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LAN Switch Security: What Hackers Know About Your Switches — $69.00
Use port security to protect against CAM attacks. Prevent spanning-tree attacks. Isolate VLANs with proper configuration techniques. Protect against rogue DHCP servers. Block ARP snooping. Prevent IPv6 neighbor discovery and router solicitation exploitation. Identify Power over Ethernet vulnerabilities. Mitigate risks from HSRP and VRPP. Stop information leaks with CDP, PaGP, VTP, CGMP and other Cisco ancillary protocols. Understand and prevent DoS attacks against switches. Enforce simple...

Alison Balter's Mastering Microsoft Access 2000 Development — $44.99
Alison's book takes a highly technical topic and presents it in a manner that is easy to comprehend. You'll want to read it from cover to cover, but it can also act as an excellent reference. Learn thorough knowledge of Access application development, real-world solutions to specific development and programming problems, and professional programming techniques backed by concise, no-nonsense explanations of the underlying theories. Debugging and troubleshooting methods are also included.

Art and Business of Speech Recognition, The: Creating the Noble Voice — $26.99
This book certainly is not meant to be exhaustive in its coverage of speech-recognition technology, or to be academically rigorous in its style. Other fine books delve more deeply and exclusively into particular elements of design, such as brainstorming techniques and usability testing principles. Rather, this book is the product of one experienced, business-focused practitioner—me—talking about what works in this domain, and what does not. I speak from the real-world perspective of a designer who...

Windows 2000 System Administration Handbook — $53.99
Manage Windows 2000 for maximum performance, reliability, and efficiency!. Task-oriented solutions from leading enterprise administrators. Active Directory: planning, deployment, and management. Secure your Windows 2000 networks, clients, and data. Migrate DNS, DHCP, and WINS to Windows 2000. Save money! Centralize workstation management, step by step. Active Directory: Planning, deployment, and management. Securing, auditing, and monitoring Windows 2000 networks. Centrally managing client...

Intrusion Detection with SNORT: Advanced IDS Techniques Using SNORT, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and ACID — $40.49
An expert introduction to intrusion detection and the role of Snort. Writing and updating Snort rules to reflect the latest attacks and exploits. Contains detailed coverage of Snort plug-ins, preprocessors, and output modules. Logging alerts to a MySQL database. Using ACID to search, process, and analyze security alerts. Using SnortSnarf to analyze Snort log files. XML support for Snort via the Simple Network Markup Language (SNML).

Wireless Home Networking Simplified — $31.49
Design your wireless network for maximum convenience, reliability, and simplicity. Secure your network, step by step–and keep it secure. Troubleshoot failed connections, poor coverage, and slow performance. Temporarily allow guests onto your network without exposing your data. Use your network to listen to music, view video, and play video games anywhere in your home. Preview and prepare for tomorrow’s wireless technologies.

Hands-on Networking with Internet Technologies, 2nd Edition — $45.90
Shows how to apply the concepts covered in Dr. Comer's Computer Networks and Internets, Fourth Edition. Provides hands-on experiments with TCP/IP protocols and networking systems used on the Internet. Depicts a wide range of possible networking testbeds and provides exercises that use each. Includes experiments that can be performed with a conventional PC. Lists individual steps to be performed for each exercise, and offers optional extensions for those who desire additional challenges. Accompanying...

Find the Bug: A Book of Incorrect Programs — $31.49
Presents "bugged" programs in C, Java, Python, Perl, and x86 assembly language, with carefully explained solutions. Includes language overviews to help you debug all 50 examples, even if you don't know the language. Shows how to look past the "surface" of code to uncover its hidden internal logic. Offers practical guidance on analyzing programs, including specific inputs to test. Presents a wide range of realistic bugs, with no phony "gotchas". Draws on the types of coding and debugging challenges...

Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning By Example — $49.49
State-of-the-art quantitative analysis techniques, supported by extensive numerical examples and exercises. QoS issues in requirements analysis, specification, design, development, testing, deployment, operation, and system evolution. Specific scenarios, including e-Business and database services, servers, clusters, and data centers. Techniques for identifying potential congestion at both software and hardware levels. Performance Engineering concepts and tools. Detailed solution techniques including...

Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. III, Client-Server Programming and Applications--BSD Socket Version, 2nd Edition — $107.10
This is a revised version of this volume. Changes in this edition include: Code has been updated to use ANSI C and the UNIX operating systems (POSIX). Covers SLIP connections (a popular program that allows TCP/IP access to the Internet over dial-up phone systems. Latest changes in Network File System protocol (NFS3). This edition focuses on the BSD version of UNIX. This volume answers the question “How does one use TCP/IP?” — focusing on the client-server paradigm, and examining algorithms...

