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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

Algorithms for Computer Algebra is the first comprehensive textbook to be published on the topic of computational symbolic mathematics. The book first develops the foundational material from modern algebra that is required for subsequent topics. It then presents a thorough development of modern computational algorithms for such problems as multivariate polynomial arithmetic and greatest common divisor calculations, factorization of multivariate polynomials, symbolic solution of linear and polynomial systems of equations, and analytic integration of elementary functions. Numerous examples are integrated into the text as an aid to understanding the mathematical development. The algorithms developed for each topic are presented in a Pascal-like computer language. An extensive set of exercises is presented at the end of each chapter. Algorithms for Computer Algebra is suitable for use as a textbook for a course on algebraic algorithms at the third-year, fourth-year, or graduate level. Although the mathematical development uses concepts from modern algebra, the book is self-contained in the sense that a one-term undergraduate course introducing students to rings and fields is the only prerequisite assumed. The book also serves well as a supplementary textbook for a traditional modern algebra course, by presenting concrete applications to motivate the understanding of the theory of rings and fields.
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`The Computer Algebra community has been waiting for years for this boo
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

This book presents selected topics in science and engineering from an applied-mathematics point of view. The described natural, socioeconomic, and engineering phenomena are modeled by partial differential equations that relate state variables such as mass, velocity, and energy to their spatial and temporal variations. Typically, these equations are highly nonlinear; in many cases they are systems, and they represent challenges even for the most modern and sophisticated mathematical and numerical-analytic techniques. The selected topics reflect the longtime scientific interests of the author. They include flows of fluids and gases, granular-material flows, biological processes such as pattern formation on animal skins, kinetics of rarified gases, free boundaries, semiconductor devices, and socioeconomic processes. Each topic is briefly introduced in its scientific or engineering context, followed by a presentation of the mathematical models in the form of partial differential equations with a discussion of their basic mathematical properties. The author illustrates each chapter by a series of his own high-quality photographs, which demonstrate that partial differential equations are powerful tools for modeling a large variety of phenomena influencing our daily lives.
About the Author
Prof. Peter Markowich is the recipient of the Wittgenstein Award 2000, the highest ranking Austrian Science Prize.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

"Automotive Computer Controlled Systems" explains the fundamental principles of engineering that lie behind the operation of vehicle electronic systems. Having obtained this knowledge, the reader will be able to make full use of the diagnostic equipment which is currently available. The book builds on the concepts contained in "Vehicle Electronic Systems and Fault Diagnosis" and gives clear steps to fault diagnosis and subsequent repair of the vehicle's electronic systems. The author discusses electronics only within the context of the vehicle systems under consideration, and thus keeps theory to a minimum. Allan Bonnick has written articles for several transport/vehicle journals and carries out consultancy work for the Institute of Road Transport Engineers. In addition, he has had many years teaching experience and is ideally placed to write this informative guide. Principles are discussed in context avoiding unnecessary theory and maths. There are practical step-by-step instructions on fault diagnosis and repair. It is liberally illustrated with clear diagrams.
Review
'..this book has much to commend it and I know of no better book for the technician or graduate to learn about automotive electronics.... I am happy to admit that, despite 24 years in the automotive electronics industry, I have learnt many things from it that I did not know before.'
Dr Ian Noble, for the The Institution of Electrical Engineers
'The aim of the book is to show how the right diagnostic e
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

Modern Control Technology: Components and Systems, 2nd Edition provides an introduction to automatic control systems and components that is both comprehensive and up-to-date. Logically organized, this book takes the reader on a journey through a control system. Each chapter examines a different functional part, followed by discussion of control units and control strategies that serves to put these parts together in a full-function control system. The text emphasizes not only on how things work, but also how they work together. Thoroughly updated, this edition features new material on popular PIC and BASIC Stamp microcontrollers, plus expanded coverage of brushless DC motors, as well as networking used in control systems. Information has also been added to better address topics such as: decibels, levers, friction, clutches and brakes, tooth rotor tachometers, vision sensors, dynamic braking of DC motors, linear motors, and flux vector AC drives.
Textbook for use in twoprograms or four-year technology that include such courses as industrial controls, industrial electronics, control systems, and electromechanical systems. DLC: Automatic control.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

