No Starch Press
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| Type | Publishing company |
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| Genre | Technical |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Founder | William Pollock |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Area served |  United States Canada European Union |
| Slogan | "the finest in geek entertainment" |
| Website | http://www.nostarch.com/ |
No Starch Press is a publishing company specializing in computer books for the technically savvy, or "geek entertainment" as they term it. They have published such titles as Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, Silence on the Wire, Steal This Computer Book 3, Steal This File Sharing Book, Write Portable Code, and Hacking the Xbox.
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[edit] Topics
Topics of interest for No Starch Press are mainly centered around computers, especially networking, computer security, Linux and other non-Windows topics, and programming; but hacking non-computer things has also been covered. The topic of Lego appears to be a secondary niche for No Starch Press. They also publish books on hooking computers up to aid non-computer hobbies such as astronomy; and even hacking game consoles, which are actually embedded systems yet are not widely considered as actual computers.
[edit] Availability
No Starch Press provides an online store to purchase their titles from; however, resellers such as Amazon occasionally supply them at a lower price. ThinkGeek, an online store catering to the "geek" customer profile, has also supplied Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, Silence on the Wire, Steal This Computer Book 3, and Steal This File Sharing Book.
[edit] Popular books
- Absolute BSD
- Absolute OpenBSD
- Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
- Hacking the Xbox
- Silence on the Wire
- Steal This Computer Book 3
- Steal This File Sharing Book
- Write Portable Code
- The Debian System
- The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide
