Your one-stop guide to Linux–fully revised and expanded.

Get in-depth coverage of all Linux features, tools, and utilities from this thoroughly updated and comprehensive resource, designed for all Linux distributions. Written by Linux expert Richard Petersen, this book explains how to get up-and-running on Linux, use the desktops and shells, manage applications, deploy servers, implement security measures, and handle system and network administration tasks.

With full coverage of the latest platform, Linux: The Complete Reference, Sixth Edition includes details on the very different and popular Debian (Ubuntu) and Red Hat/Fedora software installation and service management tools used by most distributions. This is a must-have guide for all Linux users. Install, configure, and administer any Linux distributionWork with files and folders from the BASH, TCSH, and Z shellsUse the GNOME and KDE desktops, X Windows, and display managersSet up office, database, Internet, and multimedia applicationsSecure data using SELinux, netfilter, SSH, and KerberosEncrypt network transmissions with GPG, LUKS, and IPsec Deploy FTP, Web, mail, proxy, print, news, and database serversAdminister system resources using HAL, udev, and virtualization (KVM and Xen)Configure and maintain IPv6, DHCPv6, NIS, networking, and remote accessAccess remote files and devices using NFSv4, GFS, PVFS, NIS, and SAMBA.

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As Linux continues to grow in market share as an enterprise operating system, system administrators need to solve problems in a wide range of applications and work environments. To help you get to the bottom of real-life problems quickly, Linux System Administration is organized around three common administration scenarios: Linux as a hub for a home or small office, Linux as LAMP system (Linux-Apache web server-MySQL database- PHP/Perl/Python scripting languages), and remote administration of Linux machines.

You will be able to move beyond the basics of individual Linux tools in order to competently support users and maintain systems in actual work environments. Linux System Administration provides a solid background for Linux desktop users who want to move beyond the basics of Linux, and for experienced system administrators who are looking to gain more advanced skills.

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This soup-to-nuts collection of recipes covers everything you need to know to perform your job as a Linux network administrator, whether you’re new to the job or have years of experience. With Linux Networking Cookbook, you’ll dive straight into the gnarly hands-on work of building and maintaining a computer network. Running a network doesn’t mean you have all the answers. Networking is a complex subject with reams of reference material that’s difficult to keep straight, much less remember. If you want a book that lays out the steps for specific tasks, that clearly explains the commands and configurations, and does not tax your patience with endless ramblings and meanderings into theory and obscure RFCs, this is the book for you. You will find recipes for: Building a gateway, firewall, and wireless access point on a Linux network Building a VoIP server with Asterisk Secure remote administration with SSH Building secure VPNs with OpenVPN, and a Linux PPTP VPN server Single sign-on with Samba for mixed Linux/Windows LANs Centralized network directory with OpenLDAP Network monitoring with Nagios or MRTG Getting acquainted with IPv6 Setting up hands-free networks installations of new systems Linux system administration via serial console And a lot more. Each recipe includes a clear, hands-on solution with tested code, plus a discussion on why it works. When you need to solve a network problem without delay, and don’t have the time or patience to comb through reference books or the Web for answers, Linux Networking Cookbook gives you exactly what you need.

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Linux, like all Unix variants, was built for networking above all. As a result, its networking features are flexible and reliable and daunting to Linux newcomers who aren’t familiar enough with terms and concepts even to know what to look for in the documentation. Bryan Pfaffenberger does a service to people new to Linux networking with Linux Networking Clearly Explained, an assume-nothing guide to local area networks (LANs) and Internet connectivity under the open-source operating system. Pfaffenberger shows how to do everything file sharing, printer sharing, inter-machine backups, and Internet connection sharing that most home and office computer users want to do with their LANs. He explains how Linux fits into an environment of diverse equipment, showing how to make Linux machines talk to Mac OS units and Windows computers.

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Concentrating on Linux installation, tuning, and administration, this guide to protecting systems from security attacks demonstrates how to install Linux so that it is tuned for the highest security and best performance, how to scan the network and encrypt the traffic for securing all private traffics in a public network, and how to monitor and log the system to detect potential security problems. Backup and recovery policies that provide a structure for secure operations are also considered, and information related to configuring an Apache server, e-mail service, and the Internet gateway using a proxy server, an FTP server, DNS server for mapping DNS names to IP addresses, and firewall for system protection is provided.

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Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional guides you through the tasks most new Linux users desire to perform while explaining potentially confusing concepts along the way. It will steer you through system customization opportunities and common tasks like listening to audio CDs and MP3s, watching movies, and performing office- and Internet-related jobs. A large part of the book is dedicated to advanced command-line techniques necessary to maintain your system and become a true Linux master!

Highlights of this title include the following:

* Provides an illustrated, step-by-step guide to Fedora installation and hardware configuration.
* Includes a DVD consisting of the latest Fedora operating system. Just place the disk into your drive and begin.
* Eases the transition from the Windows to the Linux desktop by focusing on key everyday tasks such as file management, peripheral configuration, MP3/video playback, and office tasks.

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System administrators need to stay ahead of new security vulnerabilities that leave their networks exposed every day. A firewall and an intrusion detection systems (IDS) are two important weapons in that fight, enabling you to proactively deny access and monitor network traffic for signs of an attack.

Linux Firewalls discusses the technical details of the iptables firewall and the Netfilter framework that are built into the Linux kernel, and it explains how they provide strong filtering, Network Address Translation (NAT), state tracking, and application layer inspection capabilities that rival many commercial tools. You’ll learn how to deploy iptables as an IDS with psad and fwsnort and how to build a strong, passive authentication layer around iptables with fwknop.

Concrete examples illustrate concepts such as firewall log analysis and policies, passive network authentication and authorization, exploit packet traces, Snort ruleset emulation, and more with coverage of these topics:

* Passive network authentication and OS fingerprinting.
* iptables log analysis and policies.
* Application layer attack detection with the iptables string match extension.
* Building an iptables ruleset that emulates a Snort ruleset.
* Port knocking vs. Single Packet Authorization (SPA).
* Tools for visualizing iptables logs.

Perl and C code snippets offer practical examples that will help you to maximize your deployment of Linux firewalls. If you’re responsible for keeping a network secure, you’ll find Linux Firewalls invaluable in your attempt to understand attacks and use iptables along with psad and fwsnort to detect and even prevent compromises.

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[quote]If you think Knoppix is just a Linux demo disk, think again. Klaus Knopper created an entire Linux distribution on a bootable CD (and now a DVD) so he could use his favorite open source tools on any computer. This book includes a collection of tips and techniques for using the enormous amount of software Knoppix offers-not just to work and play, but also to troubleshoot, repair, upgrade, and disinfect your system without having to install a thing.

Knoppix Hacks is just like the distribution it covers: a veritable Swiss Army knife packed full of tools. Scores of industrial-strength hacks-many of them new to this second edition-cover both the standard Knoppix CD and the feature-rich DVD “Maxi” distribution, which is included with this book. Discover how to use Knoppix to its full potential as your desktop, rescue CD, or as a launching point for your own live CD.

With Knoppix Hacks, you can:

* Investigate features of the KDE desktop and its Internet applications.
* Save your settings and data between reboots with persistent storage.
* Employ Knoppix as a system administration multitool to replace failed servers and more.
* Use the CD/DVD as a rescue disc to repair filesystems or a system that won’t boot.
* Rescue Windows systems with Knoppix to back up files and settings, hack the registry, and more.
* Explore other live CDs based on Knoppix that could augment your system.
* Easily install the popular Debian GNU/Linux distribution with all of your hardware detected and configured.
* Remaster Knoppix to include your favorite software and custom branding.

Whether you’re a new Linux user, power user, or system administer, this book helps you take advantage of Knoppix and customize it to your needs. You may just find ways to use Knoppix that you never considered.

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The Linux Network Administrator’s Guide, Third Edition dispenses all the practical advice you need to join a network. Along with some hardware considerations, this highly acclaimed guide takes an in-depth look at all of the essential networking software that comes with the operating system–including basic infrastructure (TCP/IP, wireless networking, firewalling) and the most popular services on Linux systems. But as the follow-up to a classic, the third edition of the Linux Network Administrator’s Guide does more than just spruce up the basics. It also provides the very latest information on the following cutting-edge services:

* Wireless hubs.
* OpenLDAP.
* FreeS/WAN.
* IMAP.
* Spam filtering.
* OpenSSH.
* BIND.
* IPv6.

Featuring a litany of insider tips and techniques, the Linux Network Administrator’s Guide, Third Edition is an invaluable companion for any network administrator interested in integrating Linux into their Windows environment Authored by Terry Dawson, Tony Bautts, and Gregor N. Purdy, the Linux Network Administrator’s Guide, Third Edition emerged from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP). The LDP’s goal is to centralize all of the issues of Linux documentation, ranging from online documentation topics such as installing, using, and running Linux.

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Ubuntu Linux is a state-of-the-art operating system, and you need a book that’s just as advanced. Along with being the most comprehensive reference to installing, configuring, and working with Ubuntu, A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux« also provides extensive server coverage you won’t find in any other Ubuntu book.

Best-selling author Mark Sobell begins by walking you through every feature and technique you need to know, from installing Ubuntu using the DVD included with the book to working with GNOME, Samba, exim4, Apache, DNS, NIS, firestarter, and iptables. Sobell’s exceptionally clear explanations demystify everything from system security to Windows file/printer sharing.

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Make the Most of Today’s Smallest, Fastest Desktop Linux Distribution Damn Small Linux!

Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a super-efficient platform for everything from custom desktops to professional servers. Now, DSL’s creator and lead developer have written the first definitive, practical guide to this remarkable system. The Official Damn Small Linux Book brings together everything you need to put DSL to work in just minutes. Simply learn a few essentials, boot the live CD-ROM, and master the rest…one step at a time, hands-on.

If you’re new to Linux, you can quickly discover how to use DSL to take your data on the road, safely running your programs and personal environment on nearly any computer. Easily adapt DSL to run on anything from an alternative device (Internet appliance, hand-held, diskless PC, or mini-ITX system) to an older PC that might otherwise be headed for landfill.

Use this book to:

* Run DSL at blazing speed, from CD, USB pen drive, or directly from RAM.
* Run DSL from your hard drive or in a virtual environment within Windows.
* Add applications and create shareable extensions.
* Customize and remaster DSL to create your own distribution.
* Build a complete music and multimedia server.
* Use Skype VoIP phone service in DSL.
* Quickly set up an XAMPP Web server, complete with MySQL, PHP, and Perl, to host your personal Web pages.

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The Linux operating system is widely used for networking and software development. It includes features to identify and control breaches of security, both internal and external. Linux Security gives you the knowledge to maximize the benefits of Linux products, keep your business safe, and gain a competitive edge!

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GNU/Linux is an immensely popular operating system that is both extremely stable and reliable. But it can also induce minor headaches at the most inopportune times, if you’re not fully up to speed with its capabilities.

A unique approach to running and administering Linux systems, Linux Annoyances for Geeks addresses the many poorly documented and under-appreciated topics that make the difference between a system you struggle with and a system you really enjoy. This book is for power users and system administrators who want to clear away barriers to using Linux for themselves and for less-trained users in their organizations.

This book meticulously tells you how to get a stubborn wireless card to work under Linux, and reveals little-known sources for wireless driversand information. It tells you how to add extra security to your systems, such as boot passwords, and how to use tools such as rescue disks to overcome overly zealous security measures in a pinch. In every area of desktop and server use, the book is chock full of advice based on hard-earned experience.

Author Michael Jang has spent many hours trying out software in a wide range of environments and carefully documenting solutions for the most popular Linux distributions. (The book focuses on Red Hat/Fedora, SUSE, and Debian.) Many of the topics presented here are previously undocumented or are discussed only in obscure email archives.

One of the valuable features of this book for system administrators and Linux proponents in general is the organization of step-by-step procedures that they can customize for naive end-users at their sites. Jang has taken into account not only the needs of a sophisticated readership, but the needs of other people those readers may serve.

Sometimes, a small thing for a user (such as being able to play a CD) or for an administrator (such as updating an organizations’ systems from a central server) can make or break the adoption of Linux. This book helps you overcome the most common annoyances in deploying Linux, and trains you in the techniques that will help you overcome other problems you find along the way.

In keeping with the spirit of the Annoyances series, the book adopts a sympathetic tone that will quickly win you over. Rather than blaming you for possessing limited Linux savvy, Linux Annoyances for Geeks takes you along for a fun-filled ride as you master the system together.

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This practical guide teaches you how to implement effective network protection by using your own customized firewall solution. Based on extensive practical experience, this book distills a unique set of scenario based scripts and guidelines for a proven firewall solution, into one succinct and precise book. This book shows you how to implement Linux firewalls and Quality of Service using practical examples from very small to very large networks.

After giving us a background of network security, the book moves on to explain the basic technologies we will work with, namely netfilter, iproute2, NAT and l7-filter. These form the crux of building Linux firewalls and QOS.Providing only necessary theoretical background, the book takes a practical approach, presenting case studies and plenty of illustrative examples.
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The Best Fully Integrated Study System Available.

With hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide, Fifth Edition covers what you need to know–and shows you how to prepare–for this challenging exam.

* 100% complete coverage of all objectives for exam RH302.
* Exam Readiness Checklist at the front of the book–you’re ready for the exam when all objectives on the list are checked off.
* Inside the Exam sections in every chapter highlight key exam topics covered.
* Real-world exercises modeled after hands-on exam scenarios.
* Two complete lab-based exams simulate the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam.
* Bonus content (available for download) includes installation screen review, basic instructions for using VMware and Xen as testbeds, and paper and pencil versions of the lab exams.

Covers all RH302 exam topics, including:

* Hardware installation and configuration.
* The boot process.
* Linux filesystem administration.
* Package management and Kickstart.
* User and group administration.
* System administration tools.
* Kernel services and configuration.
* Apache and Squid.
* Network file sharing services (NFS, FTP, and Samba).
* Domain Name System (DNS).
* E-mail (servers and clients).
* Extended Internet Services Daemon (xinetd), the Secure package, and DHCP.
* The X Window System.
* Firewalls, SELinux, and troubleshooting.
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Maximum Linux Security: A Hacker’s Guide to Protecting Your Linux Server and Workstation is designed for system administrators, managers, or Linux users who wish to protect their Linux servers and workstations from unauthorized intrusions and other external threats to their systems’ integrity. Written by an experienced hacker–someone who knows which systems are vulnerable and how crackers get into them–this unique guide to Linux security identifies existing and potential security holes and faults, and then describes how to go about fixing them.
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This comprehensive guide can help you administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 effectively in any production environment, no matter how complex or challenging.

Long-time Red Hat insider Tammy Fox brings together today’s best practices for the entire system lifecycle, from planning and deployment through maintenance and troubleshooting. Fox shows how to maximize your efficiency and effectiveness by automating day-to-day maintenance through scripting, deploying security updates via Red Hat Network, implementing central identity management services, and providing shared data with NFS and Samba.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed contains extensive coverage of network and web services, from the Apache HTTP server and Sendmail email services to remote login with OpenSSH. Fox also describes Red Hat’s most valuable tools for monitoring and optimization and presents thorough coverage of security including a detailed introduction to Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

* Streamline deployment with Kickstart.
* Find, install, update, remove, and verify software.
* Detect, analyze, and manage hardware.
* Manage storage with LVM, RAID, ACLs, and quotas.
* Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on 64-bit and multi-core systems.
* Administer users and groups more efficiently and securely.
* Ensure trustworthy backup and rapid recovery.
* Script and schedule tasks to run automatically.
* Provide unified identity management services.
* Configure Apache, BIND, Samba, and Sendmail.
* Monitor and tune the kernel and individual applications.
* Protect against intruders with SELinux and ExecShield.
* Set up firewalls with iptables.
* Enable the Linux Auditing System.
* Use virtualization to run multiple operating systems concurrently.
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FreeBSD the powerful, flexible, and free Unix-like operating system is the preferred server for many enterprises. But it can be even trickier to use than either Unix or Linux, and harder still to master.

Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition is your complete guide to FreeBSD, written by FreeBSD committer Michael W. Lucas. Lucas considers this completely revised and rewritten second edition of his landmark work to be his best work ever; a true product of his love for FreeBSD and the support of the FreeBSD community. Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition covers installation, networking, security, network services, system performance, kernel tweaking, filesystems, SMP, upgrading, crash debugging, and much more, including coverage of how to:

* Use advanced security features like packet filtering, virtual machines, and host-based intrusion detection.
* Build custom live FreeBSD CDs and bootable flash.
* Manage network services and filesystems.
* Use DNS and set up email, IMAP, web, and FTP services for both servers and clients.
* Monitor your system with performance-testing and troubleshooting tools.
* Run diskless systems.
* Manage schedulers, remap shared libraries, and optimize your system for your hardware and your workload.
* Build custom network appliances with embedded FreeBSD.
* Implement redundant disks, even without special hardware.
* Integrate FreeBSD-specific SNMP into your network management system.

Whether you’re just getting started with FreeBSD or you’ve been using it for years, you’ll find this book to be the definitive guide to FreeBSD that you’ve been waiting for.

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Hong’s straightforward style makes it easy for the do-it-yourself crowd to build a server quickly using the ports collection (a software package management system). But rather than wade through the thousands of ports available, Hong focuses on the most popular and useful ones. Each package is treated as an independent project (and given a difficulty rating), so readers can dip into the book at any point to install just the packages they need, when they need them.

The book’s modules cover topics like:

* Running common FreeBSD admin commands and tasks.
* Managing the FreeBSD ports collection.
* Installing third-party apps like Apache, Courier-IMAP, SpamAssassin, CUPS, Cyrus SASL, MediaWiki, and WordPress.
* Setting up MySQL, NTP, ISC DHCP, ISC BIND DNS, PHP, OpenLDAP, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, and OpenVPN.

Appendixes explain user management, backup/restore, and network protocols.

Building a Server with FreeBSD 7 will have readers running their own server loaded with useful modules in no time, with a minimum of hassle.
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From the publisher who brought you the international best-seller, Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions…

Learn how to think like a hacker in order to secure your Linux network.

