OSPF or Network Routing

OSPF: Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol

Author: John T T Moy

Written for TCP/IP network administrators, protocol designers, and network application developers, this book gives the most complete and practical view ever into the inner workings of Internet routing. The book focuses on OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), a common TCP/IP routing protocol that provides robust and efficient routing support in the most demanding Internet environments. A methodical and detailed description of the protocol is offered and OSPF's role within the wider context of a TCP/IP network is demonstrated.

Practical throughout, the book provides not only a theoretical description of Internet routing, but also a real-world look into how theory translates into practice. It shows how algorithms are implemented, and how the routing protocols function in a working network where transmission lines and routers routinely break down.

You will find clear explanations of such routing fundamentals as how a router forwards packets, IP addressing, CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing), the routing table, Internet routing architecture, and the two main routing technologies: Distance Vector and link-state algorithms. OSPF is discussed in depth, with an examination of the rationale behind OSPF's design decisions and how it has evolved to keep pace with the rapidly changing Internet environment. OSPF topics covered by the book include the following:
• OSPF areas and virtual links
• NBMA (Nonbroadcast multi-access) and Point-to-MultiPoint network segments
• OSPF configuration and management
• Interaction with other routing protocols
• OSPF cryptographic authentication
• OSPF protocol extensions, including theDemand Circuit extensions and the multicast extensions to OSPF (MOSPF)
• An OSPF FAQ

IP multicast and multicast routing are also discussed. Methods for debugging routing problems are explained, including a catalog of available debugging tools. The book also offers side-by-side comparisons of all the unicast and multicast routing protocols currently in use in the Internet.

You will come away from this book with a sophisticated understanding of Internet routing and of the OSPF protocol in particular. Moreover, the book's practical focus will enable you to put this deeper understanding to work in your network environment.

Booknews

Written for TCP/IP network administrators, protocol designers, and network application developers, this introductory text explains the inner workings of the OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) TCP/IP routing protocol for the Internet. Topics covered include: OSBF virtual links, NBMA (nonbroadcast multi-access) network segments, interactions with other routing protocols, and protocol extensions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures

Author: Deepankar Medhi

Network routing can be broadly categorized into Internet routing, PSTN routing, and telecommunication transport network routing. This book systematically considers these routing paradigms, as well as their interoperability. The authors discuss how algorithms, protocols, analysis, and operational deployment impact these approaches. A unique feature of the book is consideration of both macro-state and micro-state in routing; that is, how routing is accomplished at the level of networks and how routers or switches are designed to enable efficient routing.

In reading this book, one will learn about 1) the evolution of network routing, 2) the role of IP and E.164 addressing in routing, 3) the impact on router and switching architectures and their design, 4) deployment of network routing protocols, 5) the role of traffic engineering in routing, and 6) lessons learned from implementation and operational experience. This book explores the strengths and weaknesses that should be considered during deployment of future routing schemes as well as actual implementation of these schemes. It allows the reader to understand how different routing strategies work and are employed and the connection between them. This is accomplished in part by the authors' use of numerous real-world examples to bring the material alive.

. Bridges the gap between theory and practice in network routing, including the fine points of implementation and operational experience
. Routing in a multitude of technologies discussed in practical detail, including, IP/MPLS, PSTN, and optical networking
. Routing protocols such as OSPF, IS-IS, BGP presented in detail
. A detailed coverage of variousrouter and switch architectures
. A comprehensive discussion about algorithms on IP-lookup and packet classification
. Accessible to a wide audience due to its vendor-neutral approach
. CD-ROM with bonus chapters on advanced topics

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Part I: Packet Routing / Part II: Circuitswitched (Voice) Routing / Part III: Transport Routing / Part IV: Router and Switching Architecture / Part V: Integrated Routing & New Directions

Lotus Notes and Domino 6 Programming Bible or Fixing Windows XP Annoyances

Lotus Notes and Domino 6 Programming Bible

Author: Brian Benz

* Covers all the programming techniques, concepts, and languages used with Notes and Domino, as well as the many new features of Domino 6
* Thoroughly examines the Notes and Domino role with Java, XML, Web services, and other IBM products and technologies
* Provides extensive code and examples, many geared to the needs of administrators
* High-profile authors, known to their audience through conferences and articles
* Companion Web site shows example applications from the book running on a live Domino server and provides code download

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Introduction to Lotus Notes and Domino	1
Ch. 1	The History of Notes and Domino	3
Ch. 2	A Simple Application	9
Ch. 3	The Notes Storage Model	19
Ch. 4	Application Building Blocks	47
Pt. II	Domino Designer	61
Ch. 5	The Designer IDE	63
Ch. 6	Managing and Deploying Application Projects	75
Ch. 7	Standard Templates	87
Pt. III	Application Architecture	93
Ch. 8	Page and Form Basics	95
Ch. 9	Views and Folders	123
Ch. 10	Database Security	137
Ch. 11	Framesets and Outlines	145
Ch. 12	Advanced Form Design	159
Ch. 13	Database Properties	173
Ch. 14	Sharing Code with Libraries	189
Pt. IV	Automating Applications	201
Ch. 15	Formulas in Forms and Views	203
Ch. 16	Actions, Buttons, and Action Hotspots	223
Ch. 17	Form, View, and Database Events	233
Ch. 18	Agents	247
Ch. 19	Web Applications	263
Ch. 20	Mail-Enabled Applications	275
Ch. 21	Document Security	285
Ch. 22	Workflow Management	291
Pt. V	Formula Language Techniques	305
Ch. 23	Introduction to the Formula Language	307
Ch. 24	Working with @Functions	313
Ch. 25	Introduction to @Commands	335
Ch. 26	Using the Formula Language to Retrieve Data	353
Ch. 27	User Interaction through the Formula Language	369
Ch. 28	Advanced Formula Techniques	385
Pt. VI	LotusScript Language Techniques	401
Ch. 29	Introduction to LotusScript	403
Ch. 30	Working with the Domino Object Model in LotusScript	423
Ch. 31	Advanced LotusScript Techniques	469
Pt. VII	Java Techniques	511
Ch. 32	Java and Domino Designer	513
Ch. 33	Java Classes and Methods	519
Ch. 34	Accessing Domino from Java Applications	531
Ch. 35	Java Servlets for Domino	545
Ch. 36	Java Servlets Using Third-Party Developer Tools	561
Ch. 37	Domino Custom JSP Tags	575
Ch. 38	Domino and WebSphere	587
Pt. VIII	JavaScript Techniques	599
Ch. 39	JavaScript Basics	601
Ch. 40	Using JavaScript Events	615
Ch. 41	DHTML and Domino	637
Ch. 42	Combining Domino and Java Applets Using JavaScript	657
Pt. IX	Relational Database Integration	667
Ch. 43	Integrating Enterprise Data with Domino Applications	669
Ch. 44	Developing Domino Applications for Data Integration	685
Ch. 45	LEI Retrievals and Updates	699
Pt. X	XML	715
Ch. 46	XML and Domino	717
Ch. 47	XML, DXL, and Domino Data	725
Ch. 48	LotusScript and XML	741
Ch. 49	Using Domino to Serve Relational XML	751
Ch. 50	Developing Java Applications with XML and Domino	763
Ch. 51	Generating XML with Domino Java Agents and Servlets	781
Ch. 52	Getting XML into Domino	815
Ch. 53	Transforming XML with XSLT	839
Ch. 54	XML Data Islands	857
Pt. XI	Web Services	867
Ch. 55	Web Services Introduction	869
Ch. 56	SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI	879
Ch. 57	Serving Web Services from Domino	891
Ch. 58	Consuming Web Services in Notes Client Applications	913
	Index	927

