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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers





Call it the Linux fallacy. It's the conventional wisdom that says Linux/UNIX gives you lots of power and reliability in exchange for far more complex and costly systems management.

But in fact Linux/UNIX shouldn't be a tradeoff--as long as you also implement a set of proven best practices. "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" gives you a blueprint for managing the many variants of UNIX and Linux systems in environments of any size, and we'd like to send you acomplimentary copy.

Whether you are planning to deploy new UNIX and Linux servers in a small environment, or you're managing hundreds or thousands of UNIX and Linux servers in an enterprise.
"Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" shows you how to design and run a stable and scalable UNIX and Linux environment using proven principles and practices.


Chapters

1. Introducing Best Practices (sample chapter)
2. Infrastructure and Data Security (sample chapter)
3. Backup and Restoration
4. Change Management
5. Performance Management
6. User Management
7. Fault Management
8. Task Automation



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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

TCP/IP Guide, 1st Edition



You can't build a monument without bricks, and you can't make bricks without straw--everyone who has seen the film The Ten Commandments knows that. Likewise, if you plan to establish your own monumental presence on the World Wide Web, you have to start with the straw--HTML.
The World Wide Web is built of Web pages, and those pages are themselves created with HyperText Markup Language, or HTML. Though many folks talk about HTML Programming with a capital P (particularly recruiters), HTML is really not a programming language at all. HTML is exactly what it claims to be: a markup language. You use HTML to mark up a text document, just as you would if you were an editor using a red pencil. The marks you use indicate which format (or style) should be used when displaying the marked text.

Table of Contents:

Part I - Publishing a Web Site

Part II - Creating Basic Web Pages with HTML 4.0

Part III - Creating Advanced Web Pages with Dynamic HTML

Part IV - Serving Multimedia Content

Part V - Pushing Content

Part VI - Scripting on the Web Server

Part VII - Managing your Web Site

Part VIII - Learning by Example

Part - Appendixes

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

An Introduction to GCC for the GNU Compilers gcc and g++





This manual provides an introduction to the GNU C and C++ Compilers, gcc and g++, which are part of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The development of this manual was funded entirely by Network Theory Ltd. Copies published by Network Theory Ltd raise money for more free documentation. 




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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition



By Olaf Kirch & Terry Dawson

Linux Network Administrator's Guide, one of the most successful books to come from the Linux Documentation Project, touches on all the essential networking software included with the operating system, plus some hardware considerations. Fully updated, this impressive, comprehensive introduction to networking on Linux now covers firewalls, including the use of ipchains and iptables (netfilter), masquerading, and accounting. Other new topics include Novell (NCP/IPX) support and INN (news administration). Original material on serial connections, UUCP, routing and DNS, mail and News, SLIP and PPP, NFS, and NIS has been thoroughly updated. Kernel options reflect the 2.2 kernel. However, some topics covered in other books (notably Samba and web server administration) are not in this book.


Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Networking
Chapter 2: Issues of TCP/IP Networking
Chapter 3: Configuring the Networking Hardware
Chapter 4: Configuring the Serial Hardware
Chapter 5: Configuring TCP/IP Networking
Chapter 6: Name Service and Resolver Configuration
Chapter 7: Serial Line IP
Chapter 8: The Point-to-Point Protocol
Chapter 9: TCP/IP Firewall
Chapter 10: IP Accounting
Chapter 11: IP Masquerade and Network Address Translation
Chapter 12: Important Network Features
Chapter 13: The Network Information System
Chapter 14: The Network File System
Chapter 15: IPX and the NCP Filesystem
Chapter 16: Managing Taylor UUCP
Chapter 17: Electronic Mail
Chapter 18: Sendmail
Chapter 19: Getting Exim Up and Running
Chapter 20: Netnews
Chapter 21: C News
Chapter 22: NNTP and the nntpd Daemon
Chapter 23: Internet News
Chapter 24: Newsreader Configuration
Appendix A: Example Network: The Virtual Brewery
Appendix B: Useful Cable Configurations
Appendix C: Copyright Information
Appendix D: SAGE: The System Administrators Guild
Index
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Microsoft Windows Server System Deployment Guide for Midsize Businesses eBook


