Best secretarial aids & training books according to redditors
We found 33 Reddit comments discussing the best secretarial aids & training books. We ranked the 9 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 33 Reddit comments discussing the best secretarial aids & training books. We ranked the 9 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Actually, it was David Kahn's The Codebreakers that was going to reveal the UKUSA agreement when is was first published in 1967, which would have revealed the way the US and UK could spy on their domestic populations by swapping data. The NSA persuaded the publisher to strike that page from the finished product, the first time that the US ever pre-censored a civilian publication. Technically "legal" in that the publisher did it "voluntarily" rather than coerced.
In 1983 James Bamford reproduced the missing page in The Puzzle Palace. At this point it was now formally known that the US and UK could spy on anyone, anywhere in the world, and get away with it. (Each organization can spy on everything-minus-their-own-country. All it takes is two countries to agree to fill in the holes for each other and both can "legally" know everything.)
NSA has been doing this for over 50 years. It has been known to those who cared to look for over 30 years. Snowden really only revealed their tactics and technology, not their strategy or goals. Their goal has always been Total Information Awareness.
You should really get yourself a book to learn Teeline the right way. I recommend this one. I assume you're just using whatever free resources you can find. Many of your letters are joined incorrectly and a lot of letter combos, like "tr", have their own symbols. In this case, a long horizontal line. These increase your speed a lot. Here's what it looks like using some shortcuts.
Spoilers, for anyone who cares....
> You have my heart
> You had it from the start
> I love you [from afr?]
Spez: Just realized that last word is probably “afar.”
If you want the background, I'd recommend three sources:
I suggest getting a book, since they are typically far more readable.
I first learned Vim with Steve Oualline's book.
More recently, Drew Neil's Practical Vim and Modern Vim are excellent choices.
Your local public library may well have some good books on Vim as well, if not these exact titles.
Here are some resources I've found especially helpful for my own puzzle-making and codebreaking endeavors.
General Overviews and Websites for Getting Started:
Basic Cryptanalytic Techniques:
Beginner Hand-cracking Tutorials:
Tools for Creating and Cracking Codes Quickly:
Interesting Cryptographic Puzzles/Methods for Inspiration:
Books for Learning:
Books for Puzzle Solving:
Games:
EDIT: Fixed a link and made a couple minor touch-ups.
I recently jumped into this hobby, and almost immediately decided my all cap scribbling looked less than elegant. I picked up the book "Write Now" from Amazon and have been using that to learn proper italic cursive. It's not a drastic departure from my old writing style, but looks much better in my opinion. Plus, learning something new is always fun.
https://www.amazon.com/Write-Now-Complete-Self-teaching-Handwriting/dp/0876780893
If you haven't read it already, you might want to check out David Kahn's The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet.
He's not joking when he says it's comprehensive: it's 1200 pages. Absolutely fascinating if you're at all into the history of crypto; it goes into a lot of detail about not only how historical cryptosystems worked, what were their weaknesses and how they were cryptanalyzed etc., but also the historical context in which the systems were used and developed.
Edit: Just realized the Colossus book I was thinking of was this. I'll have to check out the one you linked to
Fix It Write and Write Now! for the lazy
I didn't realize there were so many vim books now honestly. I Started off with this one. Worked well for me.
Would like to know what people think of Hacking Vim 7.2? My book is pretty old these days, wondering if this one is a bit more advanced?
If you've only got three months to learn, I suggest Forkner which is proven to be rapidly learnable
If you want something you could theoretically type on a normal keyboard, there are many options, but Dearborn's version of Speedwriting is the one that got the most testing and had the most users.
edited to add: futurejoe's suggestion of Teeline is also good but you will have to buy a legit textbook. The free material available online is inferior and if you're in a hurry you can't screw around.
I have no idea what the best for you is, I am by no means an expert.
I have started learning Teeline for myself. The only resource you need is the Teeline gold book here
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0435471716/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_KY1QBbAE2MN9Q
You mention a diverse set of topics, and you're probably not going to find any one book that covers all of them.
For algorithms for cryptography, signatures, protocols, etc. the definitive go to (last I checked) was still Schneier's Applied Cryptography.
For a history of cryptography, I'm fond of Kahn's The Codebreakers, but be forewarned that it is a large book.
For Network Security and Information Assurance concepts, I like Anderson's Security Engineering, but the state of the art changes so rapidly that it's difficult to recommend a book.
Suggest to the guy to read "The Codebreakers" by David Kahn (that's Kahn, not Khan).
Strongly recommended for anyone interested in ciphers and cryptology. If it's over his head, start with any kid's level book on ciphers and work your way up.
https://www.amazon.com/Codebreakers-Comprehensive-History-Communication-Internet/dp/0684831309?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0684831309
It probably is not Codes and Secret Writing by Herbert Zim, nor Alvin's Secret Code but I'll include them just for completeness.
