First Printing Errata (MTLBD)

On page 164 of Moving to the Linux Business Desktop, there is a transposition error that failed to catch the eye of my readers and reviewers (not to mention myself). On the table at the end of page 164, I mixed up the Class A and Class C network information. There should be over 16 million hosts in a Class A network and 254 in a class C. That statement highlights the second error that crept into the book. My table indicates over 1.5 million hosts when it should be over 16 million (you can see where the comma snuck in -- I rounded what I say on my calculator as 1.6 to 1.5).

What makes this particularly bad is that I continued to refer to the table for my numbers on page 165 in the first paragraph under "Subnets, Netmasks, and Broadcast Addresses". The end of that paragraph should say "over 16 millon hosts (Class A)." Then I go on to make the same mistake (referring to my transcribed table) on page 167 at the top of the second paragraph in the section labeled "Subnets". As you can tell from reading that page, the transposition of Class A and Class C continues there.

Second and future printings of the book do not have this error.

My sincere apologies for not catching this error.