Get step-by-step deployment instructions for the Microsoft server products that are most relevant to your midsize business—in one, easy-to-read format. Written with the needs of network administrators for organizations with 50-250 PCs in mind, these best practices come directly from the Windows Server System team and are based on extensive lab testing in real-world environments.
Topic include:
  • Planning and implementing migration strategies
  • Deploying core infrastructure services with Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  • Installing and configuring firewalls
  • Installing and configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
  • Installing and configuring Windows Server Update Services
  • Installing and maintaining Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Workgroup Edition
  • Installing and configuring file sharing and print services
  • Installing and configuring Microsoft Windows SharePoint services
  • Managing desktops by using Group Policy
  • Enabling remote user access
  • Managing the network
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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition



Updated to cover version 2.4.x of the Linux kernel, the second edition of Linux Device Drivers remains the best general-purpose, paper-bound guide for programmers wishing to make hardware devices work under the world's most popular open-source operating system. The authors take care to show how to write drivers that are portable--that is, that compile and run under all popular Linux platforms. That, along with the fact that they're careful to explain and illustrate concepts, makes this book very well suited to any programmer familiar with C but not with the hardware-software interface. It's worth noting that the emphasis in the title is on "device drivers" as much as "Linux." This book will make sense to you if you've never written a driver for any platform before. It helps if you have some Linux or Unix background, but even that is secondary as a prerequisite to C skill.

Table of Contents



Preface
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Device Drivers
Chapter 2: Building and Running Modules
Chapter 3: Char Drivers
Chapter 4: Debugging Techniques
Chapter 5: Enhanced Char Driver Operations
Chapter 6: Flow of Time
Chapter 7: Getting Hold of Memory
Chapter 8: Hardware Management
Chapter 9: Interrupt Handling
Chapter 10: Judicious Use of Data Types
Chapter 11: kmod and Advanced Modularization
Chapter 12: Loading Block Drivers
Chapter 13: mmap and DMA
Chapter 14: Network Drivers
Chapter 15: Overview of Peripheral Buses
Chapter 16: Physical Layout of the Kernel Source
Bibliography
Index

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Beej's Guide to Network Programming Using Internet Sockets


Beej's Guide to Network Programming has been one of the top socket programming guides on the Internet for the last 15 years, and it's now for the first time available as a lovingly bound paperback book! The Guide is designed to irreverently ease your first steps into Internet Sockets programming in C. Starting from the ground up, it provides complete examples of simple clients and servers supporting both IPv6 and IPv4.

Once you get through the tutorial section of the book, Part Two contains a handy-dandy reference section which helps prevent the book from becoming simple dead weight on your shelf once you've devoured it.

The book focuses on the C programming language in Unix-like environments, but Windows users can still glean relevant information from its pages. Also, once you understand socket programming in C, you'll much more easily understand it in many other languages as well.

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas - Sophocles J. Orfanidis

This book provides a broad and applications-oriented introduction to electromagnetic waves and antennas. Current interest in these areas is driven by the growth in wireless and fiber-optic communications, information technology, and materials science.

Communications, antenna, radar, and microwave engineers must deal with the generation, transmission, and reception of electromagnetic waves. Device engineers working on ever-smaller integrated circuits and at ever higher frequencies must take into account wave propagation effects at the chip and circuit-board levels. Communication and computer network engineers routinely use waveguiding systems, such as transmission lines and optical fibers. Novel recent developments in materials, such as photonic bandgap structures, omnidirectional dielectric mirrors, birefringent multilayer films, surface plasmons, negative-index metamaterials, slow and fast light, promise a revolution in the control and manipulation of light and other applications. These are just some examples of topics discussed in this book.

The book is organized around three main topic areas:

  • The propagation, reflection, and transmission of plane waves, and the analysis and design of multilayer films.
  • Waveguides, transmission lines, impedance matching, and S-parameters.
  • Linear and aperture antennas, scalar and vector diffraction theory, antenna array design, and coupled antennas.

Content

Front Matter and Preface
Table of Contents

Ch.1: Maxwell's Equations

Review of Maxwell's equations, Lorentz force, constitutive relations, boundary conditions, charge and energy conservation, Poynting's theorem, simple models of dielectrics, conductors, and plasmas, relaxation time in conductors.

Ch.2: Uniform Plane Waves

Uniform plane waves in lossless media, monochromatic waves, wave impedance, polarization, waves in lossy media, waves in weakly lossy dielectrics, propagation in good conductors, propagation in oblique directions, complex waves, propagation in negative-index media, Doppler effect.

