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Using and Managing Ppp

Andrew Sun, Michael Loukides

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Excellent Book on PPP! 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This book is excellent. It goes into the really technical side of PPP: how frames are structured and so forth and also shows you options to specify for dial-in and dial-out PPP. The book is well-balanced in theory and examples.

If you want to know about PPP on unix/win32, this a great book.

A must have for network admins 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

When most people think of PPP, they just think of antiquated modem connections, but PPP is capable of much more. PPP can also be used as T1 lines and other such high speed connections.

This book is definitely intended for the network admins who are running (or hope to run) some sort of PPP-related service. The book explains how PPP connections work, from PPP packet header information to network and routing setups as well as debugging them. The information is very detailed and comprehensive, and well-written.

A user who just wants to setup a modem connection from home will probably find this book is not for them though. The topics covered focus more on using the PPP protocol in a network setting, rather than just a home computer. However, the chapter on setting up a dial-out modem does show a home-user how to setup a modem connection on several operating systems, and answers questions that even modem "veterans" like me have. :)

In closing, this book is well-suited for network admins, but regular users should find a book more suited for home use. However, I think this book has something for everyone interested in PPP.

Editorial Review:

The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) has overwhelmingly taken the lead for use with modems and other serial communications because it is powerful and widely available. PPP permits all kinds of traffic, using popular Internet protocols (TCP/IP) and some proprietary ones. PPP is more secure than its older cousin SLIP, supporting several ways to authenticate users. This book is for network administrators and others who have to set up a computer system to use PPP. It covers all aspects of the protocol, including how to set up dial-in servers, authentication, debugging, and PPP options. In addition, it contains overviews of related areas, like serial communications, DNS setup, and routing.

Student Edition of VizAbility for Macintosh

Kristin Woolsey, Scott Kim, Gayle Curtis, Kristina Hooper Woolsey, Gayle Curti

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Harness the power of visual thinking from this toolkit! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Wow! This is a superbly researched/designed visual thinking toolkit in a beautifully packed boxed collection. It consists of:
- A 200-page Handbook (to provide you with a broad conceptual overview of visual thinking & to guide you through the interactive experiences of the CD-ROM);
- A Sketchbook (to offer a forum for recording your ideas and experiences, including all the exercises in the book & CD-ROM);
- An Interactive CD ROM (offer you an interactive environment in which to challenge & improve your visual skills; it has some video-clipped interviews with visual thinkers; a gallery of interesting examples);
and comes with these goals in mind:
- to familarise you with visual thinking;
- to make you aware of your own innate visual abilities;
- to exercise & your improve your skills in visualisation;
- to incorporate these skills into your daily routines;
You need to work conscientiously with these three components (each actually can stand on its own) in order to experience the vast array of visualisation activities. It has already taken me some ten weeks to digest and complete almost all the suggested exercises, alternating between reading, hands-on computer activities, and off-screen sketching on paper, plus various cycles of deep reflection and intellectual pursuit on the net. As of today, I am still working on some of the suggested activities. In fact, many of the completed activities led me to a lot of other new explorations, beyond the originally intended curriculum. My only complaint is that the interactive CD-ROM was not as exciting as I would have expected. This was probably due to the fact that the product was released in the mid-90s. Among the many visual thinking toolkits in my personal library, this one demanded the most of my brain and physical power. As the saying goes, once your mind is expanded by new ideas, it is never the same again! In a nutshell, if you are looking for a toolkit to help you expand your seeing, drawing, diagramming and imagining capabilities, this is it!

Editorial Review:

Provides a broad conceptual overview of visual thinking by guiding you through the interactive experiences of the Vizability CD ROM. Macintosh Version. Paper. CD ROM included.

