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Looking for a unique set of practical tips, tricks, and tools for administrators and power users of BSD systems? From hacks to customize the user environment to networking, securing the system, and optimization, BSD Hacks takes a creative approach to saving time and accomplishing more with fewer resources. If you want more than the average BSD user–to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools–this book is a must-have.
In the world of Unix operating systems, the various BSDs come with a long heritage of high-quality software and well-designed solutions, making them a favorite OS of a wide range of users. Among budget-minded users who adopted BSD early on to developers of some of today’s largest Internet sites, the popularity of BSD systems continues to grow. If you use the BSD operating system, then you know that the secret of its success is not just in its price tag: practical, reliable, extraordinarily stable and flexible, BSD also offers plenty of fertile ground for creative, time-saving tweaks and tricks, and yes, even the chance to have some fun. “Fun?” you ask. Perhaps “fun” wasn’t covered in the manual that taught you to install BSD and administer it effectively. But BSD Hacks, the latest in O’Reilly’s popular Hacks series, offers a unique set of practical tips, tricks, tools–and even fun–for administrators and power users of BSD systems. BSD Hacks takes a creative approach to saving time and getting more done, with fewer resources. You’ll take advantage of the tools and concepts that make the world’s top Unix users more productive. Rather than spending hours with a dry technical document learning what switches go with a command, you’ll learn concrete, practical uses for that command. The book begins with hacks to customize the user environment. You’ll learn how to be more productive in the command line, timesaving tips for setting user-defaults, how to automate long commands, and save long sessions for later review. Other hacks in the book are grouped in the following areas:
Customizing the User Environment
Dealing with Files and Filesystems
The Boot and Login Environments
Backing Up
Networking Hacks
Securing the System
Going Beyond the Basics
Keeping Up-to-Date
Grokking BSD
If you want more than your average BSD user–you want to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on your own–BSD Hacks is a must-have. This book will turn regular users into power users and system administrators into super system administrators.

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After a quick primer on database design basics and the SQL query language (for those programmers who may be building their first database application), this book provides an overview of SQL Server itself, which has been dramatically redesigned with the 2005 release Once readers have grasped the fundamentals of database design and SQL concepts, they will then learn how to implement those concepts with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Addresses creating and changing tables, managing keys, database normalization, writing scripts, working with stored procedures, programming with XML, and using SQL Server reporting and data transformation services The companion Web site provides all of the code found in the book

What you will learn from this book

* The various user-defined functions and triggers
* How to create and change tables
* Ways to manage keys, write scripts, and work with stored procedures
* Techniques for programming with XML
* How to use Reporting Services and Integration Services
* The different peripheral features of SQL

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Programming Linux Games discusses important multimedia toolkits (including a very thorough discussion of the Simple DirectMedia Layer) and teaches the basics of Linux game programming. Readers learn about the state of the Linux gaming world, and how to write and distribute Linux games to the Linux gaming community.

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This book can teach you how to debug more effectively. It is a complete and pragmatic overview of debugging, written by a talented researcher who has developed many clever ways to isolate bugs. It explains best practices for finding and fixing errors in programs, ranging from systematically tracking error reports, reproducing failures, observing symptoms, isolating the cause, and correcting defects. Along with basic techniques and commonly used tools, the book also explores the author’s innovative techniques for isolating minimal input to reproduce an error and for tracking cause and effect through a program.
Studying this book will make you a better programmer. You will be able to find and fix errors in your code (and your colleague’s code) faster and more effectively, a valuable skill that will enable you to finish projects earlier and produce programs with fewer defects. Also, if you read between the lines you will learn how to write code that is more easily tested and debugged, which further increases your ability to find and correct defects. And thinking hard about what can go wrong with your program can help you avoid mistakes in the first place, so you have less to debug.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
- 1 How Failures Come To Be
- 2 Tracking Problems
- 3 Making Programs Fail
- Reproducing Problems
- Simplifying Problems
- Scientific Debugging
- Deducing Errors
- Observing Facts
- Tracking Origins
- Asserting Expectations
- Detecting Anomalies
- - Causes And Effects
- Isolating Failure Causes
- Isolating Cause-Effect Chains
- Fixing The Deffect

477 pages | PDF | 4 Mb

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Preparing for the CCNP® certification? Working as a network professional? Here are all the CCNP-level commands for the Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) exam you need in one condensed, portable resource. The CCNP BSCI Portable Command Guide is filled with valuable, easy-to-access information and is portable enough for use whether you’re in the server room or the equipment closet.
This book helps you memorize commands and concepts as you work to pass the CCNP BSCI exam (642-901). The guide summarizes all CCNP certification-level Cisco IOS® Software commands, keywords, command arguments, and associated prompts, providing you with tips and examples of how to apply the commands to real-world scenarios. Configuration examples throughout the book provide you with a better understanding of how these commands are used in simple network designs.

