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Author Bill McCarty
The intensive search for a more secure operating system has often left everyday, production computers far behind their experimental, research cousins. Now SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) dramatically changes this. This best-known and most respected security-relat....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Author Devin L. Ganger , Missy Koslosky , Paul Robichaux
Ask network administrators what their most critical computer application is, and most will say "email" without a moment's hesitation. If you run a network powered by Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange occupies much of your time. According to Mi....
Release Date 2005/06 -
Author Jim Aspinwall
Intel-and AMD-powered PCs--which account for more than 90% of all personal computers--are powerful and expandable, and operating systems like Windows and Linux do a great job of running well on this hardware. But to maintain maximum stability and predictability, the....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop
Author Sam Hiser , Tom Adelstein
The Java Desktop System (TM), from Sun Microsystems, is a modern system for all kinds of users, novice through expert. As an unusually robust, well-integrated desktop system, it may become the first to fulfill the promise of mass adoption for open source. JDS bring....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author David Brickner
For years, computer users have put up with the bugs, security holes, and viruses on Windows because they had no choice. Until recently, there has never been a good alternative to Windows. But now, Windows users can switch to Linux, the reliable, secure, and spyware ....
Release Date 2005/04 -
Author Roderick W Smith
Linux's unparalleled functionality and adaptability have made it the main alternative to Unix and Microsoft Windows operating systems. And with good reason. System administrators realize that this robust alternative can greatly improve their operating system's re....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Producing Open Source Software
Author Karl Fogel
The corporate market is now embracing free, "open source" software like never before, as evidenced by the recent success of the technologies underlying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Each is the result of a publicly collaborative process among numerous devel....
Release Date 2005/10 -
Author Matt Welsh , Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
You may be contemplating your first Linux installation. Or you may have been using Linux for years and need to know more about adding a network printer or setting up an FTP server. Running Linux, now in its fifth edition, is the book you'll want on hand in either c....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Author Jay Ts , Gerald Carter , Robert Eckstein
This book is the comprehensive guide to Samba administration, officially adopted by the Samba Team. Wondering how to integrate Samba's authentication with that of a Windows domain? How to get Samba to serve Microsoft Dfs shares? How to share files on Mac OS X? Thes....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Author Jacob Babbin , Simon Biles , Angela Orebaugh
If you are a network administrator, you're under a lot of pressure to ensure that mission-critical systems are completely safe from malicious code, buffer overflows, stealth port scans, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, CGI attacks, and other network intruder....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Author Neil Pitman , Dan Pilone
System developers have used modeling languages for decades to specify, visualize, construct, and document systems. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one of those languages. UML makes it possible for team members to collaborate by providing a common language th....
Release Date 2005/06 -
Windows Server 2003 Network Administration
Author Roberta Bragg , Craig Hunt
This book is the Windows Server version of the classic TCP/IP Network Administration. Like the book that inspired it, Windows Server 2003 Network Administration provides an overview of the essential TCP/IP protocols, and explains how to properly manage and configure....
Release Date 2005/09 -
Author Michael Jang
GNU/Linux is an immensely popular operating system that is both extremely stable and reliable. But it can also induce minor headaches at the most inopportune times, if you're not fully up to speed with its capabilities.A unique approach to running and administering....
Release Date 2006/04 -
Mac OS X Power Hound, Second Edition
Author Rob Griffiths
Mac OS X has captured the attention of consumers and programmers alike with its ability to run existing Mac programs along with Unix and Open Source software. The latest version, Panther, includes more than a hundred new features and improves many of the technologi....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author Gregory Neil Shapiro , Claus Assmann , George Jansen , Bryan Costales
If you had a list of the words used to describe sendmail, they'd probably include reliable, flexible, configurable, complex, monolithic, and daunting. But you're not likely to find the word easy. Even seasoned sendmail pros are sometimes frustrated by the intrica....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Author James Boney
Cisco routers are everywhere that networks are. They come in all sizes, from inexpensive units for homes and small offices to equipment costing well over $100,000 and capable of routing at gigabit speeds. A fixture in today's networks, Cisco claims roughly 70% of ....