In the ever-changing world of global data communications, inexpensive Internet connections, and fast-paced software development, security is constantly being compromised. Linux has always been considered the digital playground for hackers. Many hacks, exploits, and network security tools are written on Linux because it’s readily available. Hacking Linux Exposed: Linux Security Secrets & Solutions shows you, step-by-step, how to defend against the latest Linux attacks by understanding the hacker’s methods and sinister thought processes. You’ll learn how your adversaries gather information, acquire targets, escalate privilege, gain control, plant back doors, and cover their tracks. Each chapter is divided into bite-sized chunks, covering highly publicized and little-known break-ins, tips on why they occurred, and detailed countermeasures that no Linux professional can afford to be without.

*Get details on the security features of each Linux distribution, including Red Hat Linux, SuSE, Debian, and Slackware.
*Zero in on vulnerable systems using whois, traceroute, DNS zone transfers, OS detection, ping sweeps, and port scans.
*Detect Trojan horses, backdoors, password cracking, IP spoofing, session hijacking, and trail hiding.
*Implement Log analysis tools such as the Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) and advanced kernel security patches, including the Linux Intrusion Detection System (LIDS).
*Learn how to prevent local users from getting root privileges.
*Prevent Denial of Service and other network attacks.
*Configure FTP sites, DNS servers, and other daemons securely.
*Plug common and obscure security holes in Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix, POP, and IMAP servers.
*Defend against Web server attacks using secure scripting techniques, user verification, and secure Apache Server configurations.
*Design, position, and test secure firewalls and other network access restrictions.

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Pro DNS and BIND guides you through the challenging array of features surrounding DNS, with a special focus on BIND, the world’s most popular DNS implementation. This book unravels the mysteries of DNS, offering insight into origins, evolution, and key concepts like domain names and zone files. This book focuses on running DNS systems based on BIND 9.3.0—the first stable release that includes support for the latest DNSSEC (DNSSEC.bis) standards and a major functional upgrade from previous BIND 9 releases.

If you administer a DNS system or are thinking about running one, or if you need to upgrade to support IPv6 DNS, need to secure a DNS for zone transfer, dynamic update, or other reasons, or if you need to implement DNSSEC, or simply want to understand the DNS system, then this book provides you with a single point of reference. Pro DNS and BIND starts with simple concepts, then moves on to full security-aware DNSSEC configurations. Various features, parameters, and resource records are described and, in the majority of cases, illustrated with one or more examples.

The book contains a complete reference to zone files, Resource Records, and BIND’s configuration file parameters. You can treat the book as as a simple paint-by-numbers guide to everything from a simple caching DNS, to the most complex secure DNS (DNSSEC) implementation. Background information is still included for when you need to know what to do and why you have to do it, and so that you can modify processes to meet your unique needs.

Topics Include:
Introduction to the DNS Basic DNS types with complete configuarion examples DNS and IPv6 Installing BIND on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows Subdomain delegation DNS and load balancing Reverse map delegation DNSSEC (DNSSEC.bis) and the DLV experimental service Key rollover and DNSSEC maintenance DNS tools and diagnostics.
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Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.

Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.
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Fully updated for the most current Linux distributions, Linux Administration: A Beginner’s Guide, Fifth Edition, shows you how to set up, maintain, and troubleshoot Linux on a single server or an entire network. Get full details on granting user rights and permissions, configuring software and hardware, providing Internet and intranet services, and customizing Linux kernel 2.6. You’ll also learn how to get your network services IPv6 ready, implement sound security, create foolproof system backups, and use the latest virtualization technologies. Real-world, hands-on examples are included throughout.

*Install and configure popular Linux distributions, including Fedora 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenSuSE, and Ubuntu.
*Manage users, permissions, files, folders, and applications.
*Administer Linux servers from the GUI or from the command line (shell).
*Understand and manage file systems in Linux.
*Compile, tune, and customize Linux kernel 2.6.
*Build robust firewalls and routers using netfilter and Linux.
*Manage the Linux TCP/IP networking stack and services for both IPv4 and IPv6.
*Build and deploy Web, e-mail, and FTP servers.
*Use NIS, NFS, LDAP, and Samba for resource sharing and identity management.
*Set up and administer print, DNS, POP3, IMAP3, and DHCP servers.
*Implement Linux virtualization technologies, including the native KVM platform.

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Don’t believe the myth about Linux servers being more secure than Windows servers. With an increasing number of high-severity security vulnerabilities being discovered on Linux servers, which now account for a third of all network servers worldwide, administrators must act diligently to ensure system security. The latest in the How to Cheat series, How to Cheat at Securing Linux, is a highly relevant resource and the only book on Linux security to come out in the past few years. Discover why securing Linux means “measure twice, cut once” and get essential how-to on hardening the operating system, implementing an intrusion detection system and defending databases.
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This book is a guide to FreeBSD for network administrators; therefore it does not cover basic installation and configuration of FreeBSD, but is about using FreeBSD to build, secure, and maintain networks.

After introducing the basic tools for monitoring the performance and security of the system the book moves on to cover using jails—FreeBSD virtual environments—to virtually run multiple instances of FreeBSD on the same hardware. Then it shows how to overcome the different bottlenecks that you may meet depending on the services you are running by tweaking different parameters to maintain a high performance from your FreeBSD server. Next it covers using the ifconfig utility to configure interfaces with different layer protocols and about connectivity testing and debugging tools. After covering using User PPP or Kernel PPP for Point-to-Point Protocol network configuration it explains basic IP forwarding in FreeBSD and the use of the built-in routing daemons, routed and route6d, which support RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, and RDISC. Next it covers the OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD daemons that you can install to run OSPF and BGP on your host. Then it covers setup and configuration of IPFW and PF, and finally looks at some important internet services and how to set them up on your FreeBSD server.
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This is my 1st thread on *nix (and anything related to it) ebooks and I plan to update this thread whenever I get more useful stuff on it.

To extract these files, use WinRAR 3.71 or 7-Zip freely available from:
http://www.7-zip.org/

Size - 34 MB

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The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer

Description: Personal computing has reshaped economies and industries, and is transforming how we express ourselves and relate to one another. The most personal of personal computers are the portables. We carry these gadgets with us wherever we go, whether theyre laptops, smartphones, or the coolest new Web-surfing devices. The Race for Perfect tells the story of two generations of entrepreneurs, designers, and engineers as they have struggled to make ever-better portables.

Steve Hamm takes the reader into a world where inspiration, design, engineering, and marketing come together to produce wave upon wave of the innovative products that we love to talk about and use. From the earliest days of portable computing, 40 years ago, entrepreneurs and designers have pushed forward relentlessly in a quest to create the perfect device. Their efforts have produced a few fabulous successes and many failures. But they never give up. Theyre driven by the basic rule of the tech industry: innovate or die.

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Ethics in Cyberspace: How Cyberspace May Influence Interpersonal Interaction

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Over the last few decades information and communication technology has come to play an increasingly prominent role in our dealings with other people. Computers, in particular, have made available a host of new ways of interacting, which we have increasingly made use of. In the wake of this development a number of ethical questions have been raised and debated. Ethics in Cyberspace focuses on the consequences for ethical agency of mediating interaction by means of computers, seeking to clarify how the conditions of certain kinds of interaction in cyberspace (for example, in chat-rooms and virtual worlds) differ from the conditions of interaction face-to-face and how these differences may come to affect the behaviour of interacting agents in terms of ethics.

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Linear and Integer Programming vs Linear Integration and Counting: A Duality Viewpoint

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This book analyzes and compares four closely related problems, namely linear programming, integer programming, linear integration, and linear summation (or counting). The focus is on duality and the novel approach puts integer programming in perspective with three associated problems, and permits one to define discrete analogues of well-known continuous duality concepts, and the rationale behind them. Also, the approach highlights the difference between the discrete and continuous cases.

Central in the analysis are the continuous and discrete Brion and Vergne’s formulae for linear integration and counting which are not very well-known in the optimization community. This approach provides some new insights on duality concepts for integer programs, and also permits to retrieve and shed new light on some well-known results. For instance, Gomory relaxations and the abstract superadditive dual of integer programs are re-interpreted in this algebraic approach.

This book will serve graduate students and researchers in applied mathematics, optimization, operations research and computer science. Due to the substantial practical importance of some presented problems, researchers in other areas will also find this book useful.

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The New PL/I

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This classic textbook by Eberhard Sturm is the only up-to-date PL/I currently available in the English language which shows the range of the new PL/I on the computer platforms OS/2, Windows, AIX and z/OS - the basis being the new PL/I compiler from IBM. The language was extended by the package concept, abstract data types, attributes to communicate with C programs and more than a hundred BUILTIN functions. The book provides the basis for certification as an IBM Certified PL/I Programmer/Developer. download

Internet Tiered Services: Theory, Economics, and Quality of Service

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This book provides a theoretical framework for reasoning about and pricing Internet tiered services, as well as a practical toolset for network providers to develop customized menus of service offerings. Internet service providers (ISPs) have introduced several forms of a tiered service, in which users may select from a small set of tiers that offer progressively higher levels of service with a corresponding increase in price. The material provides a comprehensive study of the design, sizing, pricing, and operation of Internet tiered services. It also addresses the following issues: optimization of service tier selection and sizing, economic models for optimal pricing of service tiers, models for optimizing “bundles of services”, and applications of tiered services in simplifying important QoS functions in the network, including fair packet scheduling.

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Template Matching Techniques in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice

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The detection and recognition of objects in images is a key research topic in the computer vision community.  Within this area, face recognition and interpretation has attracted increasing attention owing to the possibility of unveiling human perception mechanisms, and for the development of practical biometric systems. This book and the accompanying website, focus on template matching, a subset of object recognition techniques of wide applicability, which has proved to be particularly effective for face recognition applications. Using examples from face processing tasks throughout the book to illustrate more general object recognition approaches, Roberto Brunelli:

• examines the basics of digital image formation, highlighting points critical to the task of template matching;
• presents basic and  advanced template matching techniques, targeting grey-level images, shapes and point sets;
• discusses recent pattern classification paradigms from a template matching perspective;
• illustrates the development of a real face recognition system;
• explores the use of advanced computer graphics techniques in the development of computer vision algorithms.

Template Matching Techniques in Computer Vision is primarily aimed at practitioners working on the development of systems for effective object recognition such as biometrics, robot navigation, multimedia retrieval and landmark detection. It is also of interest to graduate students undertaking studies in these areas.

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Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces new geography and geometry spatial datatypes that enable the storage of structured data describing the shape and position of objects in space. This is an interesting and exciting new feature, with many potentially useful applications.

Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008 covers everything you need to know to begin using these new spatial datatypes, and explains how to apply them in practical situations involving the spatial relationships of people, places, and things on the earth.

• All of the spatial concepts introduced are explained from the ground up, so you need not have any previous knowledge of working with spatial data.
• Every section is illustrated with code examples that you can use directly in SQL Server.
• All of the topics covered in this book apply to all versions of SQL Server 2008, including the freely available SQL Server 2008 Express.

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C++ Primer (4th Edition)

This new edition of C++ Primer, a favorite choice for a first C++ book, has been greatly improved with the latest and greatest on C++, stressing the built-in language features of the C++ Standard Library. For this new version–weighing in at a massive 1,237 pages–Stanley Lippman, a well-known C++ expert, teams up with Josée Lajoie, who has helped define the C++ international language standard. The new material is excellent for programmers who want to get the most out of new and advanced features in the language.

The authors still introduce the basics of C++, including data types and pointers, but quickly move on to stress how to get the most out of the built-in features of ISO-standard C++. Throughout this book built-in support for the C++ Standard Library, such as container classes like vectors and maps, and other standard features, such as the string class, are integrated into a tried-and- proven basic-language tutorial.

The major new features of C++ (templates, name spaces, and run-time type identification) all get their due. The result is an authoritative guide to basic and advanced C++ in a clear and readable style, with plenty of short, practical examples throughout the text. The book includes exercises–some quite challenging–for every section: a perfect choice both for self-study and the classroom. –Richard Dragan –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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C++ Programming Cookbook

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Your Ultimate “How-To” Guide to C++ Programming!

Legendary programming author Herb Schildt shares some of his favorite programming techniques in this high-powered C++ “cookbook.” Organized for quick reference, each “recipe” shows how to accomplish a practical programming task. A recipe begins with a list of key ingredients (classes, functions, and headers) followed by step-by-step instructions that show how to assemble them into a complete solution.

Detailed discussions explain the how and why behind each step, and a full code example puts the recipe into action. Each recipe ends with a list of options and alternatives that suggest ways to adapt the technique to fit a variety of situations. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced pro, you’ll find recipes that are sure to satisfy your C++ programming appetite!

Topics include:

String Handling · Standard Template Library (STL) Containers · Algorithms · Function Objects · Binders · Negators · Adaptors · Iterators · I/O · Formatting Data

Learn how to:

• Tokenize a null-terminated string
• Create a search and replace function for strings
• Implement subtraction for string objects
• Use the vector, deque, and list sequence containers
• Use the container adaptors stack, queue, and priority_queue
• Use the map, multimap, set, and multiset associative containers
• Reverse, rotate, and shuffle a sequence
• Create a function object
• Use binders, negators, and iterator adapters
• Read and write files
• Use stream iterators to handle file I/O
• Use exceptions to handle I/O errors
• Create custom inserters and extractors
• Format date, time, and numeric data
• Use facets and the localization library
• Overload the [ ], ( ), and -> operators
• Create an explicit constructor
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Architecture Depends

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Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency.

Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect’s best-laid plans—at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till’s writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.

The everyday world is a disordered mess, from which architecture has retreated—and this retreat, says Till, is deluded. Architecture must engage with the inescapable reality of the world; in that engagement is the potential for a reformulation of architectural practice. Contingency should be understood as an opportunity rather than a threat. Elvis Costello said that his songs have to work when played through the cheapest transistor radio; for Till, architecture has to work (socially, spatially) by coping with the flux and vagaries of everyday life. Architecture, he proposes, must move from a reliance on the impulsive imagination of the lone genius to a confidence in the collaborative ethical imagination, from clinging to notions of total control to an intentional acceptance of letting go.

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Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices

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Just like the periodical crystalline potential in solid-state crystals determines their properties for the conduction of electrons, the periodical structuring of photonic crystals leads to envisioning the possibility of achieving a control of the photon flux in dielectric and metallic materials.

The use of photonic crystals as a cage for storing, filtering or guiding light at the wavelength scale thus paves the way to the realisation of optical and optoelectronic devices with ultimate properties and dimensions. This should contribute toward meeting the demands for a greater miniaturisation that the processing of an ever increasing number of data requires.

Photonic Crystals intends to provide students and researchers from different fields with the theoretical background needed for modelling photonic crystals and their optical properties, while at the same time presenting the large variety of devices, from optics to microwaves, where photonic crystals have found applications. As such, it aims at building bridges between optics, electromagnetism and solid-state physics.

This book was written by six specialists of nanophotonics, and was coordinated by Jean-Michel Lourtioz, head of the Institut d’Électronique Fondamentale in Orsay and coordinator of the French Research Network in Nanophotonics.

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Machine Learning in Cyber Trust: Security, Privacy, and Reliability

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Many networked computer systems are far too vulnerable to cyber attacks that can inhibit their functioning, corrupt important data, or expose private information. Not surprisingly, the field of cyber-based systems is a fertile ground where many tasks can be formulated as learning problems and approached in terms of machine learning algorithms.

This book contains original materials by leading researchers in the area and covers applications of different machine learning methods in the reliability, security, performance, and privacy issues of cyber space. It enables readers to discover what types of learning methods are at their disposal, summarizing the state-of-the-practice in this significant area, and giving a classification of existing work.

Those working in the field of cyber-based systems, including industrial managers, researchers, engineers, and graduate and senior undergraduate students will find this an indispensable guide in creating systems resistant to and tolerant of cyber attacks.

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Change, Strategy and Projects at Work

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are important drivers and enablers of change in the workplace. This book develops the project-working skills that are needed to deliver change in the workplace. It explains how to apply them to suitable areas of work.

Change, Strategy and Projects in the Workplace improves understanding and appreciation of the continuing necessity and impact of change on individuals and their organizations. This approach provides benefits to an organization as well as developing skills that are valued in the workplace.

* Gain an understanding of how Information and Communication Technologies both drive and enable change in the workplace
* Apply the skills and knowledge gained to your own project involving the use of ICTs and associated business systems in your workplace
* Develop your knowledge, understanding and skills in project working, such as planning and organising, problem solving, showing initiative, adaptability and flexibility.

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iPhone 100 Need to Know Time Savers

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There has never been a iPhone book like this. 100 Need to Know Time Savers is not about the ins and outs of the iPhone. Instead, it answers the top 100 questions that are being asked out there. The 100 things about the iPhone you want to know. Get the low down on the iPhone and know it all, now. This book tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips that have never before been offered in print. This book is also not about how to operate an iPhone. Instead it introduces everything you want to know to be in the know with your new iPhone.