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Fixing Windows XP Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things about the Windows OS

Author: David Karp

Windows XP is the most popular operating system on the planet--and the most annoying. From incomprehensible error messages to inexplicable crashes, from wonky wireless setups to just finding a file, Windows can make your computing life a nightmare. But thanks to "Fixing Windows XP Annoyances, you can banish the bugs, speed up operations, and just make Windows work right.
Inspired by author David Karp's "Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks, this all-new tome pulls together tips, tricks, insider workarounds, and fixes for PC novices and pros, in a handy, accessible Q&A format that lets you find the solutions in a flash. "Fixing Windows XP Annoyances will not only increase your productivity but lower your blood pressure. Karp's new book covers:
Setup and Hardware-Update Windows, reinstall Windows safely, speed up start up, resolve driver-hardware conflicts, and more.
Windows Interface-Navigate quickly, fix screen resolution problems, customize the desktop, and switch applications more quickly.
Windows Explorer-Force XP's file & folder management application to remember your view settings, save your default application choices, and get XP's Search tool to behave.
Multimedia-Having a problem playing a video or burning a CD? Want to do more with your digital photo collection? We have the answers.
Web and Email-Get a handle on spyware, spam and pop-ups; protect your privacy online; learn how to improve your online experience.
Wireless and Home Networking-Connect all your PCs; share Internet connections; share files and drives securely; make your wireless network purr; share network printers; and more.
If you're having a problem, just look through theTable of Contents for the annoyance that most closely matches your problem, or feel free to start thumbing through the pages. You'll likely find a fix to a problem you didn't even know could be solved.

C Gotchas or Web Standards Solutions

C++ Gotchas: Avoiding Common Problems in Coding and Design

Author: Stephen Dewhurst

"This may well be the best C++ book I have ever read. I was surprised by the amount I learned."

--Matthew Wilson, Development Consultant, Synesis Software

C++ Gotchas is the professional programmer's guide to avoiding and correcting ninety-nine of the most common, destructive, and interesting C++ design and programming errors. It also serves as an inside look at the more subtle C++ features and programming techniques.

This book discusses basic errors present in almost all C++ code, as well as complex mistakes in syntax, preprocessing, conversions, initialization, memory and resource management, polymorphism, class design, and hierarchy design. Each error and its repercussions are explained in context, and the resolution of each problem is detailed and demonstrated.

Author Stephen Dewhurst supplies readers with idioms and design patterns that can be used to generate customized solutions for common problems. Readers will also learn more about commonly misunderstood features of C++ used in advanced programming and design. A companion Web site, located at . All such code is indicated in the text by an abbreviated pathname near the code example, as in >>gotcha00/somecode.cp

Finally, a warning: the one thing you should not do with gotchas is elevate them to the same status as idioms or patterns. One of the signs that you're using patterns and idioms properly is that the pattern or idiom appropriate to the design or coding context will arise "spontaneously" from your subconscious just when you need it.

Recognition of a gotcha is analogous to a conditioned response to danger: onceburned, twice shy. However, as with matches and firearms, it's not necessary to suffer a burn or a gunshot wound to the head personally to learn how to recognize and avoid a dangerous situation; generally, all that's necessary is advance warning. Consider this collection a means to keep your head in the face of C++ gotchas.

Stephen C. Dewhurst
Carver, Massachusetts
July 2002


0321125185P11072002

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Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook

Author: Dan Cederholm

Web Standards, created and enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers use the same technology syntax, no matter what language they script in. Web Standards ensure the net stays neat, preventing the chaos that would emerge with inconsistent code. These standards also increase content compatibility among varying viewing devices, from screen readers for people with vision impairments, to cell phones, PDAs and more. Web standards are applied to code in HTML, XML and CSS.

Cederholm's book explains how to create markup and style, exploring multiple techniques for handling situations when building with Web Standards. In this easy-to-read book, each chapter provides "extra credit" sections, giving you bonus tips and tricks, and empowering you to make better decisions based with well-rounded information.

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I really think it does a fantastic job at keeping the reader interested in the subject (something that is often very hard to do in technical books) and will definitely be a great business tool for you. A quick read it is, but a valuable reference that has earned a spot next to my keyboard, my 3 bars of caffeinated soap, and the trusty case of bawls.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Lists	1
Ch. 2	Headings	15
Ch. 3	Tables are evil?	29
Ch. 4	Quotations	51
Ch. 5	Forms	63
Ch. 6	, , and other phrase elements	81
Ch. 7	Anchors	95
Ch. 8	More lists	109
Ch. 9	Minimizing markup	123
Ch. 10	Applying CSS	137
Ch. 11	Print styles	153
Ch. 12	CSS layouts	165
Ch. 13	Styling text	191
Ch. 14	Image replacement	203
Ch. 15	Styling	223
Ch. 16	Next steps	233

Microsoft Excel Version 2002 Step by Step or Battlefield

Microsoft Excel Version 2002 Step by Step

Author: Curtis Fry

Microsoft Excel provides one of the most complete sets of analysis tools in any spreadsheet. Excel version 2002 simplifies existing features and offers new tools that help the user work faster and smarter, with better Web integration and collaboration capabilities, and comprehensive tools for creating and analyzing, and sharing spreadsheet information. Microsoft Excel Version 2002 Step by Step offers self-paced instruction to the beginning-to-advanced user who wants to get the most out of Excel Version 2002-and prepare for Microsoft Office User (MOUS) certification. This personal training system offers easy-to-follow lessons full of clear objectives, a wealth of task-oriented procedures, and dozens of real-world business scenarios. Each Step by Step title consists of friendly, straightforward instruction with dozens of full-color screenshots and illustrations to help you learn exactly what you need to know at your own pace. A companion CD-ROM includes practice files that are tightly integrated with the lessons, plus movie-style demonstrations of key procedures. Other features include a "QuickLook Guide" for easy visual navigation, a "Finding the Best Starting Point for You" section to help you decide how to get the most out of the book, and a special lay-flat binding to keep the book open during lessons.