Release Date 2005/08 -
Author Phillip J. Windley
The rise of network-based, automated services in the past decade has definitely changed the way businesses operate, but not always for the better. Offering services, conducting transactions and moving data on the Web opens new opportunities, but many CTOs and CIOs a....
Release Date 2005/08 -
Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
Author L.J. Zacker , Craig Zacker , David Pogue
With the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft latest and most reliable corporate desktop operating system now provides better protection against viruses, worms, and malicious hackers. SP2 includes Windows Firewall, Pop-up Blocker for Internet Explo....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, 3rd Edition
Author Brian Jepson , Ernest E. Rothman
If you're one of the many Unix developers drawn to Mac OS X for its Unix core, you'll find yourself in surprisingly unfamiliar territory. Unix and Mac OS X are kissing cousins, but there are enough pitfalls and minefields in going from one to another that even a U....
Release Date 2005/06 -
Author James Duncan Davidson , Jason Deraleau
Running Mac OS X Tiger is the ideal resource for power users and system administrators like you who want to tweak Tiger, the new release of Mac OS X, to run faster, better, or just differently. If you areready to dig deep into your Mac, this book expertly guides yo....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger
Author Dave Taylor
Beneath Mac OS X Tiger's easy-to-use Aqua interface lies a powerful Unix engine. Mac users know that Unix is at their fingertips, if only they knew how to access it. Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger provides Mac users with a user-friendly tour of the Unix world con....
Release Date 2005/06 -
Author Nigel McFarlane
Firefox Hacks is ideal for power users who want to take full advantage of Firefox from Mozilla, the next-generation web browser that is rapidly subverting Internet Explorer's once-dominant audience. It's also the first book that specifically dedicates itself to t....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Author David Malone , Niall Richard Murphy
What once seemed nearly impossible has turned into reality. The number of available Internet addresses is now nearly exhausted, due mostly to the explosion of commercial websites and entries from an expanding number of countries. This growing shortage has effective....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Essential Microsoft Operations Manager
Author Chris Fox
For system administrators, ensuring that all Windows servers are performing optimally is a tall order. The larger the enterprise, the greater the chance for irritating, time-consuming configuration problems. Sometimes, you can determine the root cause of the proble....
Release Date 2006/02 -
Author Robert Love
This book is about writing software that makes the most effective use of the system you're running on -- code that interfaces directly with the kernel and core system libraries, including the shell, text editor, compiler, debugger, core utilities, and system daemon....
Release Date 2007/09 -
Author James E Gaskin
Fed up with the high tolls charged by your ordinary telephone service? If you're itching to cut the copper cord with your costly, traditional phone service, you need Talk is Cheap, the new, easy-to-understand guide to understanding and using Voice over Internet Pr....
Release Date 2005/07 -
Learning the bash Shell, 3rd Edition
Author Cameron Newham
O'Reilly's bestselling book on Linux's bash shell is at it again. Now that Linux is an established player both as a server and on the desktop Learning the bash Shell has been updated and refreshed to account for all the latest changes. Indeed, this third editio....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Author Kim Hamilton , Russ Miles
"Since its original introduction in 1997, the Unified Modeling Language has revolutionized software development. Every integrated software development environment in the world--open-source, standards-based, and proprietary--now supports UML and, more importantly, th....
Release Date 2006/04 -
Author C.J. Date
This book sheds light on the principles behind the relational model, which is fundamental to all database-backed applications--and, consequently, most of the work that goes on in the computing world today. Database in Depth: The Relational Model for Practitioners g....
Release Date 2005/05 -
Author Aviva Garrett
The Juniper Networks routing platforms are becoming the go-to solution for core, edge, metro and remote office networks, and JUNOS software is behind it all. The operating system is so full of industrial-strength routing protocols and IP innovations that those trea....
Release Date 2006/04