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Linux Companion for System Administrators: Jochen Hein, 1st edition
Authors: Jochen Hein
Venue:  (1999)

:Linux Companion for System Administrators is a book for anyone who wants to get more out of their Linux box. It provides guidance for adapting the system to meet personal requirements and offers advice on getting real practical value from the various tools available. Focusing on the use of LINUX in a private or corporate environment, this book will help the experienced Linux user attain a more efficient level of system administration. Linux Companion for System Administrators covers a general overview of a Linux system (what is where, how to get help, where to find documentation); common features of the most widely used distributions of Linux; basic system configuration: booting, kernel compilation user configuration; networking with Linux: TCP/IP-basics, IPX, SMB and useful tools; and when applicable: Emacs tools for the tasks. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Efficient Computation of Sensitivities for Ordinary Differential Equation Boundary Value Problems
Authors: Radu Serban, Linda R. Petzold
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2002)

For models described by ordinary differential equation boundary value problems (ODE BVPs), we derive adjoint equations for sensitivity analysis, giving explicit forms for the boundary conditions of the adjoint boundary value problem. The solutions of the adjoint equations are used to efficiently compute gradients of both integral-form and pointwise constraints. Existence and stability results are given for the adjoint system and its numerical solution. The use of the method is demonstrated for a simple example, where it is seen that the method is particularly advantageous for problems with more than a few parameters.
Create Macromedia Flash Movies in a Weekend with Cdrom
Authors: Dan Ransom, Mary Kelley Donahue
Venue:  (2001)

:The Internet is no longer new technology. It's a standard resource for information, shopping, and entertainment. In today's Internet-saturated culture, it is critical to have an eye-catching Web site that effectively promotes your message, and Create Macromedia Flash Movies In a Weekend is your guide to doing just that! This book is a step-by-step learning tool that will have you doing everything from drawing and creating shapes to creating your own interactive movies in just one weekend!
Deke McClelland's Look & Learn Microsoft FrontPage 2000, 1st edition
Authors: Sandra Eddy, Kate Shoup Welsh
Venue:  (2002)

:"This must-have book doesn't just tell you - it shows you step by step." &mdash;Karen Bluestein, Manager, Worldwide Operations, Cisco Systems, Inc. - Inside SalesInstant Information That Sticks In Your HeadIn this one-of-a-kind reference, expert authors Shelley O'Hara and Kate Shoup Welsh use hundreds of annotated images and sharply focused text to get you up and running fast on FrontPage 2002.Open the book, take a look, and learn how to:Create a page from a templateUse a background pictureCrop, rotate, or flip a pictureLink to a Web URLDraw a tableAnimate a page elementSet up a frames pageBuild a Web table of contentsCreate a form from scratchUpdate and edit Web pagesStep-by-step techniques quickly show how to achieve professional resultsAll text is linked to imagesIcons, thumb-tabs, and an illustrated index make it easy to find stuffImages illustrate important concepts and techniquesAuthor Biography: Shelley O'Hara is the author of more than 100 books, including Master VISUALLY Office XP and many other bestselling computer titles.Kate Shoup Welsh is a FrontPage expert and a freelance writer who has co-written several books on computers, including Easy Windows XP.
From the Editors
Authors: Wynne Chin, Dorothy Leidner
Venue: ACM SIGMIS Database (2002)

Welcome to the third issue of volume 33. As you will notice, this issue marks the first that no longer lists departmental editors. We have discovered that the departments themselves did not seem to keep pace with changes in research streams. We have been receiving submissions that did not fall well under any department. This made the role of departments and departmental editors rather unclear. As a result, we no longer have specific departments. Instead, we have editorial board members who assume the role of senior editor on submitted manuscripts.We are very pleased to announce that several former departmental editors will take on the role of editorial board member for a period of two years, including Randy Cooper, Dennis Galletta, Varun Grover, Sajda Qureshi, Laurie Schatzberg, Al Segars, Janice Sipior, and Antonis Stylianou. We are also pleased that several new editorial board members will be joining Data Base for a period of three years, including Maryam Alavi, Benoit Aubert, Brent Gallupe, Abhijit Gopal, Barbara Marcolin, Leyland Pitt, Blaize Reich, Detmar Straub, and Rick Watson. We are looking very forward to working with these distinguished colleagues who share with us a desire to publish high quality research.We would also like to express deep gratitude to the service of departmental editors who have faithfully helped Data Base over the past years, in some case many years. These include Dinesh Batra, Brian Fitzgerald, Mark Frolick, George Kasper, JP Shim, Veda Storey, and Vijay Vaishnavi. Collectively, they have handled a great number of submissions.We have included four papers in this issue that represent a wide diversity of theory and methodology. We are grateful to the previous editors for handing over to us enough accepted papers to complete volume 33 and part of volume 34, so that we have not had to unduly rush the review and, more importantly, revision process of newly submitted papers. Leading off this issue is an excellent assessment of research on ethics in the field of IS by H. Jeff Smith. The paper very clearly organizes and explains different ethical theories and their relevance to IS. The second paper, by Se-Joon Hong and F. Javier Lerch, reports on a laboratory study of software consumers' preferences and behaviors. The paper hypothesizes about various aspects of software components and the influence of these on customer preference and behavior. The third paper, by David Gefen, reports on the influence of trust and trustworthiness on online purchasing. Lastly, the paper by Solomon R. Antony and Dinesh Batra describes the features of a prototype tool, called CODASYS, which helps novice database designers engaged in conceptual data modeling.
Formulas for Stress, Strain, and Structural Matrices, 1st edition
Authors: Walter D. Pilkey
Venue:  (1993)

:This is a reference source for strength of material formulas for the analysis and design of structural members and mechanical elements. Allows efficient static, stability and dynamic analyses of beams, bars, plates and shells with very general mechanical or thermal loading. The range of solutions includes arbitrary geometries and loadings.
Mastering SQL Server 2000 Security (Gearhead Press--in the Trenches), 1st edition
Authors: Mike Young, Curtis Young
Venue:  (2002)

:Security is a primary task in all aspects of development and IT administration. This resource explains how much more is possible in the task of protecting corporate information resources by properly designing, managing, and maintaining security at the database level.
Microsoft Word 2000 Comprehensive Course: Mastering and Using
Authors: H. Albert Napier, Philip J. Judd
Venue:  (1999)

:With a completion time of 75+ hours, this text features extensive step-by-step instructions and numerous screen illustrations that enable students to learn beginning to more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2000.
Determining complicated winding patterns for shim coils using stream functions and the target-field method
Authors: Michael A. Brideson, Larry K. Forbes, Stuart Crozier
Venue: Concepts in Magnetic Resonance: an Educational Journal (2002)

In a magnetic resonance imaging equipment, gradient and shim coils are needed to produce a spatially varying magnetic field throughout the sample being imaged. Such coils consist of turns of wire wound on the surface of a cylindrical tube. Shim coils in particular, must sometimes be designed to produce complicated magnetic fields to correct for impurities. Streamline patterns for shim coils are much more complicated than those for gradient coils. In this work we present a detailed analysis of streamline methods and their application to shim coil design. A method is presented for determining the winding patterns to generate these complicated fields.
A higher-order scheme for quasilinear boundary value problems with two small parameters
Authors: Relja Vulanović
Venue: Computing (2001)

A class of singularly perturbed quasilinear boundary value problems with two small parameters is solved numerically by finite differences on a Shishkin-type mesh. The discretization combines a four-point third-order scheme inside the boundary layers with the standard central scheme outside the layers. This results in an almost third-order accuracy which is uniform with respect to the perturbation parameters. The paper also shows that the Shishkin meshes are more suitable for higher-order schemes than the Bakhvalov meshes, since complicated nonequidistant schemes can be avoided.
Information visualization of attributed relational data
Authors: Mao Lin Huang
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 Asia-Pacific symposium on Information visualisation - Volume 9 (2001)

