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The Handbook of Computer Networks, LANs, MANs, WANs, the Internet, and Global, Cellular, and Wireless Networks (The Handbook of Computer Networks)
This is incredible!
This is incredible!
After listening to this interview I can only conclude that if these women are not under the control of someone then they are indeed the Stepford wives revisited. I was so shocked to hear these grown women unable to speak coherently and without inflection as if they were some kind of machine intellig…
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Tags: adult children
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Frank Arrigo wonders if Ray Ozzie is back in my âgood booksâ⦠he is!
Frank Arrigo wonders if Ray Ozzie is back in my âgood booksâ⦠he is!
When I’ve had a really good look at Microsoft’s exciting new Live Mesh I’ll post a proper reply to Aussie Microsofter Frank Arrigo, who wonders if I’m still disappointed with Ray Ozzie… Looks like I have serious reasons to reconsider! It does indeed look like the Groove…
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Tags: Microsoft, Announcements, deep thoughts, Asides, synchronization, ray ozzie, cloud computing, Gadgets/Tools, Frank Arrigo, Live Mesh
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New HooQs out on Alpha - Online VJâs Needed!
New HooQs out on Alpha - Online VJâs Needed!
The new version of Hooqs is out and let me tell you its fantastic. The new system still in Alpha allows users to create content channels viewable online and on mobile. Read the brief that appeared on their blog: HooQs is a user centric service where users create and share media channels for mobile d…
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Tags: Video Log, Internet In Israel
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Tag: Computers & InternetComputers & InternetShare This
April 24th, 2008
Internet and E-mail for Seniors with Windows Vista: For Senior Citizens Who Want to Start Using the Internet (Computer Books for Seniors series)
Written for the beginning or intermediate computer user over the age of 50, this large-print guide introduces seniors to the Web, leads users through the basics of searching and finding information on the Internet, and describes the fundamentals of e-mail management. Electronic communication and connecting with other Internet users is described, including details on customizing a Web browser, downloading free software suitable for use with Windows XP and Vista, and protecting against viruses.
Customer Review: Begginners? No.
I don’t think athe author of ny “beginner’s” book realizes the state of mind of a “true” beginner, with only the book for help.
A true beginner wants to know:
How do I turn it on? How do I turn it off when I am finished? What do I do with initial pop ups from security, the computer store? An uunknown source and purpose? How do I get to e-mail?
If a knowledgeable helper gets the beginner past these blocks, the book is very good as a “look it up” book.
Customer Review: clearly written without too much technical detail
This series is very popular with seniors at my public library. The writers clearly understand the needs of their target audience. This book in particular is exceptionally well-written. The information is organized into meaningful sections and the book does not drown the reader in technical details that the readers do not need to know in order to accomplish their goals (i.e. surf the web and send & receive email messages).
Tag: Computers & InternetComputers & InternetShare This
April 24th, 2008
Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action Hands-on networking experience, without the lab!
The best way to learn about network protocols is to see them in action. But that doesn’t mean that you need a lab full of networking equipment. This revolutionary text and its accompanying CD give readers realistic hands-on experience working with network protocols, without requiring all the routers, switches, hubs, and PCs of an actual network.
Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action provides packet traces of real network activity on CD. Readers open the trace files using Ethereal, an open source network protocol analyzer, and follow the text to perform the exercises, gaining a thorough understanding of the material by seeing it in action.
Features
* Practicality: Readers are able to learn by doing, without having to use actual networks. Instructors can add an active learning component to their course without the overhead of collecting the materials.
* Flexibility: This approach has been used successfully with students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Appropriate for courses regardless of whether the instructor uses a bottom-up or a top-down approach.
* Completeness: The exercises take the reader from the basics of examining quiet and busy networks through application, transport, network, and link layers to the crucial issues of network security.
Customer Review: Great book for the basic understanding of networking protocols
Like Richard Bejtlich I agree this book is excellent. I got this book based on his review.
I bought also “Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems”. Both as reference books. The book “Network Analysis and Troubleshooting” by J. Scott Haugdahl is one on my wishlist.
