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21. |  By: Peter H. Gregory Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 17-AUG-1999 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Solaris™ Security
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At last, a security book just for Solaris and UNIX(r) system
administrators. Learn the specifics for making your system secure,
whether it's an organization-wide network or a standalone
workstation. Expert author Peter Gregory has managed security for
everything from top-secret corporate research facilities to
casinos. Take advantage of his experience to build a secure,
reliable system of your own.
Solaris Security looks at the physical, logical, and human
factors that affect security, including:
PROMs, physical security, bootpaths, permissions, auditing
tools, system logs,...
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22. |  High Availability: Design, Techniques, and Processes By: Floyd Piedad; Michael Hawkins Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 18-DEC-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: High Availability: Design, Techniques, and Processes The complete "how-to guide" for maximizing the availability of
enterprise systems.
Training, support, backup, and maintenance account for nearly 80
percent of the total cost of today's enterprise applications-and
much of that money is spent trying to squeeze increased
availability out of applications in spite of weak design and
management processes. In High Availability, two leading IT experts
bring together best practices for every people and process-related
issue associated with maximizing application availability. The
goal: to help enterprises dramatically improve the value of...
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23. |  By: Taylor, A. David Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 11-SEP-1997 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Object Technology "The first edition set a standard of excellence that has eluded
all followers, and I have recommended it to my clients for years.
The new edition is a gift to the field and should be required
reading for all managers."
- Adrian J. Bowles, Ph.D., Vice President Giga Information
Group
"One of the most readable introductions you will find. The new
edition offers vital insights into the effective use of objects in
business."
- Chris Stone, President Object Management Group
The first edition of Object Technology: A Manager's
Guide is widely viewed as the classic introduction to this
powerful...
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24. |  Java for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide By: Dori Smith Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 11-SEP-1998 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Java for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide Visual QuickStart Guides are rapidly becoming the easiest,
clearest and most sought-after titles for learning complex new
Internet technologies. Even a quick glance at web design sites for
the non-programmer (like C|net's Content Builder) shows that
designers, graphic artists and content-creators want to use Java.
The web is filled with content creators who have used a pre-built
Java app., and probably not been 100% satisfied with the
results.
With just enough Java to get going doing something useful, a
strict focus on visual Java (meaning using Java to make interface
elements for web...
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25. |  Access 2000 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide By: Deborah S. Ray; Eric J. Ray Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 09-JUL-1999 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Access 2000 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide Are you looking for the best way to learn Access 2000,
Microsoft's premier database program and part of its highly touted
Office 2000 Suite? Access 2000 for Windows: Visual QuickStart
Guide offers a clear, easy-to-follow, task-based format that
guides you through the information you need to get right to work.
Learn how to get the most out Access's powerful data-handling
features, from its user-friendly wizards and templates to its
advanced customization options, by following the book's concise,
step-by-step instructions and the hundreds of screenshots that
accompany them. Long after you've...
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26. |  PowerPoint 2000/98: Visual QuickStart Guide By: Rebecca Bridges Altman Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 07-MAY-1999 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PowerPoint 2000/98: Visual QuickStart Guide Most professionals turn to Microsoft PowerPoint to make their
presentations come alive. The latest version, PowerPoint 2000,
promises to attract a legion of new converts, lured by its full
integration with the other Office 2000 apps and its new and
improved formatting and Web features. PowerPoint 2000/98: Visual
QuickStart Guide is the quickest, easiest way to learn how to
add slides, movie clips, sound, animation--even Web pages--to your
presentations using this powerful package.
Thanks to the book's straightforward, task-oriented format, you
can go directly to the information you need....
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27. |  By: Kevin Dick Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 03-NOV-1999 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: XML A Manager's Guide Extensible Markup Language (XML) is revolutionizing Web content,
electronic commerce, and enterprise computing. As with most
technology revolutions, the concept behind XML is deceptively
simple--to provide a standardization for specifying the meaning of
information exchanged over networks. However, the implications for
such a capability ripple throughout the entire field of distributed
computing.
Organizations, applications, and individuals can communicate far
more effectively if they agree on the structure and meaning of
information. XML was specifically designed to facilitate...
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28. |  Java™ Design Patterns: A Tutorial By: James W. Cooper Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 03-FEB-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Java™ Design Patterns: A Tutorial Design patterns have become a staple of object-oriented design
and programming by providing elegant, easy-to-reuse, and
maintainable solutions to commonly encountered programming
challenges. However, many busy Java programmers have yet to learn
about design patterns and incorporate this powerful technology into
their work.
Java™ Design Patterns is exactly the
tutorial resource you need. Accessible and clearly written, it
helps you understand the nature and purpose of design patterns. It
also serves as a practical guide to using design patterns to create
sophisticated, robust Java...
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29. |  The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL By: Ken Henderson Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 23-FEB-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL Since its introduction over a decade ago,
the Microsoft SQL Server query language, Transact-SQL, has become
increasingly popular and more powerful. The current version sports
such advanced features as OLE Automation support, cross-platform
querying facilities, and full-text search management.
This book is the consummate guide to
Microsoft Transact-SQL. From data type nuances to complex
statistical computations to the bevy of undocumented features in
the language, The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
imparts the knowledge you need to become a virtuoso of the language
as quickly as possible.
In...
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30. |  Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel SANs By: Tom Clark Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 08-SEP-1999 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel SANs Storage Area Networks (SANs) powered by Fibre Channel technology
far exceed the capabilities of traditional storage and throughput
methods and are quickly becoming the solution of choice for
organizations that require high-volume data handling capacity.