Traditional graph drawing is only concerned with viewing of abstract data and relations amount data items. It uses a graph model to present the data items and the relations and tries to geometrically convert the abstract graph into a 2D plane for visualization. There are many applications in this area, such as family trees, software design diagrams and web site-maps.The real world data that we want to visualize, however, is more complex than those that can be simply presented with traditional techniques, because it contains many domain-specific attributes.For example, in a web site-map (visualization) a simple graphical node can be used to represent a web page. However, this node is unable to represent some domain-specific attributes associated with the web page, such as the access frequency and the connectivity of the page in the web locality.This paper introduces a new model for Attributed Information Visualization that can be used to visualize the relational data with many associated attributes. We split the visualization model into two mappings between the abstract data and physical pictures, Geometric Mapping and Graphical Mapping.
On the presentation of computer science problems
Authors: Orit Hazzan
Venue: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (2001)

This paper suggests an alternative way for presenting theorems to students. The discussion focuses on theorems that indicate the existence (or inexistence) of some object. Instead of presenting a given theorem as it is, it is suggested to reformulate the theorem as a (sometimes unsolvable) construction task. Students trials to solve the construction problem, lead them to discover the theorem by themselves.
Improving the service time of web clients using server redirection
Authors: Oscar Ardaiz, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro
Venue: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (2001)

This paper describes and evaluates experimentally a web server infrastructure, which consists of a small number of servers that redirect client requests based on the estimated client service time. The web servers have replicated content, are located in geographically different regions, and redirect clients between servers. The web servers use metrics obtained from server logs to estimate the service time of a client. Based on the estimated service time the server redirects the web client. The implementation of the measurement and redirection mechanism is done in the web servers and is independent of the clients. Using server logs the measuring mechanism does not introduce traffic into the network. We have experimentally evaluated the proposed web server infrastructure. In our experiments the client service time improved from 4 to 40 % when using the proposed mechanism. The web server infrastructure could be applied to improve the service time of selected clients, which frequently access a web server to retrieve a significant amount of data.
On exceptions as first-class objects in Ada 95
Authors: Thomas Wolf
Venue: ACM SIGAda Ada Letters (2001)

This short position paper argues that it might be beneficial to try to bring the exception model of Ada 95 more in-line with the object-oriented model of programming. In particular, it is felt that exceptions --- being such an important concept for the development of fault-tolerant software --- have deserved a promotion to first-class objects of the language. It is proposed to resolve the somewhat awkward dichotomy of exceptions and exception occurrences as it exists now in Ada 95 by treating exceptions as (tagged) types, and exception occurrences as their instances.
A practical approach to implementing line printer graphics
Authors: John R. Rumsey, Roger S. Walker
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (1977)

The capability of generating graphical images on a line printer is very desirable. Many ad hoc special purpose implementations exist that satisfy the needs of particular users. A single general purpose line printer graphics capability, however, compatible with widely distributed Calcomp pen plotter software, could eliminate the need for many special purpose implementations. An implementation approach is described for a set of subroutines which are designed to minimize storage requirements to maintain a complete graphical image. The software has been widely accepted in university, government, and industry environments to augment and occasionally replace pen plotting facilities.
Learn Peach Tree Accounting: Covers Versions 4 through 2002
Authors: Deborah Bean, Neal Berkowitz
Venue:  (2002)

:Written especially for non-accountant business owners who are trying to find a lower-cost, easy-to-use method of getting a handle on their business processes, Learn Peachtree Accounting discusses the basics of setting up an accounting system using Peachtree. The author begins by explaining how to install Peachtree and set up a new company, and then demonstrates the Three-Month Plan she uses in her consulting business.
Developing Web Applications with Visual Basic.Net and Asp.Net, 1st edition
Authors: John Alexander, Billy S. Hollis
Venue:  (2002)