Managing Projects with make

Andrew Oram, Steve Talbott

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make is one of UNIX's greatest contributions to software development, and this book is the clearest description of make ever written. Even the smallest software project typically involves a number of files that depend upon each other in various ways. If you modify one or more source files, you must relink the program after recompiling some, but not necessarily all, of the sources. make greatly simplifies this process. By recording the relationships between sets of files, make can automatically perform all the necessary updating. For large projects with teams of programmers and multiple releases, make becomes even more critical. But in order to avoid spending a major portion of your maintenance budget on maintaining the Makefiles, you need a system for handling directories, dependencies, and macro definitions. This book describes all the basic features of make and provides guidelines on meeting the needs of large, modern projects. Some of the issues addressed in the second edition include:

• Projects covering several directories.
• Maintaining consistency when building variants of a program.
• Automatic generation of header file dependencies.
• Forced rebuilds of existing files.
• A description of free products that contain major enhancements to make.
• Listings of the features that vary between different versions of make and simple ways to test them.
• More detail and examples on common errors, use of the shell in make, formal rules of syntax in make, and support for various utilities.

Programming With the Java Media Framework

Deanna Brown, Loren Winzeler

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Less introduction on RTP programming 3 out of 5 stars.
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I am a programmer in JAVA , I found there is too little document about RTP in JMF, and the book also doesn't include much information about it.

Not much about JMF apart from the Java Media Player 2 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

The name of the book suggested a complete guide to the JMF, but in fact it's a book about the Java Media Player ONLY. It contains almost nothing about the very important media broasdcasting and conferencing part of the JML. It's an disappointment to me. Well, to be fair, it could be a pretty good book for developers who want to use the Media Player part only.

I liked it 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I nearly did not buy this book because of the previous negative comments. However, I just finished chapter three and I've found it to be very user friendly.
I've only been working with Java for about ten months now, and so this book is right about at my level.
I'm also reading Gordon and Talley's JMF book; and that one seems to be a bit more advanced, but also good.

If you are a Java guru, then this book may be a bit too easy for you.
But if you are like me, an undergraduate Computer Science student, then this book should be about right for you.

If you have little or no experience with Java at all then this book will be a bit too tough for you.

Editorial Review:

This text introduces a new technology to Java developers and examines its potential uses and limitations. The authors provide: a tutorial in media-enabled programming; how to choose a toolkit for Java Media development and get the most out of the SDK; advanced topics like caching, synchronization, and streaming video; future development planned for the JMF API; and quick-start applets and examples that can be modified and put to immediate use.

Server+ Certification Training Guide (Certification)

Elton Jernigan

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If you're a candidate for Server+ certification, which measures essential competencies in advanced PC hardware issues such as RAID, SCSI, multiple CPUs, SANs, and much more, the Training Guide has what you need to pass. We have partnered with Elton Jernigan, a Subject Matter Expert (SME) of the initial Focus Group for development of the Server+ exam. He brings you an excellent resource that not only will help you pass the exam, but will also prove to be a handy, concise reference for managers and technicians who must select and implement hardware for network servers. You will benefit from Elton's insight as a 27-year veteran of the IT industry, including his experience as Director of Technology for the College of Business at Florida State University and as a senior computer trainer for the Beacon Institute for Learning.

We make the most of your Server+ Certification study time by providing:

Content that is organized according to each job dimension and exam objective

Exam objectives that are clearly detailed and explained

Study strategies to optimize your learning

Exam tips that provide specific exam-related advice

Step-by-step instructions that walk you through a task and help you learn faster

Additional content sections with in-depth reference material

Chapter summaries that review key concepts

Key terms you'll need to understand

Resource URLs that list web sites you can access for additional information on topics in each chapter

Exercises that provide concrete experiences to reinforce learning

Review questions and answers to assess your comprehension

Sample exam questions that include answers and detailed explanations

UNIX Power Tools (In a Nutshell)

Jerry Peek, Mike Loukides, Tim O'Reilly, et al.

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The ultimate Unix book. 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you're an experienced Unix administrator or advanced Unix user, this is the book to have. The book goes one step beyond the usual books and goes into detail about getting things done in Unix.

In particular there is a lot of info here on shell scripting showing the differences between the Korn, Bourne and C shells.

What is good about this book is that it' not just a refernce but shows you the steps in getting really difficult things done.