CONTENT COVERED: What Do We Need to Know About the 8GB Apple iPhone?, Looking for the Right Accessory iPhone Users Like, iPhone is Apple’s Default Cell phone, Latest Cell Phone: Why you’d want to Buy Apple Inc.’s iPhone, Buy iPhones Through Authentic Suppliers, An Introduction to the Apple Cell iPhone Phone, Apple Cell iPhone Phone Price: Effects of Technology on the Price, Apple iPhone: Price and Official Release Date of Launch, The Actual Apple Date iPhone Release, Why Many People Hanker after the Apple giveaway iPhone Contests, Apple iPhone: Apple Inc., Music and iPhone, Apple iPhone Drop shipper: Integration of a Website with the Drop ship Network, Apple Inc.’s New iPhone Technology, Retail Price of Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone Wholesaler: More Convenient than Going to the Stores, Why Choose an ATT iPhone over Other Cell phones Out There?, Taking Advantage of Availability iPhone Trends, Cingular iPhone Ads No More, iPhone Cell Phone: The Batteries, Cingular iPhone: Exclusivity Rights with Apple Inc. over iPhone, The Cisco iPhone Trademark Infringement, Did Apple make the right choice to Combine Three Features Into One Unit?, Dates of iPhone Price Release: The Rumors on the would-be Prices of the iPhones, Date iPhone Release: Rumors Heralding it up to its Release Date, iPhone: “A Gadget that will Do the Work of other Gadgets”, A Quick Look at iPhone Accessories, iPhone: Apple Inc. Pride in Mobile Technology, Which iPhone Case Should I Buy?, What Exactly is an iPhone Clone?, Why iPhone Forum is Important, Do You Know of any iPhone Limited Offer I Can Avail of?, How the iPhone will Transform Mobile Marketing, Why All the Fuss Over the iPhone Mobile T-Mobile Service?, Do You iPhone Much? iPhone Case Purchase Advice for iPhone Fanatics, Apple Filed 2007 Patent for New iPhone Nano, IPhone News and Features, iPhone Picture of the Future Mobile Technology, The iPhone Plus its Features, iPhone Price: The $200 Decrease, What are the Official iPhone Price Retail Terms?, Amazing Sales of Apple’s iPhone Since its Initial Release, iPhone Release Date, A Review of the Apple iPhone, What Do We Need to See in iPhone Reviews?, To Use or Not to Use iPhone Ringtones, iPhone Sale: Where to Get Discounts and Affordable Prices, Understanding the iPhone Samsung Rivalry, Should an iPhone Sprint Network Exist?, Understanding the iPhone Unlock Issue, Have You Ever Witnessed the iPhone Unlocked?, Where Can I Get Beautiful Yet Affordable iPhone Wallpaper?, New Nokia Phone Mimics iPhone Features, Owning an Unlocked iPhone, The Unlock iPhone Patch, Verizon iPhone Killer, Did Apple Produce Cell phones that Pleased Anyone Before?, Apple iPhone, a Picture of Modern-day Technology at its Finest, Still Available: Apple Inc.’s iPhone and 3G Technology, All about the Apple Cingular iPhone, The Legal Troubles Surrounding the Apple Cisco iPhone, Apple Inc. iPhone Offer Lower Rates with Great Features., Pros & Cons: An Apple iPhone Review, Can You Call iPhone Perfect As It Is Now?, The Need for an Exclusive iPhone Carrier, Free iPhone from Cingular, When iPhone Dominates, A Look-back at the Coming of the iPhone, Commercial iPhone: The Launch Commercial’s Lack of Time, So How Much does an iPhone Cost Now?, A Look Back Into the Day that iPhone was Released, iPhone Features for Various Mobile Phone Users

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n Illustrator CS3 One-on-One: Advanced Techniques , author and industry expert Deke McClelland teaches users how to take advantage of the wide array of dynamic effects in Illustrator CS3. He demonstrates how to apply these effects to live, editable text to create custom logos and headlines. The training also covers Live Trace, Live Paint, and Live Color, as well as symbols, printing, exporting, and working with Adobe Flash files

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Beginning Database-Driven Application Development in Java™ EE: Using GlassFish™ (From Novice to Professional)

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Beginning Database-Driven Application Development in Java™ EE: Using GlassFish™ focuses on the open source GlassFish persistence engine. This book shows Java programmers how to develop applications utilizing relational database technologies with examples using Oracle and MySQL and the GlassFish application development framework and deployment platform all based on Java EE.

• The book explains in detail how you can organize your Java EE solution into a multilayer architecture, placing most emphasis on how to implement the persistence and database tiers of an application.
• Through many examples, this book shows how you can efficiently use the Java Persistence features available in the Java EE platform. Find out how you can greatly simplify the task of building the persistence layer of your Java EE application by moving some application logic into the underlying database, utilizing database views, stored programs, and triggers.
• The book also explains how to deploy Java EE applications to GlassFish, a free, open source Java EE 5–compliant application server.

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Open Source Software: Implementation and Management

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In 2004/5, over half of IT professionals will be looking at open source software for some of their systems, most for the first time. This book explains to this audience which are the most realistic opportunities for open source now, and gives enough detail to select this type of solution, and then implement it.

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Ruby on Rails Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

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Ruby on Rails is a feature-rich, easy to learn, and powerful web application framework that makes creating sophisticated, full featured web applications a snap. With the intuitive, straightforward nature of Ruby and the development platform provided by Rails, anyone can put together full-fledged web applications quickly, even if they’re new to web programming.

Ruby on Rails Power! is a comprehensive introduction to both the Ruby language and the Ruby on Rails framework, providing you with everything you need to author the next successful Web 2.0 application. It starts with the basics: installing Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and MySQL, and building a simple application in Rails. Then, since the Ruby on Rails framework is powered by the Ruby language, the book moves on to cover the basics of Ruby, making the learning curve for Ruby on Rails much easier to navigate. From there, the fundamentals everyone needs to develop a robust web application in Rails are covered in depth, from creating an interface to create, retrieve, update and delete records in a database with the Rails scaffold generator, to understanding the Model View Controller paradigm (Active Record, Action Controller and Action View) and using web services, AJAX, and Adobe Flex. By the end of the book, you’ll have created numerous applications in Rails, including a blog, a wiki, and a forum.

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CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition

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As the industry standard method for enriching the presentation of HTML-based web pages, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allow you to give web pages more structure and a more sophisticated look. But first, you have to get past CSS theory and resolve real-world problems. For those all-too-common dilemmas that crop up with each project, “CSS Cookbook” provides hundreds of practical examples with CSS code recipes that you can use immediately to format your web pages.

Arranged in a quick-lookup format for easy reference, the second edition has been updated to explain the unique behavior of the latest browsers: Microsoft’s IE 7 and Mozilla’s Firefox 1.5. Also, the book has been expanded to cover the interaction of CSS and images and now includes more recipes for beginning CSS users. The explanation that accompanies each recipe enables you to customize the formatting for your specific needs. With topics that range from basic web typography and page layout to techniques for formatting lists, forms, and tables, this book is a must-have companion, regardless of your experience with Cascading Style Sheets.

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Proceedings of the Logic Colloquium. Held in Aachen, July 18-23, 1983: Part 2: Computation and Proof Theory

• Paperback: 475 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (February 22, 2009)
• Language: English

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Computable Models

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Computational models can be found everywhere in present day science and engineering. In providing a logical framework and foundation for the specification and design of specification languages, Raymond Turner uses this framework to introduce and study computable models. In doing so he presents the first systematic attempt to provide computational models with a logical foundation.

Computable models have wide-ranging applications from programming language semantics and specification languages, through to knowledge representation languages and formalism for natural language semantics. They are also implicit in computer modelling in many areas of physical and social science.

This detailed investigation into the logical foundations of specification and specification languages and their application to the definition of programming languages, coupled with a clear exposition of theories of data and computable models as mathematical notions will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students.

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Bayesian Computation With R

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There has been a dramatic growth in the development and application of Bayesian inferential methods. Some of this growth is due to the availability of powerful simulation-based algorithms to summarize posterior distributions. There has been also a growing interest in the use of the system R for statistical analyses. R’s open source nature, free availability, and large number of contributor packages have made R the software of choice for many statisticians in education and industry.

Bayesian Computation with R introduces Bayesian modeling by the use of computation using the R language. The early chapters present the basic tenets of Bayesian thinking by use of familiar one and two-parameter inferential problems. Bayesian computational methods such as Laplace’s method, rejection sampling, and the SIR algorithm are illustrated in the context of a random effects model. The construction and implementation of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods is introduced. These simulation-based algorithms are implemented for a variety of Bayesian applications such as normal and binary response regression, hierarchical modeling, order-restricted inference, and robust modeling. Algorithms written in R are used to develop Bayesian tests and assess Bayesian models by use of the posterior predictive distribution. The use of R to interface with WinBUGS, a popular MCMC computing language, is described with several illustrative examples.

This book is a suitable companion book for an introductory course on Bayesian methods and is valuable to the statistical practitioner who wishes to learn more about the R language and Bayesian methodology. The LearnBayes package, written by the author and available from the CRAN website, contains all of the R functions described in the book.

The second edition contains several new topics such as the use of mixtures of conjugate priors and the use of Zellner’s g priors to choose between models in linear regression. There are more illustrations of the construction of informative prior distributions, such as the use of conditional means priors and multivariate normal priors in binary regressions. The new edition contains changes in the R code illustrations according to the latest edition of the LearnBayes package.

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Derivatives Markets (2nd Edition)

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To be financially literate in today’s market, business students must have a solid understanding of derivatives concepts and instruments and the uses of those instruments in corporations. The Second Edition has an accessible mathematical presentation, and more importantly, helps students gain intuition by linking theories and concepts together with an engaging narrative that emphasizes the core economic principles underlying the pricing and uses of derivatives.

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Structured Finance: Techniques, Products and Market

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In recent years, financial engineering has developed new ways of financing deals based primarily on the capacity of the operations to generate sufficient cash for the repayment of loans or bonds. The business of structured finance has then become an interesting business area for non-financial companies, investment and commercial banks and consultants. In terms of volumes, it shows figures easily comparable to other, more traditional, sources of funding.

This book provides the reader with an analysis of the characteristics of structured finance deals – asset-backed securitization, project finance, structured leasing and leveraged acquisitions – together with updated data on the current state of the international financial markets for these operations.

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WordPress 2 (Visual QuickStart Guide)

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WordPress is an open-source personal publishing platform that is easy to use, flexible, and highly customizable. Although used primarily for publishing blogs, WordPress can easily be used to create and maintain complete Web sites. Taking the average blogger further than blogspot can, WordPress allows bloggers to create more complicated sites with their open-source technology, rather than blogger which is limited by HTML changes to their templates.

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide shows you how to install, use, and customize WordPress to get the most from the software. Includes tips that explain why certain techniques are better than others, how to watch for potential problems, and where readers can find more information.

About the Author
Maria Langer has written dozens of computer books, including best-selling Visual QuickStart Guides for Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Word for Macintosh, and Excel for Macintosh. Her current bestseller is Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Visual QuickStart Guide. Miraz Jordan is a New Zealand-based writer and consultant who focuses on plain-language writing, for websites and print, and the design and maintenance of standards-based websites. She is one of the organizers of Webstock 2006, a conference featuring world-class speakers on best practice in Web design. Her site, MacTips.info, contains a wealth of tips, articles, reviews, and tutorials for using the Mac.

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HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community

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Over almost three decades, the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) has produced a rich and varied literature. Although the focus of attention today is naturally on new work, older contributions that played a role in shaping the trajectory and character of the field have much to tell us. The contributors to HCI Remixed were asked to reflect on a single work at least ten years old that influenced their approach to HCI. The result is this collection of fifty-one short, engaging, and idiosyncratic essays, reflections on a range of works in a variety of forms that chart the emergence of a new field.

An article, a demo, a book: any of these can solve a problem, demonstrate the usefulness of a new method, or prompt a shift in perspective. HCI Remixed offers us glimpses of how this comes about. The contributors consider such HCI classics as Sutherland’s Sketchpad, Englebart’s demo of NLS, and Fitts on Fitts’ Law—and such forgotten gems as Pulfer’s NRC Music Machine, and Galloway and Rabinowitz’s Hole in Space. Others reflect on works somewhere in between classic and forgotten—Kidd’s “The Marks Are on the Knowledge Worker,” King Beach’s “Becoming a Bartender,” and others. Some contributors turn to works in neighboring disciplines—Henry Dreyfuss’s book on industrial design, for example—and some range farther afield, to Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis and Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Taken together, the essays offer an accessible, lively, and engaging introduction to HCI research that reflects the diversity of the field’s beginnings.

About the Author
Thomas Erickson is Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

David W. McDonald is Assistant Professor at the Information School at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide

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Libraries increasingly use blogs and RSS feeds to reach out to users, while librarians blog daily on a range of personal and professional topics. The way has been paved by the tech-savvy and resource-rich, but any library or librarian can successfully create and syndicate a blog today. In this readable book, author, Internet trainer, and blogger Michael P. Sauers, M.L.S., shows how blogging and RSS technology can be easily and effectively used in the context of a library community.

Sauers showcases interesting and useful blogs, shares insights from librarian bloggers, and offers step-by-step instructions for creating, publishing, and syndicating a blog using free Web-based services, software, RSS feeds, and aggregators.

About the Author
Michael P. Sauers is the Internet trainer for BCR’s Member Services Division, and a part time reference librarian for the Arapahoe County Library District. He is currently on the Board of Trustees for the Aurora Public Library and the board of the Friends of the Aurora Public Library. He is the author of seven books on technology for librarians and has written dozens of articles for library industry journals.

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Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval

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As online information grows dramatically, search engines such as Google are playing a more and more important role in our lives. Critical to all search engines is the problem of designing an effective retrieval model that can rank documents accurately for a given query. This has been a central research problem in information retrieval for several decades.

In the past ten years, a new generation of retrieval models, often referred to as statistical language models, has been successfully applied to solve many different information retrieval problems. Compared with the traditional models such as the vector space model, these new models have a more sound statistical foundation and can leverage statistical estimation to optimize retrieval parameters. They can also be more easily adapted to model non-traditional and complex retrieval problems. Empirically, they tend to achieve comparable or better performance than a traditional model with less effort on parameter tuning. This book systematically reviews the large body of literature on applying statistical language models to information retrieval with an emphasis on the underlying principles, empirically effective language models, and language models developed for non-traditional retrieval tasks. All the relevant literature has been synthesized to make it easy for a reader to digest the research progress achieved so far and see the frontier of research in this area. The book also offers practitioners an informative introduction to a set of practically useful language models that can effectively solve a variety of retrieval problems. No prior knowledge about information retrieval is required, but some basic knowledge about probability and statistics would be useful for fully digesting all the details. Table of Contents: Introduction / Overview of Information Retrieval Models / Simple Query Likelihood Retrieval Model / Complex Query Likelihood Model / Probabilistic Distance Retrieval Model / Language Models for Special Retrieval Tasks / Language Models for Latent Topic Analysis / Conclusions

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Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: Second International Conference, WWIC 2004

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC 2004, held in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, in February 2004.

The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from around 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on protocol engineering and energy efficiency in wireless networks; mobility management and mobile devices; transport layer and congestion control; architecture, implementation, and experimentation; network and protocol modeling; wireless network scheduling and analysis; multimedia distribution and group communication; and service discovery.

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JNCIS: Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist Study Guide

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Here is the Official Study Guide for the JNCIS (Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist) certification from Juniper Networks, that tests network administrators’ knowledge of working with Juniper products and the JUNOS software in a multi-protocol network environment. Published in partnership with the Juniper Networks Technical Certification Program, and written by a Juniper Networks instructor, this Study Guide provides in-depth coverage of all exam objectives along with practical insights drawn from real-world experience. The accompanying CD includes the entire book in searchable PDF, complete router configurations for the case studies, and key Juniper documentation that will help further your studies toward the JNCIE.

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Avid Editing, Fourth Edition: A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users

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Geared toward novice Avid editors, this book provides step-by-step instructions for hundreds of editing tasks and concepts within the Avid software applications. The chapters guide you through an editing project, while the accompanying DVD provides footage to edit allowing for a hands-on experience.

More than just a software manual, the book weaves editing principles with the Avid workflow, delving into general editing techniques, principles, and pitfalls, and helping you master the Avid as well as improve your overall editing technique and skillset.

The new edition covers working with HD and HDV, visual effects, Scriptsync (Avid’s voice recognition software), as well as many other areas that will have you up and cutting on Avid in no time.

Coverage spans Avid Xpress Pro HD, Xpress Pro, Xpress DV, and MC Adrenaline. Due to the similarity of Avid’s interface across product lines, readers will also find the book relevant for Media Composter, Symphony, Nitris, and other Avid systems.

* Expanded coverage on HD and HDV, VFX, Marquee title tool, media management and more, preparing editors to work seamlessly with the latest technical updates to Avid
* Chapters guide you through a complete editing project, providing step-by-step instruction with Avid as well as insight into general editing techniques and principles
* Companion DVD contains footage allowing you to work alongside the lessons taught in the book

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Linux for you is a monthly linux computing magazine published in the India. It is the only Linux magazine in India. It comes with a free DVD

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MCDST Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-272): Supporting Users andTroubleshooting Desktop Applications on Windows(r) XP

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Help maximize your performance on Exam 70-272, one of two required exams for the Microsoft Desktop Support Technician Certification (MCDST), with this all-in-one training kit. Fully updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2, this kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from an expert, exam-certified author; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case studies, and troubleshooting labs for the skills and expertise you can apply to the job.

Focusing on building your ability to resolve end-user incident requests about applications running on the Microsoft Windows XP operating system in the corporate or home environment, this official study guide covers configuring and troubleshooting applications, including Microsoft Office programs and Microsoft Internet Explorer; resolving issues related to usability and application customization; configuring and troubleshooting connectivity for applications; and configuring application security features.

Ace your exam preparation by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The flexible, best-of-class test engine on CD-ROM features 425 practice questions. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 120-day evaluation version of Windows XP software and other resources on the CD—making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.

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MCDST Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-271): Supporting Users andTroubleshooting a Microsoft(r) Windows(r) XP Operating System

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Now fully updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2, this all-in-one training kit provides in-depth preparation, practice, and review for one of two required exams for the Microsoft Desktop Support Technician Certification (MCDST). Covering Exam 70-271, this kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from an expert, exam-certified author; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case studies, and troubleshooting labs for the skills and expertise you can apply to the job.

Focusing on building your ability to resolve end-user incident requests by configuring and troubleshooting the Windows XP operating system in the corporate or home environment, this official study guide covers system installation, managing access to resources, configuring and troubleshooting hardware devices and drivers, configuring and troubleshooting the desktop and user environments, and troubleshooting network protocols and services.

