0.7. Hal's acknowledgments from the first edition

This book would not have been completed without the help of many people. I'd like to thank Brent Callaghan, Chuck Kollars, Neal Nuckolls, and Janice McLaughlin (all of Sun Microsystems); Kevin Sheehan (Kalli Consulting); Vicki Lewolt Schulman (Auspex Systems); and Dave Hitz (H&L Software) for their neverending stream of answers to questions about issues large and small. Bill Melohn (Sun) provided the foundation for the discussion of computer viruses. The discussion of NFS performance tuning and network configuration is based on work done with Peter Galvin and Rick Sabourin at Brown University. Several of the examples of NIS and NFS configuration were taken from a system administrator's guide to NFS and NIS written by Mike Loukides for Multiflow Computer Company.

The finished manuscript was reviewed by: Chuck Kollars, Mike Marotta, Ed Milstein, and Brent Callaghan (Sun); Dave Hitz (H&L Software); Larry Rogers (Princeton University); Vicky Lewold Schulman (Auspex); Simson Garfinkel (NeXTWorld); and Mike Loukides and Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.). This book has benefited in many ways from their insights, comments, and corrections. The production group of O'Reilly & Associates also deserves my gratitude for applying the finishing touches to this book. I owe a tremendous thanks to Mike Loukides of O'Reilly & Associates who helped undo four years of liberal arts education and associated writing habits. It is much to Mike's credit that this book does not read like a treatise on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.[2]

[2]I think I will cause my freshman composition lecturer pain equal to the credit given to Mike, since she assured me that reading and writing about Crime and Punishment would prepare me for writing assignments the rest of my life. I have yet to see how, except possibly when I was exploring performance issues.

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