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Think Unix

Think Unix

By: Jon Lasser

Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 07-JUL-2000

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Unix has a reputation for being cryptic and difficult to learn, but it doesn't need to be that way. Think Unix takes an analogous approach to that of a grammar book. Rather than teaching individual words or phrases like most books, Think Unix teaches the set of logical structures to be learned. Myriad examples help you learn individual commands, and practice problems at the end of difficult sections help you learn the practical side of Unix. Strong attention is paid to learning how to read "man pages," the standard documentation on all Unix systems, including Linux. While most books simply...

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XHTML by Example

XHTML by Example

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 13-NOV-2000

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XHTML by Example explains the differences in syntax between HTML and XHTML, and the concept of 'well-formedness', which is underused in HTML but crucial and required in XHTML. Further coverage includes authoring guidelines for a smooth transition to XHTML, XML DTDs and Schemas, and how they relate to XHTML, how XHTML modularization provides content to non-traditional browsers such as Palm devices, pagers, and cell phones, adding custom XHTML modules to standard XHTML, XHTML document profiling, and plans for XHTML 1.1. The final chapters cover advanced features, including Extended Forms, XHTML...

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Practical Firewalls

Practical Firewalls

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 12-JUN-2000

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Practical Firewalls enables you to get a thorough understanding of all of the basic concepts involved in creating and maintaining a firewall. Aimed at beginning to intermediate network administrators, this book presents information in a manner so that you do not need a large background in the networking field. It provides "real world" methods, problems and solutions of value to you as a user. After reading this book, you will go away with a good understanding of firewall security policies, firewall design strategies, hardware specifications/requirements/variations, software/firewall tools,...

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Special Edition Using XHTML™

Special Edition Using XHTML™

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 13-DEC-2000

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Molly Holzschlag brings her trademark style and and enthusiasm to Special Edition Using XHTML, including comprehensive information that will help web professionals to get the most from XHTML. The book starts by explaining how XHTML differs from HTML, and why it¿s necessary. It then covers the “meat” of XHTML, including syntax and document creation. Additional topics include creating tables and frames, designing pages effectively, using graphics, color, images and tools, working with stylesheets, adding multimedia and embedded objects, and the relationship between XHTML and XML. Later sections...

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MySQL and PHP from Scratch

MySQL and PHP from Scratch

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 17-NOV-2000

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Apache, MySQL, PHP3, and IMP… the pieces exist. Each piece has been described ad nauseam. What does not exist is a guide to the marriage of these software technologies into a useful book, until now. This book puts together information on installing, setting up, and troubleshooting each of these technologies into one complete volume. You also learn how each piece is part of a whole by learning, step-by-step, how to create a web-based e-mail system. Learn to run the Linux equivalent of Active Server Pages (ASP) using PHP3, set up an e-commerce site using a database and the Apache web server,...

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Visual Basic and COM+ Programming

Visual Basic and COM+ Programming

By: Peishu Li

Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 17-NOV-2000

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A hands-on resource combining Visual Basic programming with COM+ programming. In addition to learning Visual Basic, readers learn how to administer COM+ components and provide security. They also learn how COM+ can be used to solve problems of Enterprise Application Integration....

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Java Server Pages from scratch

Java Server Pages from scratch

By: Maneesh Sahu

Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 19-OCT-2000

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JavaServer Pages From Scratch teaches beginning users about the many techniques involved in JavaServer Pages by building an online auction house with an events calendar. In addition to discussing the planning and designing of an application, the book will also cover development of forms, validating data, registering new users, servlets, sessions management, enterprise javabeans, cookies and wireless protocol....

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Domino System Administration

Domino System Administration

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Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 17-NOV-1999

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Need a concise, practical explanation about the new features of Domino, and how to make some of the advanced stuff really work? You need answers and solutions from someone who's been in the trenches. You want information from someone like you, who has worked with the product for years, and understands what it is you need to know. Domino System Administration from New Riders is the answer-the first book on Domino that attacks the technology at the professional level, with practical, hands-on assistance to get Domino 5 running in your organization....

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Adobe PageMaker 6.5 Classroom In A Book

Adobe PageMaker 6.5 Classroom In A Book

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 16-MAY-1997

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Classroom in a Book, the world's best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, just got better. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does-hands-on training materials developed by the software training experts at Adobe Systems, and then tested and refined in Adobe's own classrooms and labs. Classroom in a Book covers a wide range of features, tools, and techniques of Adobe PageMaker 6.5 or later. Even if you are familiar with Adobe PageMaker, take the time to review all the lessons-you'll be surprised by how much you learn! If you are a novice, work...

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This book is a tutorial on, and a guide to the deployment of, Public-Key Infrastructures. It covers a broad range of material related to PKIs, including certification, operational considerations and standardization efforts, as well as deployment issues and considerations. Emphasis is placed on explaining the interrelated fields within the topic area, to assist those who will be responsible for making deployment decisions and architecting a PKI within an organization....

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Windows NT/2000 Thin Client Solutions: Implementing Terminal Services and Citrix MetaFrame

Windows NT/2000 Thin Client Solutions: Implementing Terminal Services and Citrix MetaFrame

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Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 22-JUN-2000

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Windows NT, Terminal Server Edition (TSE) is an extension to NT Server that allows applications to run one centralized location while being presented on multiple client devices. Designed to decrease total cost of ownership, when used in conjunction with Citrix's MetaFrame product. TSE has also resulted in dramatic (500% or more) performance increase in standard NT administration tools and some database applications. A new edition is necessary to document this new functionality, and also the challenges that system architects will have to address as they design their W2K networks and then...

