With the Fedora Linux operating system and the instructions in this book, you can transform your PC into a safe, powerful, and free computer system. Starting with Fedora, you can simply replace (or coexist with) Microsoft Windows on your everyday desktop computer. You can also configure your computer to share your files, printers, Web pages, or directory services to other computers. Then, if you choose, you can transition your skills to manage anything from a small office to a large, corporate Red Hat Enterprise Linux computer installation.

This book tells you how and gives you the software to do it.

You don’t need to be a programmer to use this book. You may be someone who just wants to use Linux (to run programs, access the Internet, and so on). Or you may simply want to know how to administer a Linux system in a workgroup or on a network.

I assume that you are somewhat computer literate but have little or no experience with Linux (or UNIX). You may be migrating from Microsoft operating systems to Linux because of its networking and multiuser features. You may be looking to start a career as a computer technician or network administrator and find that spending a few dollars for an entire operating system and book is more economical than taking those technical classes offered on late-night television. Or you might just think a “free” operating system is cool.

In any case, after you peruse this book you should have a good idea of how to run applications, set up a small network, connect to the Internet, and configure a variety of server types (Web servers, print servers, file servers, and so on). This book represents a great first few steps toward your becoming someone who can set up a home network or a small office network and maintain a group of computers.

Every trade has its role models. And for me, there is no better model for ad copywriters or maazine editors... -- Ray Schultz, Editor, DIRECT Magazine

I have been a fan of Joseph Sugarman's copywriting and marketing ideas for years and have benefited greatly... -- Jack Canfield, Co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul

There are a lot of great copywriters, but Joe Sugarman is the best. He knows how to build a story... -- Richard Thalheimer, President, The Sharper Image

About the Author

Joseph Sugarman has been highly recognized for his effective advertising copy and the innovations he's brought to the direct marketing field. He won many awards to include Direct Marketing Man of the Year and the distinguished Maxwell Sackheim Award for his career contributions to direct marketing. He's become a role model for many in sales, marketing and direct marketing. He has authored five books and has successful run several business--all created from the power of his pen.

Optical Switching Networks describes all the major switching paradigms developed for modern optical networks, discussing their operation, advantages, disadvantages and implementation. Following a review of the evolution of optical WDM networks, an overview of the future trends out. The latest developments in optical access, local, metropolitan, and wide area networks are covered, including detailed technical descriptions of generalized multiprotocol label switching, waveband switching, photonic slot routing, optical flow, burst and packet switching. The convergence of optical and wireless access networks is also discussed, as are the IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring and IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet passive optical network standards and their WDM upgraded derivatives. The feasibility, challenges and potential of next-generation optical networks are described in a survey of state-of-the-art optical networking testbeds. Animations showing how the key optical switching techniques work are available via the web, as are lecture slides (www.cambridge.org/9780521868006).

Describes the major switching paradigms developed for modern optical networks, discussing their operation, advantages, disadvantages and implementation. Includes the latest developments in optical access, local, metropolitan, and wide area networks. The feasibility, challenges and potential of next-generation optical networks are described. Animations and lecture slides available online (www.cambridge.org/9780521868006).

About the Author

Martin Maier is an Associate Professor with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), at the University of Quebec, Canada. He received his MSc and PhD degrees both with distinctions (summa cum laude) from Technical University Berlin, Germany. He was a Postdoc Fellow at MIT and a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University. His research interests include the design, control, and performance evaluation of next-generation optical networks and their evolutionary WDM upgrade strategies. Dr Maier is also the author of the book Metropolitan Area WDM Networks - An AWG Based Approach.

This IBM Redbook considers an enterprise and describes some of the procedures and documentation that need to be developed to secure WebSphere MQ on the z/OS (zSeries), OS/400 (iSeries), IBM AIX (pSeries) and Windows 2000 (xSeries) platforms. This Redbook also documents the before and after configurations needed to take advantage of the recent functional improvements to WebSphere MQ, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

Security is a complex subject. The first part of this Redbook is intended to help the reader understand it. The second part lays out a business case scenario where the technology is implemented to secure WebSphere MQ.

The book incorporates:

• Cross-platform security, ascertaining the responsibility of identification and authentication.
• Security issues when using WebSphere MQ over the Internet.
• Securing of messages, taking advantage of the functional improvements to WebSphere MQ such as PKI and SSL.
• Maintenance of message integrity by means of authentication and encryption.
• Use of technologies external to WebSphere MQ, such as PKI, DCE, and RACF to solve the security concerns.