The Hardy Boys is a popular series of detective/adventure books for boys chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy. The original Hardy Boys series was produced between 1927 and 1979 under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon.
Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors who wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (now owned by Simon and Shuster).
List:
Hardy Boys 001 - The Tower Treasure.htm
Hardy Boys 002 - The House On The Cliff.htm
Hardy Boys 003 - Secret Of The Old Mill.htm
Hardy Boys 004 - The Missing Chums.htm
Hardy Boys 005 - Hunting For Hidden Gold.htm
Hardy Boys 006 - The Shore Road Mystery.htm
Hardy Boys 007 - The Secret Of The Caves.htm
Hardy Boys 008 - The Mystery Of Cabin Island.htm
Hardy Boys 010 - What Happened At Midnight.htm
Hardy Boys 019 - The Disappearing Floor.htm
Hardy Boys 024 - The Short Wave Mystery.htm
Hardy Boys 030 - The Wailing Siren Mystery.htm
Hardy Boys 032 - The Crisscross Shadow.htm
Hardy Boys 043 - The Mystery Of The Aztec Warrior.htm
Hardy Boys 044 - The Haunted Fort.htm
Hardy Boys 045 - The Mystery Of The Spiral Bridge.htm
Hardy Boys 070 - The Infinity Clue.htm
Hardy Boys - 001 - The Tower Treasure.txt
Hardy Boys - 002 - The House On The Cliff.txt
Hardy Boys - 003 - The Secret Of The Old Mill.txt
Hardy Boys - 004 - The Missing Chums.txt
Hardy Boys - 005 - Hunting For Hidden Gold.txt
Hardy Boys - 006 - The Shore Road Mystery.txt
Hardy Boys
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

* Understand essential hardware details
* Walk through an embedded system startup
* Build an extensible development platform
* Prebuilt GNU X-Tools for 21 platforms
* Build embedded microprocessor-based systems from the ground up.
Explore firmware development from cold-boot to network-boot. Investigate CPU-to-peripheral interfaces. Write a powerful CLI, flash drivers, a flash file system and a TFTP client/server. Includes a cross-compilation toolset for 21 processors and source for an extensible firmware development platform.
About the Author
Ed Sutter started his career with AT and T Bell Labs in 1981. Now a distinguished member of the technical staff (DMTS) at Lucent, he has been working in embedded systems since 1983. Starting with the 8085, Ed has worked with a wide range of systems over the years including most of today's common CPU architectures. He has put his experience in developing hardware, firmware, and software to good use by building several different development environments. While he is most comfortable with C and assembly language on embedded systems, he has developed code for Win32 and Unix varieties as well. His firmware tools have recently been the subjects of articles in Embedded Systems Programming and Circuit Cellar OnLine magazines.
Table of Contents
Embedded Systems Firmware Demystified
Preface
Chapter 1 - A Hard Start
Chapter 2 - Getting Started
Chapter 3 - Introducing MicroMonitor
Chapter 4 - Assembly Required
Cha
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

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, DSN server for mapping DNS names to IP addresses, and firewall for system protection is provided.
About the Author
Michael Flenov is the author of the Hackish C++ Pranks and Tricks and Hackish PC Pranks and Tricks.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

Building on widespread use of the C++ programming language in industry and education, this book provides a broad-based and case-driven study of data structures -- and the algorithms associated with them -- using C++ as the language of implementation.
About the Author
Adam Drozdek is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Duquesne University.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 10:23pm CEST

There is an ever-growing supply of information about the Global Positioning System. Unfortunately, these new (and now, some not so new) documents seem to be located at each end of the comprehension scale: either at the "gee-whiz" level which basically describes how interesting and useful this new utility is, or at the engineer's level which starts out with Keplerian orbits and Hopfield Modeling. What seems to be missing is a comprehensive, yet easy to understand, presentation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for people who may have a very real need to apply this new technology but lack the basic understanding necessary to make important, and often expensive, decisions about it. Thus this book.
This book is designed to support an introductory course on the fundamentals of the Global Positioning System based on a series of graphic representations and distilled concept-bullets. Math is scrupulously avoided-that level of information is readily available through numerous highly technical publications and is no more necessary for most users than is a textbook on electronics necessary for the purchaser of a television set.
Each concept is presented in one to four graphics found in this book on the left page of each page-pair. The opposing right page presents a brief discussion of the concept. While much more could be said on each of the topics presented, only those highlights considered by the author to be of most immediate value to the geographer, project manager, field
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 3:19pm CEST

