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Windows 2000 Pro
Authors: Sharon Crawford
Venue:  (2000)

:According to Microsoft, Windows 2000 Pro combines the friendly interface of Windows 98 with the famous stability of Windows NT. Windows 2000, the successor to NT, introduces many technologies that weren't available in NT, including Plug-and-Play, support for USB devices, power management features, and more. It's 25% faster than Windows 98 and three times as stable. Unfortunately, despite all the enhancements, Microsoft forgot to address one of NT's most glaring omissions: Windows 2000 doesn't include a printed user's manual. In Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual, bestselling Windows NT author Sharon Crawford provides the friendly, authoritative book that should have been in the box. It's the ideal (and desperately needed) users' guide for the world's most popular corporate operating system. The book begins at the beginning: with a guide to what's new (for former NT users), a tour of the Desktop, and logging into the network. (Virtually all Windows 2000 users are on a network.) A special focus: organizing files, folders, and windows for maximum efficiency and minimum clutter. Detailed guidance for installing, removing, and troubleshooting new software and hardware comes next. More advanced chapters explore basic networking and Internet survival, including an excellent, step-by-step handbook for setting up a peer-to-peer network without having to hire a consultant, and chapters on configuring and using the Web (Internet Explorer), email (Outlook Express), and the built-in fax software. The final part of the book covers Windows 2000's local-management options: security, user profiles, backing up, and so on--all crowned by a beefy troubleshooting guidebook. Like the other books in the Missing Manual line, Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual offers superb writing, special features for both absolute novices and power users, and offers authoritative, complete coverage of its subject. Windows 2000 Pro doesn't come with a manual-but if it did, Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual would be it.
Load balancing for the management of service performance in open service markets: a customer-oriented approach
Authors: Dirk Thißen
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

In open service markets customers can choose between several providers offering similar services. To survive in the arising competition, service providers are compelled to satisfy their customers by not only offering services for a reasonable price but additionally deploy them in an efficient way regarding e.g. performance and availability. Because in a service provision process application, network, and system aspects are involved, new management concepts are needed. This paper discusses a mechanism for the management of services in distributed environments to reduce the probability of a performance decrease or a connection loss in service provision. To support a customer in choosing a service, a service trader is used as a central component. This trader considers the global state of the distributed system's resources using a load balancer. To fulfil quality characteristics of a mediated service at usage time, management proxies encapsulate services or service groups to observe their performance and availability characteristics. This approach only causes a small involvement of service providers and customers in the selection and management process.
Fault tolerance using group communication
Authors: M. Frans Kaashoek, Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Venue: Proceedings of the 4th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop (1990)

We propose group communication as an efficient mechanism to support fault tolerance. Our approach is based on an efficient reliable broadcast protocol that requires on average only two messages per broadcast. To illustrate our approach we will describe how the task bag model can be made fault-tolerant using group communication.
C in Plain English, 1st edition
Authors: Brian Overland
Venue:  (1995)

:C in Plain English is a reliable source of practical information on the C language. The book teaches beginning and intermediate programmers the components and syntax of the C language through practical exercises and realistic examples. C in Plain English also covers the anatomy of C programs, the languages strengths and weaknesses, and its unique features.
Hands on Access 2000 with Cdrom
Authors: Allen L. Wyatt
Venue:  (1999)

:Hands On Access 2000 provides useful examples and plain English explanations you need to effectively use Access 2000. Hands on examples provide the real world grounding you need to make database skills practical and permanent.Clear step-by-step instructions help you understand exactly the information you need to put Access to work immediately. You learn by building real- world databases and enhancing them using new skills you acquire in each Hands On Access 2000 chapter. The companion CD-ROM includes database examples and information discussed in the course of the book. By working the chapter projects, you can gain practical, hands on experience Access 2000. 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
Create FrontPage Web Pages in a Weekend with Cdrom
Authors: David Karlins
Venue:  (1996)

:Create a variety of different Web pages in a minimum amount of time. Using FrontPage 97, you learn to design your own site, make it easy to navigate, add graphics, get visitor input, and communicate your message to the online world. A step-by-step tutorial will advance you through the development of a sample site. Dozens of illustrations make the process even easier to follow. By the end of the book, you will have a live, exciting, running Web page!
Indexing Books
Authors: Nancy C. Mulvany
Venue:  (1993)