Ch.3: Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Media

Propagation filter, front velocity and causality, exact medium response examples, transient and steady-state behavior, pulse propagation and group pelocity, group velocity dispersion and pulse spreading, propagation and chirping, dispersion compensation, slow, fast, and negative group velocities, chirp radar and pulse compression.

Ch.4: Propagation in Birefringent Media

Linear and circular birefringence, uniaxial and biaxial media, chiral media, natural vs. Faraday rotation, gyrotropic media, linear and circular dichroism, oblique propagation in birefringent media.

Ch.5: Reflection and Transmission

Reflection and transmission at normal incidence, propagation and matching matrices, reflected and transmitted power, single and double dielectric slabs, reflectionless slab, time-domain reflection response, lattice diagrams, reflection by a moving boundary, such as a moving mirror.

Ch.6: Multilayer Structures

Multiple dielectric slabs at normal incidence, antireflection coatings, dielectric mirrors, propagation bandgaps, narrow-band transmission filters, quarter-wave phase-shifted Fabry-Perot resonators, fiber Bragg gratings, equal travel-time multilayer structures, applications of layered structures, Chebyshev design of reflectionless multilayers.

Ch.7: Oblique Incidence

Oblique incidence and Snell's laws, transverse impedance, propagation and matching of transverse fields, Fresnel reflection coefficients, total internal reflection, Brewster angle, complex waves, lossy media, Zenneck surface wave, surface plasmons, oblique reflection by a moving interface, geometrical optics, Fermat's principle of least time, ray tracing techniques in geometrical optics illustrated by several exactly solvable examples drawn from several applications, such as atmospheric refraction, mirages, ionospheric refraction, propagation in a standard atmosphere and the effect of Earth's curvature, and propagation in graded-index optical fibers, Snel's law in negative-index media.

Ch.8: Multilayer Film Applications

Multilayer dielectric structures at oblique incidence, lossy multilayers, frustrated total internal reflection, surface plasmon resonance, perfect lenses in negative-index media, antireflection coatings at oblique incidence, omnidirectional dielectric mirrors, polarizing beam splitters, reflection and refraction in birefringent media, Brewster and critical angles in birefringent media, multilayer birefringent structures, giant birefringent optics.

Ch.9: Waveguides

Longitudinal-transverse decompositions of Maxwell's equations, power transfer and attenuation in guiding systems, TEM, TE, TM modes, rectangular waveguides, higher TE and TM modes, operating bandwidth, power transfer, energy density, and group velocity in waveguides, power attenuation, reflection model of waveguide propagation, dielectric slab guides.

Ch.10: Transmission Lines

General properties of TEM transmission lines, parallel-plate, microstrip, coaxial, and two-wire lines, distributed circuit model of a transmission line, wave impedance and reflection response, two-port equivalent circuits, terminated lines, power transfer from generator to load, open- and short-circuited lines, Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits, standing wave ratio, determination of unknown load impedance, Smith chart. Transient Response.

Ch.11: Coupled Lines (updated 8/19/09)

Coupled transmission lines, even-odd mode decomposition for identical matched or unmatched lines, crosstalk between lines, weakly coupled lines with arbitrary terminations, coupled-mode theory, co-directional couplers, fiber Bragg gratings as examples of contra-directional couplers, quarter-wave phase-shifted fiber Bragg gratings as narrow-band transmission filters, and the Schuster-Kubelka-Munk theory of diffuse reflection and transmission as an example of contra-directional coupling.

Ch.12: Impedance Matching

Conjugate and reflectionless matching, multisection transmission lines, quarter-wavelength impedance transformers, two-section dual-band Chebyshev transformers, quarter-wavelength transformers with series sections and shunt stubs, two-section series impedance transformers, single-stub matching, balanced stubs, double- and triple-stub matching, L-, T-, and Pi-section lumped reactive matching networks and their Q-factors.

Ch.13: S-Parameters

Scattering parameters, power flow, parameter conversions, input and output reflection coefficients, stability circles, transducer, operating, and available power gains, generalized S-parameters and power waves, simultaneous conjugate matching, power gain circles, unilateral gain circles, operating and available power gain circles, noise figure circles, design examples of low-noise high-gain microwave amplifiers and their microstrip matching circuits.