This book presents selected topics in science and engineering from an applied-mathematics point of view. The described natural, socioeconomic, and engineering phenomena are modeled by partial differential equations that relate state variables such as mass, velocity, and energy to their spatial and temporal variations. Typically, these equations are highly nonlinear; in many cases they are systems, and they represent challenges even for the most modern and sophisticated mathematical and numerical-analytic techniques. The selected topics reflect the longtime scientific interests of the author. They include flows of fluids and gases, granular-material flows, biological processes such as pattern formation on animal skins, kinetics of rarified gases, free boundaries, semiconductor devices, and socioeconomic processes. Each topic is briefly introduced in its scientific or engineering context, followed by a presentation of the mathematical models in the form of partial differential equations with a discussion of their basic mathematical properties. The author illustrates each chapter by a series of his own high-quality photographs, which demonstrate that partial differential equations are powerful tools for modeling a large variety of phenomena influencing our daily lives.
About the Author
Prof. Peter Markowich is the recipient of the Wittgenstein Award 2000, the highest ranking Austrian Science Prize.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 3:19pm CEST

"Automotive Computer Controlled Systems" explains the fundamental principles of engineering that lie behind the operation of vehicle electronic systems. Having obtained this knowledge, the reader will be able to make full use of the diagnostic equipment which is currently available. The book builds on the concepts contained in "Vehicle Electronic Systems and Fault Diagnosis" and gives clear steps to fault diagnosis and subsequent repair of the vehicle's electronic systems. The author discusses electronics only within the context of the vehicle systems under consideration, and thus keeps theory to a minimum. Allan Bonnick has written articles for several transport/vehicle journals and carries out consultancy work for the Institute of Road Transport Engineers. In addition, he has had many years teaching experience and is ideally placed to write this informative guide. Principles are discussed in context avoiding unnecessary theory and maths. There are practical step-by-step instructions on fault diagnosis and repair. It is liberally illustrated with clear diagrams.
Review
'..this book has much to commend it and I know of no better book for the technician or graduate to learn about automotive electronics.... I am happy to admit that, despite 24 years in the automotive electronics industry, I have learnt many things from it that I did not know before.'
Dr Ian Noble, for the The Institution of Electrical Engineers
'The aim of the book is to show how the right diagnostic e
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 3:19pm CEST

Modern Control Technology: Components and Systems, 2nd Edition provides an introduction to automatic control systems and components that is both comprehensive and up-to-date. Logically organized, this book takes the reader on a journey through a control system. Each chapter examines a different functional part, followed by discussion of control units and control strategies that serves to put these parts together in a full-function control system. The text emphasizes not only on how things work, but also how they work together. Thoroughly updated, this edition features new material on popular PIC and BASIC Stamp microcontrollers, plus expanded coverage of brushless DC motors, as well as networking used in control systems. Information has also been added to better address topics such as: decibels, levers, friction, clutches and brakes, tooth rotor tachometers, vision sensors, dynamic braking of DC motors, linear motors, and flux vector AC drives.
Textbook for use in twoprograms or four-year technology that include such courses as industrial controls, industrial electronics, control systems, and electromechanical systems. DLC: Automatic control.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 3:19pm CEST

Piano sheet music.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 3:19pm CEST

The Hardy Boys is a popular series of detective/adventure books for boys chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy. The original Hardy Boys series was produced between 1927 and 1979 under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon.
Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors who wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (now owned by Simon and Shuster).
List:
Hardy Boys 001 - The Tower Treasure.htm
Hardy Boys 002 - The House On The Cliff.htm
Hardy Boys 003 - Secret Of The Old Mill.htm
Hardy Boys 004 - The Missing Chums.htm
Hardy Boys 005 - Hunting For Hidden Gold.htm
Hardy Boys 006 - The Shore Road Mystery.htm
Hardy Boys 007 - The Secret Of The Caves.htm
Hardy Boys 008 - The Mystery Of Cabin Island.htm
Hardy Boys 010 - What Happened At Midnight.htm
Hardy Boys 019 - The Disappearing Floor.htm
Hardy Boys 024 - The Short Wave Mystery.htm
Hardy Boys 030 - The Wailing Siren Mystery.htm
Hardy Boys 032 - The Crisscross Shadow.htm
Hardy Boys 043 - The Mystery Of The Aztec Warrior.htm
Hardy Boys 044 - The Haunted Fort.htm
Hardy Boys 045 - The Mystery Of The Spiral Bridge.htm
Hardy Boys 070 - The Infinity Clue.htm
Hardy Boys - 001 - The Tower Treasure.txt
Hardy Boys - 002 - The House On The Cliff.txt
Hardy Boys - 003 - The Secret Of The Old Mill.txt
Hardy Boys - 004 - The Missing Chums.txt
Hardy Boys - 005 - Hunting For Hidden Gold.txt
Hardy Boys - 006 - The Shore Road Mystery.txt
Hardy Boys
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 3:19pm CEST

