Download or read book Kipuka Blues written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After extinction? Politics. Monsters. Murder. The alien Absolute eradicated Earth’s native life, replacing a fraction of it with alien duplicates. Kevin remembers the life of a police officer, but must find a new life in the bizarrely warped landscape of northern Michigan. But even astonishingly resilient alien flesh breaks down, with enough effort. Or enough electricity. Absolute eradicated humanity. But his copies brought the worst parts of humanity with them…

Download or read book Kipuka Blues written by Michael Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After extinction?Politics.Monsters.Murder.The alien Absolute eradicated Earth's native life, replacing a fraction of it with alien duplicates. Kevin remembers the life of a police officer, but must find a new life in the bizarrely warped landscape of northern Michigan.But even astonishingly resilient alien flesh breaks down, with enough effort.Or enough electricity.Absolute eradicated humanity. But his copies brought the worst parts of humanity with them...

Download or read book Immortal Clay written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duplicate. Infiltrate. Exterminate. Liberate? The alien ate its way out of Antarctica, devouring and duplicating every living thing it found. Humanity turned continents to glass and oceans to poison in a desperate effort to stop it—and failed. Nobody expected that once the alien copied everyone, once it owned the world, it would set the copies free. Police detective Kevin Holtzmann fled with his family into the desert, and almost survived. Now a new Kevin must figure out the terrifying new world’s rules before the world eats him alive—again. His life teeters between the yesterday’s nightmares and tomorrow’s unknown horrors. But humanity’s best and worst features survived. Life means hope, and terror, and joy, and fear. New life means new dangers. New threats. New crimes… Good thing he’s a new Kevin.

Download or read book Terrapin Sky Tango written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FAMILY AFFRAY With her father's death, mercenary thief Beaks returns to the place she hates most—her childhood home, to both pay her respects and make certain he's gone. She finds only lies. Determined to rip the truth out of the shadows, Beaks ricochets around the world, defying killers and government agents alike. With the man she loves and the secretive hacker Sister Silence, she targets a nightmare that turns suffering into profit and slaughter into joy. Family. It's worse than murder.

Download or read book Butterfly Stomp Waltz written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50% Die Hard 50% Robin Hood 100% trouble Reeling from the death of her lover and partner, freelance “exfiltration specialist” Billie Carrie Salton breaks into a high-tech, high-security biotechnology firm to steal their sickle cell anemia cure and broadcast it to the world. In, out, announce. Easy. Except Salton’s life never works that smoothly. And a gig gone wrong only begins the disasters. Thievery, lies, and betrayals propel Salton across the world, from Atlanta, Georgia, to the heat of Portugal and the jungles of Myanmar, where she must put everything on the line to save everything she loves.

Download or read book SSH Mastery written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling text on SSH, newly revised and updated! Secure Shell (SSH) lets sysadmins securely manage remote systems. It’s powerful, complicated, and confusing. Lose the confusion. SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys rescues you from sifting through decades of obsolete online tutorials and quickly makes you an SSH journeyman. You’ll learn to · eliminate passwords · manage access by users, groups, addresses, and more · securely move files around your network · forward graphic displays · proxy TCP connections · build SOCKS proxies · centrally manage and distribute keys and configurations · use SSH as secure transport for other applications · build virtual private networks · create Certificate Authorities for truly large scale deployment Master Secure Shell with SSH Mastery! #ssh2e

Download or read book Aidan Redding Against the Universes written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physics inconvenient? Change it. Then watch it try to kill you. Solve a murder in a universe without ground to stand on. Investigate inexplicable deaths a few million years after the Big Bang. Take too many breaths and never go home again. Let the antimatter trickle between your fingers, and visit five alien universes in this first Montague Portal omnibus. Contains: Forever Falls Hydrogen Sleets Drinking Heavy Water Sticky Supersaturation No More Lonesome Blue Rings

Download or read book TLS Mastery Tux Edition written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport Layer Security, or TLS, makes ecommerce and online banking possible. It protects your passwords and your privacy. Let’s Encrypt transformed TLS from an expensive tool to a free one. TLS understanding and debugging is an essential sysadmin skill you must have. TLS Mastery takes you through: · How TLS works · What TLS provides, and what it doesn’t · Wrapping unencrypted connections inside TLS · Assessing TLS configurations · The Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol · Using Let’s Encrypt to automatically maintain TLS certificates · Online Certificate Status Protocol · Certificate Revocation · CAA, HSTS, and Certificate Transparency · Why you shouldn’t run your own CA, and how to do it anyway · and more! Stop wandering blindly around TLS. Master the protocol with TLS Mastery!