The appendixes provide additional information, scripts, sample code and JCL related to the chapters in the book.

Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2008: The Language is for developers seeking a comprehensive explanation of Visual C# 2008 or who want to explore a specific aspect of the language. The chapters are sequenced to provide a rational and complete review of the language. Each chapter also is reviewable as an independent unit that encapsulates a specific topic.

This book targets both professional and casual developers. Readers should have a basic understanding of programming concepts and object oriented programming. There is no other expectation. Practical and in-depth explanations are provided. Where beneficial, sample code is provided to complement explanations. Sample code often provides the clearest explanation of in-depth concepts. For this reason, this book contains a large number of code examples.

About the Author

Donis Marshall is a trainer, a consultant and an author with 20 years of development experience and an in-depth background on Microsoft .NET technologies. He is the author of several books, including .NET Security Programming. Donis teaches classes on .NET programming, debugging, security, and design and architecture. In addition, he is the president of DebugNow.

It's hard to remember a world without the Internet. We now take for granted that we can access our bank accounts and health records, get driving directions, talk to friends, and shop, all on the Internet. Many companies couldn't survive without it because it is their link to their customers.

But the Internet doesn't just give businesses access to customers, doctors access to health records, and friends access to each other, it also gives attackers access to your system and to the systems you want to reach.

The systems were built in a much more innocent time, which assumed a collegial environment for honest researchers to share information, or a single-user, home machine used for word processing or playing games. The Internet, along with the idea of people attacking systems for fun or to make a political point, developed so quickly that the systems have not had time to evolve into the completely hardened systems they need to be. In the meantime, it is a constant struggle to try to stay ahead of the attackers.

It would be easy to give up, declare the situation hopeless, and move to Vermont to raise rabbits. But just when dealing with thousands of rabbits starts sounding like the easy way out, along comes Ed Skoudis, with his boundless energy, enthusiasm, and optimism.

Ed is a rare individual. He knows the innards of all the various systems, as well as all the latest exploits and defenses, and yet he is able to explain everything at just the right level. The first edition of Counter Hack was a fascinating read. It's technically intriguing and very clear. It's also, of course, scary, but Ed's basic optimism shines through and is somehow reassuring and empowering.

A book on vulnerabilities will get out of date, though, and so we definitely needed this updated and significantly rewritten second edition. This book is a wonderful overview of the field. (For those wanting to do a deep dive into the details of malicious code, I strongly recommend Ed's other book, Malware [Prentice Hall, 2004].)

Unfortunately, the battle for understanding and defending against exploits is not ever going to be won. As the Red Queen said in Through the Looking Glass, "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." That's such a discouraging thought, but at least Counter Hack Reloaded will make us enjoy learning what we need to know to do our best.

"This book's broad overview can help an organization choose a set of processes, policies, and techniques that are appropriate for its security maturity, risk tolerance, and development style. This book will help you understand how to incorporate practical security techniques into all phases of the development lifecycle."

      —Steve Riley, senior security strategist, Microsoft Corporation

"There are books written on some of the topics addressed in this book, and there are other books on secure systems engineering. Few address the entire life cycle with a comprehensive overview and discussion of emerging trends and topics as well as this one."

      —Ronda Henning, senior scientist-software/security queen, Harris Corporation

Software that is developed from the beginning with security in mind will resist, tolerate, and recover from attacks more effectively than would otherwise be possible. While there may be no silver bullet for security, there are practices that project managers will find beneficial. With this management guide, you can select from a number of sound practices likely to increase the security and dependability of your software, both during its development and subsequently in its operation.

Software Security Engineering draws extensively on the systematic approach developed for the Build Security In (BSI) Web site. Sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security Software Assurance Program, the BSI site offers a host of tools, guidelines, rules, principles, and other resources to help project managers address security issues in every phase of the software development life cycle (SDLC). The book's expert authors, themselves frequent contributors to the BSI site, represent two well-known resources in the security world: the CERT Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Cigital, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in software security.