* Understand essential hardware details
* Walk through an embedded system startup
* Build an extensible development platform
* Prebuilt GNU X-Tools for 21 platforms
* Build embedded microprocessor-based systems from the ground up.
Explore firmware development from cold-boot to network-boot. Investigate CPU-to-peripheral interfaces. Write a powerful CLI, flash drivers, a flash file system and a TFTP client/server. Includes a cross-compilation toolset for 21 processors and source for an extensible firmware development platform.
About the Author
Ed Sutter started his career with AT and T Bell Labs in 1981. Now a distinguished member of the technical staff (DMTS) at Lucent, he has been working in embedded systems since 1983. Starting with the 8085, Ed has worked with a wide range of systems over the years including most of today's common CPU architectures. He has put his experience in developing hardware, firmware, and software to good use by building several different development environments. While he is most comfortable with C and assembly language on embedded systems, he has developed code for Win32 and Unix varieties as well. His firmware tools have recently been the subjects of articles in Embedded Systems Programming and Circuit Cellar OnLine magazines.
Table of Contents
Embedded Systems Firmware Demystified
Preface
Chapter 1 - A Hard Start
Chapter 2 - Getting Started
Chapter 3 - Introducing MicroMonitor
Chapter 4 - Assembly Required
Cha
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 3:19pm CEST

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, DSN server for mapping DNS names to IP addresses, and firewall for system protection is provided.
About the Author
Michael Flenov is the author of the Hackish C++ Pranks and Tricks and Hackish PC Pranks and Tricks.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 3:19pm CEST

Building on widespread use of the C++ programming language in industry and education, this book provides a broad-based and case-driven study of data structures -- and the algorithms associated with them -- using C++ as the language of implementation.
About the Author
Adam Drozdek is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Duquesne University.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 3:19pm CEST

There is an ever-growing supply of information about the Global Positioning System. Unfortunately, these new (and now, some not so new) documents seem to be located at each end of the comprehension scale: either at the "gee-whiz" level which basically describes how interesting and useful this new utility is, or at the engineer's level which starts out with Keplerian orbits and Hopfield Modeling. What seems to be missing is a comprehensive, yet easy to understand, presentation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for people who may have a very real need to apply this new technology but lack the basic understanding necessary to make important, and often expensive, decisions about it. Thus this book.
This book is designed to support an introductory course on the fundamentals of the Global Positioning System based on a series of graphic representations and distilled concept-bullets. Math is scrupulously avoided-that level of information is readily available through numerous highly technical publications and is no more necessary for most users than is a textbook on electronics necessary for the purchaser of a television set.
Each concept is presented in one to four graphics found in this book on the left page of each page-pair. The opposing right page presents a brief discussion of the concept. While much more could be said on each of the topics presented, only those highlights considered by the author to be of most immediate value to the geographer, project manager, field
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 3:19pm CEST

Aiming to prove that writing programs for Windows in the Assembly language is no more difficult than writing the same programs using C/C++, this guide shows how Assembly code is actually more compact and executes faster. The algorithmic knowledge and skills lost in high-level programming provides the justification demonstrated in this guide for using Assembly code. Working applications with detailed comments and descriptions of their operating principles, along with material that can be considered hackish, are included. The tools and techniques of code analysis and modification are covered, making this a useful tool for programmers eager to become better acquainted with hacker methods. Not a guide on Assembly language, this represents a symbiosis between the Assembly language and the Windows operating system.
About the Author
Vlad Pirogov is an expert in the development of performance-effective applications for Windows who has designed and implemented software with Assembly.
Table of Contents
The Assembly Programming Master Book
Introduction
Part I - Basics of 32-Bit Programming for Windows
Chapter 1 - Windows Programming Tools
Chapter 2 - Windows Programming Basics
Chapter 3 - Simple Programs Written in Assembly Language
Chapter 4 - 16-Bit Programming Overview
Chapter 5 - MASM and TASM Assemblers
Part II - Windows Programming
Chapter 6 - Text Encoding in Windows
Chapter 7 - Examples of Simple Programs
Chapter 8 - Console Applications
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 1:10pm CEST

