books by Jesse Torres (essential disasters scripting)

books by Jesse Torres

books:

Surviving PC Disasters, Mishaps, and Blunders

6 reviews
Jesse Torres, Peter Sideris

Paraglyph, 2005

Buy This Before You Need It
There's basically only four kinds of things that can go wrong with your PC: lost or stolen, hardware failures, software failures, stolen data. Each of these, however, can really mess up your day. Each of these however can be not solved but made much better with just a bit of advance planning. Losing your computer and/or crashing the disk drive is easy to fix if you have a backup, or if like ...

Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book, Second Edition

8 reviews
Jesse M. Torres

Paraglyph, 2004

An Excellent Reference
The first edition of this book has been out of print for some time. Mine is ragged from flipping through it. Covering the most common areas of scripting an administrator would be concerned with, you have the additional option of choosing the method best for you from the multiple solutions provided. VBS is covered lots of places, but Batch is becoming a hard topic to find good information on- ...

Dreaming Red: Creating ArtPace

1 review
Cuauhtemoc Medina, Frances Colpitt, ...

ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, 2003

Art as Healing
This is an unusual and fascinating book. The author is very open about personal tragedies and then explains how the interaction with the artists at ArtPace has been curative and mind expanding. The art is of the most edgy, but the author is clear about the thinking behind the images and the processes. The photos are beautiful, the book is a treat to look at and to think about. It should ...

Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book: A Concise Guide to Essential Scripting for Administrators

18 reviews
Jesse M. Torres, Jesse Torres

Coriolis Technology Press, 2000

An absolute gem for administrators, power users and learners
If you're an administrator, a power user or someone who wants to learn scripting by practical example, this compendium of truly useful scripts is a must-have addition to your library. Torres provides a couple of hundred scripts using Windows Shell Scripting ssssss(bless you, bat file), AutoIt, KiXtart and Windows Script Host (using VBscript). He also provides a very basic introduction to ...

Windows Admin Programming with Visual C# 2005 Little Black Book (Little Black Books (Paraglyph Press))
Jesse Torres

Paraglyph Press, 2008

Windows Admin Programming with Visual C# 2005 Little Black Book shows Windows programmers and administrators how to perform Windows management and administrative tasks with the powerful Visual C# and .Net. The book takes a step deeper than basic scripting guides and shows programmers how to really get under the hood and program for the Registry, network management, and enterprise management... It provides an introduction to the powerful new ...