This book will help you understand why

• Software security is about more than just eliminating vulnerabilities and conducting penetration tests

• Network security mechanisms and IT infrastructure security services do not sufficiently protect application software from security risks

• Software security initiatives should follow a risk-management approach to identify priorities and to define what is "good enough"—understanding that software security risks will change throughout the SDLC

• Project managers and software engineers need to learn to think like an attacker in order to address the range of functions that software should not do, and how software can better resist, tolerate, and recover when under attack

In today's networked societies, a key factor of the social and economic success is the capability to exchange, transfer, and share knowledge. In the wide-ranging area of knowledge management, the issue of knowledge exchange in networked environments emerges in several application fields, and is treated with different approaches.

Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet: Sharing and Exchanging Knowledge in Networked Environments proposes a vast panorama of research on the topic while presenting a variety of viewpoints, approaches, and indications of the shared elements intended as the foundations of an emerging and fascinating multidisciplinary field.

About the Author

Ettore Bolisani received a degree in Electronic Engineering (Laurea) and a PhD in Innovation Studies at the University of Padua (Italy). He is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Padua. Prior to this position, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Trieste (Italy) and, in 1997, research fellow at PREST (University of Manchester - UK), where he conducted a research project funded by the European Commission on the developments of Electronic Commerce. His research centres on technology assessment and technology management, with an emphasis on Information and Communication Technologies. He has worked in several research projects funded by the European Union, by Italian public institutions, and private organisations as well.. His current research interest focuses on the economic implications of Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce. On such topic he published various articles in international journals and chapters in books and was editor of Special Issues.

In an effort to make the field of robotics accessible to a larger group of developers, Microsoft has released Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS). MSRS is based on the popular .NET Framework. It offers developers a standard and consistent way to develop applications for an almost limitless variety of robotic platforms. Currently, version 1.5 of MSRS is available for download from the MSRS Web site (http://www.microsoft.com/robotics).

MSRS, along with four affordable and easy-to-work-with robots, will be featured in this book. The robots used in this book include the following:

• Boe-Bot by Parallax This three-wheeled robot is small, but it offers valuable experience for those new to electronic kits. In addition to the Boe-Bot kit, readers wanting to use this robot will need to purchase the eb500 Bluetooth module. The configuration steps required make the Boe-Bot the most time-consuming robot to assemble and configure.

• Create by iRobot This pre-assembled robot was built with developers in mind. It is based on the highly popular Roomba vacuum, but this model does not vacuum floors. Instead, you have the convenience of a pre-assembled and sturdy robot. Additionally, the payload capacity and expandability of this robot allows it to be used for several useful purposes.

• Mindstorms NXT by LEGO This surprisingly sturdy and useful robot is small, expandable, and easy to work with. The robot comes with five sensors, which can be easily attached to the base. Even though the robot is made with small LEGO bricks, this is not to be confused with a child's toy.

• ARobot by Arrick Robotics This three-wheeled robot features a large metal chassis, which makes it easy to expand. The robot was included as a means of demonstrating how new hardware can be supported (this is done in Chapter 7). In chapter 8, the ARobot is expanded to include an onboard laptop, which allows it to capture images using a USB Web camera.

One of the things that make this book particularly special is that all the chapters were reviewed by members of the MSRS product group team. The reviews were meant to ensure content accuracy, and, thus, I feel confident that the material covered is beneficial to the reader.

About the Author

Sara Morgan is a Microsoft MVP for Office Communications Server; she has spent many years developing with speech-recognition and other automation technologies. Her first book, Building Intelligent .NET Applications: Agents, Data Mining, Rule-Based Systems, and Speech Processing, was published in 2005. She is a frequent contributor to publications, print and online, such as MSDN® Magazine and devx.com

Philip Andrews shares his in-depth knowledge of Elements in this advanced guide ensuring that you can achieve optimum results from this powerful package. Once you've mastered the basics of Photoshop Elements, this is the book to further develop your skills to get professional results!

Beyond exploring techniques, Philip addresses how to manage the digital workflow in general, covering scanner and camera capture techniques, advanced image changes, providing detailed information on how to produce darkroom techniques digitally with Elements, as well as graphics capabilities and explaining how they all fit together.

The associated website, www.adv-elements.com includes images featured in the book, so you can easily put these new found skills into practice.

Superbly illustrated in color throughout, written in Philip's trademark no-nonsense style, this guide will ensure you stay ahead of the rest. This is definitely the book for the digital photographer who wants to stand out from the crowd!