Ace your exam preparation by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The flexible, best-of-class test engine on CD-ROM features 425 practice questions. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 120-day evaluation version of Windows XP software and other resources on the CD, making this kit an exceptional value and a great

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Live Lessons Python Fundaments | 2.2 GB

In this one-of-a-kind video package, leading Python developer and trainer Wesley Chun helps you learn Python quickly and comprehensively, so that you can immediately succeed with any Python project. Just click and watch: One step at a time, you will master Python fundamentals. If you already have Python experience, these videos will help further develop your skills. The lessons start with an introduction to the core features of the Python language, including syntax basics and standard types and operations. The lessons progress into advanced topics, such as Python’s memory model and object-oriented programming.

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CNIT 123 Ethical Hacking and Network Defense

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Students learn how hackers attack computers and networks, and how to protect systems from such attacks, using both Windows and Linux systems. Students will learn legal restrictions and ethical guidelines, and will be required to obey them. Students will perform many hands-on labs, both attacking and defending, using port scans, footprinting, exploiting Windows and Linux vulnerabilities, buffer overflow exploits, SQL injection, privilege escalation, Trojans, and backdoors.

Prerequisites: CNIT 106 and 120 or equivalent familiarity with the fundamentals of networking and security.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Explain what an ethical hacker can and can not do legally, and explain the credentials and roles of penetration testers.
Define the types of malicious software found in modern networks.
Explain the threats and countermeasures for physical security and social engineering.
Perform footprinting to learn about a company and its network.
Perform port scans to locate potential entry points to servers and networks.
Perform enumeration (finding resources, accounts, and passwords) on Microsoft, Netware, and Unix/Linux targets.
Perform very simple programming in C, HTML, and Perl, specifically oriented towards the needs of network security professionals.
Learn how to identify Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities and to harden systems.
Learn how to identify Linux vulnerabilities and to protect servers.
Describe how to take control of Web Servers, and how to protect them.
Locate and hack into wireless networks, and protect them.
Explain how cryptography and hashing work, and perform attacks against them such as password cracking and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Describe and deploy security devices, including routers, firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, and honeypots.
Textbooks
Hands-On Ethical Hacking and Network Defense by Michael T. Simpson — ISBN: 0-619-21708-1 Buy from Amazon

CNIT 123: Ethical Hacking and Network Defense — Lecture Notes and Projects (Spring 2008 Revision) by Sam Bowne (buy it at the CCSF Bookstore)
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Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers

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-The word is out: with Ruby on Rails you can build powerful Web applications easily and quickly! And just like the Rails framework itself, Rails applications are Ruby programs. That means you can’t tap into the full power of Rails unless you master the Ruby language. Ruby for Rails, written by Ruby expert David Black (with a forward by David Heinemeier Hansson), helps Rails developers achieve Ruby mastery. Each chapter deepens your Ruby knowledge and shows you how it connects to Rails. You’ll gain confidence working with objects and classes and learn how to leverage Ruby’s elegant, expressive syntax for Rails application power. And you’ll become a better Rails developer through a deep understanding of the design of Rails itself and how to take advantage of it.

Newcomers to Ruby will find a Rails-oriented Ruby introduction that’s easy to read and that includes dynamic programming techniques, an exploration of Ruby objects, classes, and data structures, and many neat examples of Ruby and Rails code in action. Ruby for Rails: the Ruby guide for Rails developers!

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Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

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Artificial evolutionary systems are computer systems, inspired by ideas from natural evolution and related phenomena. The field has a long history, dating back to the earliest days of computer science, but it has only become an established scientific and engineering discipline since the 1990s, with packages for the commonest form, genetic algorithms, now widely available.

Researchers in the Asia-Pacific region have participated strongly in the development of evolutionary systems, with a particular emphasis on the evolution of intelligent solutions to highly complex problems. The Asia-Pacific Symposia on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems have been an important contributor to this growth in impact, since 1997 providing an annual forum for exchange and dissemination of ideas. Participants come primarily from East Asia and the Western Pacific, but contributions are welcomed from around the World.

This volume features a selection of fourteen of the best papers from recent APSIES. They illustrate the breadth of research in the region, with applications ranging from business to medicine, from network optimization to the promotion of innovation.

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Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, EvoBIO 2008, held in Naples, Italy, in March 2008 colocated with the Evo* 2008 events.

The 18 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. EvoBio is the premiere European event for experts in computer science meeting with experts in bioinformatics and the biological sciences, all interested in the interface between evolutionary computation, machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics, and computational biology. Topics addressed by the papers include biomarker discovery, cell simulation and modeling, ecological modeling, uxomics, gene networks, biotechnology, metabolomics, microarray analysis, phylogenetics, protein interactions, proteomics, sequence analysis and alignment, as well as systems biology.

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Beginning Java EE 5: From Novice to Professional

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Sun’s new lightweight Java Enterprise Edition (EE) 5 is an extremely powerful platform for developing enterprise-level Java-based applications, primarily for the server. This book shows you how to harness that power, examining how the pieces of the new Java EE 5 platform fit together, including the newly redesigned annotations-driven EJB 3 spec as well as JavaServer Faces (JSF), integrated into the platform for the first time.This book surpasses explaining how to code a JSP or an EJB: It explains when and where to use these APIs, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and perhaps most importantly, how to employ the best practices for using them .Hands-on tutorials are also included, along with clear explanations and working code examples. You will grow to take the next step, from writing client-side desktop applications to writing enterprise applications. You will also learn how to use the individual APIs and tools in the J2EE platform, and how to merge these to create your own enterprise applications.

About the Author
Kevin Mukhar is a software developer in Colorado Springs, Colorado. For the past 7 years, he has worked on various software systems using different Java Enterprise technologies. He has coauthored several other books, including <i>Beginning Java Databases</i>, and <i>The Ultimate Palm Robot</i>. In addition to developing software during the day, he is working on a master’s degree in computer science.Chris Zelenak is a programmer at Learning Assistant Technologies, where he helps in the development of server-side Cocoon and Rails applications, Java and .NET client applications, and rampant devil’s advocacy. He recently graduated from the Computer Science department of Indiana Wesleyan University.

James L. Weaver is the chief scientist at Learning Assistant Technologies, a company that specializes in developing learner-centric tools. He is also the president of JMentor, a Java mentoring, training, and consulting practice.

Jim Crume is a Java architect at Fusion Alliance, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based consulting company that specializes in web application development. Jim has spent many years as a consultant, and specializes in architecting and developing web-based systems, but he particularly enjoys Java.

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Stream Data Processing: A Quality of Service Perspective: Modeling, Scheduling, Load Shedding, and Complex Event Processing

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Traditional database management systems, widely used today, are not well-suited for a class of emerging applications, such as computer network management, homeland security, sensor computing, and environmental monitoring. These applications need to continuously process large amounts of data coming in the form of a stream, and meet stringent response time requirements. Support for handling QoS metrics, such as response time, memory usage, and throughput, is central to any system proposed for the above applications.

Stream Data Processing: A Quality of Service Perspective (Modeling, Scheduling, Load Shedding, and Complex Event Processing), presents a new paradigm suitable for stream and complex event processing. This book covers a broad range of topics in stream data processing and includes detailed technical discussions of a number of proposed techniques.

This volume is intended as a textbook for graduate courses and as a reference book for researchers, advanced-level students in CS, and IT practitioners.

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Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, and Playtesting Games (Gama Network Series)

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Master the craft of game design so you can create that elusive combination of challenge, competition, and interaction that players seek. This design workshop begins with an examination of the fundamental elements of game design; then puts you to work in prototyping, playtesting, and redesigning your own games with exercises that teach essential design skills. Workshop exercises require no background in programming or artwork, releasing you from the intricacies of electronic game production, so you can develop a working understanding of the essentials of game design.

The ideas and exercises in this Game Design Workshop answer the questions asked by every aspiring game designer: How do I learn to design games? What skills do I need to become a professional game designer? Game design is demystified with a clear, accessible analysis of the formal and dramatic systems of game design. Examples, illustrations, and exercises strengthen your understanding of what makes game systems function; and teach you the skills and tools that you need to create a compelling game.

Refined over a number of years, this workshop curriculum has provided the foundation for hundreds of careers in all areas of the game industry including game design, producing, programming, visual design, quality assurance, and marketing. This guide to the language and business of game design will help anyone pursuing a career in the industry.

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Data Compression: The Complete Reference

Data compression is one of the most important fields and tools in modern computing. From archiving data, to CD ROMs, and from coding theory to image analysis, many facets of modern computing rely upon data compression.

Data Compression provides a comprehensive reference for the many different types and methods of compression. Included are a detailed and helpful taxonomy, analysis of most common methods, and discussions on the use and comparative benefits of methods and description of “how to” use them. The presentation is organized into the main branches of the field of data compression: run length encoding, statistical methods, dictionary-based methods, image compression, audio compression, and video compression. Detailed descriptions and explanations of the most well-known and frequently used compression methods are covered in a self-contained fashion, with an accessible style and technical level for specialists and nonspecialists. Topics and features: coverage of video compression, including MPEG-1 and H.261; thorough coverage of wavelets methods, including CWT, DWT, EZW and the new Lifting Scheme technique; complete audio compression; QM coder used in JPEG and JBIG, including new JPEG 200 standard; image transformations and detailed coverage of discrete cosine transform and Haar transform; coverage of EIDAC method for compressing simple images; prefix image compression; ACB and FHM curve compression; geometric compression and edgebreaker technique.
Data Compression provides an invaluable reference and guide for all computer scientists, computer engineers, electrical engineers, signal/image processing engineers and other scientists needing a comprehensive compilation for a broad range of compression methods.

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Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners

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This book sheds light on the principles behind the relational model, which is fundamental to all database-backed applications–and, consequently, most of the work that goes on in the computing world today. “Database in Depth: The Relational Model for Practitioners” goes beyond the hype and gets to the heart of how relational databases actually work.

Ideal for experienced database developers and designers, this concise guide gives you a clear view of the technology–a view that’s not influenced by any vendor or product. Featuring an extensive set of exercises, it will help you:

understand why and how the relational model is still directly relevant to modern database technology (and will remain so for the foreseeable future)

see why and how the SQL standard is seriously deficient

use the best current theoretical knowledge in the design of their databases and database applications

make informed decisions in their daily database professional activities

“Database in Depth” will appeal not only to database developers and designers, but also to a diverse field of professionals and academics, including database administrators (DBAs), information modelers, database consultants, and more. Virtually everyone who deals with relational databases should have at least a passing understanding of the fundamentals of working with relational models.

Author C.J. Date has been involved with the relational model from its earliest days. An exceptionally clear-thinking writer, Date lays out principle and theory in a manner that is easily understood. Few others can speak as authoritatively the topic of relational databases as Date can.

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Securing Converged IP Networks

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Internet Protocol (IP) networks increasingly mix traditional data assets with traffic related to voice, entertainment, industrial process controls, metering, and more. Due to this convergence of content, IP networks are emerging as extremely vital infrastructure components, requiring greater awareness and better security and management. Offering diverse perspectives from the world’s leading experts on convergence, Securing Converged IP Networks illustrates how to maintain content integrity and network assurance.

This book discusses the convergence market and the business drivers of convergence, details how to measure the sensitivity and assurance requirements of different data assets and discusses a wide range of ICT security threats and vulnerabilities. Later chapters discuss controls and safeguards in terms of management, as well as, technical, and operational tools that can reduce the likelihood of wide range of risks. It also provides recommendations for managing the assurance, implementation and operation of converged ICT network infrastructures and examines the future of ICT security and assurance under IP convergence.

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Codes and Automata (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications)

This major revision of Berstel and Perrin’s classic Theory of Codes has been rewritten with a more modern focus and a much broader coverage of the subject. The concept of unambiguous automata, which is intimately linked with that of codes, now plays a significant role throughout the book, reflecting developments of the last 20 years.

This is complemented by a discussion of the connection between codes and automata, and new material from the field of symbolic dynamics. The authors have also explored links with more practical applications, including data compression and cryptography. The treatment remains self-contained: there is background material on discrete mathematics, algebra and theoretical computer science. The wealth of exercises and examples make it ideal for self-study or courses. In sum this is a comprehensive reference on the theory of variable-length codes and their relation to automata.

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We don’t own the desktop yet but we do own the first ever Nobel Prize in Cool. Cool Projects that is, we’ve got a Linux powered rocket and a Linux powered submarine. Plus we show you how to use the iRobot Create with Linux, how to convert those old 8mm movies to DVD with Linux, and how to control your house with Linux and Mi Casa Verde.

After checking out the cool projects don’t miss the rest of this cool issue and read how to run Rails under Apache using Phusion Passenger, how to build a secure Squid Web Proxy, how to use OpenFiler to create an open-source network storage appliance, and if just typed “rm -rf /” find out what to do and what not to do in our continuing series of “When Disaster Strikes” articles. And don’t miss our interview with Neuros CEO Joe Born or Doc’s monthly words of wisdom.
Features

* Linux-Powered Amateur Rocket Goes USB by Sarah Sharp
The upgrade continues.
* The Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle by Andy Pritchard
The Germans probably would call it an Ubunturseeboot.
* Linux-Based 8mm Telecine by Frank Pirz
It’s a power of 2, you gotta convert it!
* Fun with the iRobot Create by Zach Banks
Roll your own!

Indepth

* Interview with Joe Born: CEO of Neuros Technology by James Gray
Neuros Technology’s Linux-powered open devices are driving TV-Internet convergence.
* OpenFiler: an Open-Source Network Storage Appliance by Bill Childers
An open-source alternative to a NetApp filer.

Columns

* Reuven M. Lerner’s At the Forge Phusion Passenger
* Dave Taylor’s Work the Shell More Special Variables
* Mick Bauer’s Paranoid Penguin Building a Secure Squid Web Proxy, Part II
* Kyle Rankin’s Hack and / When Disaster Strikes: Attack of the rm Command
* Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers’ Point/Counterpoint AJAX
* Doc Searls’ EOF Privacy Is Relative

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UML Applied: A .NET Perspective

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UML Applied: A .NET Perspective is the first book to examine the two worlds of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and .NET concurrently. The core of UML Applied: A .NET Perspective is a set of proven, hands-on, team-oriented exercises that will have the reader solving real-world problems with UML faster than when using any other approach—often in under a day. Martin L. Shoemaker also demonstrates how to use Rational XDE for effective model-driven development.

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The Elements of UML(TM) 2.0 Style

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For all developers who create models using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.x The Elements of UML(TM) 2.0 Style sets the rules for style that will improve your productivity - especially in teams, where understandability and consistency are critical. Coming from renowned UML expert Scott Ambler, the book furnishes a set of rules for modelling in the UML and describes a collection of standards and guidelines for creating effective UML diagrams that will be concise and easy to understand.

It provides conventions for: Class diagrams; Timing Diagrams; Use case diagrams; Composite Structure Diagrams; Sequence diagrams; Interaction Overview Diagrams; Activity diagrams; Object diagrams; State machine diagrams; Package diagrams; Communication diagrams; Deployment diagrams and Component diagrams. The Elements of UML(TM) 2.0 Style sets the rules for style that will improve your productivity.

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Oracle Magazine May/June 2009
92 pages | English | PDF | 14 MB

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Frustrated Spin Systems

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Frustrated spin systems have been first investigated five decades ago. Well-known examples include the Ising model on the antiferromagnetic triangular lattice studied by G H Wannier in 1950 and the Heisenberg helical structure discovered independently by A Yoshimori, J Villain and T A Kaplan in 1959. However, many properties of frustrated systems are still not well understood at present.

Recent studies reveal that established theories, numerical simulations as well as experimental techniques have encountered many difficulties in dealing with frustrated systems. This volume highlights the latest theoretical, numerical and experimental developments in the field. The book is intended for post-graduate students as well as researchers in statistical physics, magnetism, materials science and various domains where real systems can be described with the spin language. Explicit demonstrations of formulae and full arguments leading to important results are given.

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Strategies for Sustainable Architecture

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Filling a gap in existing literature on sustainable design, this new guide introduces and illustrates sustainable design principles through detailed case studies of sustainable buildings in Europe, North America and Australia. The guide will provide the reader with a deeper understanding of the design issues involved in delivering sustainable buildings, and giving detailed description of the process of integrating principles into practice. One hundred buildings, ranging from small dwellings to large commercial buildings, and drawn from a range of countries, demonstrate best current practice. The sections of the book are divided into design issues relating to sustainable development, including site and ecology, community and culture, health, materials, energy, and water. With over 400 illustrations, this highly visual guide will be an invaluable reference to all those concerned with architecture and sustainability issues.

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City Edge: Contemporary Discourses on Urbanism

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This series of essays outlines a number of case studies from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia and provides first hand accounts of the experiences that planners, architects and politicians have had in reshaping cities. These insights provide a pragmatic assessment of the challenges and constraints posed by changing patterns of urban growth in a broad spectrum of urban environments. The reader will discover, through these multiple voices and views, the diverse forms of global cities, and will have a grasp of where the debate on urban design stands today, and where it may be going in the future.

1. Hear first hand from planners and architects who have worked on some of the most challenging urban design projects
2. Gain an insight into the latest debates on urban design, including reconstruction and sustainability
3. International examples from Melbourne through Tokyo to New York provide a global perspective on the subject

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Glass & interactive building envelopes

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The main objective of the COST Action C13 was to increase the knowledge of properties and possibilities of glazing in order to increase the performance of building envelopes, to reduce the energy consumption and to improve the quality of life with respect to interior space, impact on the environment and human welfare.

This collection of papers presented at meetings and workshops of the COST C13 working groups 1 (Architectural Aspects and Design Integration), 2 (Quality of Interior Space) and 3 (Structural Aspects of Glass) are the result of 5 years of exchange of ideas, experiences and know-how between members, delegates and experts. It represents the body of knowledge from a restricted but representative group of professionals in Europe on the subject of glass building envelopes. The Steel Structures Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) and the research group ‘Façades & Systems’ of the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology (NL) have taken the initiative to publish these COST C13 papers in order to disseminate the knowledge to the world of glass façade professionals and to contribute to the development of a new generation of high-performance glass building envelopes.

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Structural Design - Structural Foundation Designers' Manual

This manual for civil and structural engineers aims to simplify as much as possible a complex subject which is often treated too theoretically, by explaining in a practical way how to provide uncomplicated, buildable and economical foundations.