Booknews

This instruction book for Microsoft Excel offers help organizing, processing, and presenting data. It also doubles as a study guide for the Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) exam. Sixteen chapters cover topics like setting up a workbook, performing calculations, changing document appearance, data filters, reordering and summarizing data, analyzing alternative data sets, creating charts, printing, automating repetitive tasks, using databases, and publishing information on the Web. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Battlefield: Bad Company: Prima Official Game Guide

Author: Michael Knight

* Maps detailed with the locations of all gold and collectibles!
* Complete walkthroughs for each mission, including alternate strategies.
* Battlefield-tested combat tactics. Our guide shows the best ways to use demolition to your tactical advantage.
* Deadly weapons information for all kits. Know which armament is the right tool for the job!
* Offensive and defensive multiplayer strategies to help you get the edge in online play.

Free Preview includes: Weapons and Items lists as well as Acta Non Verba walkthrough.

Table of Contents:

WELCOME TO B-COMPANY
BASIC TRAINING
INFANTRY
THE MOTOR POOL
WELCOME TO BAD COMPANY
ACTA NON VERBA
CROSSING OVER
PAR FOR THE COURSE
AIR FORCE ONE
CRASH AND GRAB
GHOST TOWN
MULTIPLAYER
XBOX 360 ACHIEVEMENTS

JavaScript for Dummies or PCs Just the Steps for Dummies

JavaScript for Dummies (Dummies Series)

Author: Emily A Vander Veer

• Responding to reader feedback, the author has thoroughly revamped the book with more step-by-step coverage of JavaScript basics, an exclusive focus on Internet Explorer, and many complete sample scripts

• Updated to cover JavaScript 1.5, the latest release of this popular Web scripting language

• Using lots of examples, including a sample working Web site, the book shows how to create dynamic and interactive pages, build entire sites, and automate pages

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PCs Just the Steps for Dummies

Author: Nancy C Muir

Your first PC can be intimidating. You’re probably panicky that you’ll hit a wrong key and send your information to some high-tech black hole or cause your PC to self-destruct. Not to worry. PCs Just the Steps For Dummies gives you simple directions for getting stuff done with your PC—everything from turning it on to using the Internet or a network. The book’s design features two columns, with numbered step-by-step instructions on one side and corresponding illustrations, screen shots, or photos on the other. You just pick the task you want to do and look up practical, no-nonsense how-to. This guide covers:

• Hardware basics and peripherals, including printers, faxes, and scanners

• Working with Windows XP, including managing memory and working with files and folders

• Working with sound and video

• Going online, searching the Web with Internet Explorer, and e-mailing with Outlook Express

• Networking, including configuration and connection and sharing folders or printers

• Protecting and troubleshooting your PC

With practical organization and a task-oriented approach, this book will have you inspired instead of intimidated. You won’t get an unabridged history of computers and a lot of gibberish; you will get clear, easy-to-follow instructions that help you get your tasks done efficiently on your PC.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	Hardware basics	3
Ch. 1	First look at your PC	5
Ch. 2	Using discs and drives	11
Ch. 3	Working with input devices	17
Ch. 4	Setting up accessibility features	23
Ch. 5	Working with printers, faxes, and scanners	29
Ch. 6	Setting up your laptop	39
Pt. II	The brains of the beast	45
Ch. 7	Working with Windows XP	47
Ch. 8	Managing memory	61
Ch. 9	Setting up software	67
Ch. 10	Working with files and folders	75
Ch. 11	Exploring Windows assets	87
Pt. III	Working with your display, multimedia, and graphics	101
Ch. 12	Setting up your display	103
Ch. 13	Working with sound	115
Ch. 14	Working with digital imaging and video	127
Pt. IV	Going online	137
Ch. 15	Accessing the Internet	139
Ch. 16	Browsing the Web with Internet Explorer	149
Ch. 17	Exchanging e-mail with Outlook Express	161
Pt. V	Networking	177
Ch. 18	Setting up a network	179
Ch. 19	Connecting across a network	191
Pt. VI	Security and troubleshooting	199
Ch. 20	Making Windows XP secure	201
Ch. 21	Troubleshooting hardware problems	209
Ch. 22	Troubleshooting software problems	217

Virtual Art or Introduction to Object COBOL

Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion

Author: Oliver Grau

Winner in the 2003 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Competition in the Jackets category.

Although many people view virtual reality as a totally new phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive images. Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In this book, Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of illusion and immersion. He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and relates those concepts to interactive art, interface design, agents, telepresence, and image evolution. Grau retells art history as media history, helping us to understand the phenomenon of virtual reality beyond the hype.

Grau shows how each epoch used the technical means available to produce maximum illusion. He discusses frescoes such as those in the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii and the gardens of the Villa Livia near Primaporta, Renaissance and Baroque illusion spaces, and panoramas, which were the most developed form of illusion achieved through traditional methods of painting and the mass image medium before film. Through a detailed analysis of perhaps the most important German panorama, Anton von Werner's 1883 The Battle of Sedan, Grau shows how immersion produced emotional responses. He traces immersive cinema through Cinerama, Sensorama, Expanded Cinema, 3-D, Omnimax and IMAX, and the head mounted display with its military origins. He also examines those characteristics of virtual reality that distinguish it from earlier forms of illusionary art. His analysis draws on the work of contemporary artists and groups ART+COM, Maurice Benayoun, Charlotte Davies, MonikaFleischmann, Ken Goldberg, Agnes Hegedues, Eduardo Kac, Knowbotic Research, Laurent Mignonneau, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny, Daniela Plewe, Paul Sermon, Jeffrey Shaw, Karl Sims, Christa Sommerer, and Wolfgang Strauss. Grau offers not just a history of illusionary space but also a theoretical framework for analyzing its phenomenologies, functions, and strategies throughout history and into the future.