Ch.14: Radiation Fields

Currents and charges as sources of fields, retarded potentials, fields of a linear wire antenna, near and far fields of electric and magnetic dipoles, Ewald-Oseen extinction theorem of molecular optics, radiation fields, radiation field approximation, computing the radiation fields, radiation vector.

Ch.15: Transmitting and Receiving Antennas

Energy flux and radiation intensity from a radiating system, directivity, gain, and beamwidth of an antenna, effective area, gain-beamwidth product, antenna equivalent circuits, effective length and polarization and load mismatches, communicating antennas, Friis formula, antenna noise temperature, system noise temperature, limits on bit rates, satellite links, radar equation.

Ch.16: Linear and Loop Antennas

Linear antennas, Hertzian dipole, standing-wave antennas, half-wave dipole, monopole antennas, traveling wave antennas, vee and rhombic antennas, loop antennas, circular and square loops, dipole and quadruple radiation.

Ch.17: Radiation from Apertures (updated 7/5/08)

Field equivalence principle, magnetic currents and duality, radiation fields from magnetic currents, radiation fields from apertures, Kottler's formula, Huygens sources, directivity and effective area of apertures, uniform, rectangular, and circular apertures and their gain-beamwidth products, Rayleigh diffraction limit, vector diffraction theory, Stratton-Chu, Kottler, Franz, and Kirchhoff diffraction integral formulas, extinction theorem, vector diffraction from apertures, Fresnel diffraction, Knife-edge diffraction, Fresnel zones, geometrical theory of diffraction and Sommerfeld's solution for a conducting half-plane, Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction theory and its connection to the plane-wave spectrum representation, Fresnel diffraction and Fourier optics.

Ch.18: Aperture Antennas

Open-ended waveguides, horn antennas, horn radiation fields, horn directivity, optimum horn design, microstrip antennas, parabolic reflector antennas, gain and beamwidth of reflector antennas, aperture-field and current-distribution methods, radiation patterns of reflector antennas, dual-reflector antennas, lens antennas.

Ch.19: Antenna Arrays

Antenna arrays and translational phase shift, array pattern multiplication, one-dimensional arrays, visible region, grating lobes, uniform arrays, array directivity, steering, and beamwidth.

Ch.20: Array Design Methods

Schelkunoff's zero-placement method, Fourier series design method with windowing, sector beam array design, Woodward-Lawson frequency-sampling design, discretization of continuous line sources, narrow-beam low-sidelobe designs, binomial arrays, Dolph-Chebyshev arrays, Taylor one-parameter source, prolate arrays, Taylor n-bar distribution, Villeneuve arrays, multi-beam arrays, emphasis on the connections to DSP methods of digital filter design and spectral analysis of sinusoids.

Ch.21: Currents on Linear Antennas (updated 2/26/09)

Hallen and Pocklington integral equations, delta-gap, frill generators, and plane-wave sources, solving Hallen's equation, sinusoidal current approximation, reflecting and center-loaded receiving antennas, King's three-term approximation, evaluation of the exact kernel using elliptic functions, method of moments, pulse, triangular, NEC, and delta-function bases, Hallen's equation for arbitrary incident field, solving Pocklington's equation.

Ch.22: Coupled Antennas (updated 7/5/08)

Near fields of linear antennas, self and mutual impedance, coupled two-element arrays, arrays of parallel dipoles, Yagi-Uda antennas, Hallen equations for coupled antennas.

Appendices

Physical constants, electromagnetic frequency bands, vector identities and integral
theorems, Green's functions, coordinate systems, Fresnel integrals, stationary phase approximation, cosine integrals, Gauss-Legendre quadrature, Lorentz transformations, list of MATLAB functions.

References
Index
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Book: Fundamentals of Wireless Communication


The past decade has seen many advances in physical-layer wireless communication theory and their implementation in wireless systems. This textbook takes a unified view of the fundamentals of wireless communication and explains the web of concepts underpinning these advances at a level accessible to an audience with a basic background in probability and digital communication. Topics covered include MIMO (multiple input multiple output) communication, space-time coding, opportunistic communication, OFDM and CDMA. The concepts are illustrated using many examples from wireless systems such as GSM, IS-95 (CDMA), IS-856(1xEV-DO), Flash OFDM and ArrayComm SDMA systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the interplay between concepts and their implementation in systems. An abundant supply of exercises and figures reinforce the material in the text. This book is intended for use on graduate courses in electrical and computer engineering and will also be of great interest to practicing engineers.

