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Home Networking! I Didn't Know You Could Do That..., 4th edition
Authors: Erik B. Sherman
Venue:  (1999)

:Home Networking? You *Can* Do That Have more than one computer in the home? Thinking about installing a home network? You're in the company of 17 million other households, according to The Yankee Group, a Boston market research group. The big stumbling block on taking the plunge, though, isn't fear of technology. It's having a good reason to wire your home. That's where "Home Networking! I Didn't Know You Could Do That" can help you. It starts with the nuts and bolts of installing a network, whether cable, phone line, power line, or wireless. You can connect not only the latest PCs, but even older machines and Macs. However, just having a home computer network can't change your life, so I go beyond explaining network installation and setup. Instead, I discuss dozens of ways to put your network to good use. In "Home Networking! I Didn't Know You Could Do That," I give you 84 slick and fun things that you can do. Some of my favorites include turning your network into a home-wide entertainment center, monitoring home security, creating a learning lab, and even playing networked games. "Home Networking! I Didn't Know You Could Do That" gives you food for thought, as well as practical and fun applications with step-by-step instructions. You don't have to be a computer expert to use this book. A total novice can get a network up and running in a short amount of time, then make great use of it, with plenty of step-by-step instructions. And if you are an expert, so much the better, because you get unique and interesting ideas for experimenting with your home network. Not only will you get ideas and help in making the network help you, but the book comes with over 100 megabytes of free, shareware, and trial network applications, tools, utilities, and games. Furthermore, the CD gives you links to special promotional offers and product pricing available to readers. You may find that a discount pays for the cost of the book the first time you use one. From Erik Sherman (esherman@reporters.net), the author of this book. 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
Short Order: Microsoft FrontPage 2000
Authors: Wayne Brooks
Venue:  (1999)

:Aimed at intermediate-advanced users, Short Order FrontPage 2000 is a visual, two-color step-by-step guide to the practical use of FrontPage for the Web designer. The book assumes that you know FrontPage and are looking for a quick guide to great design tasks. Designed as a productivity tool for designers, you can open the book and quickly find solutions to the design task you're looking for. The visual and task-oriented approach allows you to find solutions in the least amount of time. The book is strictly focused on FrontPage issues and not fringe technologies. Power tips and notes provide even more timesaving information. Topics covered include Cascading Style Sheets, Dynamic HTML, Integration with Office and Personal Web Server, Tables, and Frames.
GOL: toward an axiomatized upper-level ontology
Authors: Wolfgang Degen, Barbara Heller, Heinrich Herre, Barry Smith
Venue: Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001 (2001)

Every domain-specific ontology must use as a framework some upper-level ontology which describes the most general, domain-independent categories of reality. In the present paper we sketch a new type of upper-level ontology, which is intended to be the basis of a knowledge modelling language GOL (for: 'General Ontological Language'). It turns out that the upper-level ontology underlying standard modelling languages such as KIF, F-Logic and CycL is restricted to the ontology of sets. Set theory has considerable mathematical power and great flexibility as a framework for modelling different sorts of structures. At the same time it has the disadvantage that sets are abstract entities (entities existing outside the realm of time, space and causality), and thus a set-theoretical framework should be supplemented by some other machinery if it is to support applications in the ripe, messy world of concrete objects. In the present paper we partition the entities of the real world into sets and urelements, and then we introduce several new ontological relations between these urelements. In contrast to standard modelling and representation formalisms, the concepts of GOL provide a machinery for representing and analysing such ontologically basic relations.
Internet Explorer for Windows for Dummies, 2nd edition
Authors: Doug Lowe
Venue:  (1997)

:Microsoft is taking the online world by storm with Internet Explorer 4, its newest software for accessing the Information Superhighway. Internet Explorer 4 For Windows For Dummies shows you how to access the World Wide Web, newsgroups, e-mail, chat rooms, and more. Inside, find easy-to-understand explanations for using all of the Internet Explorer program's features and get the information you really need in order to browse the Web like a pro! Inside, find helpful advice on how to Get online fast and make Internet Explorer your Web browser Explore the Web with the Internet Explorer program's new Search bar Integrate the Web and the Windows 95 desktop with the Active Desktop Keep your favorite Web sites close at hand by using Favorites and the Links toolbar Set Parental Controls to ensure appropriate Web viewing for all members of your family-- choose from five rating levels Subscribe to the hottest new Internet channels so that information is delivered straight to your desktop Chat with Internet users around the globe -- comic-book style -- with Microsoft Chat Use the new Outlook Express program for e-mail and newsgroups Meet online with NetMeeting to combine voice and video Add hot new Dynamic HTML features to your site
Information Technology Management: A Knowledge Repository, 1st edition
Authors: Jay Liebowitz
Venue:  (1998)