:Indexing books provides authors and professional indexers alike a much-needed guide to index preparation that is thorough, accessible, well organized, and up-to-date. Nancy C. Mulvany builds on various style guides - including The Chicago Manual of Style's extensive chapter on indexing - but goes beyond mechanics with in-depth discussions of analysis and editorial judgment calls, such as deciding what is and what is not indexable and establishing the structure of entries. Other topics covered include the concept of indexing and how it fits into the publishing process; deciding when to prepare one's own index and when to hire a professional; deciphering publishers' indexing guidelines; and choosing appropriate software. Particularly helpful is Mulvany's evaluation of embedded and dedicated indexing software, a guide to what works best for which tasks. Other useful features are appendixes providing a worksheet for general index specifications, the table of ASCII characters, tables of commonly used generic characters, and a list of additional resources. The most extensive and up-to-date reference available, this will become the standard indexing guide for authors, technical writers, editors, beginning and advanced professional indexers, and all others involved in writing and publishing nonfiction books.
Web 101: Making the Net Work for You, 2nd edition
Authors: Wendy G. Lehnert
Venue:  (2000)

:B> This book presents a completely new and innovative approach to the Web that is tailored to individual users' needs, as opposed to simply studying tools that are used on the Web. It is designed around important issues that all users of the World Wide Web need to know to take full advantage of its power. Upon using this book, readers will be familiar with: protecting themselves on the Internet by studying potential consequences, including legal ramifications and technical and personal complications; selecting the mail software that best suits their needs, and then using the best options and techniques for managing the vast amounts of mail that will follow; how to quickly and accurately access the best information on the Internet through effective search techniques; determining the value of Virtual Communities on the Web, and mastering the software options that are of value when a part of Virtual Communities (i.e. mail digests, listerv commands, Usenet display options, and kill files); creating Web Pages, both with a minimal knowledge of HTML in combination with key tools, or with HTML and JavaScript, in order to create good-looking Web pages; how to locate software worth having, and how to safely download and install software while protecting themselves from computer viruses, as well as understanding the most commonly used file formats, file utilities, file archives, self-extracting files, installers, and uninstallers; how to make their browser take full advantage of multimedia Web sites, including use of audio and video files, creating a music library, burning their own music CDs, putting photos and sounds on their Web pages, and expanding their bandwidth withoutshrinking their wallets; how to make the most out of e-commerce, including comparison shopping, safe use of credit cards online, protecting themselves in an online auction, and the privacy trade-offs and prospective pitfalls of shopping in the online world; how to encrypt their online communication to ensure privacy; and how to coordinate their Internet access from multiple points-of-access, including Telnet and FTP. This book is right for anyone who wants enhance their Web experience, from novice surfers to experienced programmers.
Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism
Authors: Nick Dyer-Witheford
Venue:  (1999)

:In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter.Dyer-Witheford maps the dynamics of modern capitalism, showing how capital depends for its operations not just on exploitation in the immediate workplace but on the continuous integration of a whole series of social sites and activities, from public health and maternity to natural resource allocation and the geographical reorganization of labor power. He also shows how these sites and activities may become focal points of subversion and insurgency, as new means of communication vital for the smooth flow of capital also permit otherwise isolated and dispersed points of resistance to connect and combine with one another.Dyer-Witheford predicts the advent of a reinvented, "autonomist" Marxism that will rediscover the possibility of a collective, communist transformation of society. Refuting the utopian promises of the information revolution, he discloses the real potentialities for a new social order in the form of a twenty-first-century communism based on the common sharing of wealth.
Developing user support systems in multidisciplinary teams - new opportunities, new challenges
Authors: Nizanne Kruithof
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

More and more companies are implementing integrated user support systems with their new software applications. Because of their high complexity, user support systems require multidisciplinary teamwork. Technical writers and their fellow team workers are consequentially presented with a range of new opportunities and new challenges, both on a personal and on a professional level. Opportunities include the chance to learn and benefit from new methods and techniques, and the opening to design and develop truly integrated systems. Among the challenges are cooperation between people from different backgrounds and disciplines, the relatively high expense of multidisciplinary teamwork and the heavy demands on project management. In this paper, these and other opportunities and challenges are discussed and illustrated by examples taken from a project at Shell International.
Linux Ppp Howto: V3.0, 31 March, 1997
Authors: Robert Hart
Venue:  (2000)