It explains simply, clearly and with numerous worked examples how economic foundation design is achieved. It deals with both straightforward and difficult sites, following the process through site investigation, foundation selection and, finally, design.

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MCSE Windows XP Professional Exam Cram 2 (Exam 70-270) (2nd Edition)

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The MCSE 70-270 Exam Cram 2: Windows XP Professional, Second Edition is an efficient, effective and concise guide that gives you exactly what you need to know to pass one of the most popular exams in the MCSE program. Organized according to the exam objectives, you will be able to quickly and easily assess your understanding of the key exam topics. You will find test-taking strategies and timesaving tips that will help you score better on the test, and the popular Cram Sheet tearcard is include for last-minute review on exam day. Also included are over 200 practice questions with detailed answers and an innovative test-engine on CD from MeasureUp. With all of these great features and proven study methods, MCSE 70-270 Exam Cram 2: Windows XP Professional, Second Edition is your smartest way to get certified.

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Oracle PL/SQL For Dummies

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The Oracle has spoken—you need to get up to speed on PL/SQL programming, right? We predict it’ll be a breeze with this book! You’ll find out about code structures, best practices, and code naming standards, how to use conditions and loops, where to place PL/SQL code in system projects, ways to manipulate data, and more.

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Foundations of Computer Security

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Anyone with a computer has heard of viruses, had to deal with several, and has been struggling with spam, spyware, and disk crashes. This book is intended as a starting point for those familiar with basic concepts of computers and computations and who would like to extend their knowledge into the realm of computer and network security. Its comprehensive treatment of all the major areas of computer security aims to give readers a complete foundation in the field of Computer Security. Exercises are given throughout the book and are intended to strengthening the reader’s knowledge - answers are also provided.

Written in a clear, easy to understand style, aimed towards advanced undergraduates and non-experts who want to know about the security problems confronting them everyday. The technical level of the book is low and requires no mathematics, and only a basic concept of computers and computations. Foundations of Computer Security will be an invaluable tool for students and professionals alike.

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Formal Theories of Information: From Shannon to Semantic Information Theory and General Concepts of Information

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This book presents the scientific outcome of a joint effort of the computer science departments of the universities of Berne, Fribourg and Neuchâtel.
Within an initiative devoted to “Information and Knowledge”, these research groups collaborated over several years on issues of logic, probability, inference, and deduction. The goal of this volume is to examine whether there is any common ground between the different approaches to the concept of information.

The structure of this book could be represented by a circular model, with an innermost syntactical circle, comprising statistical and algorithmic approaches; a second, larger circle, the semantical one, in which “meaning” enters the stage; and finally an outermost circle, the pragmatic one, casting light on real-life logical reasoning.

These articles are complemented by two philosophical contributions exploring the wide conceptual field as well as taking stock of the articles on the various formal theories of information.

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Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques: 18th International Workshop, WADT 2006

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques, WADT 2006, held in La Roche en Ardenne, Belgium, in June 2006.

The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers focus on the algebraic approach to the specification and development of systems and address topics such as formal methods for system development, specification languages and methods, systems and techniques for reasoning about specifications, specification development systems, methods and techniques for concurrent, distributed and mobile systems, and algebraic and co-algebraic foundations.

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ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview

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The ASP.NET MVC framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform. It introduces a radically new high–productivity programming model, promotes cleaner code architecture, supports test–driven development, and provides powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET 3.5.

ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview is a first look at this technology’s main features, designed to give you a head start getting to grips with this powerful new technology.

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Cooperative Wireless Communications

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Cooperative devices are growing in value with respect to wireless communications and networks. They substantially enhance system performance by decreasing power consumption and packet loss rate, and increasing system capacity and network resilience. This book introduces key cooperative strategies and the vital background information needed for development and implementation of cooperative mechanisms in both infrastructure-based and wireless systems as well as self-organizing, multi-hop networks. Beneficial to academia and industry professionals, this essential reference concentrates on a variety of cooperative mechanisms, the cooperation frameworks in diverse scenarios, and the recent advances in the system performance of wireless networks.

About the Author
Simula Research Laboratory, Lysaker, Norway National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA

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This course is a fun and interesting look at the CakePHP 1.2 Framework. By the end you’ll have created a simple CMS that you will be able to extend and improve. We build Controllers, Models, Views, Helpers, Components and Behaviors all on camera.

In the first 4 lessons we study CakePHP by following Study Guides. These are not your typical Study Guides… you will see Austin Powers, Boobies, Skeletor and other funny things. We use analogies and story telling to help build a database of information in your mind quickly and easily.

The last 4 lessons are very practical and high intensity. This is where we code the CMS and follow a treasure map to find Curley’s Golden Chickens. If you are stuggling with CakePHP and things are just not sinking in then this is the course for you. It’s fun and highly detailed.

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Winning Government Contracts: How Your Small Business Can Find and Secure Federal Government Contracts Up to $100,000

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“The United States federal government is the biggest customer in the world. It buys 20% of all the services and products produced in the U.S. But of the 22 million registered U.S. companies, fewer than 2% of them seek out this market. Why? Because small business owners don’t know where and how to get these contracts. Winning Government Contracts will change that. It begins at the beginning, assuming no prior knowledge of the government marketplace and its sometimes complicated terminology.

Written in a clear, easy-to-understand language by experienced sales and marketing professionals, this book takes you through the registration and bidding process step-by-step. All the terms used in government contracts are explained in plain English. Winning Government Contracts shows you where to find the sales opportunities on the Internet, then guides you through every step in your quote, whether submitted electronically or on paper–explaining the jargon and outlining the exact information that needs to be entered. You will learn how to download drawings and specifications, understand shipping and packaging requirements, and find out how much the government is currently paying for an item before you submit an offer. The book also highlights areas where beginners need to be particularly careful, such as remembering to include shipping costs when you offer the government your best price! After the offer has been submitted, the book explains how to find the results of the bid–which company was awarded the contract and its price, as well as the names and prices of all the other bidders. Included is the government’s system of inspection, acceptance, invoicing, and payments, as well as the specific requirements for service contracts such as Statements of Work, Wage Determinations, and Technical Proposals. Whatever your business, the federal government is a marketplace you can enter. Winning Government Contracts will you show the way.”

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Making Sense of Data II: A Practical Guide to Data Visualization, Advanced Data Mining Methods, and Applications

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The Making Sense of Data series fills a current gap in the market for easy-to-use books for non-specialists that combine advanced data mining methods, the application of these methods to a range of fields, and hands-on tutorials. Making Sense of Data II: A Practical Guide to Data Visualization, Advanced Data Mining Methods, and Applications offers a comprehensive collection of advanced data mining methods coupled with tutorials for applications in a range of fields including business and finance. This book is appropriate for students and professionals in the many different disciplines involving making decisions from data.

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ColdFusion Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

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ColdFusion MX Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Practical User’s Guide explores the great web development partnership between ColdFusion, a fantastically powerful but easy to learn server-side scripting language and Dreamweaver, Macromedia’s world-class visual web-authoring tool. Using Dreamweaver you can set up your ColdFusion website, connect it to your database, put together all the code for the pages, and style them too, with very little hassle. This book is ideal for all the Dreamweaver users who want to quickly get up to speed with the fundamentals of ColdFusion.

The book is heavily weighted with practical examples starting by teaching the basics of the ColdFusion language, we then go on to show how to use ColdFusion to perform tasks such as connecting to databases, decision making, reading XML, queries, and error handling. Later on, we touch upon advanced topics such as creating ColdFusion extensions, custom functions, and Flash remoting (using Dreamweaver MX as the IDE). The book culminates with a large case study showing how to put this stuff all together in a fully operational real world dynamic website, demonstrating common web applications such as a blog, a reviews page, and user registration/login functionality.

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Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

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Creating a virtual network allows you to maximize the use of your servers. Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise  is the first book of its kind to demonstrate how to manage all aspects of virtualization across an enterprise. (Other books focus only on singular aspects of virtualization, without delving into the interrelationships of the technologies.)

This book promises to cover all aspects of virtualization, including virtual machines, virtual file systems, virtual storage solutions, and clustering, enabling you to understand which technologies are right for your particular environment. Furthermore, the book covers both Microsoft and Linux environments.

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Using Samba

Samba, the Server Message Block (SMB) server software that makes it relatively easy to integrate Unix or Linux servers into networks of Microsoft Windows workstations, has to date been mostly explained as an afterthought. Most often, it’s appeared in the latter chapters of books about Linux. It deserves better, and the authors of Using Samba have delivered exactly that.

This book documents Samba 2.0.4 fully (version 2.0.5, source and binary, appears on the companion CD-ROM), focusing on smbd, nmbd, the command-line tools, and Samba’s newfound ability to integrate itself securely with Windows NT domains.

Though it includes a bit of information on the SMB and Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocols that underlie Samba, the emphasis here is on setting up and configuring software. Explicit sections explain how to install Samba on a Unix/Linux system and how to set up Microsoft clients to communicate with the Samba machine. The authors pay lavish attention to the Samba configuration file, smb.conf, and explain exactly what settings you need to include in it to allow disk shares, network browsing, and integration with Windows domains. A highly useful reference that lists all Samba configuration options (along with their valid values, default values, and explanations) appears in an appendix. –David Wall

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Unified Modeling Language User Guide, The (2nd Edition) (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

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For nearly ten years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been the industry standard for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. As the de facto standard modeling language, the UML facilitates communication and reduces confusion among project stakeholders. The recent standardization of UML 2.0 has further extended the language’s scope and viability.

Its inherent expressiveness allows users to model everything from enterprise information systems and distributed Web-based applications to real-time embedded systems. In this eagerly anticipated revision of the best-selling and definitive guide to the use of the UML, the creators of the language provide a tutorial to its core aspects in a two-color format designed to facilitate learning. Starting with an overview of the UML, the book explains the language gradually by introducing a few concepts and notations in each chapter. It also illustrates the application of the UML to complex modeling problems across a variety of application domains. The in-depth coverage and example-driven approach that made the first edition of The Unified Modeling Language User Guide an indispensable resource remain unchanged. However, content has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes to notation and usage required by UML 2.0. Highlights include: *A new chapter on components and internal structure, including significant new capabilities for building encapsulated designs *New details and updated coverage of provided and required interfaces, collaborations, and UML profiles *Additions and changes to discussions of sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and more *Coverage of many other changes introduced by the UML 2.0 specification With this essential guide, you will quickly get up to speed on the latest features of the industry standard modeling language and be able to apply them to your next software project.

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Test Driving Linux: From Windows to Linux in 60 Seconds

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For years, computer users have put up with the bugs, security holes, and viruses on Windows because they had no choice. Until recently, there has never been a good alternative to Windows. But now, Windows users can switch to Linux, the reliable, secure, and spyware free operating system. Linux is easy to use, runs on almost any PC, and enables you to perform all the tasks you can do with Windows.

Getting to know Linux has never been easier, because now there’s a way to test-drive Linux without changing, installing, or configuring a thing on your computer. It’s called Test Driving Linux: From Windows to Linux in 60 Seconds. This latest release from O’Reilly comes with a Live CD called Move, that allows Windows users to try all the features of Mandrake Linux, a popular Linux distribution without the hassle of actually installing Linux. Users simply place the Move CD into their CD drive, boot from the disc, then watch an entire Mandrake system run on the fly from the CD-ROM. Test Driving Linux: From Windows to Linux in 60 Seconds is a detailed step-by-step guide to the Linux operating system and several popular open source programs. With this guide you can quickly learn how to use Linux to perform the tasks you do most: surf the web, send and receive email, instant message with friends, write letters, create spreadsheets, and even how to enhance your digital photos. Test Driving Linux: From Windows to Linux in 60 Seconds provides both home and business users with a hassle-free way to investigate this operating system before they purchase and install a complete Linux distribution.

About the Author
David Brickner is an editor of Linux and Open Source books at O’Reilly Media, Inc. Prior to that he worked as a Windows system administrator for eight years. He has used Linux servers since 1998, and run it as his full-time desktop for the past four years. David lives close to Boston, MA with his wife Claire and two well-behaved cats. He enjoys reading Fantasy and Science-Fiction books, eating his own pumpkin bread, and going to the movies with Claire. David wishes his hobbies were woodworking and camping, but he hasn’t done enough of either for this to be true. David did not vote for Bush in any election.

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Cost Containment and Efficiency in National Health Systems: A Global Comparison

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Written by a local health economics expert, each of the eight chapters in this timely handbook and ready reference describes the national healthcare system of a different industrialized country. In each case, the 4-5 specific policies with the highest impact on that respective country over the past 20-30 years are identified. In addition, the economic characteristics of each policy are described and, where possible, its success evaluated, discussing the current policy agenda.

A final chapter summarizes and synthesizes the major points of the analysis. While the main focus is on economics, this guide is written in non-technical language for an audience of health policy decision makers or students of health policy, making it an invaluable contribution to the current debate surrounding the control of rising healthcare-related costs in the developed world.

About the Author
EDITORS John Rapoport Professor of Economics Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, Ma USA rapoport@mtholyoke.edu Philip Jacobs Institute of Health Economics Edmonton, Alberta Canada pjacobs@ihe.ca Egon Jonsson Institute of Health Economics Edmonton, Alberta Canada ejonsson@ihe.ca

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Ribbon Culture: Charity, Compassion and Public Awareness

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This certification is the starting point with the Security Certified Program (SCP). SCNS is a required pre-requisite for going further towards the SCNP and SCNA certifications. The SCNS focuses on the critical defensive technologies that are the foundation of securing network perimeters, such as firewalls, intrusion detection, and router security. This certification tests the candidate’s ability to work with, and implement, real world security technology. To become SCNS certified, candidates must successfully pass one exam. This exam is named: Tactical Perimeter Defense (TPD). The exam uses number: SC0-451.

This is the official training SCNS exam and is designed to validate the foundational skills required by security professionals. These skills include, but are not limited to: Network Defense Fundamentals, Advanced TCP/IP, Routers and Access Control Lists, Designing Firewalls, Configuring Firewalls, Configuring Virtual Private Networks, Designing an Intrusion Detection System, Configuring an Intrusion Detection System and Securing Wireless Networks.
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Optics and Photonics: An Introduction

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The Second Edition of this successful textbook provides a clear, well-written introduction to both the fundamental principles of optics and the key aspects of photonics to show how the subject has developed in the last few decades, leading to many modern applications. Optics and Photonics: An Introduction, Second Edition thus provides a complete undergraduate course on optics in a single integrated text, and is an essential resource for all undergraduate physics, science and engineering students taking a variety of optics based courses.

Specific changes for this edition include:

• New material on modern optics and photonics
• Rearrangement of chapters to give a logical progression, comprising groups of chapters on geometric optics, wave optics and photonics
• Many more worked examples and problems
• Substantial revisions to chapters on Holography, Lasers and the Interaction of Light with Matter

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Professional K2 blackpearl

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Built on Microsoft technologies including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Microsoft Office 2007, and Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, the latest K2 [blackpearl] release provides you with mature workflow management systems that can automate processes or pull together people, services, and systems. You’ll get an introduction to workflow and business processes management, planning and administering a K2 infrastructure, and building processes and workflow.

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ActionScript 3.0 Bible

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ActionScript has matured into a full-fledged, object-oriented programming language for creating cutting-edge Web applications, and this comprehensive book is just what you need to succeed. If you want to add interactivity to Flash, build Flex applications, or work with animation — it’s all here, and more. Packed with clear instruction, step-by-step tutorials, and advanced techniques, this book is your go-to guide to unlock the power of this amazing language. Learn the basics, apply object-oriented programming, and more.

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A Practical Guide to Trusted Computing

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Every year, computer security threats become more severe. Software alone can no longer adequately defend against them: what’s needed is secure hardware. The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) makes that possible by providing a complete, open industry standard for implementing trusted computing hardware subsystems in PCs. Already available from virtually every leading PC manufacturer, TPM gives software professionals powerful new ways to protect their customers.

Now, there’s a start-to-finish guide for every software professional and security specialist who wants to utilize this breakthrough security technology.

Authored by innovators who helped create TPM and implement its leading-edge products, this practical book covers all facets of TPM technology: what it can achieve, how it works, and how to write applications for it. The authors offer deep, real-world insights into both TPM and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Software Stack. Then, to demonstrate how TPM can solve many of today’s most challenging security problems, they present four start-to-finish case studies, each with extensive C-based code examples.

Coverage includes

• What services and capabilities are provided by TPMs
• TPM device drivers: solutions for code running in BIOS, TSS stacks for new operating systems, and memory-constrained environments
• Using TPM to enhance the security of a PC’s boot sequence
• Key management, in depth: key creation, storage, loading, migration, use, symmetric keys, and much more
• Linking PKCS#11 and TSS stacks to support applications with middleware services
• What you need to know about TPM and privacy–including how to avoid privacy problems
• Moving from TSS 1.1 to the new TSS 1.2 standard
• TPM and TSS command references and a complete function library

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Optics, Light and Lasers: The Practical Approach to Modern Aspects of Photonics and Laser Physics

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Starting from the concepts of classical optics, Optics, Light and Lasers introduces in detail the phenomena of linear and nonlinear light matter interaction, the properties of modern laser sources, and the concepts of quantum optics. Several examples taken from the scope of modern research are provided to emphasize the relevance of optics in current developments within science and technology.

The text has been written for newcomers to the topic and benefits from the author’s ability to explain difficult sequences and effects in a straightforward and easily comprehensible way. To this second, completely updated and enlarged edition, new chapters on quantum optics, quantum information, matter waves, photonic fibres and materials have been added, as well as more than 100 problems on laser physics and applied optics.

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Fiber Optic Essentials

Fiber Optic Essentials lives up to its name. In fewer than 300 pages, you will learn about the fundamentals of fiber optics, from the fiber itself to the transmitters and receivers to the design of FO systems. You’ll also get a brief exposure to network protocols and to fiber-optic applications outside of communications, such as medical imaging.” - Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor - Test & Measurement World, 10/1/2006

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Astrophysics: Decoding the Cosmos

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Astrophysics: Decoding the Cosmos is an accessible introduction to the key principles and theories underlying astrophysics.

