Free technical ebook each day from Packt Pub

dashcloud shared some links said Sun, Jul 17th 2016 at 11:33am ET

Hi, just wanted to let the more technically-minded folks here know about Packt Pub’s free ebook a day offer.
Each day they offer a free ebook (looks like it runs to at least August 1st) on a different tech topic.
I blame the goat @brhfl for me not getting around to posting this sooner.
Today’s book is “Learning Metasploit Exploitation and Development”.
The site is: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

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rschauer said Mon, Jul 18th 2016 at 12:17am ET:

Nice find. Thanks for sharing this!

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RuralNinja said Mon, Jul 18th 2016 at 12:57am ET:

Just what I needed, another site to compulsively check daily.

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beavsco said Mon, Jul 18th 2016 at 8:35am ET:

Isn’t it time we finally stopped exploiting Metasploit? Come on people.

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katylava said Mon, Jul 18th 2016 at 12:32pm ET:

Sweet! I got today’s book. I don’t know enough about NumPy arrays!

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- @katylava I know! My wife and I were just discussing NumPy arrays at dinner last night and how we could both stand to learn more about them.
  
  medz said Mon, Jul 18th 2016 at 1:52pm ET
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- @katylava Glad to hear it worked out for you.
  
  dashcloud said Mon, Jul 18th 2016 at 6:23pm ET
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wew said Mon, Jul 18th 2016 at 2:09pm ET:

Thank you! I missed a few decent ones I would not have mind owning.
@medz Well, that’s a romantic dinner conversation!

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- @wew yeah, the PHP web scraping might have been useful… might have given me enough motivation to finally get around to coding my automagic meh button clicker…
  
  baqui63 said Mon, Jul 18th 2016 at 2:19pm ET
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- @baqui63 yeah. Ha! that’s the same title I noticed. I thought that would be a fun title to start with. I’ll have to keep my eyes open and see if it pops up somewhere.
  
  wew said Mon, Jul 18th 2016 at 6:59pm ET
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harrison said Mon, Jul 18th 2016 at 9:29pm ET:

Looking forward to reading about NumPy Array. And I’m not sure what I’m going to do with Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook but i sure as heck have it!

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- @harrison Some of us still use Oracle 11g so that could be a useful book.
  
  cengland0 said Tue, Jul 19th 2016 at 12:01am ET
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- @cengland0 I’m sorry. I feel your pain.
  
  j8048188 said Tue, Jul 19th 2016 at 1:18am ET
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baqui63 said Tue, Jul 19th 2016 at 1:44am ET:

Hmmm… The synergy (or whatever…) is almost painful.

It is a very long and painful story, but suffice to say that tomorrow we are rebuilding an old Oracle11g server from a Ghost image made in 2012 so that we can restore a database backup made about a month ago, so that our Oracle guy can do something his boss wants him to do.

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- @baqui63
  Ouchie.
  
  f00l said Sun, Aug 7th 2016 at 9:07pm ET
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katylava said Tue, Jul 19th 2016 at 10:29am ET:

“What you need to know about R” is the book today, but I’m going to stick with NumPy and SciPy for my scientific computing. Which I do, like, all the time.

/giphy as in never

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cengland0 said Tue, Jul 19th 2016 at 10:35pm ET:

Looks like they have a special offer going on where all books and videos are only $10. I saw some yesterday that were $80 but are only $10 today.

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- @cengland0 I’m thrilled they brought back that sale- I bought craploads last time they had it.
  
  Folks, definitely take advantage of this sale:
  https://www.packtpub.com/all
  
  Apparently running until August 8th:
  https://www.packtpub.com/books/deal-of-the-day
  
  dashcloud said Wed, Jul 20th 2016 at 5:45pm ET
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dashcloud said Sun, Aug 7th 2016 at 9:06am ET:

Bringing this back to everyone’s attention because today is the last day of the $10 video/ebook sale:
https://www.packtpub.com/all

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mikibell said Sun, Aug 7th 2016 at 2:49pm ET:

Any recommendations for Arduino for a 11 year old? Is this too advanced for his age? I am looking at the wearable arduino book… Thank you!

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dashcloud said Sun, Aug 7th 2016 at 3:20pm ET:

Maybe consider some of the books from No Starch Press, which definitely includes kids & parents as an audience (as opposed to Packt, which doesn’t).
Here’s No Starch’s kids section:
https://www.nostarch.com/catalog/kids
Maybe someone else here has specific recommendations?

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- @dashcloud cool link…thanks… We bought a few Make: books so far and they are working out…
  
  mikibell said Sun, Aug 7th 2016 at 10:43pm ET
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wew said Wed, Apr 5th 2017 at 10:33pm ET:

how do i find that masterson post I made?
damn. i’ll never be back here. and darn my fingers can’t type

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