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 Terrapin Sky Tango written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Beaks. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 292 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.

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 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 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 OpenBSD Mastery Filesystems written by Michael W. Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many users assume that their advanced filesystem is better than UFS because they have so many features—snapshots, checksums, compression, sophisticated caching algorithms, and so on—while all UFS has ever done is muck about putting data on disk. But, conversely, UFS users believe their filesystem is better for exactly the same reasons." —Hitchhikers Guide to OpenBSD Disk management is the core of system administration. Nobody can tell you how large that database is going to grow or how many files that archive must eventually support, but for everything else there’s OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. This guide takes you through the latest in OpenBSD storage management, including: · OpenBSD’s cross-platform storage stack · MBR, GPT, and disklabel partitions · The Unix File System · Growing, removing, and repairing filesystems · Memory file systems · The Buffer Cache · Why you need swap, and how to live with it · Coping with FAT, NTFS, EXT, and more · The Network File System · iSCSI · Software RAID · Encrypted filesystems · Encrypted installs And more! Partition yourself for success and grab OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems now.

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.

Download or read book Drinking Heavy Water written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SECOND CONTACT Aidan Redding’s entire goal for her time in this universe: behave. For once. Discovering seafaring aliens trashes that plan. The aliens raise questions. Her co-workers raise more. The answers explain it all. And ruin everything. On a world where gravity changes every second, Redding finds herself involuntarily allied with a mathematician from Soviet Texas as she races to save not just herself but civilization. Forget aliens. Nothing threatens Earth’s golden age so much as ordinary human beings.

Download or read book Devotion and Corrosion written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Speed Madness, with Love at the Wheel Love. The most overloaded word in our language. Love of your mate, love of pets, of parents and children and friends, all different things. We spend our last breath sharing our love. For love, we break not just the law but ourselves. Love is pure devotion, and pure corrosion. Love propels these stories. Thrillers and fantasies, science fiction and historicals. Love chained by brain implants and little old ladies who should have been left undisturbed. Love strong enough to unravel the universe, with the knowledge to do it. Minuscule love wiggling its whiskers against your cheek. Trapped children freeing themselves through love of the incomprehensible. Love of art and family and another person, the kind of love that violates museums and gnaws Semtex. Selected from a decade of the author’s work, these eleven tales affirm the power of love—at knifepoint. “Each story is Hieronymus Bosch writing a love letter to Charlie Brown’s little red-haired girl now grown and so weary she aches.” – ZZ Claybourne

Download or read book Hydrogen Sleets written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the new universe, same as the old universe— but thirteen billion years younger. Aidan Redding’s new assignment? A space station in a universe so young it’s barely invented hydrogen. Researchers study the cosmos’ earliest days, discover whole new realms of science... and go screaming insane. The mathematicians claim this universe obeys the same natural laws as Redding’s own. At the beginning of time, though, the universe writes its own rules.

Download or read book Sudo Mastery written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sudo: You’re Doing It Wrong Unix-like operating systems use a rudimentary access control system: the root account can do anything, while other users are peasants with only minimal access. This worked fine in UNIX’s youth, but now that sysadmin responsibilities are spread among many people and applications, many people need a tiny slice of root’s power. Sudo lets you divide root’s monolithic power between the people who need it with accountability and auditability. Sudo Mastery will teach you to: · design a secure sudo policy · simplify policies with lists and aliases · manage shell environments · verify system integrity via intrusion detection · deploy a single sudo policy across your enterprise · manage sudo policies via LDAP · log and debug sudo · record and replay full sudo sessions · use authentication systems other than passwords Master sudo with Sudo Mastery!

Download or read book Letters to ed 1 written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You asked. He didn’t answer. The We Get Letters column of the FreeBSD Journal has been called “a tsunami of bile disguised as experience and erudition,” “a torment to the eye and a stain upon the soul,” and “the corroded battleship anchor that will drag an otherwise illustrious Journal to an ignominious demise.” If you ask people who aren’t the columnist, you’ll get a less luminous view. Perhaps even negative. We sincerely apologize. This collection of the first three years illustrates how rapidly Lucas abandoned any pretense of answering questions usefully—or, indeed, paying any attention whatsoever to his correspondents. It is unacceptable. What the editors conceived of as an innocent letters column quickly transcended bitterness to become elevated, even elegant enmity. Against everyone. Apologies are insufficient. In an attempt to keep these columns from teaching other articles bad habits, we have confined them in their own private volume. The publisher expects it to be presented as evidence at his inevitable competency hearings, as well as most of the civil suits. Next week’s suits, at least. "While we appreciate Mr Lucas' unique contributions to the Journal, we do feel his specific talents are not being fully utilized. Please buy his books, his hours, autographed photos, whatever so that he is otherwise engaged." – John Baldwin, FreeBSD Journal Editorial Board Chair

Download or read book Vicious Redemption written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped on a reef with a walking dead man. A need that cannot be sated or survived. Nobody else hears the dead dog’s murderous ghost. Whiskey means silence. So do claws. Mental scars drag the world behind them. SOME SALVATIONS COST TOO MUCH. “The five stories in this collection are a real treat for fans of fantasy and horror. Join writer Michael Warren Lucas as he takes you on a trip through perilous supernatural landscapes and explores the darkness and strength of the human heart.” – Lucy Snyder, multiple Stoker-award-winning author of While The Black Stars Burn and Soft Apocalypses Contains: Wednesday’s Seagulls, Pax Canina, Opening the Eye, Breaking the Circle, and Sticky Notes.