Download or read book Prohibition Orcs written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I love these stories" Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author of The Fey ELVES WENT INTO THE WEST—TO AMERICA. GENERATIONS LATER, ORCS FOLLOWED. 1927 Detroit. Orcs fight Prohibition, avoid police, and labor hard for their children. All while doing their best to navigate the narrow human world. Men drive fancy Dodges and Cadillacs; orcs squeeze into fourth-hand Model Ts. Dwarves dominate the skilled trades; orcs push brooms. And behind everything, elves make it their life’s work to deny orcs have worth. To be an orc is to endure, but when the world tries to deny even that, an orc must act. And Uruk-Tai will do anything for his family. This long-demanded collection includes all the Prohibition Orcs tales—Spilled Mirovar, Final Gift, Drowned Mirovar, Witness November, Degreased Hopes, Woolen Torment, and the never before published A Debt of Meat. With an introduction by USA Today best-selling author Robert Jeschonek

Download or read book FreeBSD Mastery Jails written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONFINE YOUR SOFTWARE Jails are FreeBSD’s most legendary feature: known to be powerful, tricky to master, and cloaked in decades of dubious lore. Deploying jails calls upon every sysadmin skill you have, and more—but unleashing lightweight virtualization is so worth it. FreeBSD Mastery: Jails cuts through the clutter to expose the inner mechanisms of jails and unleash their power in your service. You will: · Understand how jails achieve lightweight virtualization · Understand the base system’s jail tools and the iocage toolkit · Optimally configure jail hardware · Manage jails from the host and from within the jail · Optimize disk space usage to support hundreds or thousands of jails · Comfortably work within the limits of jails · Implement fine-grained control of jail features · Build virtual networks · Deploy hierarchical jails · Constrain jail resource usage · And more! Strip away the mystery. Read FreeBSD Mastery: Jails today! “This is the sequel to Git Commit Murder, right ?” /phk, creator of the jail system

Download or read book Apocalypse Moi written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE END OF YOUR WORLD? These twelve tales from critically-acclaimed author Michael Warren Lucas remind us that doom is always personal. Genes gone wild, or not wild enough. Cosmic heroes demanding you show them to a bank robbery, or else. Learning after a lifetime that your love is named chocolate, and chasing it no matter the cost. Discovering that your cozy desk job might get you killed, that one of your coworkers is a murderer, or the Faerie Queen wants your pelt. Apocalypse is loathed liberation, shredded innocence, or blowing up your own life to clasp a gaunt hope of love. A dozen different dooms await you. Some of them are delicious. (Includes Drums with Delusions of Godhood, Waking Up Yesterday, Forced to Talk, Like, With Your Mouth, Moonlight’s Apples, Easing Final Fears, Wifi and Romex, Shoot Through the Heart, Calling Control, Easy, Step-by-Step Preparation, Yesterday’s Girl, and Forbidden Taste.)

Download or read book Ed Mastery written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’m glad someone’s finally giving ed the attention it deserves.” – Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix Let me be perfectly clear: ed is the standard Unix text editor. If you don’t know ed, you’re not a real sysadmin. Forty years after ed’s introduction, internationally acclaimed author Michael W Lucas has finally unlocked the mysteries of ed for everyone. With Ed Mastery, you too can become a proper sysadmin. Ed Mastery will help you: · understand buffers and addresses · insert, remove, and mangle text · master file management and shell escapes · comprehend regular expressions, searches, and substitutions · create high-performance scripts for transforming files You must be at least this competent to use this computer. Read Ed Mastery today!

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Download or read book git commit murder written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Agatha Christie ran Unix cons The BSD North conference draws some of the smartest people in the world. These few days will validate Dale Whitehead’s work—or expose him as a fraud. When a tragic death devastates the conference, only Dale suspects murder. Computer geeks care about code. But do they care enough… to kill?

Download or read book Forever Falls written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no grounds for murder. There’s no ground at all. The people exploring and exploiting alien universes risk everything, including their lives. But Devin Gupper’s death makes no sense. And the more questions security officer Aidan Redding asks, the less rational it seems. But in a bottomless universe full of impossibilities, one impossible murder begins everything...

Download or read book Frozen Talons written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ A tale so outlandish it feels real. Prohibition. Grosse Pointe elves. Automotive lords. And the orcs doing their best to make America make sense. A riotous fantasy within a fantasy. Terry Pratchett via Detroit!” --Zig Zag Claybourne, author of Afro Puffs are the Antennae of the Universe HOPE EXISTS TO BE CRUSHED The tenuous bootlegging alliance between the Tai clan and the human Sanford brought wealth to Uruk-Tai’s family. But a treacherous shadow has poisoned booze in the clan’s name. Humans have died and other humans blame Uruk, the way small men always blame orcs. But when an orcish child dies from poison draught and war erupts between clans, Uruk finds himself forced into a magic-bound partnership with a clan rival who wants him dead. As the Sun surrenders to the Longest Night, Uruk charges through the belly of 1927 Detroit to find a cowardly killer before his own family is destroyed. Is it a lone poisoner? Or have the arrogant elves decided to end their slow feud and destroy Uruk’s family? An orc endures, but endurance is not enough. By dawn, bodies frozen to the street. Perhaps Uruk’s children among them.

Download or read book Spilled Mirovar written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern year of 1927, and orcs still have to fight elven asshole bullshit. Prohibition left exceptions for the church of Men, the Elvish sacraments, even the Dwarfish rituals. But the elves in Congress insist that orcs have no sacraments. Without the Orcish draught, without the rites, Uruk-Tai’s fine strong boys might grow tall. They might earn respect. But they will never be Orcs. And Uruk will not let that happen.