This book is another example of why I no longer buy oreilly books. (I tired of the nutshell series long ago...)

If there is a concept behind the organization of the material presented, I have missed it. There may be some valuable information buried in there someplace, but finding it isn't worth the time.

But, my main gripe is the examples that I downloaded from the ftp site. Lovely nice tar file with all the filenames downcased and contained in directories that don't match up with the package names. There is no hope of getting these to compile without significant effort -
renaming files and directories and moving stuff around... No thanks. I'm returning this book.
Where's the quality control, huh?