Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 20:39:35 GMT Server: Apache/1.1.1 Content-type: text/html Content-length: 3589 Last-modified: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:40:14 GMT Matthew Sams' home page

School's Address and Location
E-mail: maclean@cs.mcgill.ca
Office: McConnell Engineering 209N
Office Phone:(514) 398-7087
Office FAX: (514) 398-3883

In an effort to keep this really simple and to save a bit of bandwidth I've cut my home page down to the bare minimum of informational content. Quite simply I have been working for the School of Computer Science as a Systems Administrator for five years. My specialties are Sun workstations and servers running SunOS and Solaris. Although I have been known to look at other vendors machines. I've included a couple of links to sites I think are important.
  • Usenix flunky
  • Member of the System Adminstrators Guild (SAGE)
  • Sun Managers Archive
  • System Administrators Job Descriptions
  • Unix Guru Universe


  • Have you ever wondered how you can learn more about computers and unix in particular? Well here's my unofficial SOCS reading list. In no particular order:
    Languages other than C:
  • Exploring Expect by Don Libes
  • Tcl and the Tk Toolkit by John Ousterhout
  • Programming Perl by Wall & Schwartz

  • C:
  • The standard C library by Plauger
  • C: a reference manual 4ed by Harbison & Steele
  • The C programming language 2ed by Kernighan & Ritchie

  • Unix programming:
  • Advanced programming in the unix environment by Stevens
  • Unix network programming by Stevens
  • The design and implementation of the 4.4 BSD operating system
  • PANIC: unix system crash dump analysis by Drake & Brown

  • General:
  • Safeware: system safety and computers by Leveson

  • Systems Administration:
  • Unix System Administration Handbook 2ed by Nemeth Snyder Seebass Hein
  • Sendmail by Costales
  • DNS and BIND by Albitz & Liu
  • System Performance Tuning by Loukides
  • Sun Performance and Tuning by Cockroft
  • NFS and NIS by Stern

  • Online:
  • Internet RFC, FYI, and STD available at ds.internic.net
  • Usenet FAQ at rtfm.mit.edu

  • Publishers:
  • O'Reilly and Associates
  • Unix System Administration Handbook
  • Addison Wesley
  • Prentice Hall
  • As an added bonus (please no snickering from the peanut gallery) I've included a link to a tutorial I wrote on Programming in C on UNIX. My only disclaimer might be that if you write code for critical systems, don't read this tutorial. Some might even say "don't program in C".
    clicky here
    September 9, 1996