Table of Contents:

	Series Foreword
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction	2
Ch. 2	Historic Spaces of Illusion	24
Ch. 3	The Panorama of the Battle of Sedan: Obedience through Presence	90
Ch. 4	Intermedia Stages of Virtual Reality in the Twentieth Century: Art as Inspiration of Evolving Media	140
Ch. 5	Virtual Art - Digital! The Natural Interface	192
Ch. 6	Spaces of Knowledge	212
Ch. 7	Telepresence: Art and History of an Idea	270
Ch. 8	Evolution	296
Ch. 9	Perspectives	338
	References	352
	Author Index	402
	Subject Index	408

Introduction to Object COBOL

Author: E Reed Dok

Are You Ready to Meet the Demand for Object COBOL Programming? Now you can keep up-to-date with the newest standards in COBOL. With its use of straightforward language and real-world examples, An Introduction To Object COBOL is a concise and accessible introduction to using Object COBOL. You'll discover how object technology is applied and how the resulting Object COBOL code is constructed. All of the programs included in the text can be downloaded from the Wiley web site (wiley.com/college/). You are encouraged to execute and experiment with them. As you work with these programs and follow the related case study, you will gain important experience in using Object COBOL in a business environment. Inside these pages you will:
* Keep up-to-date with the state-of-the-art in COBOL programming.
* Understand the relationship of object technology to the business environment.
* See how object technology is applied to real-life examples.
* Receive a non-technical introduction to object technology without the use of intensive vocabulary.

QuickBooks 2002 or Multimedia and Hypertext

QuickBooks 2002: The Official Guide

Author: Kathy Ivens

With Intuit's highly acclaimed QuickBooks 6.0 and this official guide, owners of almost any small business can create a customized accounting system designed to track cash, manage payroll, handle invoices, and more! From the get-go, you'll learn the quickest ways to set up and configure your accounts - and by the end of the book, you'll know how to work with inventory, create budgets, manage money online, and much more.

Library Journal

QuickBooks, a leader in simplified small- business accounting software, can nonetheless be confusing to set up and optimize. Authorized by the software's manufacturer, Intuit Inc., The Official Guide cuts through this confusion. Not only does it show how to use the program, but it also explains when and why to customize its features to make small business accounting simpler and more efficient. Useful for those setting up QuickBooks for the first time or those who are upgrading to the newest version. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

1	Using QuickBooks for the First Time	3
2	Setting Up Your Lists	29
3	Invoicing	67
4	Receiving Payments	103
5	Tracking Accounts Receivable	119
6	Entering Accounts Payable Bills	143
7	Paying Bills	163
8	Running Payroll	191
9	Government Payroll Reporting	211
10	Configuring and Tracking Inventory	225
11	Making Checkbook Adjustments	251
12	Reconciling Bank Accounts	275
13	Using Budgets	285
14	Using Journal Entries	297
15	Running General Ledger Reports	313
16	Using Online Banking Services	333
17	Year-End Procedures	351
18	Using Time Tracking	367
19	Using Timesheets for Payroll and Job Costing	387
20	Using the Onscreen Timer	395
21	Customizing QuickBooks	419
22	Managing Your QuickBooks Files	451
A	Do This First!	471
B	Installing QuickBooks	477
C	Glossary	485
D	Keyboard Shortcuts	489
E	Getting Help in QuickBooks	493
	Index	507

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Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond

Author: Jakob Nielsen

Based on his best-selling HyperText and HpyerMedia, Jakob Nielsen takes hypertext a step further--to the Internet. Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond explores new and developing applications in multimedia and hypertext as well as offering coverage of the use of HTML (hypertext markup language) and the World Wide Web with interfaces such as Mosaic and Netscape.

Features

• Includes a large number of richly illustrated examples of a wide variety of new hypermedia systems.
  
• Provides a range of strategies for overcoming information overload.
  
• Thorougly discusses a number of new applications, including distribution of hypertext tools via the Internet.
  
• Explains copyright issues for users and develeopers, and usability issues for hypertext.
  
• Forecasts the future of the field in the long and short term.

Business Process Management and the Balanced Scorecard or The Alignment Effect

Business Process Management and the Balanced Scorecard: Using Processes as Strategic Drivers

Author: Ralph Smith

Business Process Management and the Balanced Scorecard shows managers how to optimally use the balanced scorecard to achieve and sustain strategic success even as the business environment changes. It exceptionally fills the gap between theory and application to facilitate the use of processes as a strategic weapon to deliver world-class performance.

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The Alignment Effect: How to Get Real Business Value out of Technology

Author: Faisal Hoqu

ISBN: 0-13-044939-3 The cataclysmic end of the new economy signaled not only a stock market implosion but also a dramatic denouement in what was actually a decade-long history of "technology for the sake of technology." In retrospect, the revelation and return to rational thinking seem self-evident: how many executives, after all, would willingly throw millions of dollars at an investment without knowing how it could affect business? If we use history as a guide and tally up the waste, the answer is an unpalatable "a lot."

Now corporations are demanding the same accountability from their IT investments that they do from their other assets, as they hold technology initiatives to real, bottom-line business results. As any decision-maker charged with overseeing how technology affects the business and vice versa knows, get it right, and you're lionized as a savior; get it wrong, and you're cast out as a pariah.

In The Alignment Effect, Faisal Hoque combines proven guidance with object lessons from Fortune 500 executives and industry authorities to compellingly illustrate how corporations can align themselves through Business Technology Management, thereby increasing their efficiency and reducing the financial and operational risks that have long been associated with business and technology change.

"After billions upon billions of dollars and more than a decade, experience shows that failing to bring technology projects in line with business goals can have devastating consequences. Neither business vision alone nor technology alone is to blame. At the heart of this dilemma exists a costly and persistent disconnect that, regardless of industry, has vexed business and IT decision-makers alike. But, after all this time, how can companies right what is so obviously wrong?"

—Faisal Hoque

With insights contributed by key industry executives and thought leaders from around the globe:

Randolph C. Blazer

Chairman & CEO, KPMG Consulting, Inc.

Paul Daversa

President & CEO, Resource Systems Group

Patrick F. Flynn

VP & CIO, PACCAR, Inc.

Scott Hayward

Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase and Company

Dale Kutnick

Chairman, CEO, & Research Director, META Group, Inc.

Dr. Jerry Luftman

Best-selling author of Competing in the Information Age; Distinguished Service Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology

Chuck Martin

Best-selling author of Managing for the Short Term and Net Future; Former Associate Publisher, InformationWeek

Jack Mollen

SVP, Human Resources, EMC Corporation

Honorio Padron

President & CEO, Business Services, Exelon Corporation

Don Peppers

Best-selling author of the One to One book series; Founder & Partner, Peppers and Rogers Group

Chris Perretta

CIO, GE Capital, Card Services

Kevin Poulter

Head of Business Integration, British American Tobacco

Howard Smith

CTO, CSC Europe

Thomas Trainer

Former CIO, Citigroup, Inc., Eli Lilly & Co., and Reebok International Ltd.