:Written by two well-known and respected Microsoft insiders, this book is essential for today's VB developer who is tasked with building enterprise-level Web applications using the core .NET technologies -- ASP.NET and VB.NET. After a brief overview of the .NET technologies, they launch right into practical information on how to be immediately productive within ASP.NET from an experienced VB programmer's point of view. They also walk you through an enterprise prototype application that accesses an enhanced version of Microsoft's NorthWind Database.
An Efficient Stochastic Algorithm for Studying Coagulation Dynamics and Gelation Phenomena
Authors: Andreas Eibeck, Wolfgang Wagner
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

A new class of efficient stochastic algorithms for the numerical treatment of coagulation processes is proposed. The algorithms are based on the introduction of fictitious jumps combined with an acceptance-rejection technique for distributions depending on particle size. The increased efficiency is demonstrated by numerical experiments. In particular, gelation phenomena are studied.
Searching in metric spaces with user-defined and approximate distances
Authors: Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella
Venue: ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) (2002)

Novel database applications, such as multimedia, data mining, e-commerce, and many others, make intensive use of similarity queries in order to retrieve the objects that better fit a user request. Since the effectiveness of such queries improves when the user is allowed to personalize the similarity criterion according to which database objects are evaluated and ranked, the development of access methods able to efficiently support user-defined similarity queries becomes a basic requirement. In this article we introduce the first index structure, called the QIC-M-tree, that can process user-defined queries in generic metric spaces, that is, where the only information about indexed objects is their relative distances. The QIC-M-tree is a metric access method that can deal with several distinct distances at a time: (1) a query (user-defined) distance, (2) an index distance (used to build the tree), and (3) a comparison (approximate) distance (used to quickly discard from the search uninteresting parts of the tree). We develop an analytical cost model that accurately characterizes the performance of the QIC-M-tree and validate such model through extensive experimentation on real metric data sets. In particular, our analysis is able to predict the best evaluation strategy (i.e., which distances to use) under a variety of configurations, by properly taking into account relevant factors such as the distribution of distances, the cost of computing distances, and the actual index structure. We also prove that the overall saving in CPU search costs when using an approximate distance can be estimated by using information on the data set only (thus such measure is independent of the underlying access method) and show that performance results are closely related to a novel "indexing" error measure.
Case Method: Function and Process Modelling
Authors: Richard Barker, Cliff Longman
Venue:  (1992)

:business functions and a wealth of realistic examples illustrating function and process modelling in practice. It provides clear guidelines for when to use each technique and a comprehensive glossary of all important terms. Features Easy-to-learn techniques for modelling key business functions, processes, and events. A wealth of realistic examples illustrating function and process modelling in practice. Clear guidelines for when to use each technique. A comprehensive glossary of all important terms.
The Complete Guide to Internet Security
Authors: Mark S. Merkow, James Breithaupt
Venue:  (2000)

:Hardly a week goes by without a report of some hacker, disgruntled employee, or techno-thief breaking into a computer systemvandalizing Web sites, stealing confidential data, compromising trade secrets, or worse. Much more than merely troublesome or inconvenient, these unauthorized incursions often spell disaster for businesses. THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO INTERNET SECURITY offers a behind-the-scenes guided tour through the field of information security for IT professionals, systems analysts, CIOs, programmers, and anyone intent on making their computer system more secure. Practical and easy to understand, this indispensable guide covers: Inherent vulnerabilities of Internet protocol-attached networks Weaknesses of e-commerce sites Attacks from within the company Common hacker tools Costly consequences of security breaches Physical and logical system security, including firewalls, routers, proxies, access controls, intrusion detection, and policy-based networking Commercial security software Cryptography, and more.
IMAC Fast and Easy, 2nd edition
Authors: Jan L. Harrington
Venue:  (2000)

