DNS & BIND (O'Reilly book)

[Nate Duehr]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:03:11PM -0700, Cricket Liu wrote:
> 
> > I thought you'd find this funny.  I put the ISBN into B&N's website
> > search and all it found was an out of print copy of the King James
> > translation of the Bible in black, hard-bound.
> > 
> > Somehow, putting in the ISBN for DNS & BIND and getting back the Bible
> > seemed appropriate... heh heh.
> > 
> 
> Okay, I finally figured this out.  If you look up the fourth edition's ISBN
> with dashes in it (i.e., 0-596-00158-4), the "596" matches the 596 in the
> description of the Bible ("King James Version 596...").  Plugging in
> the ISBN without dashes doesn't match anything.
> 
> cricket

Cool.  I really didn't look into it that far, but I knew you were
correct when you said ISBN's should not be being re-issued.

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I still LOVE the entertainment value though.  :-)  And Kevin's original
re-translation of Genesis.  (I think it was Kevin?)

For those that can handle the humor, and the blasphemy, keep an eye on
www.ministermike.org over the next few weeks.  Nothing there right now,
but it's basically going to be a spoof on the "First Church of the
Internet" and I'm sure since a number of us are helping him write his
"holy scriptures" and dogma that we'll have to give DNS & BIND it's
proper due as a "holy" reference tome.  ;-)

Aww heck, maybe it's already been done, but we're having fun with it.
Something to keep us off the streets, out of trouble, and away from our
TV sets at night.

Disclaimer: Sorry for the plug and for any offense anyone might take on
... believe me, it's all in good fun!

I'll BCC the site owner so he knows he got a little publicity here --
BCC to keep the "minister's" true identity secret... well, maybe not.  

Tee hee.

Hey Cricket -- you mind if we give you special status for having written
the best BIND book available?  Let's see... would that be "Archbishop
Liu"?  I'm sitting here chuckling to myself about the possibilities...

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Either way, I (and I'm sure others on this list) are looking forward to
the new book!  Great job.

-- 
Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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