"Automotive Computer Controlled Systems" explains the fundamental principles of engineering that lie behind the operation of vehicle electronic systems. Having obtained this knowledge, the reader will be able to make full use of the diagnostic equipment which is currently available. The book builds on the concepts contained in "Vehicle Electronic Systems and Fault Diagnosis" and gives clear steps to fault diagnosis and subsequent repair of the vehicle's electronic systems. The author discusses electronics only within the context of the vehicle systems under consideration, and thus keeps theory to a minimum. Allan Bonnick has written articles for several transport/vehicle journals and carries out consultancy work for the Institute of Road Transport Engineers. In addition, he has had many years teaching experience and is ideally placed to write this informative guide. Principles are discussed in context avoiding unnecessary theory and maths. There are practical step-by-step instructions on fault diagnosis and repair. It is liberally illustrated with clear diagrams.
Review
'..this book has much to commend it and I know of no better book for the technician or graduate to learn about automotive electronics.... I am happy to admit that, despite 24 years in the automotive electronics industry, I have learnt many things from it that I did not know before.'
Dr Ian Noble, for the The Institution of Electrical Engineers
'The aim of the book is to show how the right diagnostic e
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 1:10pm CEST

Modern Control Technology: Components and Systems, 2nd Edition provides an introduction to automatic control systems and components that is both comprehensive and up-to-date. Logically organized, this book takes the reader on a journey through a control system. Each chapter examines a different functional part, followed by discussion of control units and control strategies that serves to put these parts together in a full-function control system. The text emphasizes not only on how things work, but also how they work together. Thoroughly updated, this edition features new material on popular PIC and BASIC Stamp microcontrollers, plus expanded coverage of brushless DC motors, as well as networking used in control systems. Information has also been added to better address topics such as: decibels, levers, friction, clutches and brakes, tooth rotor tachometers, vision sensors, dynamic braking of DC motors, linear motors, and flux vector AC drives.
Textbook for use in twoprograms or four-year technology that include such courses as industrial controls, industrial electronics, control systems, and electromechanical systems. DLC: Automatic control.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 1:10pm CEST

Piano sheet music.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 1:10pm CEST

The Hardy Boys is a popular series of detective/adventure books for boys chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy. The original Hardy Boys series was produced between 1927 and 1979 under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon.
Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors who wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (now owned by Simon and Shuster).
List:
Hardy Boys 001 - The Tower Treasure.htm
Hardy Boys 002 - The House On The Cliff.htm
Hardy Boys 003 - Secret Of The Old Mill.htm
Hardy Boys 004 - The Missing Chums.htm
Hardy Boys 005 - Hunting For Hidden Gold.htm
Hardy Boys 006 - The Shore Road Mystery.htm
Hardy Boys 007 - The Secret Of The Caves.htm
Hardy Boys 008 - The Mystery Of Cabin Island.htm
Hardy Boys 010 - What Happened At Midnight.htm
Hardy Boys 019 - The Disappearing Floor.htm
Hardy Boys 024 - The Short Wave Mystery.htm
Hardy Boys 030 - The Wailing Siren Mystery.htm
Hardy Boys 032 - The Crisscross Shadow.htm
Hardy Boys 043 - The Mystery Of The Aztec Warrior.htm
Hardy Boys 044 - The Haunted Fort.htm
Hardy Boys 045 - The Mystery Of The Spiral Bridge.htm
Hardy Boys 070 - The Infinity Clue.htm
Hardy Boys - 001 - The Tower Treasure.txt
Hardy Boys - 002 - The House On The Cliff.txt
Hardy Boys - 003 - The Secret Of The Old Mill.txt
Hardy Boys - 004 - The Missing Chums.txt
Hardy Boys - 005 - Hunting For Hidden Gold.txt
Hardy Boys - 006 - The Shore Road Mystery.txt
Hardy Boys
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 1:10pm CEST

* Understand essential hardware details
* Walk through an embedded system startup
* Build an extensible development platform
* Prebuilt GNU X-Tools for 21 platforms
* Build embedded microprocessor-based systems from the ground up.
Explore firmware development from cold-boot to network-boot. Investigate CPU-to-peripheral interfaces. Write a powerful CLI, flash drivers, a flash file system and a TFTP client/server. Includes a cross-compilation toolset for 21 processors and source for an extensible firmware development platform.
About the Author
Ed Sutter started his career with AT and T Bell Labs in 1981. Now a distinguished member of the technical staff (DMTS) at Lucent, he has been working in embedded systems since 1983. Starting with the 8085, Ed has worked with a wide range of systems over the years including most of today's common CPU architectures. He has put his experience in developing hardware, firmware, and software to good use by building several different development environments. While he is most comfortable with C and assembly language on embedded systems, he has developed code for Win32 and Unix varieties as well. His firmware tools have recently been the subjects of articles in Embedded Systems Programming and Circuit Cellar OnLine magazines.
Table of Contents
Embedded Systems Firmware Demystified
Preface
Chapter 1 - A Hard Start
Chapter 2 - Getting Started
Chapter 3 - Introducing MicroMonitor
Chapter 4 - Assembly Required
Cha
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 1:10pm CEST

