Chris Stone

Biography

Chris Stone (cjstone@mac.com) is a Senior Systems Administrator (the Mac guy) at O'Reilly Media, Inc. and coauthor of Mac OS X in a Nutshell. He's written several Mac OS X related articles for the O'Reilly MacDevCenter (www.macdevcenter.com), and contributed to Mac OS X: The Missing Manual from Pogue Press. Chris lives in Petaluma, California with his wife, Miho, and two sons, Andrew and Jonathan.

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Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell by Andy Lester , Chris Stone , Chuck Toporek , Jason McIntosh November 2005 $39.95 USD (Read Reviews)	Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell by Chuck Toporek , Chris Stone , Jason McIntosh Second Edition June 2004 OUT OF PRINT (Read Reviews)
Mac OS X in a Nutshell by Jason McIntosh , Chuck Toporek , Chris Stone January 2003 OUT OF PRINT (Read Reviews)

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Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 3
Publish Date: Mar. 21, 2003Now that you have the regular maintenance cron jobs running at more reasonable times and emailing you their reports, you would probably like to know what those jobs do, and what the reports tell you. Chris Stone tells you in Part 3 of this ongoing series. Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 2
Publish Date: Jan. 24, 2003In Part 1, Chris Stone focused on rescheduling default system cron jobs by modifying the system crontab file. Here in Part 2, he shows you how to configure cron to email a report to you each time it runs one of these jobs. Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 1
Publish Date: Dec. 6, 2002O'Reilly Mac OS X command line guru Chris Stone is back with another series to help you get comfy with Jaguar's Terminal app. He begins by showing you what's where, and what to do with it once you're there. Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 5
Publish Date: Jul. 2, 2002Learn how to have your own crontab run a script regularly and email your reports just like system cron jobs. This provides a free and easy way to ensure that your most important data exists on two drives. Update to Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3
Publish Date: Jun. 7, 2002When Apple updated Mac OS X from 10.1.4 to 10.1.5, Sendmail was part of that revision. The procedure that Chris Stone outlined in his Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3 tutorial no longer worked correctly after the update. Here are the fixes to get Sendmail up and running again in 10.1.5. Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 4
Publish Date: Mar. 26, 2002Term files allow you to save individual window settings to a file, which when opened, create a new environment with all of your pre-configured settings. Chris Stone shows you how to make term files sing with Streamripper. Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3
Publish Date: Feb. 26, 2002In parts one and two, Chris Stone helped you get comfortable with Mac OS X's Terminal app. Now he provides a virtual cornucopia of cron-related goodies. Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 2
Publish Date: Jan. 22, 2002Earlier, Chris Stone showed you how to reschedule the default system cron jobs by modifying the system crontab. Now in Part 2 he explains how to configure cron to email a report each time it runs one of these jobs. Pro User's Perspective on the New iMac (and Other Apple Revelations)
Publish Date: Jan. 15, 2002There was plenty to digest at Macworld San Francisco 2002 for the thousands of power users who attended. O'Reilly's Mac systems administrator evaluates the new iMac and other Macworld events in this review for pros. Learning the Mac OS X Terminal: Part 1
Publish Date: Dec. 14, 2001The Terminal application in Mac OS X is a new benefit to traditional Mac users, and it's a terrific one. Chris Stone shows you step by step how to get comfortable with the Terminal, and how to accomplish your first task via the command line.

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LUN Masking Feature Removed from Xserve RAID

January 24 2007

The Apple Xserve RAID now ships with 750GB drive modules, which increases the maximum capacity of each RAID unit now to 10.5TB. While that’s certainly great news, there’s one other part of the update that might not be as pleasing to fans of the fibre channel storage devices. As part of… read more

Notes from the Show Floor 2

January 13 2007

As promised, here’s quick listing of some of the storage related vendors spotted on the MacWorld show floor, with a focus on inexpensive RAID solutions: 1. 2Â°Frost Data Solutions showed their new turnkey ATA over Ethernet (AoE) systems for Macs, which rely on their own Mac OS X AoE driver. This… read more

AirPort Disk: Easy Network Storage

January 13 2007

Apple announced its new Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) this week with a bit less fanfare than enjoyed by its other two new products. Sure, the new AEBS won’t change the world, but it does have one new feature that will bring joy to quite a few households. Apple calls… read more

Notes from the Show Floor 1

January 11 2007

Just a few quick things that caught my eye as I strolled the MacWorld show floor: 1. The crew at the EVDOinfo.com booth looked like a great resource for anyone wanting to use one of the EVDO cards from Verizon or Sprint with their Macs. They also carry several EVDO/WiFi routers,… read more

802.11n and the Mac

January 10 2007

I’ve been looking for details on Apple’s plan for 802.11n adoption, and found some good info now on their site No suprise that the the 802.11n enabler will work only for the Core 2 machines, which include the hardware to allow it. Also, I learned from an Apple representative at their… read more

iTerm Back on Track

November 19 2006

Terminal is a great application for the occasional user of the Mac’s command line; it’s clean, fast, and always there. But many system administrators, developers, and others who work with the command line daily find that Terminal isn’t really what they’re used to, mainly because it’s missing features commonly found… read more

Xserve SAN?

November 12 2006

Call me slow, but I’ve only recently come to understand what the Xserve RAID really is, and it’s not just a RAID. Before my revelation, I had figured that, out of the box, the Xserve RAID was strictly a DAS RAID device, connecting via Fibre Channel to a single Xserve, much… read more

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