Indeed this book is thorough and yet easy to read. It can be used as an intro but also for reference. The explanation of ethereal (wireshark) is very welcome in this perspective and lacks the errors we can find in the other book “practical packet analysis”, I mentioned before (see also my review on that). Maybe in the next version we can find information on AirPcap, excellent in sniffing and supporting WiFi network t-shooting. Network Monitor 3.1 from Microsoft is a freely available solution in this perspective that also can be used and supports native WiFi cards and sniffing packets. So far a great book and certainly worth buying!
Rob Faber [CISSP, CEH, MCSE]
The Netherlands
Customer Review: Best value, practical introduction to networking
As Associate Professor with several years of experience teaching Computer Networking to undergraduate and graduate students, i think practical exercises are crucial for students to really understand this field.
Jeanna Matthews does a very good job introducing featured aspects of computer networks. The book follows a tipical top-down approach, which has proven to be the most reasonable option for practical networking (specially at the introductory level). Each chapter begins with a brief theoretic introduction (in the style of ‘basic concepts about TCP’, and then presents the rest of the practical topics in a ‘learn by example practice’ way.
Another great point is the CD included with all the network traffic traces you need to follow each example. The book also includes a brief introduction to Ethereal (now renamed as Wireshark).
Super-recommended to students and self-learning people that really want to understand TCP/IP in practice from the ground up. It is also useful as a guide for a lab-based computer networking course (introductory level), along with ‘TCP/IP essentials’ by Panwar (if you want to cover more advanced topics).
Tag: Computers & InternetComputers & InternetShare This
April 24th, 2008
Internet and E-mail for Seniors with Windows XP: For Senior Citizens Who Want to Start Using the Internet (Computer Books for Seniors series)
Written for the beginning or intermediate computer user over the age of 50, this large-print guide introduces seniors to the World Wide Web, leads users through the basics of searching and finding information on the Internet, and describes the fundamentals of e-mail management. The world of electronic communication and connecting with other Internet users is described. Details on customizing a web browser, downloading free software suitable for use with Windows XP, and protecting against viruses are included.
Customer Review: Basic skills training
This is a good self-paced training manual, although akward to handle. The step-by-step procedures are fine for XP and Vista, and easy to understand. Just the Internet…Just the facts…simple (few right clicks offered.)
I suggest teaching the E-Mail chapters BEFORE the SEARCH chapters, for that is what the students want.
Poor quality print and paper makes the screen shots a little hard to read, but the procedure is good.
Customer Review: “really helpful”
Says my mother in law, who has tried classes and a few other books. This was her favorite.
Tag: Computers & InternetComputers & InternetShare This
April 24th, 2008
The Animator’s Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion, and Internet Animators
The definitive working manual on animation, from the triple Academy Award winning Director of Animation of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.Animation is one of the hottest and most creative areas of film-making today– and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams. During his more than forty years in the business, Williams has been one of the true innovators, and serves as the link between the golden age of animation by hand and the new computer animation successes.
Perhaps even more important, though, has been his dedication to passing along his knowledge to a new generation of animators so that they in turn can push the medium in new directions.
In this book, based on his sold-out Animation Masterclasses in the United States and across Europe attended by animators from The Walt Disney Company, PIXAR, DreamWorks, Blue Sky and Warner Bros, Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that every animator– from beginner to expert, classic animator to computer animation whiz– needs. Urging his readers to ‘invent but be believable,’ he illustrates his points with hundreds of drawings, distilling the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that will become the standard work on all forms of animation for professionals, students, and fans.
Customer Review: Amazing book
Anyone remotely interested in animation should pick up this book. It is amazing. It is truly the perfect reference book for anyone who wants to animate, and do it well.
Customer Review: Excellent
This is one of the best books on frame-by-frame 2D non-vector animation. The only problem is, Richard Williams overdoes it by a large margin. He is a man possessed with talent, and he demands perfection of himself. That is a hard way to do things, no? In every other respect, this book is excellent. By the way, the culmination of Richard Williams’ style of work is the movie The Cobbler and the Thief, available online on […]. The exact title to search for is this: The Thief and the Cobbler (2007 Recobbled Cut) [v2.0]
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April 24th, 2008