This text takes a close look at the radiation and particles that we receive from astronomical objects, providing a thorough understanding of what this tells us, drawing the information together using examples to illustrate the process of astrophysics. Chapters dedicated to objects showing complex processes are written in an accessible manner and pull relevant background information together to put the subject firmly into context.

The intention of the author is that the book will be a ‘tool chest’ for undergraduate astronomers wanting to know the how of astrophysics. Students will gain a thorough grasp of the key principles, ensuring that this often-difficult subject becomes more accessible.

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Astrophysics is Easy!: An Introduction for the Amateur Astronomer

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Astrophysics is a subject that is often - with some justification - regarded as extremely difficult, requiring at least degree-level mathematics as a prerequisite to its understanding. Consequently, many amateur astronomers just don’t bother, and miss out on the fascinating fundamentals of the subject, and often on an understanding of exactly what they are observing.

Mike Inglis’ quantitative approach to astrophysics cuts through all the incomprehensible mathematics, and explains all aspects of astrophysics in simple terms.

A unique feature of this book is the way that example objects for practical observation are given at every stage, so that practical astronomers can go and look at the objected or objects under discussion, using only commercial amateur equipment.

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Think India: The Rise of the World’s Next Great Power and What It Means for Every American

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With 1.1 billion residents and the fastest growing free market economy, the world’s largest democracy is poised to dominate the world stage. Vinay Rai, one of India’s top businessmen and philanthropists, gives an insider’s view into his country’s dynamic transformation and meteoric rise. With the economy soaring at eight percent a year, India is a medical and pharmaceutical frontrunner, an R&D powerhouse, a rising manufacturing hub, and an upand- coming cultural trendsetter from fashion to film.

Rai also explores what impact this stunning growth will have on the United States in terms of business development and foreign policy, especially regarding China, with which India shares a border. Think India is fascinating and essential reading for forward-thinking businesspeople and anyone who wants to understand India’s new muscle on the global stage.

About the Author
Vinay Rai is a billionaire, industrialist, philanthropist, and founder and president of Rai University. He was educated at Delhi University in India and MIT in the United States. He is president of the Rai Foundation, which is dedicated to improving education in India.

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Discovering the Solar System

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Discovering the Solar System, Second Edition covers the Sun, the planets, their satellites and the host of smaller bodies that orbit the Sun. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the subject for science students, and examines the discovery, investigation and modelling of these bodies. Following a thematic approach, chapters cover interiors, surfaces and the atmospheres of major bodies, including the Earth. The book starts with an overview of the Solar System and its origin, and then takes a look at small bodies, such as asteroids, comets and meteorites.

Carefully balancing breadth of coverage with depth, Discovering the Solar System, Second Edition:

• Offers a comprehensive introduction, assuming little prior knowledge
• Includes full coverage of each planet, as well as the moon, Europa and Titan. The Second Edition includes new material on exoplanetary systems, and a general update throughout.
• Presents latest results from the Mars Rover and Cassini-Huygens missions
• Includes a colour plate section
• Contains ‘stop and think’ questions embedded in the text to aid understanding, along with questions at the end of major sections. Answers are provided at the end of the book.
• Provides summaries at the end of each chapter, and a glossary at the end of the book

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Cooperative Communications and Networking

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Presenting the fundamentals of cooperative communications and networking, this text provides a holistic approach to principal topics where significant improvements can be obtained. Also including end-of-chapter review questions, this is an ideal textbook for advanced courses on wireless communications, and will appeal to both graduate students and industry practitioners.

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NEC 2008 Need to Know: the 20% of the Code You Need 80% of the Time

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Get Quick Access to the NEC® Essentials

Turn to NEC® 2008 Need to Know for quick access to vital National Electrical Code® (NEC®) information that you need. This expert resource explains and interprets key material from the first four chapters of the NEC®, including general installation requirements…branch circuits…feeders…services…overcurrent protection …grounding…conductors…conduits…cables…fixture wiring…switches… receptacles…lighting…motors…a/c and refrigeration…and generators—plus critical tables from Chapter 9.

Packed with on-target illustrations, this essential compliance tool contains calculations and formulas commonly used to determine conduit and conductor sizes, required ampacities, adjustment multipliers, and electrical loads. This guide also presents a listing of specialty topics such as Emergency Systems, Communications, and Special Occupancy, as well as a cross-reference table with types of installations and where to find applicable Code. Designed to save time and money, reduce errors, and increase safety, NEC® 2008 Need To Know features:

• Clear explanations and interpretations of in-demand NEC® information • Commonly used calculations and formulas • A listing of specialty topics keyed to applicable Code • A handy cross-reference table for quick access to crucial material

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Beginning T-SQL with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008

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If you have never programmed with T-SQL but have some background programming knowledge and experience, Beginning T-SQL with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2006 will provide you with an overview of SQL Server query operations and tools used with T-SQL, Microsoft’s implementation of the SQL database query language. Review basic query language commands and syntax, learn how to design and build applications, and understand how to optimize query performance. Improve your skills with the most up-to-date T-SQL guide, which provides hands-on examples and instructions to guide you through the process.

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Knowledge Processing with Interval and Soft Computing

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Interval computing combined with fuzzy logic has become an emerging tool in studying artificial intelligence and knowledge processing (AIKP) applications since it models uncertainties frequently raised in the field. This book provides introductions for both interval and fuzzy computing in a very accessible style.

Application algorithms covered in this book include quantitative and qualitative data mining with interval valued datasets, decision making systems with interval valued parameters, interval valued Nash games and interval weighted graphs. Successful applications in studying finance and economics, etc are also included.

This book can serve as a handbook or a text for readers interested in applying interval and soft computing for AIKP.

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Expert Fraud Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide

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A fraud investigation is aimed at examining evidence to determine if a fraud occurred, how it happened, who was involved, and how much money was lost. Investigations occur in cases ranging from embezzlement, to falsification of financial statements, to suspicious insurance claims. Expert Fraud Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide provides all the tools to conduct a fraud investigation, detailing when and how to investigate.

This guide takes the professional from the point of opening an investigation, selecting a team, gathering data, and through the entire investigation process. Business executives, auditors, and security professionals will benefit from this book, and companies will find this a useful tool for fighting fraud within their own organizations.

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The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos

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Financial Times Top Ten Business Book of 2007! The Puritan Gift traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, would turn a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth.

It was the Protestant ethic whose characteristics–thrift, a respect for enquiry, individualism tempered by a need to cooperate, success as a measure of divine approval–helped to create the conditions which led to America’s managerial and corporate success. Thus, the authors contend, the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America’s first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans. And, the authors warn, as Americans distance themselves from core values which produced their nineteenth and twentieth century business and economic successes, they endanger the basis for their prosperity and security.

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Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Fourth Edition

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Learn the hows and whys behind basic electricity, electronics, and communications without formal training

The best combination self-teaching guide, home reference, and classroom text on electricity and electronics has been updated to deliver the latest advances. Great for preparing for amateur and commercial licensing exams, this guide has been prized by thousands of students and professionals for its uniquely thorough coverage ranging from DC and AC concepts to semiconductors and integrated circuits.

• Written by Stan Gibilisco, an electronics legend and McGraw-Hill’s most popular TAB author
• Perfect for hobbyists, students, and those of you who want to get ahead in tech-related careers
• Packed with everything needed to enhance learning: 600+ illustrations, practical examples, and hundreds of test questions

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Primality Testing and Integer Factorization in Public-Key Cryptography

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The Primality Testing Problem (PTP) has now proved to be solvable in deterministic polynomial-time (P) by the AKS (Agrawal-Kayal-Saxena) algorithm, whereas the Integer Factorization Problem (IFP) still remains unsolvable in (P). There is still no polynomial-time algorithm for IFP. Many practical public-key cryptosystems and protocols such as RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) rely their security on computational intractability of IFP.

Primality Testing and Integer Factorization in Public Key Cryptography, Second Edition, provides a survey of recent progress in primality testing and integer factorization, with implications to factoring based public key cryptography. Notable new features are the comparison of Rabin-Miller probabilistic test in RP, Atkin-Morain elliptic curve test in ZPP and AKS deterministic test.

This volume is designed for advanced level students in computer science and mathematics, and as a secondary text or reference book; suitable for practitioners and researchers in industry.

First edition was very positively reviewed by Prof Samuel Wagstaff at Purdue University in AMS Mathematical Reviews (See MR2028480 2004j:11148), and by Professor J.T. Ayuso of University of Simon Bolivar in the European Mathematical Society’s review journal Zentralblatt für Mathematik (see Zbl 1048.11103).

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PC WORLD - May 2009 / USA

PC WORLD - May 2009 / USA

House Prices and the Macroeconomy: Implications for Banking and Price Stability

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The macroeconomic implications of asset price flucuations have received increasing attention in academic and policy circles recently, in large part due to the recent boom-bust bubbles in the equity and now housing markets. This book aims to investigate the role of asset prices for various aspects of the macroeconomy.

About the Author

Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics and is Programme Director of the Financial Markets Group. Before joining the London School of Economics in 1985, he worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980. During 1986, Prof. Goodhart helped to found, with Mervyn King, the Financial Markets Group at London School of Economics. In 1997, he was appointed one of the outside independent members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee until May 2000. He has taught at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics.
Boris Hofmann is an economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt am Main and a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) of the University of Bonn. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn and has written and published a number of articles on topics in monetary and financial economics.

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Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 4: A Pattern Language for Distributed Comput

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The eagerly awaited Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture (POSA) Volume 4 is about a pattern language for distributed computing.

The authors will guide you through the best practices and introduce you to key areas of building distributed software systems. POSA 4 connects many stand-alone patterns, pattern collections and pattern languages from the existing body of literature found in the POSA series. Such patterns relate to and are useful for distributed computing to a single language.

• The panel of experts provides you with a consistent and coherent holistic view on the craft of building distributed systems.
• Includes a foreword by Martin Fowler
• A must read for practitioners who want practical advice to develop a comprehensive language integrating patterns from key literature.

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XML in 60 Minutes a Day

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• XML is now ubiquitous, not just in Web development, but as the underpinning of interactive Web services: applications that really do run on any platform
• Includes twenty-four one-hour lessons that recreate a typical week-long introductory seminar
• Provides readers with a sound, fundamental understanding of XML and how it changes application development

• Explains how to use XML when dealing with transforms, schemas, and other Web services requirements
• The authors teach courses for IBM Canada
• Companion Web site features an online presentation by the authors that follows along with each chapter and includes an audio-only option for readers with dial-up Internet connection

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COMPUTER WORLD 11th Mar 2009

Digital edition of COMPUTER WORLD 11th Mar 2009
English | 32 Pages & cover | PDF | 6.1 MB

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THE FOCAL EASY GUIDE TO MACROMEDIA FLASH 8

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Get up and running fast with Macromedia Flash 8 with this unique introductory guide!

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Pro JavaScript Techniques

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Pro JavaScript Techniques is the ultimate JavaScript book for the modern web developer. It provides everything you need to know about modern JavaScript, and shows what JavaScript can do for your web sites. This book doesnt waste any time looking at things you already know, like basic syntax and structures.

Expert web developer and author John Resig concentrates on fundamental, vital topicswhat modern JavaScripting is (and isnt), the current state of browser support, and pitfalls to be wary of. The book is organized into four sections:

• Modern JavaScript developmentusing JavaScript the object-oriented way, creating reusable code, plus testing and debugging
• DOM scriptingupdating content and styles, plus events, and effect and event libraries
• Ajaxhow Ajax works, overcoming problems, and using libraries to speed up development of Ajax applications
• The future of JavaScriptlooking at cutting edge topics like JSON, HTML 5, and more

All concepts are backed up by real-world examples and case studies, and John provides numerous reusable functions and classes to save you time in your development. There are also up-to-date reference appendixes for the DOM, events, browser support (including IE7), and frameworksso you can look up specific details quickly and easily.

About the Author
John Resig is a programmer and entrepreneur who’s been developing web applications for over eight years. Having primarily focused on back-end development for most of that time using Perl and MySQL, John changed his focus toward implementing usable web front ends. He holds a degree in computer science from Rochester Institute of Technology and has published several papers on data mining instant messaging networks. When he’s not programming, he enjoys watching movies, writing in his blog, www.ejohn.org, and spending time with his girlfriend.

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Semiotic Engineering Methods for Scientific Research in HCI (Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics)

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Semiotic engineering was originally proposed as a semiotic approach to designing user interface languages. Over the years, with research done at the Department of Informatics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, it evolved into a semiotic theory of human-computer interaction (HCI). It views HCI as computer-mediated communication between designers and users at interaction time.

The system speaks for its designers in various types of conversations specified at design time. These conversations communicate the designers’ understanding of who the users are, what they know the users want or need to do, in which preferred ways, and why. The designers’ message to users includes even the interactive language in which users will have to communicate back with the system in order to achieve their specific goals. Hence, the process is, in fact, one of communication about communication, or metacommunication. Semiotic engineering has two methods to evaluate the quality of metacommunication in HCI: the semiotic inspection method (SIM) and the communicability evaluation method (CEM). Up to now, they have been mainly used and discussed in technical contexts, focusing on how to detect problems and how to improve the metacommunication of specific systems. In this book, Clarisse de Souza and Carla Leitão discuss how SIM and CEM, which are both qualitative methods, can also be used in scientific contexts to generate new knowledge about HCI. The discussion goes into deep considerations about scientific methodology, calling the reader’s attention to the essence of qualitative methods in research and the kinds of results they can produce. To illustrate their points, the authors present an extensive case study with a free open-source digital audio editor called Audacity. They show how the results obtained with a triangulation of SIM and CEM point at new research avenues not only for semiotic engineering and HCI but also for other areas of computer science such as software engineering and programming. Table of Contents: Introduction / Essence of Semiotic Engineering / Semiotic Engineering Methods / Case Study with Audacity / Lessons Learned with Semiotic Engineering Methods / The Near Future of Semiotic Engineering

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Home Staging For Dummies

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Want to have homebuyers knocking down your door? Home Staging For Dummies delivers all the secrets to making your home stand out, sell faster, and bring in more money! It shows you how to make improvements room by room and generate a higher profit in the most cost- and time-effective way.

Featuring eight full-color pages of instructive before-and-after photos, this completely practical guide demonstrates how and why to eliminate clutter, make repairs, arrange furnishings, and pave the way for buyers to make an emotional connection to your house. You’ll get a handle on what buyers want and how to show it to them, find plenty of do-it-yourself tasks that add real value to your home, and get tips on producing photos of your home that will have buyers craving to see more! Discover how to:

• See your home as prospective buyers will see it
• Know what needs doing and what doesn’t
• Master the three-step home staging process
• Add real value to your home without breaking the bank
• Decide whether to DIY or call in the pros
• Create curb appeal
• Make a great first impression with a beautiful entryway
• Spruce up your kitchen, bathroom, living, and dining rooms
• Turn your bedrooms into a buyer’s dream
• Whip your mechanicals into top shape
• Avoid staging nightmares

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Cartoon Smart - Action Script 3: Missile War Game | 330 MB
Rls Date : 08/04/09 | Supplier : iNK H0RN
Missile War Game tutorial…
Learn to Program a Tower Defense Missile Game

You’ll Learn Actionscript 3 Code for…
Classes
Functions
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Mouse Event Listeners
Scoring & Math
Arrays
Positioning & Scaling
If Statements
While Loops

Variables
Hitting Targets
Adding/Removing Children
Event Timers
Slider Components
And general coding principals behind every other Flash game out there!

- Add various levels of difficulty to the game. Speed up, alter gravity, do whatever you want!
- Once you learn the code, its easy to speed things up, alter gravity, or do whatever you want!
- Swap out the artwork to brand the look and style to your site.
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Managing Business in a Multi- channel World Success Factors for E-business

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Managing Business in a Multi-Channel World: Success Factors for E-Business addresses the concerns of existing companies who wish to succeed in the new multi-channel environment as it develops and becomes commonplace.

Readers will obtain academically rigorous yet manager-accessible insight into recent studies on multi-channel e-business in three focus areas: consumers, markets and strategy of e-business and the impending future of the multi-channel environment. While many e-business books provide anecdotal descriptions of what went wrong, few provide structure or insights into how best to utilize the Internet as a business channel. Forward-thinking organizations can use this book to build considerable competitive advantage from the examples of first-movers and new business models.

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Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C#

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Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C# 2005, Second Edition will immerse you in updated code and reference material specifically architected for Visual Studio 2005 and Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0. With this book, you can get a head start on building SOA applications using the clear, conceptual discussions and practical examples provided by SOA experts Jeffrey Hasan and Mauricio Duran. The authors give fair treatment to difficult material without just glossing over it.

Most .NET-based web services are simply containers for limited RPC-style methods. This book will show you how to shift your development paradigm to create web services that process sophisticated XML messages within a secure, service-oriented, loosely coupled architecture. Youll gain deep insight into the newest release of the WSE toolkit, as this book blends theory with ample C# code samples and teaches you how to implement SOA solutions based on specifications like revised WS-Security, WS-Policy, and WS-Addressing. Youll want a copy of this second edition because

• The spirit of the second edition follows that of the successful first edition, providing clear, conceptual discussions and practical material, with unambiguous samples.
• Approximately 60% of the book has been updated, including rearchitected code and updated visual materials using Visual Studio 2005.
• The second edition is more focused on implementation by policyrather than codeas a more efficient means for implementing solutions.

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Pro Java Programming, Second Edition

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Fully updated for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition version 5.0, the third edition of this praised book is a one-stop resource for serious Java developers. This book shows you the parts of Java Swing API that you will use daily to create graphical user interfaces (GUI).

You will also learn about the Model-View-Controller architecture that lies behind all Swing components, and about customizing components for specific environments. Author John Zukowski also provides custom editors and renderers for use with tables, trees, and list components. You’ll encounter an overview of Swing architecture, and learn about core Swing components, toggelable components, event handling with the Swing Component Set, Swing menus and toolbars, borders, pop-ups, choosers, and more.