:Mainly based on the author's personal experiences with a variety of organizations, Information Technology Management presents short cases, anecdotes, and vignettes describing the management of information technology. This singular resource includes numerous case studies primarily focusing on business, industry, and government systems. Information Technology Management serves: expert systems managers, information technology managers and developers.
What's an MIS paper worth?: (an exploratory analysis)
Authors: T. Grandon Gill
Venue: ACM SIGMIS Database (2001)

The article performs an economic analysis of MIS salary data and survey data from a variety of sources in order to estimate the marginal value of a published MIS refereed journal article to its author, a faculty member. The three main conclusions it reaches are:&bull; A published MIS refereed journal article can be worth approximately $20,000 in incremental pay, over an assumed five-year lifetime, to a faculty member. That value is derived from two sources: (1) the ability such a paper gives the author to move to higher-paying institutions, and (2) the incremental impact of the paper on an individual's compensation across institutions having the same teaching load.&bull; What constitutes a valid "article" is institution-dependent, so the faculty member must ensure that the publication outlets targeted for such an article are consistent with the institution's objectives and quality criteria.&bull; In order to realize the actual marginal value of a publication computed in this paper, a faculty member must be willing to relocate, perhaps on a reasonably regular basis, to ensure that he or she does not fall victim to the salary inversion phenomenon that is currently widespread within the MIS academic community.The paper does not attempt to quantify the impact of a publication on a number of other potential contributors to its author's income, including the long-term possibility of becoming an eminent scholar and the possibility that publications will lead to outside income opportunities. As a consequence, it is quite possible that the actual value of an article may exceed the paper's estimate for some individuals.
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation with Cdrom
Authors: Michael A. Pastore
Venue:  (1998)

:A guide to the "core requirement" course that all MCSE candidates must pass to become Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers: Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. Readers can set their own pace with frequent review questions, hands-on activities, vocabulary checklists, and troubleshooting summaries to measure their improvement. It includes a CD-ROM with hundreds of test questions and quick links to the book's text to explain answers. It is part of the MCSE Rapid Review Study Guides: Core Requirements Collection.
Competitive generalized auctions
Authors: Amos Fiat, Andrew V. Goldberg, Jason D. Hartline, Anna R. Karlin
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

We describe mechanisms for auctions that are simultaneously truthful (alternately known as strategy-proof or incentive compatible) and guarantee high "net" profit. We make use of appropriate variants of competitive analysis of algorithms in designing and analyzing our mechanisms. Thus, we do not require any probabilistic assumptions on bids.We present two new concepts regarding auctions, that of a cancellable auction and that of a generalized auction. We use cancellable auctions in the design of generalized auctions, but they are of independent interest as well. Cancellable auctions have the property that if the revenue collected does not meet certain predetermined criteria, then the auction can be cancelled and the resulting auction is still truthful. The trivial approach (run a truthful auction and cancel if needed) yields an auction that is not necessarily truthfu.Generalized auctions can be used to model many problems previously considered in the literature, as well as numerous new problems. In particular, we give the first truthful profit-maximizing auctions for problems such as conditional financing and multicast.
Moving from C to C ++, 1st edition
Authors: Greg M. Perry
Venue:  (1992)

:The ins and outs of object-oriented programming! An invaluable guide for C programmers ready to move to C++.Shows how one application written in C is converted to C++ with more efficient codeIncludes tips and techniques for making the transition from C to C++Information organized so new C++ programmers aren't overwhelmed by too much at once
Windows 2000 Essential Reference
Authors: Steven Tate
Venue:  (2000)

:Like other Essential Reference books, this will be a unique, focused, easy-to-use reference for anyone who administers, supports or manages a Windows 2000 network. It will provide a concise, technically accurate distillation of the essential information an administrator would need to know to successfully administer Windows 2000 in a real-life, enterprise production environment. Most administrators will find it hard to get their hands around the Active Directory, Kerberos authentication, IntelliMirror, group policies, and other new technologies in Windows 2000 because of their complexity. These administrators will be searching for a reliable and expert source of advice that will help them successfully implement these new technologies. About the Author:Steven Tate is an independent technical consultant and trainer specializing in Microsoft operating systems and network management. Mr. Tate has taught thousands of network administrators how to get the most from Windows NT. He was one of the first 200 Microsoft Certified Trainers worldwide who was also an MCSE. Mr. Tate is a member of the Windows 2000 Rapid Deployment program. He is also under contract to Microsoft as the Program Manager and lead subject manner expert for Microsoft's course on planning and implementing Active Directory and regularly develops certification exam questions for Microsoft.
On the use of control variates in the simulation of medium access control protocols
Authors: Andrés Suárez-González, Cándido López-García, José C. López-Ardao, Manuel Fernández-Veiga
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