Written for network developers, technical staff, IT consultants,
administrators, and managers, Designing Storage Area
Networks goes far beyond a straight description of Fibre
Channel specifications and standards; it offers practical
guidelines for implementing and utilizing SANs to solve the
real-world needs of business networks.
This...
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31. |  By: Kent Beck Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 05-OCT-1999 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Extreme Programming Explained Software development projects can be fun, productive, and even
daring. Yet they can consistently deliver value to a business and
remain under control.
Extreme Programming (XP) was conceived and developed to address
the specific needs of software development conducted by small teams
in the face of vague and changing requirements. This new
lightweight methodology challenges many conventional tenets,
including the long-held assumption that the cost of changing a
piece of software necessarily rises dramatically over the course of
time. XP recognizes that projects have to work to achieve...
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32. |  Adobe® After Effects® 4.0 Classroom in a Book® By: Adobe Creative Team Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 15-JUL-1999 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® After Effects® 4.0 Classroom in a Book® Adobe After Effects is the tool multimedia professionals turn to
for creating animated graphics and visual effects for film, video,
and the Web. Adobe After Effects 4.0 Classroom in a Book is
the fastest, most comprehensive way to master the program,
including Version 4.0's new built-in file format, cross-platform
plug-ins, and powerful video and audio special effects such as Wave
Warp and Timecode.
Like the other books in the bestselling Classroom in a
Book series, Adobe After Effects 4.0 Classroom in a Book
teaches the program's tools and techniques in short, focused
lessons that you can...
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33. |  By: Sean Wagstaff Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 25-NOV-1998 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Animation on the Web As the Web evolves from a static publishing medium to one based
more on active media and interactivity, animation is becoming a
critical component of Web site design. The demand for animation on
Web sites is skyrocketing --yet as many Web designers are only now
getting a handle on Photoshop, Illustrator and FreeHand, now they
are asked to be animators as well. That's where Animation on the
Web comes in: a thorough guide to everything having to do with
Web animation....
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34. |  Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2000 and UML By: Terry Quatrani Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 27-OCT-1999 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2000 and UML The Unified Modeling Language (UML) offers standard semantics
and notation for describing object structure and behavior and has
emerged as the design medium of choice for developing large-scale
distributed object applications. Augmented by the Rational Unified
Process, an extensive set of software development guidelines, and
the Rational Rose visual modeling tool, the UML greatly facilitates
the development of quality object-oriented applications that meet
both deadlines and requirements.
Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2000 and UML is
a comprehensive introduction and tutorial providing...
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35. |  By: Larne Pekowsky Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 06-APR-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: JavaServer Pages™ JavaServer Pages™ (JSP) is a new technology that
facilitates the development of the dynamic, interactive,
content-rich Web pages now in great demand. Cross-platform, fast,
easily changed, and extensible, JSP overcomes the limitations of
previous Web development technologies and is rapidly becoming an
acknowledged standard. Sun has included JSP as a formal part of the
Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition, and every vendor of application
servers supports the technology.
JavaServer Pages™ is a hands-on guide to
building dynamic Web pages with JSP. Appropriate for all Web
designers--whether or not you...
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36. |  Rational Unified Process, An Introduction, Second Edition, The Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 17-MAR-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rational Unified Process, An Introduction, Second Edition, The Philippe Kruchten is the lead architect of
the Rational Unified Process. Mr. Kruchten has more than
twenty-seven years of experience in the development of large,
software-intensive systems for telecommunications, defense,
aerospace, transportation, and software development tools. He is
also the author of The Rational Unified Process, An
Introduction (Addison-Wesley), which has been translated into
seven languages and has sold more than 150,000 copies in its two
editions.
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37. |  Adobe® Illustrator® 9.0 Classroom In A Book® Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 04-OCT-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Illustrator® 9.0 Classroom In A Book® Learn how to create professional-quality artwork for print or
the Web using Illustrator 9, the world's most popular illustration
application
Updated edition of the worldwide bestseller
Adobe Illustrator is one of the most popular vector graphics
tools in the print and web industry
Self-paced lessons are the ideal introduction to Illustrator's
complex features
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38. |  Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 16-OCT-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Planning Extreme Programming
"XP is the most important movement in our field today. I
predict that it will be as essential to the present generation as
the S.E.I. and its Capability Maturity Model were to the
last."
--From the foreword by Tom DeMarco
The hallmarks of Extreme Programming--constant integration and
automated testing, frequent small releases that incorporate
continual customer feedback, and a teamwork approach--make it an
exceptionally flexible and effective approach to software
development. Once considered radical, Extreme Programming (XP) is
rapidly becoming recognized as an approach...
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39. |  By: Max M Habeck; Fritz Kröger; Michael R Träm Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 07-MAR-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: After the Merger Mergers are making headlines and prompting questions about which
will ultimately succeed and which will fail. The
wave of mergers in all sectors continues unabated: petroleum,
financial services, telecoms, automotives, accountancy, and even in
publishing. Even in an economic downturn, merger
and acquisition activity continues to accelerate. However,
an A.T. Kearney pan-European study suggests that half the
acqusitions fail to achieve their objectives, while three-quarters
actually destroy shareholder value. The objective for most
mega-mergers is to increase market share and capitalise...
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40. |  By: Christopher Price Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 27-SEP-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Internet Entrepreneurs, The It takes guts to lose money. Particularly when it's other
peoples. Especially when it adds up to $4 billion.
That is roughly the sum the 13 internet entrepreneurs featured
in this book lost in 1999. Maybe the pain is eased by the knowledge
that despite these hefty losses, the 12 companies had a combined
market capitalization of $170bn, giving the 13 entrepreneurs a
combined wealth of more than $35bn.
The people in this book represent the leading managers in the
Internet industry. They are quizzed about their strategies, their
motivations and their ambitions at this crucial point in...
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