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Author David A. Karp
In an ideal world, an operating system is a collection of software that handles a computer's "dirty work" invisibly, quickly, and most of all, painlessly. For many of us, however, Microsoft Windows exists outside this ideal world. We are annoyed by "personalized M....
Release Date 2001/03 -
Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference
Author Donald K. Burleson
The Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference puts within easyreach the commands that Oracle database administrators need mostwhen operating in a Unix environment. If you are an Oracle DBAmoving to Unix from another environment such as Windows NT or IBMMainframe, you kn....
Release Date 2001/02 -
Learning Red Hat Linux, Second Edition
Author Bill McCarty
With roughly 20 million users worldwide, Linux is the most talked about success story of open source and free software. Even devotees of Microsoft Windows and Apple's Macintosh are attracted by the unsurpassed stability and flexibility of Linux, but learning a Uni....
Release Date 2002/01 -
Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide
Author Paul Andrew Watters
The Solaris operating system, along with related Sun products like Java, is one of the most reliable and scalable platforms on which to build e-commerce products, and on which to support all networked services. Yet, one problem that potential users face is finding ....
Release Date 2002/01 -
Programming Web Services with SOAP
Author Pavel Kulchenko , Doug Tidwell , James Snell
The web services architecture provides a new way to think about and implement application-to-application integration and interoperability that makes the development platform irrelevant. Two applications, regardless of operating system, programming language, or any ....
Release Date 2001/12 -
Author Philip Hazel
Exim delivers electronic mail, both local and remote. It has all the virtues of a good postman: it's easy to talk to, reliable, efficient, and eager to accommodate even the most complex special requests. It's the default mail transport agent installed on some Linu....
Release Date 2001/07 -
Author Peter Kelly , David Collier-Brown , Robert Eckstein
Samba is a cross-platform triumph: it turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients. Now you can let users store their files (and even important executables) in a single place for easy sharing and backup, protected b....
Release Date 2001/04 -
Author Eric S. Raymond
Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6....
Release Date 2001/02 -
Programming Web Services with XML-RPC
Author Edd Wilder-James , Joe Johnston , Dave Winer , Simon St. Laurent
Have you ever needed to share processing between two or more computers running programs written in different languages on different operating systems? Or have you ever wanted to publish information on the Web so that programs other than browsers could work with it?....
Release Date 2001/06 -
Author Silvia Hagen
IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol, has been in the works since the early 90s when the rapid growth of the Internet threatened to exhaust existing IP addresses. Drawing on 20 years--operational experience with the existing protocol (IPv4), the new protocol....
Release Date 2002/07 -
Author Apple Computer Inc
Cocoa™ is one of the principal application environments for Mac® OS X. Among Cocoa's many attributes, its advanced object-oriented APIs allow you to develop in both Java and Objective-C. This revolutionary new way of developing sophisticated applications for the M....
Release Date 2001/05 -
Author Joseph D Sloan
Over the years, thousands of tools have been developed for debugging TCP/IP networks. They range from very specialized tools that do one particular task, to generalized suites that do just about everything except replace bad Ethernet cables. Even better, many of the....
Release Date 2001/08 -
Learning the Korn Shell, 2nd Edition
Author Bill Rosenblatt , Arnold Robbins
The Korn shell is an interactive command and scripting language for accessing Unix® and other computer systems. As a complete and high-level programming language in itself, it's been a favorite since it was developed in the mid 1980s by David G. Korn at AT&T Be....
Release Date 2002/04 -
Building Wireless Community Networks
Author Rob Flickenger
In Building Wireless Community Networks, author and O'Reilly network administrator Rob Flickenger offers a compelling case for building wireless networks on a local level: They are inexpensive, and they can be implemented and managed by the community using them, w....
Release Date 2001/11 -
Understanding the Linux Kernel, Second Edition
Author Marco Cesati , Daniel P. Bovet
To thoroughly understand what makes Linux tick and why it's so efficient, you need to delve deep into the heart of the operating system--into the Linux kernel itself. The kernel is Linux--in the case of the Linux operating system, it's the only bit of software to....
Release Date 2002/12 -
Building Secure Servers with Linux
Author Michael D. Bauer
Linux consistently turns up high in the list of popular Internet servers, whether it's for the Web, anonymous FTP, or general services like DNS and routing mail. But security is uppermost on the mind of anyone providing such a service. Any server experiences casua....
