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The Domain Name System is a directory of registered computer names and IP addresses that can be instantly located. Without proper design and administration of DNS, computers wouldn't be able to locate each other on the network, and applications like email and web browsing ...

Bored hackers looking for a new playground. Digital marauders destroying a carefully planned network infrastructure. These and other security nightmares keep network administrators awake at night. Knowledge is the best way to combat these fears, and Windows 2000 Security does its part to help networ...

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As the community of administrators using Microsoft TCP/IP matures, your need for reliable, technically focused information will increase. This revision updates the successful previous edition with real-world implementation advice using the latest TCP/IP advances, approachi...

C++ XML is a book exclusively devoted to the power and complexities of integrating XML standards into C++. As a developer, this is a book you cannot miss. "C++ XML" addresses all major standards, toolkits, and types of applications dealing with XML as a format for representing and exchanging data, a...

Stephen Northcutt and his coauthors note in the superb Intrusion Signatures and Analysis that there's really no such thing as an attack that's never been seen before. The book documents scores of attacks on systems of all kinds, showing exactly what security administrators should look for in their l...

Designed to be a complete guide to the tools and techniques of Photoshop up through Photoshop 6, Photoshop 6 Shop Manual: Tools and Techniques will help you make the most of your strengths and overcome your weaknesses, within the context of an actual, field tested manual. Written from the trenches, ...

You can't go far toward building a distributed Windows 2000 environment without routing and remote access services (RRAS). In Windows 2000 Routing and Remote Access Services, Kackie Charles explains what she's learned about RRAS during her career as a systems designer and implementer. She's learned ...

PHP Programming for Windows the authoritative guide to developing web applications with PHP on the Microsoft Windows platform. It is the first book of its kind to offer a Windows centric stance on PHP with the intermediate to advanced audience in mind. This book covers PHP from the ground up and ben...

Scripting has become an enormously popular method of managing and maintaining Windows NT and 2000 networks<197>as evidenced by the success of Windows NT Shell Scripting, which has sold over 30,000 copies in 2 years. Simpler than programming, yet allowing greater complexity and utility than packaged ...

The unexpected pleasure of reading books about databases is that they are often written by authors with highly organized minds. Paul DuBois and his editors at New Riders have assembled MySQL with a clarity and lucidity that inspires confidence in the subject matter: a (nearly) freely redistributable...

Aimed at the knowledgeable C++/VB programmer, Gregory Brill's Applying COM+ offers a state-of-the-art tour of today's COM+ as used in Windows 2000. Whether you want to build more robust components or take advantage of enterprise-level features, like transactions or asynchronous processing, this titl...

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Incident Response fills a need that's existed in the security book market for some time. The authors--a pair of accomplished incident response experts, not merely researchers--have converted to book form their accumulated wisdom on the question of how to respond to an attack on computer systems. The...

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MySQL: Designing User Interfaces starts by introducing the functionality of GTK+ and how to migrate from Microsoft's Visual Basic. It then introduces MySQL as a simple, fast, reliable database for corporate applications.

The book then flows into the how-to of combining GTK+ and MySQL through...

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from 20 years of digital image-making, demonstrate the breadth of 3-D photorealistic results that can be achieved using 2-D illustrative tools.

This oversize paperback features useful techniques from real-world projects. In many cases, we get to see the progress of an image, starting with th...

It seems to be the year for launching new versions of old standards. Photoshop 7 introduces a number of new features that should drive demand for manuals. Everything addresses Photoshop beginners, with two chapters on resources and solving common problems that should be especially helpful; approp...

Finally, a Photoshop book that is written expressly for professional photographers and hi-end serious amateurs that doesn't talk about F-stops, exposures, and how to frame a shot (you know all that stuff already - if you don't, I hate to say it, but this isn't for you).

This new book, fro...

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