Carl Wilson

EVP & CIO, Marriott International, Inc.

CIO Insight

In this soon-to-be-released guide to alignment strategy, the experiences of industry experts and Fortune 500 executives provide object lessons on the pitfalls of "technology for the sake of technology," while the author lays out the benefits of what he calls Business Technology Management (BTM) to help corporate decision-makers reduce risk and increase efficiency.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Faisal Hoque, a business technology expert, guides corporations through the challenges of business technology management by illustrating his guidance with lessons from many Fortune 500 executives and industry authorities. To help leaders get the most business value out of technology and increase their organizational efficiency, Hoque offers many ways for them to reduce the financial and operational risks that often accompany technological change in an interconnected business environment. Copyright (c) 2003 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

What People Are Saying

Charles B. Wang
The companies that will get ahead and stay ahead in today's interconnected business environment will be those that take control of technology, not those that let technology take control of them. Business leaders who want grab the reins and steer IT in the same direction as the rest of the business must read this book.
—Charles B. Wang, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Computer Associates International, Inc.

Chuck Martin
Top executives have realized for years that closing the gaping distance between technology and business can provide their organization with a strong, defensible, competitive advantage. However, knowing it and executing it are very different. The Alignment Effect finally clearly lays out a process of how to do it, and do it right.
—Chuck Martin, Author, Managing for the Short Term

Randolph Blazer
Faisal Hoque demonstrates that technology is no longer just the realm of engineers and programmers. The Alignment Effect challenges 'C' level executives to drive IT value and provides them the pathway to smart, integrated business decisions.
—Randolph C. Blazer, Chairman & CEO, KPMG Consulting, Inc.

Phil Fasasno
I found this book an enlightening and valuable read. The real world stories coupled with the author's interpretation of the CIO's business role, should make every business leader sit up and take notice. Everyone in a position of leadership should read this book before they set next year's IT budget.
—Phil Fasano, Senior Vice President, Global Technology Group, JP Morgan Chase and Company

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Real World Evidence	7
2	Approaching a Solution	27
3	Modeling, Collaboration, Reuse	47
4	The End-to-End Perspective	79
5	Business Model Definition	95
6	Process Optimization	115
7	Technology Automation	141
8	Direction and Control	171
9	Promise to Practice	195
	Conclusion	209
	Appendix	213
	References	225
	Contributors	231
	Index	237

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems or Programming Microsoft ASPNet 20 Core Reference

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems

Author: Efraim Turban

Appropriate for all courses in Decision Support Systems (DSS), computerized decision making tools, and management support systems.

 

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems 8e provides the only comprehensive, up-to-date guide to today's revolutionary management support system technologies, and showcases how they can be used for better decision-making. This completely revised and re-titled edition incorporates the expanded coverage of Business Intelligence and reflects  the emphasis that most decision support courses are now taking.

Books about: Chicken Fried Steak for the Soul or Poetical Cook Book

Programming Microsoft ASP.Net 2.0 Core Reference

Author: Dino Esposito

Delve into the core topics for ASP.NET 2.0 programming, mastering the essential skills and capabilities needed to build high-performance Web applications successfully. Well-known ASP.NET author Dino Esposito deftly builds your expertise with Web forms, Microsoft Visual Studio®, core controls, master pages, data access, data binding, state management, security services, and other must-know topics-combining definitive reference with practical, hands-on programming instruction. Packed with expert guidance and pragmatic examples, this CORE REFERENCE delivers the key resources you need to develop professional-level Web programming skills.

Table of Contents:

1	The ASP.NET programming model	3
2	Web development in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005	37
3	Anatomy of an ASP.NET page	79
4	ASP.NET core server controls	119
5	Working with the page	175
6	Rich page composition	219
7	ADO.NET data providers	263
8	ADO.NET data containers	319
9	The data-binding model	353
10	Creating bindable grids of data	413
11	Managing views of a record	467
12	The HTTP request context	501
13	State management	537
14	ASP.NET caching	591
15	ASP.NET security	647

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics or Spidering Hacks

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics

Author: James D Tisdall

With its highly developed capacity to detect patterns in data, Perl has become one of the most popular languages for biological data analysis. But if you're a biologist with little or no programming experience, starting out in Perl can be a challenge. Many biologists have a difficult time learning how to apply the language to bioinformatics. The most popular Perl programming books are often too theoretical and too focused on computer science for a non-programming biologist who needs to solve very specific problems.

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics is designed to get you quickly over the Perl language barrier by approaching programming as an important new laboratory skill, revealing Perl programs and techniques that are immediately useful in the lab. Each chapter focuses on solving a particular bioinformatics problem or class of problems, starting with the simplest and increasing in complexity as the book progresses. Each chapter includes programming exercises and teaches bioinformatics by showing and modifying programs that deal with various kinds of practical biological problems. By the end of the book you'll have a solid understanding of Perl basics, a collection of programs for such tasks as parsing BLAST and GenBank, and the skills to take on more advanced bioinformatics programming. Some of the later chapters focus in greater detail on specific bioinformatics topics. This book is suitable for use as a classroom textbook, for self-study, and as a reference.

The book covers:

• Programming basics and working with DNA sequences and strings
• Debugging your code
• Simulating gene mutationsusing random number generators
• Regular expressions and finding motifs in data
• Arrays, hashes, and relational databases
• Regular expressions and restriction maps
• Using Perl to parse PDB records, annotations in GenBank, and BLAST output

Interesting textbook: The Partridge and A Pear or Desserts

Spidering Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Techniques

Author: Kevin Hemenway

The Internet, with its profusion of information, has made us hungry for ever more, ever better data. Out of necessity, many of us have become pretty adept with search engine queries, but there are times when even the most powerful search engines aren't enough. If you've ever wanted your data in a different form than it's presented, or wanted to collect data from several sites and see it side-by-side without the constraints of a browser, then Spidering Hacks is for you.

Spidering Hacks takes you to the next level in Internet data retrieval--beyond search engines--by showing you how to create spiders and bots to retrieve information from your favorite sites and data sources. You'll no longer feel constrained by the way host sites think you want to see their data presented--you'll learn how to scrape and repurpose raw data so you can view in a way that's meaningful to you.

Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, you'll collect media files and data from databases. Then you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content. By the time you finish Spidering Hacks, you'll be able to:

Aggregate and associate data from disparate locations, then store and manipulate the data as you like

Gain a competitive edge in business by knowing whencompetitors' products are on sale, and comparing sales ranks and product placement on e-commerce sites

Integrate third-party data into your own applications or web sites

Make your own site easier to scrape and more usable to others

Keep up-to-date with your favorite comics strips, news stories, stock tips, and more without visiting the site every day

Like the other books in O'Reilly's popular Hacks series, Spidering Hacks brings you 100 industrial-strength tips and tools from the experts to help you master this technology. If you're interested in data retrieval of any type, this book provides a wealth of data for finding a wealth of data.

Table of Contents:

	Credits
	Preface
Ch. 1	Walking Softly	1
Ch. 2	Assembling a Toolbox	21
Ch. 3	Collecting Media Files	99
Ch. 4	Gleaning Data from Databases	141
Ch. 5	Maintaining Your Collections	349
Ch. 6	Giving Back to the World	363
	Index	391

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 or Schaums Outline of Digital Signal Processing

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003: Administrator's Companion

Author: Steven D Kaczmarek

Deliver mission-critical software and updates-and help maximize your organization's productivity-with the essential guide to planning, deploying, and maintaining Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003. This comprehensive administrator's reference drills into SMS features and capabilities for change and configuration management for Microsoft Windows®-based desktop and server systems, providing easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for everyday, on-the-job results. The author, an SMS expert who has written extensively about the technology, provides in-depth information for remotely installing, administering, diagnosing, and troubleshooting applications, and deploying patches, monitoring system usage, and tracking assets-must-know details for protecting and optimizing your technology investment.

Interesting textbook: Martha Stewarts Menus for Entertaining or Chardonnay

Schaum's Outline of Digital Signal Processing

Author: Monson H Hayes

Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?

Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.

This Schaum's Outline gives you

• Practice problems with full explanations that reinforce knowledge
  
• Coverage of the most up-to-date developments in your course field
  
• In-depth review of practices and applications
  

Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!

Schaum's Outlines-Problem Solved.

Table of Contents:

Signals and Systems.
Fourier Analysis.
Sampling. The Z-Transform.
Transform Analysis of Systems.
The DFT.
The Fast Fourier Transform.
Implementation of Discrete-Time Systems.
Filter Design.

How to Market and Sell Your Art Music Photographs and Handmade Crafts Online or Mastering Algorithms with C

How to Market and Sell Your Art, Music, Photographs, and Handmade Crafts Online: Turn Your Hobby into a Cash Machine

Author: Lee Rowley

You already paint, record, take photographs, or make unique creations, so why not make money by selling them online? You have a marketable product and you can make money.

Learn the secrets to becoming an online entrepreneur by reading this book. Here, you will learn about online galleries, designing your Web site cyber stores, arts and crafts search engines, publicity sources, online forums, auction sites, online marketing, e-mail marketing, and search engine marketing. You also will learn dozens of Web sites on which you can sell your artwork, music, or crafts.

You no longer have to sit around your house wondering what to do with your creations. Thanks to the Internet, you are on equal ground with any retailer. With the help of this book, you will learn how to create a low-cost marketing plan that will allow you to sell your products for profit without spending a lot of time. This book teaches you tricks and secrets from the professionals who use the Internet daily to sell their unique products.

Table of Contents:

Introduction     5
Why Sell Online?     11
The Basics: What You Will Need to Sell Your Products Online     21
Creating a Web Site: Establishing Your Presence in the Virtual World     41
Content, Content, Content: Attracting Visitors to Your Web Site     59
Link Building     101
Outsourcing: What To Do If You Are Not A Writer     111
Getting Your Web Site Into Search Engines & Directories     123
Software & Web Services for Running Your Business: The Tools of Success     131
Using Online Social Marketing to Build Your Clientele     159
E-mail & Newsletter Marketing     173
Using eBay Auctions to Promote & Sell Your Art     183
Selling Your Art Online: Your Own Virtual Gallery     205
Selling Your Handmade Crafts Online: Marketing Your Unique Creations     211
Selling Your Music Online: Bringing Your Music to the Masses     215
Selling Your Photographs Online: Meeting the Demand for Unique Images     221
Payment, Packaging, & Shipping Considerations     237
Conclusion     247
Resources     249
Case Studies     253
Author Dedication & Biography     271
Glossary     273
Index     287

Look this: Beyond Bilateralism or Geography and Ownership as Bases for Economic Accounting

Mastering Algorithms with C

Author: Kyle Loudon

There are many books on data structures and algorithms, and some books laying out useful libraries of C functions, but this book aims to give you a unique combination of theoretical background and working code. In offering robust solutions for everyday programming tasks, Mastering Algorithms with C avoids the abstract style of most classic data structures and algorithms texts but still provides all the information you need to understand the purpose and use of common programming techniques.

Implementations, as well as interesting, real-world examples of each data structure and algorithm, are shown in the text. Full source code appears on the accompanying disk.

Using both a programming style and a writing style that are exceptionally clean, Kyle Loudon shows you how to use such essential data structures as lists, stacks, queues, sets, trees, heaps, priority queues, and graphs. He shows you how to use algorithms for sorting, searching, numerical analysis, data compression, data encryption, common graph problems, and computational geometry. He also describes the relative efficiency of all implementations. The compression and encryption chapters not only give you working code for reasonably efficient solutions, they explain concepts in an approachable manner for people who never have had the time or expertise to study them in depth.

Anyone with a basic understanding of the C language can use this book. In order to provide maintainable and extendible code, an extra level of abstraction (such as pointers to functions) is used in examples where appropriate. Understanding that these techniques may be unfamiliar to some programmers, Loudon explains them clearly in the introductory chapters.

Contents include:

• Pointers
• Recursion
• Analysis of algorithms
• Data structures (lists, stacks, queues, sets, hash tables, trees, heaps, priority queues, graphs,)
• Sorting and searching
• Numerical methods
• Data compression
• Data encryption
• Graph algorithms
• Geometric algorithms

Library Journal

Although older than some of the current languages, C still is one of the best general purpose programming languages around. Loudon's book discusses C pointers, recursion, data structures from lists and stacks to trees and graphs, sorting and searching, and encryption. This is not a beginner's manual but will work well for programmers wanting to refresh their C techniques and for those moving from another language to C. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Web Stores Do It Yourself For Dummies or Canon EOS 30D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

Web Stores Do-It-Yourself For Dummies

Author: Joel Elad

Are you excited about opening your Web store, but a little intimidated too? Relax! Web Stores Do-It-Yourself For Dummies is her to guide you step by step through the whole process. You’ll find the easiest and best ways to choose a provider, sign up with payment processors, and open for business in no time.

