Getting CompSys Books Online?

chrislad

I'm looking for a book by Andrew Tanenbaum.

- Operating Systems: Design and Implementation

Anyone know where I can get this somewhat cheaper online. The bookshop are charging 70quid!!! Talk about a rip.

BossArky

How about 3 or 4 of you chip in together? Handy way to start a study network.

chrislad

Tried that in second year. It didn't work out too well. It's grand if you're all together but if someone is out and they have the book, 3 of you are screwed.

I just bit the bullet and bought it. No socialising for me for a week or so.

kodute

Did you try downloading the ebook? might be some legal issues but you would pay for it by printing it out....:D

chrislad

Didn't even think of that. Damn. I may see if I can get that Networking book before Amazon ship it. Any ideas where to look? Printing isn't an issue as I can get it done at parents work for free!

sceptre

chrislad wrote:

Any ideas where to look?

Don't make me ban you for soliciting copyrighted material. Nor anyone else for providing it. It's one of the situations where no-one's going to wait for a decision from the local mod before carrying out the ban anyway. Be smart and so forth.

Totally aside, I may have that networking book but I'd have to check at home.

Nukem

sceptre wrote:

Don't make me ban you for soliciting copyrighted material. Nor anyone else for providing it. It's one of the situations where no-one's going to wait for a decision from the local mod before carrying out the ban anyway. Be smart and so forth.

Yes yes *tips hat* - was allowed go to class today the boards monster said i could:)

just had a check for ya in my book places and its 70e everywhere i looked. Sorry. Bang an e-mail off to anyone ahead of you a few years and maybe you get lucky and someone might flog you a 2nd hand one.

sceptre

Nukem wrote:

Yes yes *tips hat* - was allowed go to class today the boards monster said i could:)

I'm not a monster, I'm a real boy.

Lest you think I'm toe-stepping for the sake of toe-stepping, there's been rather a lot of dubious material being distributed on a few boards lately, which has been stamped on with gusto as regardless of our own feelings towards copyright in private or downloading a few hundred gigs of mp3s and books, which I'm sure we've all done at one point or another, it's beeing stamped on because it needs to be and because the admins rightly don't have much sympathy for it. It probably would be less of a problem if a few people on a few other boards weren't so dumbly blatant about it, but then they've all been put in the cooler for a while. I could do with 20% more kindness in how I say it though. And now back to your regular scheduled programming...

There's an Amazon seller flogging the 1987 edition for the low low price of four pounds and twelve new pennies if that's any good. Or the 1997 ed for £33, which comes to about 50 plus a few quid for postage.

chrislad

sceptre wrote:

Don't make me ban you for soliciting copyrighted material. Nor anyone else for providing it. It's one of the situations where no-one's going to wait for a decision from the local mod before carrying out the ban anyway. Be smart and so forth.

Totally aside, I may have that networking book but I'd have to check at home.

Who said anything about copyrighted material? I thought there might be a publishers site where you could download the book (after paying) and print it out yourself. That would save on the cost. Don't jump to conclusions.

Like I said, I just bought it. I think it's a new edition anyways, so I doubt I could find it second hand.

Nukem

sceptre wrote:

private or downloading a few hundred gigs of mp3s and books, which I'm sure we've all done at one point or another

:eek: whats this you speak of!
And yes there is an increased amount lately!

Rozie

You know, if companies bitch so much about people sharing their "files" on public boards, they shouldn't charge 70 ****ing euros for a not particularily well written, drawn out, very often single use book that ends up being nowhere as useful as notes you can get for 3 Euros in the print room.

Just my opinion.

I'm not buying any books this year, they've never really helped me a huge amount before except for when I can't find something elsewhere. I'll get them out of the library when I need them.

sceptre

chrislad wrote:

Who said anything about copyrighted material? I thought there might be a publishers site where you could download the book (after paying) and print it out yourself. That would save on the cost. Don't jump to conclusions.

Ah, 't'would be the reply of "damn, didn't think of that" right after "download, the ebook, might be some legal issues but you'd pay for it by printing it out:D". Completely easy to misunderstand. I guess you missed the dodgy nature of the recommendation above which I noticed because I'm used to looking for it.

chrislad

sceptre wrote:

Ah, 't'would be the reply of "damn, didn't think of that" right after "download, the ebook, might be some legal issues but you'd pay for it by printing it out:D". Completely easy to misunderstand. I guess you missed the dodgy nature of the recommendation above which I noticed because I'm used to looking for it.

Didn't even see that part. Fair enough for you making that assumption though. I did get an eBook last year as did end up printing it out, but I didn't even think to do it this year.

It's all gravy anyways. I have the bleedin' book and it's wrecking my head. 22700 lines of code for a small OS? No way am I going into coding.

BossArky

Why not download and install Copernicus instead? As a search engine it will find anything that is on the net out there. Since you will be looking for IT solutions they are bound to be up somewhere. Thats why I used to do anyway. Books are a waste of moneym, time(probably only ever opened for a day or two before an exam) and heavy to be lugging around.