* Provides tips from the pros, to advance your Elements skills beyond the basics
* Step-by-step, highly illustrated, color tutorials show you what can be achieved
* Full coverage of the workflow involved, includes essential skills for digital cameras and web work

About the Author

Philip Andrews is Adobe Australia's official Photoshop and Elements Ambassador. He is an experienced photographer, author, magazine editor and online course creator. He was previously a lecturer at the Queensland School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Australia and Nescot, England. He is a beta tester for Photoshop, an alpha tester for Photoshop Elements and a Photoshop specialist demonstrator for Adobe Australia. Philip is also co-founder of photo-college.com an online photography training college. He's a regular contributor to several magazines including Shutterbug, Amateur Photographer, Australian Photography and Better Photography, he is senior contributing editor for Better Digital, columnist for What Digital Camera and Co-editor and publisher of Better Photoshop Techniques magazine.

This book makes the assumption that the reader has no prior knowledge of computing. It uses everyday language and tries to describe procedures and terms in the simplest way possible. The emphasis is on action and success without wasting time in long technical explanations or terms. Each section is divided up into separate sections that contain essential information about each topic. These are followed by a series of actions designed to lead to successful use of computer applications. These easy steps introduce and develop some of the most useful areas of the computer, including using the Internet and e-mail. It also covers the basic word processing elements common to Office 97, Office 2000 and Works 2000. We have included a Jargon Buster at the back of the book to explain any unfamiliar terms.

People who are busy, with little patience, or who simply cannot face anything more technical than a pencil sharpener, will find that this book helps them key into one of the world’s most widely-used pieces of technology.

At the height of its power in the summer of 1942, Hitlerite Germany had enslaved four hundred million people; its empire stretched from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, from the English Channel to the Black Sea and almost to the Caspian. Between the Ukrainian steppes and the Pyrenees only Switzerland remained free. Even Mussolini, whom Hitler once called “the leading statesman in the world,” 1 had been reduced to a pathetic pawn. Far from the turmoil in Europe, Hitler’s U–boats were carrying the Nazi offensive to the New World, engaging enemy forces off the Atlantic coast of North America and in the Caribbean Sea.

The enormity of Hitler’s ambitions and Nazi brutality had by this time provoked the formation of a global counter-coalition solely aimed at defeating Germany and its Axis partners. All that was asked of any available ally was that it should share faithfully this one major purpose. Among the members of the Allied coalition, however, only the Soviet Union, which had already suffered serious losses the year before, was actively fighting German land forces in Europe. And unlike in 1941, when the Wehrmacht had stalled in the snow outside Moscow and Leningrad, the renewed German offensive of 1942 had carried the spearheads of Hitler’s panzer armies to Stalingrad and deep into the Caucasus, where they threatened Russia’s richest oil fields and, by extension, the Red Army’s ability to continue the struggle against Germany.

Developments in cognitive science indicate that human and nonhuman primates share a range of behavioral and physiological characteristics that speak to the issue of language origins. This volume has three major themes, woven throughout the chapters. First, it is argued that scientists in animal behavior and anthropology need to move beyond theoretical debate to a more empirically focused and comparative approach to language. Second, those empirical and comparative methods are described, revealing underpinnings of language, some of which are shared by humans and other primates and others of which are unique to humans. New insights are discussed, and several hypotheses emerge concerning the evolutionary forces that led to the "design" of language. Third, evolutionary challenges that led to adaptive changes in communication over time are considered with an eye toward understanding various constraints that channeled the process.

This book is for people who want to learn about diverse energy sources and technologies without taking a formal course. It can serve as a classroom supplement, tutorial aid, self-teaching guide, or home-schooling text.

As you take this course, you’ll encounter multiple-choice quizzes and a fi nal exam to help you measure your progress. All quiz and exam questions are composed like those in standardized tests. The quizzes are “open-book.” You may refer to the chapter text when taking them. The fi nal exam contains questions drawn uniformly from all the chapters. It is a “closed-book” test. Don’t look back at the text when taking it. Answers to all quiz and exam questions are listed at the back of the book.

You don’t need a mathematical or scientifi c background for this course. Middleschool algebra, geometry, and physics will suffi ce. I recommend that you complete one chapter a week. That way, in a few months, you’ll fi nish the course. You can then use this book, with its comprehensive index, as a permanent reference.

This book offers ideas for consumers, experimenters, and hobbyists, as well as outlining the technical basics of energy generation, transport, and utilization.