Topics Covered

  1. Introduction; PDF
  2. The wireless channel; PDF
  3. Point-to-point communication: detection, diversity and channel uncertainty; PDF
  4. Cellular systems: multiple access and interference management; PDF
  5. Capacity of wireless channels;PDF
  6. Multiuser capacity and opportunistic communication;PDF
  7. MIMO I: spatial multiplexing and channel modeling; PDF
  8. MIMO II: capacity and multiplexing architectures;PDF
  9. MIMO III: diversity-multiplexing tradeoff and universal space-time codes;PDF
  10. MIMO IV: multiuser communication.PDF
  11. Appendix A: Detection and estimation in additive Gaussian noise; PDF
  12. Appendix B: Information theory from first principles.PDF
  13. References and Index.PDF
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Thinking Networks - the Large and Small of it


It is clear today how much people are dependent on digital information sources, where networks are the prevalent organisational structure. As this dependency grows then so will the demand for a higher quality of information, where we are now moving into a service-based environment. This book will describe different aspects of such an environment and is both important and timely for future Internet-based or mobile information networks. This book combines the topics of Artificial Intelligence, service-based systems and distributed knowledge management. It hopes to give a broad overview and introduction to various aspects of knowledge-based networks, with respect to existing mechanisms for representing and using such systems. After reading this book the reader should have a good idea of the sort of systems and algorithms that can be used to organise and use knowledge in today’s world and where we might be going to in the future.

The second half of the book will discuss some research ideas undertaken by the author. This is in the area of self-organisation and reasoning, through the bio-inspired method of stigmergy. The research will propose different levels of reasoning that can be performed over an information network and will ultimately offer an architecture that will allow the network to ‘think’. Similar techniques could also be applied to a local neural network-like structure.

Some of this work has been tested and conclusions can be made, while some is still for the future. This will hopefully provide useful research avenues for the interested reader to follow. There is also an extensive literature review and open source code with which to build service-based networks.

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine


Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine
Download the New eBook: Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and Microsoft® TechNet Magazine. Looking for guidance specific to Windows 7 deployment? Check out what the industry's leading experts have to say in this free Microsoft Press eBook with selected chapters from the Windows 7 Resource Kit on Deployment Platforms, Planning, Testing Application Compatibil

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free e-book of Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2


Windows Server 2008 R2 builds on the award-winning foundation of Windows Server 2008, expanding existing technology and adding new features to enable organizations to increase the reliability and flexibility of their server infrastructures. New virtualization tools, Web resources, management enhancements, and exciting Windows 7 integration help save time, reduce costs, and provide a platform for a dynamic and efficiently managed data center. Powerful tools such as Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.5, updated Server Manager and Hyper-V platforms and Windows PowerShell version 2.0 combine to give customers greater control, increased efficiency, and the ability to react to front-line business needs faster than ever before.

Here you can start to learn about Windows Server, update your knowledge, or focus on a specific technology or features that may benefit your organization. Choose your suggested path below, or click directly to what you need by using the menu navigation on the toolbar above, or on the rail to the right.


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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Automating Manufacturing Control Systems; with PLCs







Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are the predominant tool for controlling industrial and specialty systems. These computer based controllers provide a variety of programming options and easily configurable inputs and outputs. This book was written to support an engineering course that focuses on the design of these systems. For the purposes of depth the book focuses on a very popular PLC brand, Allen-Bradley, but the concepts are portable to other programming platforms.