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learn to program with c++

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More than 100,000 programmers owe their careers to Professor John Smiley. In this unique guide, the guru himself will teach you, in a classroom setting, how to program with C++. Learn from more than 100 questions and answers as well as real-world programming projects.

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From Java to C#

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This book introduces programmers, already familiar with object-oriented programming, to the C# programming language. It reviews basic object-oriented concepts when C# implementations are discussed.

The book begins by discussing the nuts and bolts of C# before delving into the area of the .Net libraries of code. It then moves on to show how GUI programs are created, and how to populate them with graphics. Advanced topics such as networking, using C# to interface with databases, and using C# with ASP to produce interactive Web pages, are covered at the end of the book. This book is designed for programmers, experienced with object-oriented concepts, who are transitioning to C# or are interested in learning a new programming language.

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The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML

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The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML covers Sleepycat’s Berkeley DB XML, an open source embedded XML database. Berkeley DB XML runs on all major operating systems and has support for the most popular programming languages. The book includes tutorials and complete language references for C++, Java, Perl, Python, and PHP.

Berkeley DB XML has the potential to dramatically simplify the development of your application’s data tier. With native XML storage, flexible indexing, and the powerful XQuery query language (think SQL for XML), BDB XML provides everything you need for efficient XML management. Combined with Berkeley DB’s transactions, logging, and replication, BDB XML is a powerful document storage solution.

Author Danny Brian presents XML basics from the ground up for XML beginners, and covers database installation and configuration, the core concepts behind Berkeley DB XML, a look at application architecture, demonstrations of simple operations (i.e., text queries) to complex (i.e., set computations) using XQuery and FLWOR expressions, document indexing options, and a thorough look at the database APIs. You’ll learn tips and tricks that you can immediately apply to your own applications.

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Power Plant Engineering

Description: There have been significant developments and advances in the field of power plant engineering, computer applications on energy audit and management, environmental audit and management, human development and environment. The authors have been encouraged to write this pioneer book for the benefit of students of engineering and researchers due to their contribution in power generation covering the syllabi of conventional power plants i.e., Power Plant Engineering, at the international level in general as text cum reference book.

This book being pilot project of the authors specially in the area of conventional power plant will satisfy the engineering scholars as well as researchers in the field of direct energy conversion devices. In the present book the syllabi enclosed has been covered in the most lucid manner from power plant point of view to avoid the unnecessary bulkiness and to reduce the cost of the price for the benefit of our beloved students of engineering in particular and others in general. We have written this pioneering book on the basis of syllabi in the most lucid and compact manner for the benefit of the students and the readers.

The authors are greatly indebted to Ch. Sunil Singh, Chairman, SITM Lucknow, Mr. K.C. Mishra Suptt. Engineer, Saudia Electric Co. Saudi Arabia, for their great encouragement in writing this book. Without their support and help we would not have been able to accomplish this tough and challenging work. In the end the authors will feel obliged for critical and useful suggestions since this pioneer book covers the syllabi in the most useful area of Mechanical Engineering in particular and is applicable for all branches of technology and engg. for all major Indian Universities, as well as at international level.

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Designing Online Learning with Flash

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There is a need for a book that provides a model of learning that is appropriate for online learning as well as teaches the user how to create potent Flash applications to deliver online learning content.

This book is an Adobe Flash tutorial set in an instructional design context. It demonstrates how to develop Flash tutorials for teaching facts, concepts, principles, and procedures using Merrill s Component Display Theory. All the book s source files are provided as well as Adobe Captivate tutorials demonstrating the procedures.

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The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World

For those unfamiliar with the hype or the ridicule, Second Life is a massively multi-user online world, a vast simulation created by ordinary loggers-in using 3-D graphic-design tools from the site’s proprietor, Linden Labs. Posing as animated avatars, Residents ramble or fly through the videoscape; they socialize with other avatars, create art, have sex, build cities, open shops and nightclubs, spend Linden Dollars (redeemable for real dollars) and fight wars, all while seated at their computer screens.

Au, a journalist who chronicled the site as Linden Labs’ reporter-avatar, visits the usual dot-com–saga touchstones. There’s the shoestring startup by eccentric geeks; the pilgrimage to Burning Man; the bloviating visionary founder, Philip Rosedale (I’m passionate about Second Life because there doesn’t need to be a God); the marketing gobbledygook about Leverag[ing] Metaverse Brands. Au celebrates Second Life as a seedbed for unfettered cybercapitalism, a liberating outlet for the masses’ pentup creativity and a lucid dream that erases the virtual-real divide. Alas, in his telling, Second Life’s ongoing fantasia—the monkey now perched on the wing screamed ‘DIEEEE’ as he strafed a well-armed babe in a bikini—feels very much like a recounted dream: creative, certainly, but rather tedious and patently irrelevant. (Mar.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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C sharp Interview Questions Answers and Explanations

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The Ultimate Reference & Learning Guide for C# Developers!

In depth and current overview of common challenges with C# Fluency with C# is essential for a career as a developer, however, a user-friendly and thorough resource can be difficult to locate. From helping you to assess your current skill level to reviewing with the goal of certification, to preparing for an interview, this guide will tell you the details of what you really need to know.

Set yourself apart from other candidates and show that you have what it takes to land the job. More than just a rehash of Microsoft documentation and sales presentations, each section is based on project knowledge and experience gained on successful high-profile C# implementations.

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Optimal Quadratic Programming Algorithms: With Applications to Variational Inequalities

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Solving optimization problems in complex systems often requires the implementation of advanced mathematical techniques. Quadratic programming (QP) is one technique that allows for the optimization of a quadratic function in several variables in the presence of linear constraints. QP problems arise in fields as diverse as electrical engineering, agricultural planning, and optics. Given its broad applicability, a comprehensive understanding of quadratic programming is a valuable resource in nearly every scientific field.

Optimal Quadratic Programming Algorithms presents recently developed algorithms for solving large QP problems. The presentation focuses on algorithms which are, in a sense optimal, i.e., they can solve important classes of problems at a cost proportional to the number of unknowns. For each algorithm presented, the book details its classical predecessor, describes its drawbacks, introduces modifications that improve its performance, and demonstrates these improvements through numerical experiments.

This self-contained monograph can serve as an introductory text on quadratic programming for graduate students and researchers. Additionally, since the solution of many nonlinear problems can be reduced to the solution of a sequence of QP problems, it can also be used as a convenient introduction to nonlinear programming. The reader is required to have a basic knowledge of calculus in several variables and linear algebra.

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Quantifiers in Action: Generalized Quantification in Query, Logical and Natural Languages

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The database industry is a multi-billion, world-wide, all-encompassing part of the software world. Quantifiers in Action: Generalized Quantification in Query, Logical and Natural Languages introduces a query language called GQs—Generalized Quantification in Query. Most query languages are simply versions of First Order Logic (FOL). GQs are an extension of the idea of quantifier in FOL. GQs are a perfect example of a practical theory within databases.

This book provides a brief background in logic and introduces the concept of GQs, and then develops a query language based on GQs. Using Query Language with Generalized Quantifiers, the reader explores the efficient implementation of the concept, always a primary consideration in databases. This professional book also includes several extensions for use with documents employing question and answer techniques.

Designed for practitioners and researchers within the database management field; also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

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An Introduction to HTML and JavaScript for Scientists and Engineers

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The JavaScript language is widely used for simple online applications. This useful book presents HTML and JavaScript in a way that uniquely meets the needs of students in the sciences and engineering. It explains how to create simple, client-side applications for scientific and engineering calculations. It includes many complete HTML/JavaScript examples with science/engineering applications to guide the reader progressively and comprehensively through the subject.

This book is specifically targeted at a technical audience– but not one that is necessarily familiar with a programming language– and gives the reader a sufficient understanding of HTML and JavaScript to write their own online applications. The exposition emphasises basic programming principles in a modern Web-oriented environment, making it also highly suitable for an introductory programming course for non-computer-science majors.

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Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed

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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a new Microsoft technology for allowing software to communicate. Superseding earlier technologies, such as COM/DCOM, .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services, and the Web Services Enhancements for .NET, WCF provides a single solution that is designed to always be the best way to exchange data among software entities.

It also provides the infrastructure for developing the next generation of Web services, with support for the WS-* family of specifications, and a new serialization system for enhanced performance. For information technology professionals, WCF supplies an impressive array of administration tools that enterprises and software vendors can use to reduce the cost of ownership of their solutions without writing a single line of code. Most important, WCF finally delivers on the long-postponed promise of model-driven software development with the new software factory approach, by which one can iteratively design solutions in a modeling language and generate executables from lower-level class libraries.

Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed is designed to be the best resource for software developers and architects working with WCF. The book guides readers toward a conceptual understanding of all the facilities of WCF and provides step-by-step guides to applying the technology to practical problems.

• Introduces you to WCF and then takes you deep inside the technology
• Gives you nearly 100 best practices for programming with WCF
• Provides detailed coverage on how to version services that you will not find anywhere else
• Delves into using WCF together with Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows CardSpace
• Provides detailed coverage of the new high-performance data contract serializer for .NET
• Walks you through how to do secure, reliable, transacted messaging, and how to understand the options available
• Introduces you to federated, claims-based security, and shows you how to incorporate SAML and WS-Trust security token services into your architecture
• Provides step-by-step instructions for how to customize every aspect of WCF
• Shows you how to add your own behaviors, communication channels, message encoders, and transports
• Gives you options for implementing publish/subscribe solutions
• Walks you through how to do peer-to-peer communications with WCF

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Microsoft Access for Beginners

How to get started using Microsoft Access even if you’ve never used it before. This guide will get you up and running FAST. Learn the basics of tables, forms, sub forms and queries. Whether you want to learn for business or as a home user you will find something of interest here.

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Lynda.com Illustrator CS4 Beyond The Basics Win/Mac

Covering a wide range of topics, from advanced masking to chart creation, Illustrator CS4 Beyond the Basics reveals a whole new level of power, creativity, and efficiency with Illustrator. Instructor Mordy Golding explores how to work with Live Paint groups, get the most out of the Live Trace feature, and take advantage of Illustrator’s wide range of effects. He also discusses advanced transformation techniques, powerful 3D functionality, and important color concepts. Exercise files accompany the course.

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The Digital Photographer’s Software Guide

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The Digital Photographer’s Software Guide is your comprehensive guide to the full range of photographic software and plug-ins available to assist in digital photography editing and output. Written for digital photography enthusiasts of all levels, from the novice to the serious hobbyist, and to accommodate any budget, the book provides solutions to meet every photographic need, including enhancement, manipulation, special effects, color management, slide show and scrapbook creation, archiving, image rescaling, and much more.

There is even coverage of professional-level tools, technical diagnostic software, and studio management, and an in-depth look at two popular photographic workflow products, Apple’s Aperture and Adobe Lightroom. Each chapter focuses on a specific type of software, detailing every individual product available including technical specifications, suitability for various scenarios, and full contact information to help you locate the product and get support from the developer. Chapters are organized so that you can choose the software type you are interested in and quickly and easily find the information you need. This complete guide combines coverage of over 300 digital photography software products into one convenient handbook to help you become mor efficient, creative, and satisfied with your photographic output.

About the Author
John Lewell gained MA (Hons) in English & Fine Art from Peterhouse, Cambridge, and went on to study film and television at Guildford School of Art. For several years he worked for audio visual systems manufacturer Electrosonic (www.electrosonic.com), moving to the United States to establish a New York office for this market-leading company. After publishing books and articles on the use of photography in AV shows he turned to lecturing and full-time writing, becoming West Coast Editor of “Computer Pictures” magazine and U.S. correspondent for several European journals. Returning to the U.K, John Lewell pioneered new directions in web content with Internet ProductWatch and became European correspondent for the U.S. publication InternetNews.com. As director of his own public relations consultancy he handled accounts for Kodak Graphics Division, Genigraphics, Real World Graphics and other companies. He now combines his expertise in photography and digital technology to inform and educate via books, articles and Internet projects.

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The Digital Photographer’s Software Guide

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The Digital Photographer’s Software Guide is your comprehensive guide to the full range of photographic software and plug-ins available to assist in digital photography editing and output. Written for digital photography enthusiasts of all levels, from the novice to the serious hobbyist, and to accommodate any budget, the book provides solutions to meet every photographic need, including enhancement, manipulation, special effects, color management, slide show and scrapbook creation, archiving, image rescaling, and much more.

There is even coverage of professional-level tools, technical diagnostic software, and studio management, and an in-depth look at two popular photographic workflow products, Apple’s Aperture and Adobe Lightroom. Each chapter focuses on a specific type of software, detailing every individual product available including technical specifications, suitability for various scenarios, and full contact information to help you locate the product and get support from the developer. Chapters are organized so that you can choose the software type you are interested in and quickly and easily find the information you need. This complete guide combines coverage of over 300 digital photography software products into one convenient handbook to help you become mor efficient, creative, and satisfied with your photographic output.

About the Author
John Lewell gained MA (Hons) in English & Fine Art from Peterhouse, Cambridge, and went on to study film and television at Guildford School of Art. For several years he worked for audio visual systems manufacturer Electrosonic (www.electrosonic.com), moving to the United States to establish a New York office for this market-leading company. After publishing books and articles on the use of photography in AV shows he turned to lecturing and full-time writing, becoming West Coast Editor of “Computer Pictures” magazine and U.S. correspondent for several European journals. Returning to the U.K, John Lewell pioneered new directions in web content with Internet ProductWatch and became European correspondent for the U.S. publication InternetNews.com. As director of his own public relations consultancy he handled accounts for Kodak Graphics Division, Genigraphics, Real World Graphics and other companies. He now combines his expertise in photography and digital technology to inform and educate via books, articles and Internet projects.

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Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging

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Go Blogwild with veteran blogger and blog consultant Andy Wibbels and learn how to use blogs to improve your business and your bottom line. By harnessing the power of the Internet’s most explosive marketing tool you can:
* Create buzz for your products and services
* Enrich your clients’ understanding of your business
* Communicate with your team
* Reach out to your customers
* Test drive new ideas
* Bring your business to the global marketplace
* Open a backdoor to the press

Don’t be intimidated. Go blogwild.

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Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging

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Go Blogwild with veteran blogger and blog consultant Andy Wibbels and learn how to use blogs to improve your business and your bottom line. By harnessing the power of the Internet’s most explosive marketing tool you can:
* Create buzz for your products and services
* Enrich your clients’ understanding of your business
* Communicate with your team
* Reach out to your customers
* Test drive new ideas
* Bring your business to the global marketplace
* Open a backdoor to the press

Don’t be intimidated. Go blogwild.

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Twitter: Free Social Networking For Business - 100 Success Secrets To Increase Your Profits and Sales Using Twitter Business Strategies

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“It’s one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet.” - New York Times

Twitter Tools To Enhance Your Business - Discover Free Twitter Tools That Will Help Boost Your Website’s Traffic & Sales Dramatically.

Many companies are using Twitter in innovative ways. Dell has sold over $500K in products via twitter. Zappos is forging stronger relationships with its customers on Twitter. It has over 100 of its employees actively using twitter including its president. Comcast, HR Block, Southwest Air and other progressive companies are using Twitter to improve customer service. Mzinga has had`press conferences online via twitter. The list of smart companies on Twitter goes on and on.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates.

How can you use Twitter for business? In this book, you’ll discover free Twitter tools you can use to help you to not only boost your websites’ traffic but also your income. It covers what these tools are, but also how you can make use of these tools to gain an edge over your competitors.

Twitter is one of the prominent social networking sites that allows you to connect with people around the world with similar interests and/or To Enhance Your Business - dramatically faster then other social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, etc.

Similar to other social networking sites, you can sign up as a member of Twitter for free (and you can do so in less than 30 seconds as there are only 3 fields you need to enter in the sign-up page - your username, password and email address) and you can start using Twitter instantly.

This book covers ways to use Twitter to Share Ideas, Show Repect, Engage Customers, Build your brand and Provide Customer Service.

Learn How To

* Get more people to follow you on Twitter - increasing your followers creates momentum

* Have fun and let your personality shine because you are really conneting with people - not trying to slam “traffic” into “conversions”

* Accelerate your presence on ALL your social networking sites and reap the benefits of more visitors.

* Create a real business online by using these 100 Success Secrets.

* Meet, connect with, and share ideas with other smart Tweeters. Follow and be followed and watch how these superstars take their business to the next level.

* Use Twitter to start making money ON PURPOSE instead of by accident. This book will not only help you sharpen your business path - it will demand that you use the power of your laser focus to get results.

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eBusiness & eCommerce: Managing the Digital Value Chain

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This textbook focuses on the members of the digital value chain for eBusiness and eCommerce and dedicates a separate chapter to each of them: eProducts and eServices, eProcurement, eMarketing, eContracting, eDistribution, ePayment, as well as eCustomer relationship management.

In addition to business models and business webs, digital procurement and marketing processes such as electronic negotiation processes, security questions with digital signatures, as well as electronic supplier relationship management and customer relationship management are also addressed. The topics are described using explicit procedures and descriptive examples of their application. A case study describing the gradual creation of an electronic webshop for DVDs is developed over the course of the book.

The book is intended for students of economics at universities and technical colleges; it is also suitable for executives, project leaders, and company experts who deal with the digital value chain.

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Who Owns You: The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes

“A lucid and compelling deconstruction of current practice in the patenting of human genes, exposing inherent contradictions in the process and offering practical ways to resolve them.” - John Sulston, The University of Manchester, Nobel Prize Laureate “Who Owns You? Is an authoritative, well-argued and clear discussion of a topical, serious problem. The author raises a number of tough philosophical, legal and political questions, starting with the possible infringement on the most basic of all rights, that of owning oneself. I know of no comparable work on the question of DNA property rights. Who Owns You? is bound to become obligatory reading on this thorniest of issues.” - Mario Bunge, McGill University

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Rationale Management in Software Engineering

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The emphasis on new and changing technologies and process models in today’s software development obscures the fact that software engineering is still primarily a human-based activity and that the success of a software project largely depends on the decisions made by humans during engineering. Rationale management is concerned with making these design and development decisions explicit to all stakeholders involved.