However, this is not a design guide! If you want to install, modify, upgrade, or use any of the systems discussed here, consult the appropriate professionals, and adhere to all applicable laws, codes, and insurance requirements.

This is an entry-level science nonfi ction book for students and lay people. It is not intended to promote or condemn any particular energy source, ideology, agenda, or economic interest. I have done my best to objectively present the advantages and limitations of various technologies from conventional to exotic. I invite input from innovators, producers, and distributors concerning developments for possible inclusion in future editions.

After decades of research activity, Chinese spoken language processing (CSLP) has advanced considerably both in practical technology and theoretical discovery. In this book, the editors provide both an introduction to the field as well as unique research problems with their solutions in various areas of CSLP. The contributions represent pioneering efforts ranging from CSLP principles to technologies and applications, with each chapter encapsulating a single problem and its solutions.

It is generally agreed that speech will play a major role in defining next-generation human-machine interfaces because it is the most natural means of communication among humans. To push forward this vision, speech research has enjoyed a long and glorious history spanning the entire twentieth century. As a result in the last three decades we have witnessed an intensive technology progress spurred on by recent advances in speech modeling, coordinated efforts between government funding agencies and speech communities for data collection and benchmark performance evaluation, and easy accesses to fast and affordable computing machineries. In the context of spoken language processing, we consider a collection of technical topics ranging over all aspects of speech communication, including production, perception, recognition, verification, synthesis, coding, analysis, and modeling. We have also seen quite a few spoken language system concepts moving out of research laboratories, and being deployed into real-life services and applications.

FLINS, originally an acronym for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science, is now extended to Applied Artificial Intelligence for Applied Research. The contributions to the seventh in the series of FLINS conferences contained in this volume cover state-of-the-art research and development in applied artificial intelligence for applied research in general and for power/nuclear engineering in particular.

FLINS, an acronym for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent technologies in Nuclear Science, is a well-established international research forum to advance the theory and applications of computational intelligence for applied research in general and for nuclear science and engineering in particular. FLINS2006 is the seventh in a series of conferences on Applied Artificial Intelligence. It follows the successful FLINS'94 in Mol, FLINS'96 in Mol, FLINS'98 in Antwerp, FLINS2000 in Bruges, FLINS2002 in Gent, and FLINS2004 in Blankenberge, Belgium. FLINS2006 in Genova, Italy, for the first time being held outside of Belgium, once again aims at covering state-of-the-art research and development in all aspects related to Applied AI. The principal missions of FLINS are: (1) conducting research on applied AI systems for solving intricate problems pertaining to nuclear/power research and related complex systems; (2) bridging the gap between machine intelligence and complex systems via joint research with Belgian, European, and international research institutes and universities; and (3) encouraging interdisciplinary research and bringing multi-discipline researchers together via the international FLINS conferences on applied AI.

The two-volume set LNCS 4477 and 4478 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2007, held in Girona, Spain in June 2007.

The 48 revised full papers and 108 revised poster papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 328 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on pattern recognition, human language technology, special architectures and industrial applications, motion analysis, image analysis, biomedical applications, shape and texture analysis, 3D, as well as image coding and processing.

The Groundwork of Company Valuation for First-time Buyers and Sellers

A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company has helped thousands of first-time buyers and sellers realize a fair, substantiated value for small businesses. Now in its Second Edition, this book covers common valuation techniques and myths, tips for determining tangible and intangible values, sample balance sheets and income statements, and approaches to valuing start-up technology and dot-com businesses.

This nuts-and-bolts guide addresses publicly traded and privately held firms, including traditional brick-and-mortar companies and the intellectual property industry. With a clear, concise writing style, the author walks readers through common practices for valuing, from collecting data to arriving at a saleable figure for all types of businesses, including professional practice, manufacturing, wholesale distributors, and a variety of retail operations. This new edition features perspectives on nontraditional valuation practices, guidance for using an excess earnings method, and an abundance of case studies from actual companies.

In order to make the most profitable decisions, before putting a business on the market or making an offer to acquire one, every beginning business purchaser and seller should read A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company, Second Edition.

About the Author

WILBUR M. YEGGE, PhD, has bought and sold five companies, brokered the sale of over 300 small businesses, and valued more than 1,000 others. President of a management consulting firm, he is the author of Self-Defense Finance for Small Businesses and A Basic Guide for Buying and Selling a Company, both published by Wiley.