Book Features


  • Detailed chapters addressing a variety of Allen Bradley hardware



  • Numerous problems including online solutions to support learning



  • Summaries of chapter contents



  • Asides and notes for noteworthy information



  • The book is licenced under the GFDL and is free to distribute



  • A focus on design methods leads the reader to design robust systems



  • Hundreds of figures and examples




  • Content

    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS
    3. PLC HARDWARE
    4. LOGICAL SENSORS
    5. LOGICAL ACTUATORS
    6. BOOLEAN LOGIC DESIGN
    7. KARNAUGH MAPS
    8. PLC OPERATION
    9. LATCHES, TIMERS, COUNTERS AND MORE
    10. STRUCTURED LOGIC DESIGN
    11. FLOWCHART BASED DESIGN
    12. STATE BASED DESIGN
    13. NUMBERS AND DATA
    14. PLC MEMORY
    15. LADDER LOGIC FUNCTIONS
    16. ADVANCED LADDER LOGIC FUNCTIONS
    17. OPEN CONTROLLERS
    18. INSTRUCTION LIST PROGRAMMING
    19. STRUCTURED TEXT PROGRAMMING
    20. SEQUENTIAL FUNCTION CHARTS
    21. FUNCTION BLOCK PROGRAMMING
    22. ANALOG INPUTS AND OUTPUTS
    23. CONTINUOUS SENSORS
    24. CONTINUOUS ACTUATORS
    25. CONTINUOUS CONTROL
    26. FUZZY LOGIC
    27. SERIAL COMMUNICATION
    28. NETWORKING
    29. HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACES (HMI)
    30. ELECTRICAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
    31. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
    32. SELECTING A PLC
    33. Appendix A. COMBINED GLOSSARY OF TERMS
    34. Appendix B. PLC REFERENCES
    35. Appendix C. GNU Free Documentation License


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    Basics of Control Components Siemens Technical Education Program - STEP


    This knowledge will help you better understand customer applications. In addition, you will be better able to describe products to customers and determine important differences
    between products. You should complete Basics of Electricity before attempting Basics of Control Components. An understanding of many of the concepts covered in Basics of
    Electricity is required for Basics of Control Components.
    If you are an employee of a Siemens Energy & Automation authorized distributor, fill out the final exam tear-out card and mail in the card. We will mail you a certificate of completion if you score a passing grade. Good luck with your efforts.


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    Wednesday, September 23, 2009

    Cisco ASA Configuration (Networking Professional's Library) (Kindle Edition)




    Product Description
    A hands-on guide to implementing Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) The Cisco ASA product replaces Cisco PIX Firewalls, and Cisco expert Richard Deal updates his bestselling book, Cisco PIX Firewalls , to cover ASA. This book shows you how to configure and maintain a Cisco ASA appliance to control traffic in the corporate network and protect the network from internal and external threats and attacks. Cisco ASA Configuration covers the latest features available in versions 8.0 and 8.1, and includes detailed examples of complex configurations and troubleshooting. Implement and manage this powerful multifunction network adaptive security appliance with help from this expert guide.

    About the Author

    Richard Deal, CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, CCDP is a certified Cisco instructor, a Cisco certification test writer, consultant, and trainer. He is the author of Cisco PIX Firewalls and CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide





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    Saturday, September 5, 2009

    The Indispensable PC Hardware Book (3rd Edition)




    Now fully up to date and even more comprehensive than before, this latest edition of The Indispensable PC Hardware Book will continue to amaze and delight with its detailed explanation of every aspect of PC hardware. Whether you're a newcomer to the field or a veteran systems programmer you'll relish the very latest scoop on hot topics including Pentium Pro, the PCI Chipset and SCSI III. Key Features include: detailed explanations of core hardware topics (including all CPUs, 8086/88 to Pentium and Pentium Pro; all co-processors, 8087 to i387; AMD processors, Am386 to AM5k86, Cyrix CPUs:386 to 6x86; real, protected and virtual 8086 mode with Pentium enhancements; addressing, segmentation and paging; extended and expanded memory; ports, registers and I/O address space; BIOS and register programming; ST412/506, AT-Bus, IDE, DI, SCSI I/II/III; interrupts, exceptions and NMI; RAM, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash memories; page mode, static, statics column mode, serial mode, memory interleaving), as well as unique coverage of upgrades and clones, overdrives and Sls; PC architectures from XT via ISA, EISA, MCA to VLB and PCI; Mass storage and interfaces; parallel, serial and PCMCIA; multimedia, concepts and programming of sound cards; and extensive appendices to provide you with a lasting programming reference.