:PPP (the Point to Point Protocol) is a mechanism for creating and running IP (the Internet Protocol) and other network protocols over a serial linkbe that a direct serial connection (using a null-modem cable), over a telnet established link or a link made using modems and telephone lines (and of course using digital lines such as ISDN). Using PPP, you can connect your Linux PC to a PPP server and access the resources of the network to which the server is connected (almost) as if you were directly connected to that network. Linux PPP HOWTO document shows how to connect your Linux PC to a PPP server, how to use PPP to link two LANs together and provides one method of setting up your Linux computer as a PPP server. The document also provides help in debugging non-functional PPP connections. 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
Solving Problems in Scientific Computing Using Maple and MATLAB
Authors: Walter Gander
Venue:  (1995)

:Modern computing tools like Maple (symbolic computation) and MATLAB (a numeric computation and visualization program) make it possible to easily solve realistic nontrivial problems in scientific computing. In education, traditionally, complicated problems were avoided, since the amount of work for obtaining the solutions was not feasible for students. This situation has changed now, and students can be taught real-life problems that they can actually solve using the new powerful software. The reader will improve his knowledge through learning by examples and he will learn how both systems, MATLAB and Maple, may be used to solve problems interactively in an elegant way. Readers will learn to solve similar problems by understanding and applying the techniques presented in the book. All programs can be obtained from a server at ETH Zurich.
CD-ROM Review: The Only Guide You Need to Make Informed CD-ROM Purchases, 1996th edition
Authors: Princeton Multimedia Group
Venue:  (1995)

:Written by a team that reviews for all the major multimedia magazines, this is the only guide CD-ROM users need to make informed purchases--featuring 2,000 reviews of CD-ROM products, with screen shots and a five-point rating system. 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
The Psychology of the Internet
Authors: Patricia Wallace
Venue:  (1999)

:This volume explores the psychological aspects of cyberspace, a virtual world in which people from around the globe are acting and interacting in many new, unusual, and occasionally alarming ways. Drawing on research in the social sciences, communications, business, and other fields, Dr. Wallace examines how the online environment can influence the way we behave, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Our own online behavior then becomes part of the Internet's psychological environment for others, creating opportunities for shaping the way this new territory for human interaction is unfolding.
3D eye movement analysis for VR visual inspection training
Authors: Andrew T. Duchowski, Eric Medlin, Nathan Cournia, Anand Gramopadhye, Brian Melloy, Santosh Nair
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications (2002)

This paper presents an improved 3D eye movement analysis algorithm for binocular eye tracking within Virtual Reality for visual inspection training. The user's gaze direction, head position and orientation are tracked to allow recording of the user's fixations within the environment. The paper summarizes methods for (1) integrating the eye tracker into a Virtual Reality framework, (2) calculating the user's 3D gaze vector, and (3) calibrating the software to estimate the user's inter-pupillary distance post-facto. New techniques are presented for eye movement analysis in 3D for improved signal noise suppression. The paper describes (1) the use of Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters for eye movement analysis, (2) the utility of adaptive thresholding and fixation grouping, and (3) a heuristic method to recover lost eye movement data due to miscalibration. While the linear signal analysis approach is itself not new, its application to eye movement analysis in three dimensions advances traditional 2D approaches since it takes into account the 6 degrees of freedom of head movements and is resolution independent. Results indicate improved noise suppression over our previous signal analysis approach.
Cybergrace: The Search for God in the Digital World, 1st edition
Authors: Jennifer J. Cobb
Venue:  (1998)

