning Publications, coming May 1, 2006!
For some unfathomable reason I have received four emails containing various Ruby related ebooks:
Pragmatic Programmer, From Journeyman to Master.pdf
Syngress - Ruby Developer's Guide.pdf
The Pickaxe.pdf
Game Programming with Python Lua And Ruby.pdf
The Ruby way.chm
Ruby in a nutshell.chm
To my knowledge none of these are free, anyone else get them?
They came from Mubin Aktan <biyokuantum@yahoo.com> and the to list was obiefernandez@gmail.com, pat.eyler@gmail.com, paul.umbers@gmail.com, peter@semantico.com, petermichaux@yahoo.com
I did, from the same sender, but in a message to a different group of recipients. Wasn't there a message on list a while back asking if anyone wanted them?
I just deleted them - as well as the copyright issues, I gather that PDFs could be vulnerable to viruses...?
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:26:38 -0000, Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> wrote:
For some unfathomable reason I have received four emails containing various Ruby related ebooks:
Pragmatic Programmer, From Journeyman to Master.pdf
Syngress - Ruby Developer's Guide.pdf
The Pickaxe.pdf
Game Programming with Python Lua And Ruby.pdf
The Ruby way.chm
Ruby in a nutshell.chm
To my knowledge none of these are free, anyone else get them?
I just got back from holiday to find 3 emails, labelled parts 2, 3 and
4 from this guy, containing 4 of these. He must've simply gleaned
emails from the groups here and sent in batches of about a half-dozen.
This person could well have good intentions, but if I wanted the books
here (yes, the files appear to be genuine) I would give the authors the
payment they deserve.
A paperback book is infinitely more useful than an ebook anyway. I
always keep the pickaxe on my desk for reference as it's the fastest
way I've found to look up details of the built-in classes and standard
library.
There's no need to hunt down a single guy with misguided intentions,
but please could Mr Aktan keep these to himself.
For some unfathomable reason I have received four emails containing
various Ruby related ebooks:
Pragmatic Programmer, From Journeyman to Master.pdf Syngress - Ruby
Developer's Guide.pdf The Pickaxe.pdf Game Programming with Python
Lua And Ruby.pdf The Ruby way.chm Ruby in a nutshell.chm
To my knowledge none of these are free, anyone else get them?
They came from Mubin Aktan <biyokuantum@yahoo.com> and the to list
was obiefernandez@gmail.com, pat.eyler@gmail.com,
paul.umbers@gmail.com, peter@semantico.com, petermichaux@yahoo.com
I also received four Emails, but deleted them as spam. I haven't
looked at the contents.
Oh, they came through my spam filters so I did look at the contents and
they are the genuine article. I would have been more active if there was some kind of virus in there.
The To: Headers are ofcourse different: collinsj, cribbsj, Daniel Bolt and Daniel Berger in addition to myself.
Oh and I didn't get the first zip which obviously contains Ruby Way and Ruby in a Nutshell.
I didn't really react to it because apart from the Lua/Ruby book (which is not really my playground) I have a dead tree copy of the others (even the ones I didn't get).
Thinking about it the Pickaxe 2nd Ed. is really handy as a reference therefore nice to have as PDF, but the PP Book is really worth it's weight in gold so better get the version that has weight
V.-
i got them as well...
i replied with the questions who he was and why he sent me this, and he told
me he was "just trying to help ruby newbies out"..
i suppose he meant well.. he just did the wrong thing
greetings, Dirk.
> For some unfathomable reason I have received four emails containing
various
> Ruby related ebooks:
>
> Pragmatic Programmer, From Journeyman to Master.pdf
> Syngress - Ruby Developer's Guide.pdf
> The Pickaxe.pdf
> Game Programming with Python Lua And Ruby.pdf
> The Ruby way.chm
> Ruby in a nutshell.chm
>
> To my knowledge none of these are free, anyone else get them?
>
> They came from Mubin Aktan <biyokuantum@yahoo.com> and the to list was
> obiefernandez@gmail.com, pat.eyler@gmail.com, paul.umbers@gmail.com,
> peter@semantico.com, petermichaux@yahoo.com
Yes, I got them too, with four or five other people on the to list.
Unfathomable is right. I can't begin to figure out what's behind
this. Sheer malice springs to mind.
David
--
David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net
"Ruby for Rails", from Manning Publications, coming May 1, 2006! Ruby for Rails
> They came from Mubin Aktan <biyokuantum@yahoo.com> and the to
> list was obiefernandez@gmail.com, pat.eyler@gmail.com,
> paul.umbers@gmail.com, peter@semantico.com,
> termichaux@yahoo.com
I also received four Emails, but deleted them as spam. I haven't
looked at the contents.
