Product Description

Often hailed as one of the most thorough, well-written books on the subject, Mac OS X Panther Unleashed is all you will ever need in order to learn the Mac OS X operating system and the BSD Unix underlying system. The new Mac OS X has added performance and interface enhancements, which further extends the capabilities of the underlying subsystem. Unleashed teaches you how to get the most out of your operating system by focusing on the subsystem. It will also show you how to deal with the most trouble-prone aspects of the user interface. Whether you're new to Mac OS X or you're a skilled user, as long as you're familiar with the basics of the Mac OS drag and drop and menu functions, Unleashed will be able to show you how to get the most out of your Mac operating system!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #945366 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1704 pages

From the Back Cover

Often hailed as one of the most thorough, well-written books on the subject, Mac OS X Panther Unleashed is all you will ever need in order to learn the Mac OS X operating system and the BSD Unix underlying system. The new Mac OS X has added performance and interface enhancements, which further extends the capabilities of the underlying subsystem. Unleashed teaches you how to get the most out of your operating system by focusing on the subsystem. It will also show you how to deal with the most trouble-prone aspects of the user interface. Whether you're new to Mac OS X or you're a skilled user, as long as you're familiar with the basics of the Mac OS drag and drop and menu functions, Unleashed will be able to show you how to get the most out of your Mac operating system!

About the Author

John Ray is an award-winning application developer and security consultant with more than 20 years of programming and administration experience. He has worked on projects for the National Regulatory Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Xerox and the state of Florida, as well as serving as the IT director for a multimillion dollar design and technology firm. A Macintosh owner and programmer since 1984, John has written/contributed to numerous titles including Maximum Mac OS X Security, Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All in One, Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X and Panther All In One.

William Ray is a mathematician turned computer scientist turned biophysicist who has gravitated to the field of bioinformatics for its interesting synergy of logic, hard science, and human-computer-interface issues. Will is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at the Columbus Children's Research Institute Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and the Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, where he is investigating tools that work at the interface between humans, computers, and information, and working to build a core computational research and training facility for his institute.

Joan Ray (Contributing Author) is a Unix system administrator and Webmaster for the College of Biological Sciences at The Ohio State University. Joan has a degree in French from OSU and is working toward additional degrees in Japanese and geology. When not helping with this or other books, Joan is administering a cluster of SHI and Sun Unix workstations and servers; helping and providing training for users with Unix, Classic Mac OS, and Mac OS X questions; and serving as college Webmaster.

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Customer Reviews

A great look at Panther's capabilities
I bought this book with a little trepidation: I'm new to Mac OS X, and having bought and studied many similar books for Windows I expected much of the same boring mediocrity. How shocked I was when I got it then!

This is a fantastic introduction to just about every facet of Panther. Fine- it doesn't go deep enough for some tasks, but it sure gives the reader a broad skills' base in the major selling points of this great OS. For example, I recently used the section on iDVD to walk myself through DVD production; I constantly turn to the Unix (command line) chapter for help in using the shell; and I have to say that the section on Apache is good enough to get your own web server running in an hour or so. On top of that, there are portions of the book that cover things like installing software from the command line, using X Windows, and getting to grips with the file system of Panther.

Add to this a command list summary available on the web site of the publisher (this can be printed off in PDF format) and what you end up getting here for very little cash is a resource that will help you with just about anything you want to do with Panther. I'm now moving on to Apple Certification, so it might be obvious that this book has been instrumental in giving me the foundation I needed in this great OS before doing so.

Buy it. You won't be sorry you did!

This book is One of 3 books, that will make you a Panther
Super User.

If your are new to Mac OS X . something and want to learn how to navigate the Gui as effecient as possible without digging to deep into the BSD unix part of the Operating sytem, then this book is not for you. A book like MacOS X the missing Manual does that a lot better and I can clearly recommend that to the abovementioned purpose. If however your have moved passed that stage or want to know how to use the terminal and great deal of the cool opensorce softwares bundled with Mac OS X I Recommend this book. Do not skip the GUI part of the book anyway reading that part gives you an understanding of the authors writing style, and it will make it easier to understand what they means when you moves into uncharted waters. The decription of netinfo and how to use it in the GUI part of the book is a more complete than the decription i the missing manual. Understanding the Authors writing still I am learning a lot of the Mac's way of using Unix and I really looks forward to moving forward in the book.

The 3th book I would recommend on your road to become a MacOS X super user is
Ted Landu's MacOS X helpline. This book is a book who teaches you how to troubleshoot and prevent problems when somethings go wrong. Working a a Apple Product specialist in On of Denmarks largets appledeals these 3 books really helps me