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UNIX: The Complete Reference, Second Edition (Complete Reference Series)

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:30 PM PDT

UNIX: The Complete Reference, Second Edition (Complete Reference Series)

UNIX: The Complete Reference, Second Edition (Complete Reference Series)

Product Description
The Definitive UNIX Resource–Fully Updated

Get cutting-edge coverage of the newest releases of UNIXincluding Solaris 10, all Linux distributions, HP-UX, AIX, and FreeBSDfrom this thoroughly revised, one-stop resource for users at all experience levels. Written by UNIX experts with many years of experience starting with Bell Laboratories, UNIX: The Complete Reference, Second Edition provides step-by-step instructions on how to use UNIX and take advantage of its powerful tools and utilities.

Get up-and-running on UNIX quickly, use the command shell and desktop, and access the Internet and e-mail. You’ll also learn to administer systems and networks, develop applications, and secure your UNIX environment. Up-to-date chapters on UNIX desktops, Samba, Python, Java Apache, and UNIX Web development are included.

  • Install, configure, and maintain UNIX on your PC or workstation
  • Work with files, directories, commands, and the UNIX shell
  • Create and modify text files using powerful text editors
  • Use UNIX desktops, including GNOME, CDE, and KDE, as an end user or system administrator
  • Use and manage e-mail, TCP/IP networking, and Internet services
  • Protect and maintain the security of your UNIX system and network
  • Share devices, printers, and files between Windows and UNIX systems
  • Use powerful UNIX tools, including awk, sed, and grep
  • Develop your own shell, Python, and Perl scripts, and Java, C, and C++ programs under UNIX
  • Set up Apache Web servers and develop browser-independent Web sites and applications

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AutoCAD LT 2006: The Definitive Guide

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:29 PM PDT

AutoCAD LT 2006: The Definitive Guide

AutoCAD LT 2006: The Definitive Guide

Product Description
AutoCAD LT 2006: The Definitive Guide introduces the newest version of AutoCAD LT and guides the reader through tutorials for creating landscape drawings and electrical schematics. The tutorials demonstrate setting up new drawings and using basic drawing and editing commands, and then progress to intermediate concepts such as dimensioning, block creation, and attribute extraction. Parts III and IV provide advanced information about CAD management and customization. Readers learn how to network office computers, implement backup strategies, and create drawing standards to make their workflow more efficient. Customizing menus, toolbars, and linetypes and using macros and DIESEL are also discussed. The appendices include a comprehensive list of AutoCAD LT commands and a comparison with the features and commands of AutoCAD 2006.

About the Author
Ralph Grabowski

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Quartz 2D Graphics for Mac OS X(R) Developers

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT

Quartz 2D Graphics for Mac OS X(R) Developers

Quartz 2D Graphics for Mac OS X(R) Developers

Product Description
Core Graphics is the new graphics framework for Mac OS X. Quartz, the 2D drawing system, and Core Image, which processes both video and still images, are the key new technologies in this framework and provide the tools Mac OS X developers need to create and draw graphics for their applications that target the design-savvy Mac consumer audience. With the evolution of Mac OS X, Apple is phasing out use of its previous graphics framework, QuickDraw, and encouraging all developers to begin using Core Graphics. The model for Quartz is completely unique and entirely different from QuickDraw creating a steep learning curve for all developers moving over. This book is in an introduction and guide to working with Core Graphics, specifically Quartz and Core Image. It carries the developer through the fundamental Quartz models and basic concepts such as drawing, coordinating system basics, virtual paint, and CGContext. Once the fundamentals are covered, author Scott Thompson delves into more advanced topics such as shading, patterns, and manipulating image effects. Practical code examples enhance the discussion and offer Mac developers the information they need to incorporate these powerful graphics into their own Mac OS X Applications.

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Extended STL, Volume 1: Collections and Iterators

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:27 PM PDT

Extended STL, Volume 1: Collections and Iterators

Extended STL, Volume 1: Collections and Iterators

One area in which this dichotomy is most pronounced is in using and, particularly, in extending the Standard Template Library (STL). This book, distills the knowledge and experience I have accumulated in tackling this challenging subject over the last decade or so.

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Endpoint Security

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:26 PM PDT

Endpoint Security

Endpoint Security

Product Description

Despite massive investments in security technology and training, hackers are increasingly succeeding in attacking networks at their weakest links: their endpoints. Now, leading security expert Mark Kadrich introduces a breakthrough strategy to protecting all your endpoint devices, from desktops and notebooks to PDAs and cellphones.