Eight CCNP BSCI topic areas are covered, including

* Network Design Requirements
* EIGRP
* OSPF
* Integrated IS-IS
* Manipulating Routing Updates
* BGP
* Multicast
* IPv6
Scott D. Empson, «CCNP BSCI Portable Command Guide (Self-Study Guide)»
Cisco Press | ISBN 1587201895 | 1 edition (May 7, 2007) | PDF | 1.15 Mb | 192 pages

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This book will provide you, the server administrator, with the necessary knowledge to install and configure Tomcat, as well as many of the most popular enhancements to the Tomcat package.

Table of Contents
Professional Apache Tomcat
Chapter 1 - Apache and Jakarta Tomcat
Chapter 2 - JSP and Servlets
Chapter 3 - Tomcat Installation
Chapter 4 - Tomcat Installation Directory and Architecture
Chapter 5 - Basic Tomcat Configuration
Chapter 6 - Web Application Administration
Chapter 7 - Manager Configuration
Chapter 8 - Advanced Tomcat Features
Chapter 9 - Class Loaders
Chapter 10 - HTTP Connectors
Chapter 11 - Web Server Connectors
Chapter 12 - The WARP Connector
Chapter 13 - The AJP Connector
Chapter 14 - Tomcat and IIS
Chapter 15 - JDBC Connectivity
Chapter 16 - Tomcat Security
Chapter 17 - Additional Uses for Ant
Chapter 18 - Log4J
Chapter 19 - Shared Tomcat Hosting
Chapter 20 - Server Load Testing
Appendix A - Axis
Appendix B - Apache SSL Setup
Index

Amit Bakore
Debashish Bhattacharjee
Sandip Bhattacharya
Vivek Chopra
Chad Fowler
Ben Galbraith
Romin Irani
Sing Li
Chanoch Wiggers

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AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is Adobes open-source technology that lets Web developers and programmers create Rich Internet Applications that run outside of any Web browser. This Visual QuickPro Guide teaches everything you need to know to begin creating applications that combine the rich experience of a traditional desktop application with the power and reach of the Internet.
The book uses a visual, step-by-step approach and covers all the fundamental AIR concepts, without the fluff, confusing segues, and technical jargon that bog down so many other
computer books. Author Larry Ullman has a well-earned reputation for writing books that are accessible, easy-to-follow, and, above all, useful. This book focuses solely on developing AIR applications using HTML and JavaScript, although formal knowledge of JavaScript is not required.

384 Pages | PDF | 5.2 Mb

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Reinforces the advanced students’ competence in both spoken and written English. This work focuses on features of the language that are already familiar and practises them. It consists of grammar notes followed by exercises. It is useful for classwork, homework, or for self-study.
Advanced English Practice (3rd Edition) | English | 321 Pages | 8.36 Mb | PDF

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Book Description
Well written and comprehensive, this book explains complicated topics such as signals and concurrency in a simple, easy-to-understand manner. The book offers an abundance of practical examples and exercises. This book is comparable to other best-selling UNIX books, such as UNIX Network Programming, by Richard Stevens. Covers fundamentals, asynchronous events, concurrency, and communication. For programmers in need of a better understanding of UNIX systems programming. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall ECS Professional
Well written and comprehensive, this book explains complicated topics such as signals and concurrency in a simple, easy-to-understand manner. The book offers an abundance of practical examples and exercises. This book is comparable to other best-selling UNIX books, such as UNIX Network Programming, by Richard Stevens. Covers fundamentals, asynchronous events, concurrency, and communication. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover
UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and Threads by Kay A. Robbins and Steven Robbins

UNIX processes, files, and special files
Signals and timers
POSIX threads, semaphores, and IPC
TCP, UDP, multicast, and the Web
Features projects on Internet radio, server performance, timers, web caching, and shells
Learn how to design and implement reliable UNIX software whether you are using Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, or another POSIX-based system.

This completely updated classic (originally titled Practical UNIX Programming) demonstrates how to design complex software to get the most from the UNIX operating system. UNIX Systems Programming provides a clear and easy-to-understand introduction to the essentials of UNIX programming. Starting with short code snippets that illustrate how to use system calls, Robbins and Robbins move quickly to hands-on projects that help readers expand their skill levels.

This practical guide thoroughly explores communication, concurrency,and multithreading. Known for its comprehensive and lucid explanationsof complicated topics such as signals and concurrency, the bookfeatures practical examples, exercises, reusable code, and simplifiedlibraries for use in network communication applications.

A self-contained reference that relies on the latest UNIX standards,UNIX Systems Programming provides thorough coverage of files, signals,semaphores, POSIX threads, and client-server communication. Thisedition features all-new chapters on the Web, UDP, and serverperformance. The sample material has been tested extensively in theclassroom.

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