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, DSN server for mapping DNS names to IP addresses, and firewall for system protection is provided.
About the Author
Michael Flenov is the author of the Hackish C++ Pranks and Tricks and Hackish PC Pranks and Tricks.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 1:10pm CEST

Building on widespread use of the C++ programming language in industry and education, this book provides a broad-based and case-driven study of data structures -- and the algorithms associated with them -- using C++ as the language of implementation.
About the Author
Adam Drozdek is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Duquesne University.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 1:10pm CEST

There is an ever-growing supply of information about the Global Positioning System. Unfortunately, these new (and now, some not so new) documents seem to be located at each end of the comprehension scale: either at the "gee-whiz" level which basically describes how interesting and useful this new utility is, or at the engineer's level which starts out with Keplerian orbits and Hopfield Modeling. What seems to be missing is a comprehensive, yet easy to understand, presentation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for people who may have a very real need to apply this new technology but lack the basic understanding necessary to make important, and often expensive, decisions about it. Thus this book.
This book is designed to support an introductory course on the fundamentals of the Global Positioning System based on a series of graphic representations and distilled concept-bullets. Math is scrupulously avoided-that level of information is readily available through numerous highly technical publications and is no more necessary for most users than is a textbook on electronics necessary for the purchaser of a television set.
Each concept is presented in one to four graphics found in this book on the left page of each page-pair. The opposing right page presents a brief discussion of the concept. While much more could be said on each of the topics presented, only those highlights considered by the author to be of most immediate value to the geographer, project manager, field
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 1:10pm CEST

Aiming to prove that writing programs for Windows in the Assembly language is no more difficult than writing the same programs using C/C++, this guide shows how Assembly code is actually more compact and executes faster. The algorithmic knowledge and skills lost in high-level programming provides the justification demonstrated in this guide for using Assembly code. Working applications with detailed comments and descriptions of their operating principles, along with material that can be considered hackish, are included. The tools and techniques of code analysis and modification are covered, making this a useful tool for programmers eager to become better acquainted with hacker methods. Not a guide on Assembly language, this represents a symbiosis between the Assembly language and the Windows operating system.
About the Author
Vlad Pirogov is an expert in the development of performance-effective applications for Windows who has designed and implemented software with Assembly.
Table of Contents
The Assembly Programming Master Book
Introduction
Part I - Basics of 32-Bit Programming for Windows
Chapter 1 - Windows Programming Tools
Chapter 2 - Windows Programming Basics
Chapter 3 - Simple Programs Written in Assembly Language
Chapter 4 - 16-Bit Programming Overview
Chapter 5 - MASM and TASM Assemblers
Part II - Windows Programming
Chapter 6 - Text Encoding in Windows
Chapter 7 - Examples of Simple Programs
Chapter 8 - Console Applications
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Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 1:10pm CEST

What's the number one thing that search engine experts do NOT want you to know about increasing traffic to your web site?
That increasing traffic to your website is easier than you think.
Search engine optimization ("SEO") pros would have you believe that the secrets to ranking well in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN involve some sort of mysterious, magical, technological voodoo.
It's time to pull back the curtain.
"Search engine optimization" is the art and science of publishing information and building links that makes search engines rank your website high in the search results.
Each and every day hundreds of millions of people search for products, services and information using search engines, and the SEO consulting industry has become really big business. That's why some SEO professionals are pretty steamed that I'm revealing these simple truths to you.
Here's just a few of the things they don't want you to know:
SEO is not hard. Anyone can be successful at it with the right information.
You do not need to spend thousands of dollars to get top rankings.
You know your product and industry better than any consultant does, and armed with knowledge of SEO techniques you can do a better job of promoting your sites than they can.
Many SEOs do not do their best work for clients . If they did, you could fire them when you got your results-that's why they would rather slowly raise your rankings over time and show continued improvement to just
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