Editorial Review:

Ideal for UNIX users who hunger for technical--yet accessible--information,UNIX Power Tools consists of tips, tricks, concepts, and freeware (CD-ROM included). It also covers add-on utilities and how to take advantage of clever features in the most popular UNIX utilities. This is a browser's book...like a magazine that you don't read from start to finish, but leaf through repeatedly until you realize that you've read it all. You'll find articles abstracted from O'Reilly Nutshell Handbooks(R), new information that highlights program "tricks" and "gotchas," tips posted to the Net over the years, and other accumulated wisdom. The goal of UNIX Power Tools is to help you think creatively about UNIX and get you to the point where you can analyze your own problems. Your own solutions won't be far behind.

The Student Edition of Matlab Version 5 User's Guide

Duane Hanselman, Bruce Littlefield, MathWorks Inc., Mathworks

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A Good Introduction to Matlab 4 out of 5 stars.
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"The Student Edition of Matlab Version 5 User's Guide" bring to us a pratical and easy way apresentation to Matlab. Its language is easy to know. But this book present same fauls for me. It doesn't have exercises for the readers pratice. It show us few examples and repetitives. But they are goods. And, finally, I would like to see more pages about the simulink and blocksets. But in my opinion this book is a good way to you know Matlab and its comands.

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This book provides a comprehensive tutorial for MATLAB plus documentation for three special toolboxes bundled with The Student Edition of MATLAB: Signal Processing, Control Systems, and Symbolic Math. It can also be used as student documentation for academic site licenses and computer lab installations of the professional version of MATLAB.

Empowering Electric and Gas Utilities with GIS (Case Studies in GIS)

Bill Meehan

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Essential and important. 5 out of 5 stars.
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The delivery of utilities takes much energy in itself, and GIS systems can help save money by maximizing safety - covered here in a survey of GIS connections to energy provision. A fictitious utility, AnyTown Energy, is used as a case study to follow its conversion to GIS, with case studies adding details on GIS real-world applications. Utility executives, technology managers, and any GIS professional or library catering to them will find this coverage essential and important.

Editorial Review:

Electric and gas utilities shoulder vast responsibilities to their customers, shareholders, government regulators, and the environment, ever aware of the critical role they play in keeping homes heated, factories running, and cities illuminated. An enterprise GIS can transform utilities by rasing efficiency and lowering costs while enhancing communication and decision-making processes. Cast studies featured in Empowering Electric and Gas Utilities with GIS detail the difference an enterprise GIS can make to a power provider of any size.

Learn to Program: Using Ruby

Chris Pine

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Computers are everywhere, on every desk, in your iPod, cell phone, and PDA. To live well in the 21st century, you need to know how to make computers do things. And to really make computers do what you want, you have to learn to program.

Fortunately, that's easier now than ever before. Chris Pine's book will teach you how to program. You'll learn to use your computer better, to get it to do what you want it to do. Starting with small, simple one-line programs to calculate your age in seconds, you'll see how to advance to fully structured, real programs. You'll learn the same technology used to drive modern dynamic websites and large, professional applications.

It's now easier to learn to write your own computer software than it has ever been before. Now everyone can learn to write programs for themselves---no previous experience is necessary. Chris takes a thorough, but light-hearted approach that teaches you how to program with a minimum of fuss or bother.

Web Performance Tuning: Speeding Up the Web (O'Reilly Nutshell)

Patrick Killelea

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For as long as there's been a Web, people have been trying to make it faster. The maturation of the Web has meant more users, more data, more bells and whistles, and consequently longer waits on the Web. Improved performance has become one of the most important factors in determining the usability of both the Web in general and of individual sites in particular.

Web Performance Tuning is about getting the best performance from the Web. This book isn't just about tuning the web server software; it's also about getting optimal performance from a browser, tuning the hardware (on both the server and browser ends), and maximizing the capacity of the network itself.

Web Performance Tuning hits the ground running, giving concrete advice for quick results--the "blunt instruments" for improving crippled performance right away. The book then takes a breath and pulls back to give a conceptual background of the principles of computing performance. The latter half of the book approaches each element of a web transaction--from client to network to server--to examine the weak links in the chain and how to strengthen them.

Tips include:

• Using simultaneous downloads to locate bottlenecks
• Adjusting TCP for better web performance
• Reducing the impact of DNS
• Upgrading device drivers
• Using alternatives to CGI
• Locating the web server strategically
• Minimizing browser cache lookups
• Avoiding symbolic links for web content