OS X Mountain Lion Server For Dummies

Icons Used in This Book

To make this book easier to use, five icons appear to the left of the text. These icons are here to help you find information as you flip through the pages. Think of them as signposts, each pointing to a different way to think about what’s being said.

Tips are the best bits of the description that make the job easiest or better. They aren’t always the only way to get something done, but they do point out the best way to accomplish a task. Sometimes you can reuse a tip for other tasks.

When you see the Remember icon, I’m flagging something that you don’t want to forget to do, unless you want to mess up what you’re doing.

The Warning icon highlights lurking danger. With this icon, I’m telling you to pay attention to what you’re doing or to what you shouldn’t do.

This icon marks a general interesting fact that’s a technical explanation of what’s going on or why you need to do something. I didn’t want to turn this book into an engineering textbook, so I kept the tech stuff short.

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