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Solaris 7 Administrator Certification

Solaris 7 Administrator Certification

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Publisher: Pearson Certification

Publication Date: 28-SEP-2000

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Solaris is the fastest growing and most popular commercial UNIX operating system. If you are a IT professional administering systems running on Solaris, you can obtain Sun certification as a way to provide a standard, tangible way of measuring your technical skills. Certification may provide job advancement opportunities and third party validation of skills. This title offers the perfect self-study tool to allow you to prepare confidently at your own pace, in your own time. Comprehensive and focused on teaching what you need to understand --- not just facts you need to know - this book is the...

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Ten Minute Guide to Lotus Notes® 4.6

Ten Minute Guide to Lotus Notes® 4.6

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 23-DEC-1997

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The 10 Minute Guide to Lotus Notes will help you quickly get up to speed on the new and existing features of the newest Lotus Notes release. The book covers the most-frequently used features of Notes, such as sending and receiving E-mail, working on shared documents, group scheduling and calendaring, and using the Internet Explorer Web browser. The 10 Minute Guide offers simple, practical help. Special icons show how Lotus Notes differs under Windows NT Workstation....

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IT Automation: The Quest for Lights Out

IT Automation: The Quest for Lights Out

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 14-DEC-1999

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1378F-9 Maximize reliability, address downtime, and maintenance costs! Planning, analyzing, and implementing your appropriate level of automated data centers and infrastructure operations Real-world guidelines, methodology, and best practices Organization, staffing, technology, deployment, and management tips from the experts! Data center automation in distributed environments: practical advice and proven tools! Everyone wants a "lights out" data center and infrastructure operation-but in an era of distributed, Internet-centered computing, that's tougher to accomplish...

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XML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide

XML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide

By: Elizabeth Castro

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 23-OCT-2000

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[There is a new edition of this book: XML, Second Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide by Kevin Howard Goldberg (ISBN: 0-321-55967-3)] Web-maven Elizabeth Castro, who has penned Peachpit books on HTML,Perl and CGI, and Netscape, now tackles XML--an indispensable tool for creating personalized, updated content for each visitor on your site. Whether you build Web pages for a living or you're taking on anew hobby, XML for the World Wide Web contains everything you need to create dynamic Web sites by writing XML code, developing custom XML applications with DTDs and schemas, transforming XML into...

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Seven Cs of Consulting, The

Seven Cs of Consulting, The

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Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 21-MAR-2000

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The consultancy business is booming. For any consultant aiming to survive and grow in this complex world, they need to have a clear and concise change model to hand, one that can guarantee delivery of a wide range of change projects. Based around the author's 7Cs model (Client, Clarify, Create, Change, Confirm, Continue, Close), The Seven Cs of Consulting offers both budding and experienced consultants a solid and robust framework to enhance their ability to manage any consultancy assignment — from understanding the client's needs through to successful assignment completion and...

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Sams Teach Yourself Lotus Notes® R5 in 10 Minutes

Sams Teach Yourself Lotus Notes® R5 in 10 Minutes

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Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 29-JUL-1999

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Sams Teach Yourself Lotus Notes R5 in Ten Minutes offers simple, practical help for busy people who need fast results. Through goal-oriented, 10-minute lessons, you learn to take advantage of the full capabilities of the new Lotus Notes R5 client. Even the experienced user of previous versions of Lotus Notes will benefit from this up-and-running-quickly approach to the very new and very different R5 client. The ideal reference whether you're on the road or sitting at your desk, ten minutes is all you need to learn how to create and manage mail and mail attachments, manage calendars and...

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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Word 2000

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Word 2000

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Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 28-APR-1999

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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Word 2000 in 10 Minutes is the book to help users get more productivity from Microsoft Word focusing on the 25% of Word features users use 95% of the time. For users that need to write reports or memos, letters or resumes, this book gets them up and running quickly. It gives them idea of what the application can do, and what features might be different from the last version. To accomplish this, the book presents the most fundamental Word tasks such as entering text, saving and loading documents, basic formatting, printer, etc. in a manner that be quickly absorbed...

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XML Unleashed

XML Unleashed

By: Michael Morrison

Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 21-DEC-1999

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XML Unleashed is a complete and comprehensive reference for sophisticated Web developers that covers every possible use of XML, from creating Web documents to building sophisticated Web applications. It covers all aspects of XML technology, from DTDs, XSL, and X Pointers to manipulating XML with Java and JavaScript. See hundreds of professional programming techniques as well as code for more than 15 real-world XML applications involving e-commerce, database access, Web management, real estate, and healthcare. This book also includes reference material on SMIL, the XML-based language for Web...

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Practical Cisco Routers

Practical Cisco Routers

By: Joe Habraken

Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 25-AUG-1999

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Practical Cisco Routers is an excellent "first purchase" for anyone interested in Router technology. It provides hands-on steps and easy-to-follow screen captures for the basic configuration of a new router. This book provides the basic knowledge base needed to cope with a rapidly proliferating technology. Practical Cisco Routers is written in an easy-to-understand and straightforward manner to provide the essential information for technology professionals new to routers by an author who teaches the information daily. Joe's instructional background enables him to present the material in a...