This make-it-happen guide for online entrepreneurs walks you through the process of opening an account, designing your store for easy shopping, creating a catalog that shoppers can’t resist processing orders and payments efficiently, and much more. You’ll find the best ways to choose merchandise, establish store information, create a skype phone number, develop store policies, and reach the customers you want. Discover how to:

• Pick products that will really sell

• Find and evaluate storefront providers

• Establish payment options

• Accept credit card payments safely

• Lay out your design from the ground up

• Set up a catalog of goods

• Arrange for shipping

• Incorporate the best practices of super-selling sites

• Keep your store up to date

• Put your Web store at the hub of your sales

• Fine-tune before you open

• Take advantage of search engines and pay-per-click campaigns

Complete with lists of the top ten things every Web store needs, tips for designing your store, and traps to avoid while building and running your store, Web Stores Do-It-Yourself For Dummies makes opening your Web store fast, fun, and simple!

New interesting book: Walking Games and Activities or Dietary Reference Intakes for Water Potassium Sodium Chloride and Sulfate

Canon EOS 30D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

Author: David D Busch

If you own a digital SLR camera, then you're serious about photography. As an avid photographer, you owe it to yourself to make the most out of your cutting-edge equipment. Somewhere between the tedious user manual full of technical garble and the generic how to digital photography books is the ideal guide to your EOS 30D. Welcome to that guide! Canon EOS 30D Guide to Digital SLR Photography provides you with a concise introduction to the most important features specific to your EOS 30D, explaining not only how to use them but also why and when. Filled with full-color images to illustrate results in various settings, this book also helps you enhance your digital photography skills with techniques specific to the EOS 30D.

Table of Contents:

Introduction Chapter 1: Quick Tour: Shooting Your First EOS 30D Picture Chapter 2: The Canon EOS 30D Roadmap Chapter 3: Setting Up Your EOS 30D Chapter 4: Shooting Basics Chapter 5: Photography with your EOS 30D Chapter 6: Working with Lenses Chapter 7: Working with Light Chapter 8: Downloading and Editing Chapter 9: Troubleshooting Your Canon EOS 30D Glossary Index

PERL for Exploring DNA or 303 Digital Filmmaking Solutions

Perl for Exploring DNA

Author: Mark D LeBlanc

This book presents Perl programming with a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective for the bioinformatics classroom. The co-authors are a professor of computer science and a professor of biology who collaborate in developing software for DNA sequence analysis. A specialty of the authors is encouraging interdisciplinary undergraduate research. The book has been tested in the classroom as a text for both biology and computer science majors. Benefiting from years of teaching experience in both computer science and biology, the authors use an exceptionally friendly and pedagogically sound introduction to Perl that emphasizes good programming practices throughout. Concepts include a rich introduction to working with strings and files of sequence data, control structures, subroutines, and data structures (e.g., arrays and hash tables). A particularly unique feature of the text is the early and repeated exposure to and use of regular expressions in sequence analysis. All examples in the book are applied to biological sequence analysis (DNA analysis, Protein analysis). The full-length book is appropriate for majors in either computer science or biology and especially relevant for new interdisciplinary courses involving students from multiple disciplines.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Explorations and Indexes     3
Essential First Steps: Installing Perl Plus a Programming Environment     13
Your First Perl Programs with a Focus on String Analysis     17
String Play with Regular Expressions     47
Using Perl to Do Calculations     77
Making Decisions Over and Over Again with Perl's if and while     93
Subroutines     117
Accessing Files of Sequences from Databases     135
Arrays     151
Hash Tables     179
Phrasing Questions by Writing Algorithms     203
Regular Expressions Revisited     217
Understanding Randomness     233
Modules     247
Conclusions     259
How to Isolate DNA from Strawberries     261
Bioinformatics as Part of the Solution     263
Bibliography     265
Index     267

New interesting book: Tai CHI Boxing Chronicle or Overcoming the Emotional Challenges of Lymphedema

303 Digital Filmmaking Solutions: Solve Any Video Shoot or Edit Problem in 10 Minutes or Less

Author: Chuck Gloman

With the advent of digital video cameras, anyone can shoot and produce a video for very little money -- in fact, hundreds of thousands of people are doing so. When video photographers look for guidance, they don't want to read a big book cover to cover -- they want help on their particular problem immediately.

This compendium of solutions is designed to allow anyone to dig into each problem category and quickly find the necessary guidance. Each solution is 2-5 pages in length, most with at least one photo or diagram illustrating the situation. With the help of this book, even a complete neophyte can take advantage of Chuck Gloman’s 22 years in the video trenches and use hard-earned trade secrets to make their videos look professional.

Chuck Gloman has been an independent producer, videographer, director, and editor with experience in all areas of video--from commercial production (800 to date) to corporate training (450 to date). A resident of York, Pennsylvania, he is a regular contributor to Videography, Mix, Television Broadcast, and Government Video.

MCSA MCSE Exam 70 291 Study Guide and Dvd Training System or Novell Netware 65 CNA Exam Cram 2

MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-291 Study Guide and Dvd Training System: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure

Author: Syngress

Syngress Study Guides guarantee comprehensive coverage of all exam objectives. There are no longer any short cuts or gimmicks that allow candidates to pass Microsoft's new, more rigorous exams. The days of cramming to become a "paper MCSE" are over; candidates must have a full grasp of all core concepts and plenty of hands-on experience to become certified. This book provides complete coverage of Microsoft Exam 70-291 and features one-of-a-kind integration of text, DVD-quality instructor-led training, and Web-based exam simulation and remediation, this study guide & DVD training system gives students 100% coverage of official Microsoft exam objectives plus realistic test prep. The System package consists of:
1) STUDY GUIDE. 800 pages of coverage explicitly organized in the identical structure of Microsoft's exam objectives. Sections are designed to "standalone", allowing readers to focus on those areas in which they are weakest and skim topics they may have already mastered.
2) DVD: A full hour of instructor-led training, complete with on-screen configurations and networking schematics, demystifying the toughest exam topics.
3) ONLINE PRACTICE EXAMS AND E-BOOK. Most exam candidates indicate that PRACTICE EXAMS are their single most valuable exam prep tool. Buyers of our Study Guides have immediate access to our exam simulations located at SYNGRESS.COM/SOLUTIONS. Syngress practice exams are highly regarded for rigor or the questions, the extensive explanation of the right AND wrong answers, and the direct hyperlinks from the exams to appropriate sections in the e-book for remediation.