    • Paperback: 1408 pages
    • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 3 edition (June 17, 1999)
    • Language: English
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    Sunday, July 12, 2009

    Cisco: The Complete Reference


    Since Cisco manufactures much of the hardware underlying both corporate LANs and the Internet, network professionals appreciate material covering Cisco basics. Practical Studies targets network professionals studying for their Cisco Certification Network Assistant (CCNA) exam, focusing mostly on the newer performance-based testing section. It provides hands-on information about configuring and troubleshooting a complex network using Cisco devices. Although the recommended lab simulation equipment is pricey, the book can be used as a study guide on its own; step-by-step resolutions of real-world scenarios are helpful both as study aids and as practice for network professionals. Complete Reference is a professional-level source on configuring and troubleshooting Cisco devices. Useful features include charts on product characteristics/capabilities and an extensive appendix that summarizes Cisco commands and refers back to lengthier chapter explanations. Both titles are recommended for larger libraries where advanced networking titles circulate.
    Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

    Product Description
    This comprehensive and easy-to-use reference provides a solid overview of networking technology as well as practical hands-on advice for working with Cisco products on a daily basis. Includes coverage of the latest topics such as wireless LANs, VPNs, access lists, tunneling, and much more.

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    Cisco Networking Simplified (2nd Edition)


    Cisco Networking Simplified
    Second Edition

    • Master today’s world of Cisco networking with this book’s completely updated, fully illustrated visual approach
    • Easy enough for novices, substantive enough for networking professionals
    • Covers the latest networking topics—from network architecture to secure wireless, unified communications to telepresence

    In Full Color

    Jim Doherty • Neil Anderson • Paul Della Maggiora

    Now 100 percent updated for the latest technologies, this is today’s easiest, most visual guide to Cisco® networking. Even if you’ve never set up or managed a network, Cisco Networking Simplified, Second Edition, helps you quickly master the concepts you need to understand. Its full-color diagrams and clear explanations give you the big picture: how each important networking technology works, what it can do for you, and how they all fit together. The authors illuminate networking from the smallest LANs to the largest enterprise infrastructures, offering practical introductions to key issues ranging from security to availability, mobility to virtualization.

    What you always wanted to know about networking but were afraid to ask!

    • How networks and the Internet work
    • How to build coherent, cost-effective network infrastructures
    • How to design networks for maximum reliability and availability
    • What you need to know about data center and application networking
    • How to secure networks against today’s threats and attacks
    • How to take advantage of the latest mobility technologies
    • How virtualizing networks can help businesses leverage their network investments even further
    • How to combine messaging, calendaring, telephony, audio, video, and web conferencing into a unified communications architecture

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    Tuesday, June 30, 2009

    Hacking Wireless Networks For Dummies


    Become a cyber-hero - know the common wireless weaknesses

    "Reading a book like this one is a worthy endeavor toward becoming an experienced wireless security professional."
    --Devin Akin - CTO, The Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) Program

    Wireless networks are so convenient - not only for you, but also for those nefarious types who'd like to invade them. The only way to know if your system can be penetrated is to simulate an attack. This book shows you how, along with how to strengthen any weak spots you find in your network's armor.

    Discover how to:

    • Perform ethical hacks without compromising a system
    • Combat denial of service and WEP attacks
    • Understand how invaders think
    • Recognize the effects of different hacks
    • Protect against war drivers and rogue devices


    From the Back Cover
    Become a cyber-hero — know the common wireless weaknesses

    "Reading a book like this one is a worthy endeavor toward becoming an experienced wireless security professional."
    —Devin Akin - CTO, The Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) Program

    Wireless networks are so convenient — not only for you, but also for those nefarious types who'd like to invade them. The only way to know if your system can be penetrated is to simulate an attack. This book shows you how, along with how to strengthen any weak spots you find in your network's armor.

    Discover how to

    • Perform ethical hacks without compromising a system
    • Combat denial of service and WEP attacks
    • Understand how invaders think
    • Recognize the effects of different hacks
    • Protect against war drivers and rogue devices
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    Sunday, June 28, 2009

    The Beginner's Guide To Broadband And The Wireless Internet (2006)


    Product Description

    If you're lost in cyberspace and need direction, this invaluable handbook includes all the information you'll need to get the most out of broadband. It guides you through the decisions you'll want to make, from choosing the right anti-virus software to setting up a wireless network in your home. Learn how to make the most of your high-speed connection, with chapters on instant messaging, downloading music, making phone calls from your computer and finding the best broadband websites on the net. It's the book everyone with broadband needs next to their PC.

    About the Author
    Peter Burns is the marketing Manager (Internet and eCommerce) for retailer Waitrose and manages Waitrose.com broadband, the UK's only broadband service to give all its profits to charity. He has also worked for numerous brands such as Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, and international news broadcaster ITN.

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