Dutoit, McCall, Mistrik and Paech begin their book with a historical survey of different rationale approaches. It is followed by four parts describing: the fundamental problems and possible solution approaches in rationale management, rationale management during requirements engineering, rationale management during software architecting, and rationale management for organizing reusable bodies of knowledge.

The result is a detailed summary of research on design rationale. It provides researchers with an excellent state-of-the-art overview, and professional software engineers will find many examples, resources and incentives to enhance their ability to make decisions during all phases of the software lifecycle.

Allen Dutoit, Ray McCall, Ivan Mistrik and Barbara Paech have done an excellent job of this in “Rationale management in software engineering”. The chapters in this volume show how design rationale can be incorporated into the heart of the software development process - into requirements engineering, software architecture, and code design. (John M. Carroll, Edward M. Frymoyer Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, USA, ACM CHI Lifetime Achievement Award)

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Rationale Management in Software Engineering

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The emphasis on new and changing technologies and process models in today’s software development obscures the fact that software engineering is still primarily a human-based activity and that the success of a software project largely depends on the decisions made by humans during engineering. Rationale management is concerned with making these design and development decisions explicit to all stakeholders involved.

Dutoit, McCall, Mistrik and Paech begin their book with a historical survey of different rationale approaches. It is followed by four parts describing: the fundamental problems and possible solution approaches in rationale management, rationale management during requirements engineering, rationale management during software architecting, and rationale management for organizing reusable bodies of knowledge.

The result is a detailed summary of research on design rationale. It provides researchers with an excellent state-of-the-art overview, and professional software engineers will find many examples, resources and incentives to enhance their ability to make decisions during all phases of the software lifecycle.

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Software Product Lines: Research Issues in Engineering and Management

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The software product line strategy has enabled many organizations to improve productivity, reduce time-to-market, and address both mass- and niche markets. A successful product line organization achieves strategic levels of architectural reuse.

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Introduction to Flat Panel Displays

Product Description
Flat Panel Displays (FPDs) are a frequent feature in our daily lives, used in mobile phones, laptop computers, desktop computer monitors and TVs. Several display technologies have been developed for FPDs, such as liquid crystal display (LCD), plasma display panel (PDP), light emitting diode (LED), organic light emitting device (OLED) and field emission display (FED).

Introduction to Flat Panel Displays describes the fundamental sciences behind each display technology: LCD, PDP, LED, OLED and FED including carbon nanotubes. It contains a comparative analysis of the different display technologies in which detailed overviews of each technology are linked together so as to provide a comprehensive reference for students and display engineers, alike. Solved problems as well as homework problems are provided in each chapter to help consolidate students’ reading, as well as solutions hosted on an accompanying website.

Features include:

• the classifications and specifications of display technologies as guidelines for developing a display and judging their performances;
• principles for designing color displays with good color saturation and wide color gamut;
• basic operating principles of thin-film transistors (TFTs) and their applications to state-of-the-art TFT-LCD and TFT-OLED;
• an overview of FED fundamentals comprising the  physics of field emission, as well as FED structure and display mechanism.

Senior undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in engineering, physics and chemistry will benefit from the systematic approach used throughout the book, which will help to prepare students for entry into a display profession. Display engineers, research scientists and technicians working on the development of flat panel display technology will also find this book an invaluable resource. Comparisons of the strengths and weaknesses of each of the display technologies will help professionals to decide which to use for their applications.

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The C# Programming Language

Product Description

“Based on my own experience, I can safely say that every .NET developer who reads this will have at least one ‘aha’ moment and will be a better developer for it.”

–From the Foreword by Don Box

The popular C# programming language combines the high productivity of rapid application development languages with the raw power of C and C++. Now, C# 3.0 adds functional programming techniques and LINQ, Language INtegrated Query. The C# Programming Language, Third Edition, is the authoritative and annotated technical reference for C# 3.0.

Written by Anders Hejlsberg, the language’s architect, and his colleagues, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, and Peter Golde, this volume has been completely updated and reorganized for C# 3.0. The book provides the complete specification of the language, along with descriptions, reference materials, code samples, and annotations from nine prominent C# gurus.

The many annotations–a new feature in this edition–bring a depth and breadth of understanding rarely found in any programming book. As the main text of the book introduces the concepts of the C# language, cogent annotations explain why they are important, how they are used, how they relate to other languages, and even how they evolved.

This book is the definitive, must-have reference for any developer who wants to understand C#.

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Linux For You - January 2009

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Animation - 2009 April

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Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

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Machine learning techniques such as Markov models, support vector machines, neural networks, graphical models, etc., have been successful in analyzing life science data because of their capabilities of handling randomness and uncertainties of data and noise and in generalization. This book compiles recent approaches in machine learning, showing promise in addressing different complex bioinformatics applications from prominent researchers in the field.

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LinuxCBT feat. OpenLDAP Edition focuses on the common Linux | Unix directory services application: OpenLDAP. It is a module of LinuxCBT Directory Services Edition.

OpenLDAP provides a lightweight, central information directory service for countless applications, including general user authentication services. This results in reduced administrative overhead. OpenLDAP also supports replication and encryption, promoting high-availability and security. Furthermore, knowledge of OpenLDAP prepares you to work comfortably with Open Source and commercial LDAP variants.

Let LinuxCBT feat. OpenLDAP Edition cost-effectively teach you Linux | Unix directory skills.

Recommended Prerequisites for:

- Any LinuxCBT Operating System Course (Classic/EL-4|5/SUSE/Debian Editions)
- Open mind & determination to master Linux and related open-source applications
- Access to a Linux or Solaris system to follow the exercises
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Beginners Guide To Google Sites videos
English | FLV | 2009 | 56.8 MB

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English | FLV | 2009 | 78 MB

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Lynda.com iLife 09 New Features DVD | 713 MB
DVD | With: Garrick Chow | 2.28 hours | Released on: 4/1/2009
With the release of iLife ’09, Apple has introduced intuitive new features for organizing, editing, and sharing movies, music, and photos. Instructor Garrick Chow demonstrates the wide range of enhancements to this already easy-to-use suite of programs in iLife ’09 New Features. He explains iPhoto’s new ability to organize and search images using face recognition and geodata, and moves on to iMovie, where he explores precision editing tools and real-time video effects. Garrick also covers GarageBand’s new built-in music lessons, as well as iWeb’s new ability to publish to any web hosting server. Exercise files accompany the course.

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VTC Adobe InDesign CS4 DVD | 1 GB
DVD | 16.5 hrs | 222 tutorials | ISBN: 1-935320-36-X | Release Date: 2009-03-31

By combining extraordinary production power and creative freedom with innovative cross-media support, Adobe® InDesign® CS4 takes page design and layout to new levels. Its advanced typography controls allow users unprecedented control over text and formatting. And with new advanced features such as Smart Guides, Spread Rotation and better interactivity for the Web, users will find endless design and delivery possibilities. In this VTC course, long time author and graphics guru, Brian White, teaches the fundamentals of InDesign before moving on to show professional hands-on document creation and manipulation. From novice to Pro, this course covers it all! Work Files from Photospin.com are included. To begin learning today, simply click on one of the video topics.

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The C# Programming Language

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“Based on my own experience, I can safely say that every .NET developer who reads this will have at least one ‘aha’ moment and will be a better developer for it.”

The popular C# programming language combines the high productivity of rapid application development languages with the raw power of C and C++. Now, C# 3.0 adds functional programming techniques and LINQ, Language INtegrated Query. The C# Programming Language, Third Edition, is the authoritative and annotated technical reference for C# 3.0.

Written by Anders Hejlsberg, the language’s architect, and his colleagues, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, and Peter Golde, this volume has been completely updated and reorganized for C# 3.0. The book provides the complete specification of the language, along with descriptions, reference materials, code samples, and annotations from nine prominent C# gurus.

The many annotations–a new feature in this edition–bring a depth and breadth of understanding rarely found in any programming book. As the main text of the book introduces the concepts of the C# language, cogent annotations explain why they are important, how they are used, how they relate to other languages, and even how they evolved.

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Cisco CCNA Security Training /IINS 640-553 Exam

In as Little as 13 Hours, You’ll Learn How To Identify, Lockdown, &
Secure Vulnerabilities in a Small to Medium Enterprise Branch Network…
And Have the Knowledge Necessary to Pass the Cisco CCNA Security/IINS 640-553 Exam…Guaranteed!

A Letter From Chris Bryant
CCIE #12933, CCNA, CCNP

You cannot be a Cisco Network Administrator without knowing Cisco Security. Today, security knowledge is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity in nearly any IT position.

Any job applicant, from the most experienced network admin to the entry level junior admin will be required to demonstrate a substantial amount of knowledge concerning security elements.

Passing the CCNA Security exam and proving your security knowledge is difficult. That’s why I have created this comprehensive course that shows you how to tackle the diverse security issues that you will face on the exam and in the real world.

As with all Train Signal courses, this CCNA Security course presents the same combination of clearly explained theory and an abundance of “real world” lab examples using the new Security Device Manager (SDM) and the Command Line. This exciting course contains over 13 hours of video instruction where I break down network security theory as you work hands on with real Cisco routers & switches… and secure your own network!
Cisco CCNA Security Training Course FAQs
“Am I qualified to take this course?”

YES! If you are a network administrator, an aspiring network administrator, or have on-the-job security experience, this course will build a stronger foundation of advanced security concepts.

YES! If you have Cisco CCNA Certification or a basic understanding of Cisco Routers and Switches (without certification), this course is for you.

Note: The prerequisite to take the Cisco CCNA Security exam is Cisco CCNA certification.

Note: If you plan to continue on to the CCSP certification, the Cisco CCNA Security certification is the prerequisite.
“Do I need Cisco equipment to complete this training course?”

NO You do not need any Cisco equipment to watch the videos or to pass the Cisco CCNA Security/IINS 640-553 exam; however, working hands-on with Cisco equipment may enhance your training experience.
“I already have my CCNA. Do I need my Cisco CCNA Security certification?”

YES! The ability to secure a Cisco network is one of the most marketable skills for any Cisco professional and network security has never been more important.
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Introduction to Flat Panel Displays

Product Description
Flat Panel Displays (FPDs) are a frequent feature in our daily lives, used in mobile phones, laptop computers, desktop computer monitors and TVs. Several display technologies have been developed for FPDs, such as liquid crystal display (LCD), plasma display panel (PDP), light emitting diode (LED), organic light emitting device (OLED) and field emission display (FED).

Introduction to Flat Panel Displays describes the fundamental sciences behind each display technology: LCD, PDP, LED, OLED and FED including carbon nanotubes. It contains a comparative analysis of the different display technologies in which detailed overviews of each technology are linked together so as to provide a comprehensive reference for students and display engineers, alike. Solved problems as well as homework problems are provided in each chapter to help consolidate students’ reading, as well as solutions hosted on an accompanying website.

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• principles for designing color displays with good color saturation and wide color gamut;
• basic operating principles of thin-film transistors (TFTs) and their applications to state-of-the-art TFT-LCD and TFT-OLED;
• an overview of FED fundamentals comprising the  physics of field emission, as well as FED structure and display mechanism.

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Linux For You - January 2009

LINUX For You is the latest publication from the EFY Group. This magazine caters to newbies, power-users, administrators, developers and those belonging to the IT industry. It’s main goal is to enhance the return on investment (RoI) for organisations by deploying Linux (or open-source) solutions.
Accompanied by a FREE CD, which carries source code, white-papers, software tools, Linux distributions, and even games — the magazine aims to provide complete solution for deployment of Linux.

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Animation - 2009 April

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In Real World PHP Programming: The Basics, VTC Author Mike Morton introduces PHP programming in a fashion that is immediately applicable to experienced programmers, and new programmers alike. This programming title does not focus on getting certified in PHP, but rather focuses on the application of PHP in everyday programming, including the proper terminology as well as learning PHP slang. Starting with the absolute basics of PHP types and statements, Mike progresses you through conditional and loops, MySQL, and into advanced topics such as functions and session management. With working examples, and application of what you are learning shown throughout, Mike makes learning PHP an easy and enjoyable endeavour. To begin learning today simply click on one of the links.

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TCP/IP, or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is actually a suite of protocols that gives you the ability to transmit, connect, provide maintenance, check for errors, and troubleshoot a network. You can even connect to a remote machine and control it. TCP/IP is must-know information for the network administrator. In this Virtual Training Company tutorial, author Louis DiPaola guides you through the utilization capabilities of TCP/IP. He teaches you IP addressing and routing, monitoring, communication options, and much more. You can even begin learning immediately by clicking one of the topics below.

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Micro-Macro-Interactions: In Structured Media and Particle Systems

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Many materials or media in nature and technology possess a microstructure which determines their macroscopic behaviour. The knowledge of the relevant mechanisms is often more comprehensive on the micro than on the macro scale. On the other hand, not all information on the micro level is relevant for the understanding of this macro behaviour. Therefore, averaging and homogenization methods are needed to select only the specific information from the micro scale, which influences the macro scale. These methods also open the possibility to design or to influence microstructures with the objective to optimize their macro behaviour.

This book presents the development of new methods in this interdisciplinary field of macro- micro-interactions of different engineering branches like mechanical and process engineering, applied mathematics, theoretical, and computational physics. In particular, solids with microstructures and particle systems are considered.

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Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams

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Carefully researched over ten years and eagerly anticipated by the agile community, Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams is a lucid and practical introduction to running a successful agile project in your organization. Each chapter illuminates a different important aspect of orchestrating agile projects.

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Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game

The agile model of software development has taken the world by storm. Now, in Agile Software Development, Second Edition, one of agile’s leading pioneers updates his Jolt Productivity award-winning book to reflect all that’s been learned about agile development since its original introduction.

Alistair Cockburn begins by updating his powerful model of software development as a “cooperative game of invention and communication.” Among the new ideas he introduces: harnessing competition without damaging collaboration; learning lessons from lean manufacturing; and balancing strategies for communication. Cockburn also explains how the cooperative game is played in business and on engineering projects, not just software development

Next, he systematically illuminates the agile model, shows how it has evolved, and answers the questions developers and project managers ask most often, including

·      Where does agile development fit in our organization?

·      How do we blend agile ideas with other ideas?

·      How do we extend agile ideas more broadly?

Cockburn takes on crucial misconceptions that cause agile projects to fail. For example, you’ll learn why encoding project management strategies into fixed processes can lead to ineffective strategy decisions and costly mistakes. You’ll also find a thoughtful discussion of the controversial relationship between agile methods and user experience design.

Cockburn turns to the practical challenges of constructing agile methodologies for your own teams. You’ll learn how to tune and continuously reinvent your methodologies, and how to manage incomplete communication. This edition contains important new contributions on these and other topics:

·      Agile and CMMI

·      Introducing agile from the top down

·      Revisiting “custom contracts”

·      Creating change with “stickers”

In addition, Cockburn updates his discussion of the Crystal methodologies, which utilize his “cooperative game” as their central metaphor.

If you’re new to agile development, this book will help you succeed the first time out. If you’ve used agile methods before, Cockburn’s techniques will make you even more effective.

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Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts

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We are visual animals. But before we can see the world in its true splendor, our brains, just like our computers, have to sort and organize raw data, and then transform that data to produce new images of the world. Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts talks about turning many types of small data sources into useful visual data. And you will learn Python as part of the bargain.

What you’ll learn

• Write ten lines of code and present visual information instead of data soup.
• Set up an open source environment ready for data visualization.
• Forget Excel: use Python.
• Learn numerical and textual processing.
• Draw graphs and plots based on textual and numerical data.
• Learn how to deal with images.

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Why Software Sucks…and What You Can Do About It

Description: Today’s software sucks. There’s no other good way to say it. It’s unsafe, allowing criminal programs to creep through the Internet wires into our very bedrooms. It’s unreliable, crashing when we need it most, wiping out hours or days of work with no way to get it back. And it’s hard to use, requiring large amounts of head-banging to figure out the simplest operations.

It’s no secret that software sucks. You know that from personal experience, whether you use computers for work or personal tasks. In this book, programming insider David Platt explains why that’s the case and, more importantly, why it doesn’t have to be that way. And he explains it in plain, jargon-free English that’s a joy to read, using real-world examples with which you’re already familiar. In the end, he suggests what you, as a typical user, without a technical background, can do about this sad state of our software—how you, as an informed consumer, don’t have to take the abuse that bad software dishes out.

As you might expect from the book’s title, Dave’s expose is laced with humor—sometimes outrageous, but always dead on. You’ll laugh out loud as you recall incidents with your own software that made you cry. You’ll slap your thigh with the same hand that so often pounded your computer desk and wished it was a bad programmer’s face. But Dave hasn’t written this book just for laughs. He’s written it to give long-overdue voice to your own discovery—that software does, indeed, suck, but it shouldn’t.

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Handbook of Research on Information Management and the Global Landscape

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Online collaboration is increasingly improving partnerships for organizations across the globe, strengthening existing relationships and creating new alliances that would previously have been inconceivable. Through these new global networks come significant issues, opportunities, and challenges for the consideration of researchers, organizational managers, and information professionals.

Handbook of Research on Information Management and the Global Landscape collects cutting-edge studies that deliver deep insights into the array of information management issues surrounding living and working in a global environment. Collecting over 20 authoritative chapters by recognized experts from distinguished research institutions worldwide, this truly international reference work emphasizes a regional theme while contributing to the global information environment, creating an essential addition to library reference collections.

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Architecting Software Intensive Systems: A Practitioners Guide

Product Description
Focusing on the architecture centric design method (ACDM), this book provides deep insight into designing software architectures for systems and how to effectively use architectural design artifacts once created. The text describes how to integrate ACDM with existing organizational structures and processes.

The author demonstrates how to tailor defined software process frameworks and methodologies to ACDM in order to design the architecture for a software intensive system. The chapters offer practical guidelines for the general iterative model, the general waterfall model, the rational unified process, the team software process, scrum, as well as extreme programming.

About the Author
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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