Release Date 2002/10 -
Author Ethan Cerami
As a developer new to Web Services, how do you make sense of thisemerging framework so you can start writing your own servicestoday? This concise book gives programmers both a concreteintroduction and a handy reference to XML web services, first byexplaining the fou....
Release Date 2002/02 -
Building Cocoa Applications: A Step by Step Guide
Author Michael Mahoney , Simson Garfinkel
Cocoa is an object-oriented development environment available in Apple's Mac OS X environment. Mac OS X, a unified operating system and graphical operating environment, is the fastest growing Unix variant on the market today. Hard-core Unix programmers, developers....
Release Date 2002/05 -
Understanding Linux Network Internals
Author Christian Benvenuti
If you've ever wondered how Linux carries out the complicated tasks assigned to it by the IP protocols -- or if you just want to learn about modern networking through real-life examples -- Understanding Linux Network Internals is for you.Like the popular O'Reilly ....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual
Author David Pogue
Windows XP is the latest, most reliable, and best-looking version of the world's most widely used operating system. The new Windows combines the same stress-tested, extremely stable engine that drives Windows 2000-Microsoft's corporate operating system-with the f....
Release Date 2002/05 -
Learning the Unix Operating System, 5th Edition
Author Jerry Peek , Grace Todino , John Strang
If you are new to Unix, this concise book will tell you just what you need to get started and no more. Unix was one of the first operating systems written in C, a high-level programming language, and its natural portability and low price made it a popular choice....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Author Lar Kaufman , Terry Dawson , Matthias Kalle Dalheimer , Matt Welsh
You're about to begin your first Linux installation. Or, you may have been using Linux for years and need to know more about adding a network printer or configuring for ADSL. Running Linux, now in its fourth edition, is the book you'll want to reach for. Widely r....
Release Date 2002/12 -
Author Ravi Malhotra
This concise guide offers the basic concepts of IP routing, free of hype and jargon. It begins with the simplest routing protocol, RIP, and then proceeds, in order of complexity, to IGRP, EIGRP, RIP2, OSPF, and finally to BGP. New concepts are presented one at a ti....
Release Date 2002/01 -
Author Bruce Potter , Bob Fleck
Mention wireless networks, and the question of security will soon follow. It's not surprising that in spite of compelling business arguments for going wireless, many companies are holding back because of security concerns. But, while it's true that wireless netwo....
Release Date 2002/12 -
TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition
Author Craig Hunt
This complete guide to setting up and running a TCP/IP network is essential for network administrators, and invaluable for users of home systems that access the Internet. The book starts with the fundamentals -- what protocols do and how they work, how addresses and....
Release Date 2002/04 -
Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Edition
Author James Duncan Davidson , Apple Computer Inc
Learning Cocoa with Objective-C is the "must-have" book for people who want to develop applications for Mac OS X, and is the only book approved and reviewed by Apple engineers. Based on the Jaguar release of Mac OS X 10.2, this edition of Learning Cocoa includes exa....
Release Date 2002/09 -
Author Sinan Si Alhir
Since the dawn of computing, software designers and developers have searched for ways to describe the systems they worked so hard to create. Flowcharts enabled the concise documentation of program-flow and algorithms. Entity-relationship diagrams enabled database d....
Release Date 2003/07 -
Author Chuck Toporek
Apple's new operating system, Mac OS X, is reaching a critical mass. Its sleek Aqua interface, combined with a powerful BSD Unix core, bring usability and stability to a new level. As companies start to migrate to Mac OS X from earlier versions of the Mac OS and f....
Release Date 2002/05 -
Windows XP Professional: The Missing Manual
Author L.J. Zacker , Craig Zacker , David Pogue
Windows XP is the latest, most reliable, and best-looking version of the world's most widely used operating system, combining the extremely stable engine of Windows NT and 2000 with the user-friendliness of the Windows 98 and Me consumer models. In its first year,....
Release Date 2003/01 -
sed and awk Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
Author Arnold Robbins
For people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are power tools for editing. sed, awk, and regular expressions allow programmers and system administrators to automate editing tasks that need to be performed on one or more files, to simplify the task of perf....
Release Date 2002/06