The Dvorak keyboard is something like 75 years old (I'm in my early 40s).
I had come across this Kenisis Keyboard, which at the time was Qwerty/Dvorak switchable (but was too expensive for me to buy). I was still intrigued by Dvorak and did some research (the web did exist in 1993). At the time I was using a UNIX workstation and found that I could easily set it up to use Dvorak (at the time, setting up Windows to do the same was not easy). I don't remember where, but I did eventually find a Dvorak Keyboard book. This doesn't teach you how to type on it the layout, but rather is a history of the keyboard layout. Wikipedia will probably be less "preachy" about Dvorak than this book, but it was an interesting read.
Oh, and now I use a blank Das Keyboard (both at home and at work - just to mess with people). My WPM is in the high 70s, low 80s most of the time. If I get in the zone, I can hit 130. However, I'm usually typing in code or UNIX commands, so WPM is fairly meaningless.
This is probably the standard, Cassingham's classic from 1986: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0935309101
Any typographer or graphic designer will readily tell you this. There are even books dedicated to the subject.
I have a degree in graphic design and so I know this quite well. My Dad is an old fogee who learned how to type with a typewriter. This is a never ending battle with us. But the fact is, he is wrong. Two spaces after a period is not correct. People can choose to do it incorrectly all they want, but it's still incorrect.
The Billion Dollar Spy is a fascinating story of how the CIA ran a Soviet spy while he was working at an advanced radar facility. It is estimated that the intelligence he passed to America ended up being worth nearly one billion dollars.
First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror is about the first Americans to land in Afghanistan in the weeks after 9/11
The Code Breakers One of the most comprehensive anthologies on all forms of cryptology of the past 5,000 years.
Real accounting work has a lot to do with tax so they probably don't do that kind of work. Criminal betting pools definitely do have record systems and police sometimes discover them.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Codebreakers-Comprehensive-History-Communication-Internet/dp/0684831309
"On Communications Security: Cryptography, Cryptanalaysis, Codes, and Ciphers in War from (time) to (time)".
Hopefully, one of your sources is David Kahn's The Codebreakers. http://www.amazon.com/Codebreakers-Comprehensive-History-Communication-Internet/dp/0684831309/
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet by David Khan Amazon . If you want a synopsis you could read Simon Singh's "The Code Book". Maybe not mind blowing in the metaphysical sense but it certainly is in-depth and informative.
Also, "Tom Crean: Unsung Hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions" by Micheal Smith. Any time I get a bit uppity, thinking about Crean puts me back in my box. He was as hard as nails.
My library had The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet when I was a kid and I may have forgotten to bring it back in the past twenty years.
It's partly a historical book (and was originally written in the 60's), but it's insightful on what you're looking for. Extremely interesting if you're into this kind of thing.
Bear in mind that book doesn't really go into base64 or anything like that that can only be done with computers, because these things simply weren't around in the 60's. But in terms of ciphers and human encryption it's a great historical resource and can give a lot of insight into how this stuff works.
not trying to pimp Amazon, but this is what I found.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0722151462/ref=tmm_pap_used_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1502395685&sr=1-2
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0684831309/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1502395685&sr=1-1
vim can do almost anything
it's often used for programming but could be customized easily
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this book would answer all questions
http://www.amazon.com/Vi-iMproved-VIM-Steve-Oualline/dp/0735710015/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279494717&sr=8-2
That book is not as good as this one
She may be interested in these books (though they are a bit higher level):
https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Software/dp/0735611319/
https://www.amazon.com/Break-Code-Cryptography-Beginners-Childrens/dp/0486291464/
I would ask what programming language they are learning in class.
I would NOT recommend Scratch as a programming language, though that's my personal opinion. Better to learn an actual language.
Public and private SSH keys and connections aren’t hard when you grok how SSL/TLS works. Encryption in general is good to have a handle on conceptually, I’d recommend picking up and reading a short introduction on the basics.
Copying, listing, renaming, or unlinking files is usually embedded in your shell of choice itself. As the the shell is the way you call and run programs, you can’t know it enough.
The GUI of whatever desktop you’re used to using is effectively a shell itself, and has the same function: copy, list, rename, remove files and run programs. The difference is, instead of executing a command as you would on the CLI (i.e., entering the path to the file binary and hitting “enter”), you click on an icon representing the same file.
man,find,grep,ssh,chmod, andchown. Then your editors:vi,emacs, orjoe.nanois easy to use, but a little skill with a more advanced editor goes a long way.ping,netstat,host, andtcpdump.When you get all that, Ansible is nothing; it’s a way to systematically SSH into machines based on a local inventory and run a set of commands or scripts on all of them.
Never learned puppet, but it’s just one alternative to Ansible which looks to achieve the same thing: treating a set of hosts like they’re numbered cattle instead of carefully named and spoiled pets.
Edit: I suppose you can PM me your questions, if you want. Trying to write out and explain things helps me understand them better.