In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601300543550.14080@wobblini.net>,
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<dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
Hi --
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Peter Hickman wrote:
For some unfathomable reason I have received four emails containing various
Ruby related ebooks:
Pragmatic Programmer, From Journeyman to Master.pdf
Syngress - Ruby Developer's Guide.pdf
The Pickaxe.pdf
Game Programming with Python Lua And Ruby.pdf
The Ruby way.chm
Ruby in a nutshell.chm
To my knowledge none of these are free, anyone else get them?
They came from Mubin Aktan <biyokuantum@yahoo.com> and the to list was
obiefernandez@gmail.com, pat.eyler@gmail.com, paul.umbers@gmail.com,
peter@semantico.com, petermichaux@yahoo.com
Yes, I got them too, with four or five other people on the to list.
Unfathomable is right. I can't begin to figure out what's behind
this. Sheer malice springs to mind.
I got them too. It seems that whoever did this got their list of email
addresses from this list. Probably sent to anyone who had posted recently.
I think the number of people who received this mail, and now think, "Oh,
good; I was going to pay or this, but now I won't", is quite small.
I bought the pic axe which I don't like, and it is not the first time I
am disappointed in a book bought over the internet. I borrowed sam's
teach yourself but I did not buy it yet in the hope an update will come
in 2006
The benefit of having access to a pdf is not that you don't have to pay
for it, it is that you find out if it will be useful.
I just deleted them - as well as the copyright issues, I gather that
PDFs could be vulnerable to viruses...?
You gather mostly wrong. PDFs themselves cannot contain executable code
that can affect the operating system, even with the Acrobat Javascript
capabilities.
PDFs *can*, however, contain QuickTime, JPEG, or other media files that
could possibly have bugs in operating-system or viewer presentation
code.
-austin
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On 01/02/06, Ross Bamford <rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk> wrote:
--
Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
* Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca
Oh, they came through my spam filters so I did look at the contents and
they are the genuine article. I would have been more active if there was some kind of virus in there.
But the question is, why is somebody sending them out?
I haven't received them, but then I haven't posted to this list much before. At least it means you can eliminate the route that it was sent to all subscribers to the mailing list - just people who seem to post.
So, is this a set-up for a "Ruby programmers are all thieves" story? I just don't get the purpose. Was there anything else in the mail?
Thinking about it the Pickaxe 2nd Ed. is really handy as a reference therefore nice to have as PDF, but the PP Book is really worth it's weight in gold so better get the version that has weight
I'd advise you destroy all the PDFs that you received illegally. They're not yours, you don't own them, it's piracy. You might think having the PDF is handy, so fine, pay for it.
For what it's worth, the Pragmatic Programmer's series all seem to be watermarked PDFs if they're legit - I bought the PDFs legally - and in the footer of each page in the main part of the books, it will say "Prepared for..." (in my case it says "Paul Robinson") and name the person involved. I'd suggest sending copies to the PP team so they can track down who is stealing from them...
That's presuming there aren't any exploitable bugs in Adobe's Javascript
implementation, of course.
-mental
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On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 07:23 +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
You gather mostly wrong. PDFs themselves cannot contain executable code
that can affect the operating system, even with the Acrobat Javascript
capabilities.
but missed the part about it only affecting the full Acrobat program.
(Not that I cared much anyway, I don't even have a Windows machine, let
alone Adobe Anything.)
Thanks for setting me straight.
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On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 07:23 +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
On 01/02/06, Ross Bamford <rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
> I just deleted them - as well as the copyright issues, I gather that
> PDFs could be vulnerable to viruses...?
You gather mostly wrong. PDFs themselves cannot contain executable code
that can affect the operating system, even with the Acrobat Javascript
capabilities.
I think the number of people who received this mail, and now think, "Oh,
good; I was going to pay or this, but now I won't", is quite small.
I bought the pic axe which I don't like, and it is not the first time I
am disappointed in a book bought over the internet. I borrowed sam's
teach yourself but I did not buy it yet in the hope an update will come
in 2006
Very interesting. I think you're the first person I've heard say "I don't
like the Pickaxe."
The _Teach Yourself_ book is actually pretty good. I don't think there
is a 2nd edition in the works; and anyway not much of it would change
even so. What did you think of it, anyhow?
And what did you think of _The Ruby Way_, if you looked at it?