Visual C# 2005 How to Program, 2nd Edition — $114.30
Visual C# 2005 How to Program, 2/e, includes comprehensive coverage of object-oriented programming in C#, and several major integrated case studies: the Grade Book class (Chapters 4—6, 8), the Time class (three sections of Chapter 9), the Employee class (Chapters 10—11), the optional OOD/UML™ 2 ATM system (Chapters 1, 3—9 and Appendix J), and three multi-tier, database driven Web applications–a guest book (Chapter 21), a secure book database (Chapter 21) and an airline reservation system (Chapter...

Developing Secure Applications with Visual Basic — $31.49
Using client-proven methods, and over 15 years of programming experience, expert author Davis Chapman empowers developers to create powerful, secure applications. Developing Secure Applications with Visual Basic first provides you with an understanding of encryption, and then guides you through adding security features to your own applications using the Microsoft CryptoAPI, and the new security features of Windows 2000. Developers who have been confused by the high-end, academic style of other encryption...

Spatial Databases: A Tour — $84.60
Comprehensive yet concise overview of Spatial Databases for students and practitioners. Self-contained treatment without assuming pre-requisite knowledge of GIS or Databases. Extensive use of industry standards, such as OGIS spatial data types and operations. Complete coverage of spatial networks including modeling, querying and storage methods. Detailed discussion of issues related to Spatial Data Mining. Balance between cutting-edge research and commercial trends. Variety of exercises at...

IPSec, 2nd Edition — $40.49
New, in-depth deployment guidance: policy definition, representation, distribution, and management. New IPSec enhancements: compression, multicast, key recovery, L2TP support, PKI integration, and more. IPSec architecture and components: payloads, headers, Internet Key Exchange, security associations, and more. Implementation architecture and techniques, including overlapping and shared security associations, nested and chained tunnels, and more. IPSec security in host-to-host, host-to-gateway...

Cisco Voice Gateways and Gatekeepers — $81.00
Understand the pros and cons of MGCP, H.323, and SIP, how they implement call signaling and describe call flow, and how to configure each protocol. Learn the various analog and digital voice circuit options used to connect a VoIP network to the PSTN. Configure and troubleshoot PSTN, PBX, and IP WAN connections. Build scalable dial plans and understand the different types of dial peers. Understand the various ways gateways control called and calling phone numbers. Examine call admission control...

Cisco OSPF Command and Configuration Handbook, Adobe Reader — $46.80
Stands as the complete OSPF command reference -- invaluable for network designers, engineers, and architects. Provides configuration, troubleshooting, and verification scenarios for every possible OSPF command supported by Cisco IOS Software that can be implemented on a minimum number of routers. Groups OSPF commands by area of implementation -- area configuration, redistribution, neighbor relationships, and route filtering, just to name a few. Provides clear and concise commentary on the initial...

JNDI API Tutorial and Reference: Building Directory-Enabled Java™ Applications — $38.66
Accessing the LDAP via JNDI. Using the directory as an object repository. Configuring a JNDI client. Handling event notifications from the directory. Creating a federation of naming systems. Building a JNDI service provider.

XSL Formatting Objects Developer's Handbook — $44.99
XSL Formatting Objects Developer's Handbook is a syntactical reference and a guide for developing practical solutions using the complete XSL toolkit. In exploring the available tools and architectures, the book allows programmers to understand and apply XSL as practitioners. XSL-FO is a complex specification that provides a framework for describing detailed document formatting characteristics. A primary goal of XML is to separate the data from presentation. Unlike HTML documents, XML documents...

Graph Drawing: Algorithms for the Visualization of Graphs — $92.70
Describes algorithms for automatically generating clear and readable diagrams of complex conceptual structures. Reviews the terminology of graphs and their drawings. Provides guidelines for employing the technical material of the book in the design of graph drawing algorithms and systems. Offers coverage of applied issues to build an understanding of the practical applicability of the techniques presented. Features sample outputs from graph drawing systems. Examples include:. Provides detailed...

HyperTransport™ System Architecture — $58.49
Signal groups. Packet protocol, covering control and data packets. HT flow control, and how it differs from PCI flow control. I/O ordering rules, including upstream, downstream, and host ordering requirements. Interrupts, error detection, and error handling. HT system management. Routing packets, covering point-to-point topology and HT's fairness algorithm. Device configuration. The electrical environment, including power requirements and signaling characteristics. HyperTransport bridges...

Visual Basic and COM+ Programming by Example, Adobe Reader — $25.19
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.

