Daniel J. Barrett

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Daniel J. Barrett (born November 6, 1963) is a writer, software engineer, web site maintainer, musician, and Usenet personality. He is best known for his technology books, his work with progressive rock band Gentle Giant, and the imaginary computer game BLAZEMONGER.

1 Writing
2 Gentle Giant
3 BLAZEMONGER
4 Bibliography
5 References

[edit] Writing

Barrett has written a number of technical books on computer topics. The most well-known are Linux Pocket Guide^[1]and SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide^[2]. His books have been translated into Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, and Russian.

[edit] Gentle Giant

Barrett created the official Gentle Giant Home Page on September 4, 1994, devoted to the rock band Gentle Giant.

[edit] BLAZEMONGER

In the 1990s, Barrett created the concept of BLAZEMONGER, ^[3] an imaginary computer game that spoofed the computing industry, and wrote approximately 100 articles about it.

[edit] Bibliography

Barrett, Daniel J., Bandits on the Information Superhighway, 1996, ISBN 1-56592-156-9.
Barrett, Daniel J., NetResearch: Finding Information Online, 1997, ISBN 1-56592-245-X.
Barrett, Daniel J., Polylingual Systems: An Approach to Seamless Interoperability, Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, February 1998.
Barrett, Daniel J., and Silverman, Richard E., SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2001, ISBN 0-596-00011-1.
Barrett, Daniel J., Silverman, Richard E., Byrnes, Robert A., Linux Security Cookbook, 2003, ISBN 0-596-00391-9.
Barrett, Daniel J., Linux Pocket Guide, 2004, ISBN 0-596-00628-4.
Barrett, Daniel J., Silverman, Richard E., Byrnes, Robert A., SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2005, ISBN 0-596-00895-3.