Drawing on powerful process control techniques, Kadrich shows how to systematically prevent and eliminate network contamination and infestation, safeguard endpoints against today's newest threats, and prepare yourself for tomorrow's attacks. As part of his end-to-end strategy, he shows how to utilize technical innovations ranging from network admission control to "trusted computing."

Unlike traditional "one-size-fits-all" solutions, Kadrich's approach reflects the unique features of every endpoint, from its applications to its environment. Kadrich presents specific, customized strategies for Windows PCs, notebooks, Unix/Linux workstations, Macs, PDAs, smartphones, cellphones, embedded devices, and more.

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Building High Availability Windows Server(TM) 2003 Solutions

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:24 PM PDT

Building High Availability Windows Server(TM) 2003 Solutions

Building High Availability Windows Server(TM) 2003 Solutions

This is the definitive resource for every network administrator, consultant, and architect who needs to maximize availability, scalability, and performance in Windows server environments.

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Practical Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:23 PM PDT

Practical Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005

Practical Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005

Product Description

In this book, two of Microsoft's leading consultants illustrate how to use SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence (BI) technologies to solve real-world problems in markets ranging from retail and finance to healthcare. Drawing on extensive personal experience with Microsoft's strategic customers, John C. Hancock and Roger Toren offer unprecedented insight into BI systems design and step-by-step best practices for implementation, deployment, and management.

Hancock and Toren introduce practical BI concepts and terminology and provide a concise primer on the Microsoft BI platform. Next, they turn to the heart of the book—constructing solutions. Each chapter-length case study begins with the customer's business goals, and then guides you through detailed data modeling. The case studies show how to avoid the pitfalls that derail many BI projects. You'll translate each model into a working system and learn how to deploy it into production, maintenance, and efficient operation.

Whether you're a decision-maker, architect, developer, or DBA, this book brings together all the knowledge you'll need to derive maximum business value from any BI project.

•  Leverage SQL Server 2005 databases, Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services

•  Build data warehouses and extend them to support very large databases

•  Design effective Analysis Services databases

•  Ensure the superior data quality your BI system needs

•  Construct advanced enterprise scorecard applications

•  Use data mining to segment customers, cross-sell, and increase the value of each transaction

•  Design real-time BI applications

•  Get hands-on practice with SQL Server 2005's BI toolset

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Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:21 PM PDT

Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play

Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play

Product Description

The toughest part of innovation? Accurately predicting what customers want, need, and will pay for. Even if you ask them, they often can't explain what they want. Now, there's a breakthrough solution: Innovation Games. Drawing on his software product strategy and product management consulting experience, Luke Hohmann has created twelve games that help you uncover your customers' true, hidden needs and desires.

You'll learn what each game will accomplish, why it works, and how to play it with customers. Then, Hohmann shows how to integrate the results into your product development processes, helping you focus your efforts, reduce your costs, accelerate time to market, and deliver the right solutions, right from the start.

  • Learn how your customers define success
  • Discover what customers don't like about your offerings
  • Uncover unspoken needs and breakthrough opportunities
  • Understand where your offerings fit into your customers' operations
  • Clarify exactly how and when customers will use your product or service
  • Deliver the right new features, and make better strategy decisions
  • Increase empathy for the customers' experience within your organization
  • Improve the effectiveness of the sales and service organizations
  • Identify your most effective marketing messages and sellable features

Innovation Games will be indispensable for anyone who wants to drive more successful, customer-focused product development: product and R&D managers, CTOs and development leaders, marketers, and senior business executives alike.

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Stopping Spyware

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:20 PM PDT

Stopping Spyware

Stopping Spyware

Stop spyware in its tracks! Spyware infects the vast majority of home computers today. After it’s on your machine, it can be used to access your social security number, track every website you visit, and take control of your computer away from you. If you work for a large company, odds are your company has purchased anti-spyware protection for you. But readers using home computers or running small businesses are on their own and vulnerable to infection.

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Essential ASP.NET 2.0

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:18 PM PDT

Essential ASP.NET 2.0

Essential ASP.NET 2.0

Essential ASP.NET 2.0 is the Microsoft developer’s definitive reference for ASP.NET 2.0 programming. It covers all you need to know to build robust, well-designed Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, and .NET 2.0. ASP.NET MVP Fritz Onion and Developer Security MVP Keith Brown draw on their unparalleled experience working with ASP.NET 2.0 and teaching it to professional developers. From data binding to security, UIs to performance, they demystify ASP.NET 2.0’s most difficult areas, and introduce little-known techniques for leveraging it to the fullest.

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