Microsoft Office Project for Mere Mortals®: Solving the Mysteries of Microsoft Office Project — $83.48
Using the clear, concise, and friendly style that’s a hallmark of the For Mere Mortals ® series, Jansen provides step-by-step instructions for every feature you really need to master, whether you’re using Project 2007, 2003, or 2002. You’ll learn why Project works as it does, so you can make the best possible decisions about how to use it. Realistic exercises offer extensive hands-on practice, and a start-to-finish case study covers the entire project lifecycle. Jansen shows you how to:

How To Use Adobe Photoshop CS2 — $26.99
Have you ever looked at your color pictures and wished you could make them black and white? Or maybe you've dreamed about taking that photo of your brother, cutting the head off and placing it on the body of a grizzly bear. The tool that you need is Adobe Photoshop and the book you need to learn all about it is How to Use Adobe Photoshop CS 2 . Visually step through the process of creating images, manipulating them and then optimizing them for print or the web. The step-by-step approach used throughout...

Best Value Usually ships in 24 hours — $26.99
A practical, hands-on quide to network troubleshooting that emphasizes diagnostic techniques that both professionals and part-time network adminstrators can understand and use in their day-to-day activities. In today's pervasive network environment, many of these people are often responsible for fixing a network if it goes down. This book emphasizes fixing practical networking applications like shared printers, using the Internet, and sharing files. It does not get into the specifics of protocols...

Student's Guide to Doing Research on the Internet, The — $13.46
And you'll discover all best places on the Net to get the information you need. The Student's Guide to Doing Research on the Internet breaks it down by subject. Turn to the Sciences section to see where you can learn how to dissect a frog. Or to the History section to find what battles were fought in the American Revolution. Or to the Literature section to find where to read reviews and scholarly articles on Shakespeare's plays online.

Mastering the Requirements Process, Adobe Reader, 2nd Edition — $50.39
It is widely recognized that incorrect requirements account for up to 60 percent of errors in software products, and yet the majority of software development organizations do not have a formal requirements process. Many organizations appear willing to spend huge amounts on fixing and altering poorly specified software, but seem unwilling to invest a much smaller amount to get the requirements right in the first place.

Discovering Smalltalk — $43.16
Demonstrates the power and flexibility of Smalltalk's object-oriented development environment. Presents detailed coverage of fundamental object-oriented programming concepts, such as objects, parts, methods, classes, and inheritance. Incorporates a reference to the most important classes in the Smalltalk library, including objects, strings, numbers, and characters. llustrates how the Smalltalk environment supports evolutionary software developments using workspaces, inspectors, browsers, and debuggers...

Best Value Book + eBook Bundle — $46.01
Setting up USB hardware and interfacing peripherals. USB protocols and data flow: what actually happens “on the wire.”. A close look inside USB hubs, bus interconnects, devices, and hosts. Troubleshooting USB: Analyzing bus traffic and device configuration. USB support in Windows and other operating systems.

TechTV's Digital Audio for the Desktop, Adobe Reader — $17.99
The digital audio revolution is here and this video will sweep you into the action. Learn how to download and digitize music from the web, a cassette...even LPs. Kris Kosach, co-host of Audio File on TechTV and James Kim, the network's resident tech guru, team up to help you get started. This video walks you through different music players, where to find music, creating and organizing play lists, inputting audio online from multiple sources, even taking your music on the road. After watching TechTV...

Visual Basic 6 From Scratch, Adobe Reader — $25.19
This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

Java™ Class Libraries, Volume 1, The: Supplement for the Java™ 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v1.2 — $35.99
a class hierarchy diagram showing its connection to related classes. a detailed overview describing its purpose and key concepts. a convenient member summary that briefly describes each member and arranges the members into related groups. an example demonstrating the class in a "real-world" context. comprehensive descriptions and an example for each member.

AnandTech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware, The, Adobe Reader — $25.19
Tired of reading about hardware specs written for the masses? Grit your teeth no longer. The AnandTech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware provides in-depth coverage of processors, chipsets, motherboards, and memory from a gamer's perspective.

Microcomputer Repair, 4th Edition — $112.80
Introduction sets the stage for the exercise by examining how Joe Tekk, a fictitious technician at a fictitious company (RWA Software), deals with the exercise topic. Performance Objectives state exactly what new skills the student will have at the completion of the exercise. Key Terms found in the exercise are listed for examination before reading the Background Information. Background Information presents all of the technical information and theory necessary to achieve the performance objectives...

Appendix B. VBA Functions. Best Value Adobe Reader — $17.96
This book assumes no prior programming experience, so even programming novices can get up to speed quickly on the basics of the VBA language. It is very practical and offers the reader tested programs and projects that he or she can implement right away. This book reinforces the reader's learning by presenting useful, end-of-chapter pedagogical resources, including question-and-answer sessions and quizzes, as well as practical exercises that cement and extend the reader's knowledge. It explorers...