:Approximately 45 percent of the 4 million iMacs sold within the past year were bought by people new to the Mac platform. This visual, step-by-step approach taken by iMac Fast & Easy, Revised and Expanded offers you, the Mac user, a fun, low-pressure learning tool. Youll get a simple, yet thorough, overview of the Mac and the main features of the new iMacDVD and Mac OS 9, including iMovie, Keychain, Sherlock 2, Firewire, and much more. This book is a perfect learning tool for the beginning Mac user. It is aimed at the visual learner and will be equally useful for the home, educational, or graphic design user. This concise, visual approach is perfect for the experienced Mac user who just wants a quick guide to the new features of the software.
PowerPoint 2000 Fast and Easy, 1st edition
Authors: Coletta Witherspoon, Richard Cravens
Venue:  (1999)

:Utilizes the power of whole-brain learning coupled with other proven learning principles so that learning is faster and easier. Provides immediate answers to "how-to" questions about the program.
Novell's LDAP Developer's Guide
Authors: Roger G. Harrison, Steve Trottier, Jim Sermersheim
Venue:  (2000)

:Leverage the Power of Directories without the Overhead This essential guide to LDAP is packed with practical examples for using this protocol to streamline data-sharing across applications - cutting out data duplication and incompatibility. Novell developers Roger Harrison, Jim Sermersheim, and Steve Trottier offer you insider how-to's on globalizing your directory - even if you have numerous servers in different locations.You'll improve your developer skills and increase your application's value by moving from traditional NDS APIs to LDAP Plus, you'll learn how to exploit your configuration options and increase performance; extend your directories to accommodate new uses; create remote accessibility; and more.Inside, You'll Find Just What You Need to . . . Install and tune LDAP on NetWarer, Windows NTr, Solarisr, or Linuxr Employ LDAP for your intranet or Internet applications Develop applications that integrate with NDS eDirectory using LDAP Retrieve and update schema Add, modify, rename, move, delete, and retrieve entries Handle multiple simultaneous connections to the server Recognize common errors and debug your LDIF files Use controls and extensions to harness the extensible nature of LDAP
Data Structures and Other Objects Using Java, 2nd edition
Authors: Michael Main
Venue:  (2002)

:This book takes a gentle approach to the data structures course in Java. It offers an early, self-contained review of object-oriented programming and Java to give students a firm grasp of key concepts, and allows those experienced in other languages to adjust easily. The book also offers a flexibility which allows professors such options as emphasizing object-oriented programming, covering recursion and sorting early or accelerating the pace of the course. This title meets the needs of professors searching for a book to balance the introduction of object-oriented programming and data structures with Java.
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Server in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Barrie Sosinsky, Jeremy Moskowitz
Venue:  (2000)

:Sams Teach Yourself Windows 2000 Server in 24 Hours assists in the deployment and administration of a new Windows 2000 System. It uses a tutorial method for instructing the user who has the task of installing Windows 2000 or upgrading to Windows 2000 with an emphasis on the new features. Topics covered include: Installation Windows 2000 Interface File Services IntelliMirror Profiles Client Services Dial-Up Connectivity Printing Working with Services The Microsoft Management Console Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics Programming Tools Internet and Intranet Functionality Security Internet Information Server Microsoft Internet Service
Active Server Pages 3.0 from Scratch
Authors: Nicholas Chase
Venue:  (1999)

:In Active Server Pages 3.0 From Scratch, Nicholas Chase takes novice Web programmers through the process of planning, designing, and building a Web site using Active Server Pages. You will create an online magazine that has news, interviews, and archives, a small memorabilia store, person-to-person auctions, and personalized start pages. Topics include planning and designing a Web site, VBScript, connecting to databases, HTML forms, personalizing the user experience using cookies, building an auction system, and building an electronic storefront.