Readers will be fully prepared to pass the exam based on our 100% Certifiedguarantee.
Readers may save thousands of dollars required to purchase alternative methods of exam preparation.
Because of its breadth of coverage, this book will serve as a post-certification reference for IT professionals.

Book review: Ultimate Cabbage Soup Diet or Rheumatoid Arthritis

Novell Netware 6.5 CNA Exam Cram 2

Author: Warren E Wyrostek

The Certified Novell Administrator (CNA) certification is the frist step to becoming Novell certified. To pass this important exam, you need to surround yourself with the most comprehensive, exam-focused materials on the market. That's where Novell Netware 6.5 CNA Exam Cram 2 comes in. You will be able to focus your knowledge with this guide, which emphasizes the learning topics of the CNA exam and closely follows the exam objectives. Step-by-step lessons offer the no-nonsense, straight-forward information needed to pass the exam. It is accompanied by a CD-ROM that features a fully customizable PrepLogic practice test engine with a detailed score report. Prepare for the CNA with the smartest, most efficient way to study - the Novell Netware 6.5 CNA Exam Cram 2.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	The Novell certifications	1
Ch. 2	Introduction to networking, network administration, and NetWare 6.5	9
Ch. 3	Installing and configuring NetWare 6.5	25
Ch. 4	Installing and configuring the Novell Client	69
Ch. 5	Introduction to eDirectory	89
Ch. 6	Introduction to the NetWare 6.5 file system	113
Ch. 7	Basic management tasks - eDirectory and file system	133
Ch. 8	File system security	167
Ch. 9	eDirectory security	203
Ch. 10	NetWare 6.5 network security	231
Ch. 11	NetWare 6.5 printing	253
Ch. 12	iFolder and Virtual Office	279
Ch. 13	Practice exam 1	307
Ch. 14	Answer key for practice exam 1	323
Ch. 15	Practice exam 2	343
Ch. 16	Answer key for practice exam 2	357
App. A	NetWare 6.5 port reference
App. B	NetWare 6.5 file system : effective rights practice scenarios
App. C	Workstation utilities

Access Denied or Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model Second Edition

Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

Author: Ronald J Deibert

Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information--often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion--that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study of this accelerating trend.

Internet filtering takes place in at least forty states worldwide including many countries in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. Related Internet content control mechanisms are also in place in Canada, the United States and a cluster of countries in Europe. Drawing on a just-completed survey of global Internet filtering undertaken by the OpenNet Initiative (a collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, and the University of Cambridge) and relying on work by regional experts and an extensive network of researchers, Access Denied examines the political, legal, social, and cultural contexts of Internet filtering in these states from a variety of perspectives. Chapters discuss the mechanisms and politics of Internet filtering, the strengths and limitations of the technology that powers it, the relevance of international law, ethical considerations for corporations that supply states with the tools for blocking and filtering, and the implications of Internet filtering for activist communities that increasingly rely on Internet technologies for communicating their missions.

Reports on Internet content regulation in fortydifferent countries follow, with each country profile outlining the types of content blocked by category and documenting key findings.

Contributors:

Ross Anderson, Malcolm Birdling, Ronald Deibert, Robert Faris, Vesselina Haralampieva, Steven Murdoch, Helmi Noman, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Mary Rundle, Nart Villeneuve, Stephanie Wang, and Jonathan Zittrain

Interesting book: Metodi di ricerca per il commercio: Un metodo della costruzione di abilit�

Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model, Second Edition

Author: Walter Oney

The Microsoft Windows driver model (WDM) supports Plug and Play, provides power management capabilities, and expands on the driver/minidriver approach. Written by long-time device-driver expert Walter Oney in cooperation with the Windows kernel team, this book provides extensive practical examples, illustrations, advice, and line-by-line analysis of code samples to clarify real-world driver-programming issues. It's also been updated with the latest details about the driver technologies in Windows XP and Windows 2000, plus more information about how to debug drivers.

MCTS 70 620 Exam Cram or Star Ocean

MCTS 70-620 Exam Cram: Microsoft Windows Vista Client Configuration [Exam Cram Series]

Author: Patrick Regan

Covers the critical information you need to know to score higher on your 70-620 exam!

• Understand the various editions of Windows Vista.
• Install and upgrade Windows Vista.
• Configure network connectivity including configuring IPv4, IPv6, and the Network and Sharing Center.
• Configure and troubleshoot Windows security features including User Account Control, Windows Defender, dynamic security for Internet Explorer 7, and Windows Firewall.
• Configure Windows Vista user applications including Windows Mail, Meeting Space, Calendar, Fax and
• Scan, and Windows Sidebar.
• Configure Windows Vista Media Player and Media Center.
• Configure parental controls.
• Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues.
• Configure and troubleshoot mobile computing.

Patrick Regan has been a PC technician, network administrator/engineer, design architect, and security analyst for the past 16 years. He has taught many computer and network classes at local Sacramento colleges and participated in and led many IT projects throughout his career. He is currently a senior network engineer at Pacific Coast Companies, where he supports 160 servers and 70 sites. He holds many certifications including the Microsoft MCSE, MCSA, and MCT; CompTIA's A+, Network+, Server+, Linux+, Security+, and CTT+; Cisco CCNA; Novell's CNE; and CWNP Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA). CD Features 200 Practice Questions!

• Detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers
• Multiple test modes
• Random questions and order of answers
• Coverage of each 70-620 exam objective

Books about: Desperation Entertaining or Pig Perfect

Star Ocean: First Departure Official Strategy Guide

Author: Brady Games Staff

Help Save Planet Roak

An unknown power threatens to hurl the planet Roak into a new age of civilization. Is it the will of the gods, or simply fate? Whatever it may be, the human race continues to advance into the great unknown, into what they call[el]the Star Ocean.

 

Walkthrough & Boss Fights

Detailed tactics to lead players through every area in the game. Area Maps illustrate every important item and Private Action. Plus, game-tested strategies to defeat every boss!

 

Character Analysis

Learn how to recruit every character! Complete rundown of each character’s special arts and spells. Learn when characters can acquire them and their devastating effects.

 

Bestiary

Statistical breakdown of every foe in the game. Each foe’s strengths and weaknesses are revealed, plus other key information.

 

Coverage of All Extra Quests

Take part in the Battle Arena, learn about every Private Action, and discover the extra dungeon.

 

Item & Equipment Data

Listing of every weapon, armor, and accessory in the game.

 

Skill Data

Extensive breakdown of all Talents, Skills, Specialties, and Super Specialties. Learn how to develop your characters to create awesome items and custom equipment.

 

 

Platform: PlayStation Portable

Genre: Role-Playing Game