:Theologian and high-tech consultant Jennifer Cobb combines her expertise to create a new theory of the Divine in the Information Age.As computers and artificial intelligence systems become more sophisticated, the question of whether we can find spiritual life in cyberspace is beginning to be asked. CyberGrace: The Search for God in the Digital World is a bold, thought-provoking, affirmative answer to one of the most intriguing inquiries of our time. Until now, an unbridgeable schism has separated the world of the spirit and that of the machine. According to an increasingly compelling concept known as emergence, the gulf may be an imaginary one. Fifty years ago, Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin combined his lifelong passions of God and science to predict the emergence of cyberspace, based on his studies of evolution. Using Teilhard's theories as a starting point, Jennifer Cobb asserts that as technical systems become more complexwith simple, predictable mechanisms coalescing into hierarchies of increasing organizationsomething elegant, inspired, and absolutely unpredictable simply and suddenly "emerges." Many observers today see this "hand of God" showing itself in disparate disciplines, from evolutionary theory to artificial intelligenceand especially in the furthest realms of cyberspace, where brute computation seems to give way to divine inspiration. CyberGrace offers paradoxical evidence that our machines may be conduits to a deeper spirituality. With daily headlines announcing dizzying advances in science and information technology, many people wonder about theirand their children'sability to lead lives imbued bya sense of the sacred. In the new world, where the search for spirituality may seem scattered and unfocused, Cobb brilliantly uses the most popular and prevalent phenomenon of our timesthe computerto find a world filled with meaning and love. 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
MCSE Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure Design: Training Guide
Authors: New Riders Development Team
Venue:  (2000)

:Exam 70-221, Designing a Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure tests the skills required to analyze the business requirements for the Network Infrastructure and design a network infrastructure that meets business requirements. Network Infrastructure elements include: network topology; routing; IP addressing; name resolution such as WINS and DNS; virtual private networks; remote access; and telephony solutions. Training Guides offers you the perfect self-study tool to prepare you at your own pace and time. We've included information on the new testing types and designed the titles to provide the reader with plenty of practice opportunities to gain the skills required to pass these exams. With the release of Windows 2000, the entire MCSE exam structure has changed and the New Riders Training Guides have changed to address the new needs of the audience. Adaptive testing, emphasis on hands-on knowledge, and a more skills-focused designed are addressed in the new Training Guides. 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
Digital Scanning and Photography
Authors: Dan Gookin
Venue:  (2000)

:Picture yourself creating amazing digital images for print, e-mail, and the Web with Digital Scanning And Photography. Best-selling author Dan Gookin makes it easy to get started with the tools and how-tos for digital imaging on your home computer. Dan offers friendly, expert advice for matching the right scanner, digital camera, and software to your needs. And he shows you with fun tips and easy-to-follow steps how to take, scan, photo-edit, print, and e-mail digital pictures right now! Get fast facts to help you: Share photos with friends and family by e-mail, post them to the Web, or get great-looking results at home with your color printer Make good pictures look great using photo-editing software to crop, resize, retouch, and add cool effects to digital images Try Dan's quick scanning tips and tricks and master the basics of operating a digital camera Restore old photographs and create online albums Learn which features are worth paying for and which you probably don't need when buying a scanner, color ink printer, or digital camera Get handy task lists for everything from checking your computer's graphics-processing horsepower to installing your scanner, saving files in the right format, and more! 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
Computer Techniques in Preclinical and Clinical Drug Development, 1st edition
Authors: Robert C. Jackson
Venue:  (1996)

:It is estimated that 80 to 90% of drugs under development never make it to the marketplace due to insufficient clinical activity, unacceptable toxicity, rapid appearance of drug resistance, or other factors that should be, at least partially, predictable from preclinical testing. This new text asks the question, "How can we use computational methods to improve the success rate in drug development?" Computer Techniques in Preclinical and Clinical Drug Development shows how modeling makes it possible to extract the maximum amount of information and predictive value from preclinical data.
Fuzzy Control and Fuzzy Systems, 2nd edition
Authors: Witold Pedrycz
Venue:  (1993)

:Presents extensive and updated material concerned with the methodology and algorithms of fuzzy sets considered mainly in the context of control engineering and system modeling and analysis. Offers information on fuzzy sets and the concept of fuzzy control, reviewing selected applications and their origin. Discusses design aspects and theoretical developments in the design of fuzzy controllers. Includes comprehensive coverage of the paradigms and algorithms of fuzzy modeling.
Hard Disk Recording for Musicians
Authors: David Miles Huber
Venue:  (1995)

:Hard Disk Recording for Musicians is a complete, up-to-the-minute guide to the equipment, techniques, and processes of digital audio. Here you will find in-depth discussion of computer-based sound editing; digital audio workstations; digital signal processing techniques; real-world applications in music, audio for film or video, and broadcast environments; sampling, techniques; multimedia applications; and a whole lot more.