Simulation is an essential tool for performance evaluation of communication networks. We are interested in the waiting time W of packets. The Control Variates method takes profit of the knowledge about another stochastic process strongly correlated with W to reduce the uncertainty in the estimation of its mean. We analyze the usefulness of the cycle time as a control stochastic process for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols with polling service discipline, showing its potential and drawbacks. We propose a control variate that overcomes the disadvantages of cycle time and show its behavior in a case study. This new control variate will also be useful in the case of other MAC protocols.
Pattern matching in reconfigurable logic for packet classification
Authors: Adam Johnson, Kenneth Mackenzie
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems (2001)

We describe a digital circuit synthesis algorithm specialized for the domain of pattern matching circuits implemented in reconfigurable logic. We propose to use this algorithm as part of a system for implementing high-throughput pattern classification, for instance as part of a packet filter in an internetwork router. The goals of the approach are throughputs on the order of 100M classifications per second with reconfiguration times (including all synthesis) being held to a minimum.We evaluate the algorithms using rulesets from a pattern classification problem in networking, IP firewalling (150 rules on 100 bits), and evaluate their fitness to handle the demands placed on them by high-speed networks. In addition we use synthetic rulesets in an attempt to explore the scalability of our algorithm.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Birth of the Federation: Official Strategy Guide
Authors: Paul Bodensiek
Venue:  (1999)

:Book Description: The BradyGames guide will include strategy for playing as each of the Star Trek Alliances. Detailed instructions to help each player set-up and defend colonies. Legendary tactics to make each space battle easier. Complete listing of each alliances assets and how to best use them. Planet saving tips to help thwart deadly threats like Borg invasions.Star Trek: Birth of the Federation is set in the familiar Star Trek Universe. Each player will be able to control one of the major Star Trek Alliances, choosing from The Federation, Romulans, Klingons, Ferengi and Cardassians.The BradyGames guide will include strategy for playing as each of the Star Trek Alliances.Detailed instructions to help each player set-up and defend colonies.
Editorial message: special track on web and E-business applications
Authors: Sara Comai, Letizia Tanca
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

The World WideWeb has become the standard computing platform for the development of new-generation information systems. A new tide of Web-based e-business applications (such as corporate portals, network-based supply chains and market places, etc.) is driving the need for a more open, flexible and distributed infrastructure, together with appropriate development methodologies and theoretical settings. Today's web applications involve skills from many different areas of computer science, including databases, AI and agent based applications, programming languages and algorithms, distributed computing, information retrieval, semantic modeling, etc. For this reason we proposed a track on Web and E-business applications based on the following main topics: data models for the World Wide Web, Web data management, languages for the World Wide Web and XML, E- business and Web services, transactions on the World Wide Web, security and integrity issues for the WWW, query systems for the World Wide Web, management and storage of Web information, information retrieval and search engines for the Web, Web semantics, data integration over the World Wide Web, data-intensive applications on the World Wide Web, Web architectures.We received 30 submissions, which were extensively reviewed for originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of presentation. The submitted papers covered most of the proposed topics. The number of submissions distributed on each continent has been the following: 16 from Europe (53%), 9 from North America (30%), 3 from Asia (10%), 1 from Africa (3%) and 1 from Australia (3%). 12 papers corresponding to the 40% of the submitted papers have been selected for presentation at the conference, with the following distribution: 7 from Europe, 3 from America, 1 from Asia and 1 from Australia.
Internet Exporer 5 Administration Kit MCSE Study System with Cdrom
Authors: Chris L. Sullivan
Venue:  (1999)

:This revolutionary book and software study system gives you all the tools you need to succeed on Exam 70-80. Use the book as a comprehensive Internet Explorer 5 Administrative Kit study course, complete with tutorials, labs, summaries, examples, and self-assessments. Or pop in the CD-ROM for a diagnostic exam  and get referred back to the specific sections in the book you need to review. With authoritative coverage of every exam objective, customizable electronic practice exams, and much more, it's everything you need to pass the test on the first try!
A prototype network embedded in textile fabric
Authors: Kenneth Mackenzie, Eric Hudson, Drew Maule, Sundaresan Jayaraman, Sungmee Park
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems (2001)

A digital network between active components or "buttons" atop an e-textile fabric must handle the inexact placement of wires in the fabric both for signal distribution and for power distribution. We approach the problem of signal distribution by making the pin logic of the buttons reconfigurable and by providing enough local state to allow an external agent to discover and to reconfigure the buttons into a working network. We describe a prototype system of a 2x2 array of FPGA-and-microcontroller buttons atop a fabric with 0.100"-pitch wiring including architecture decisions, circuits and software algorithms.
An open software architecture for virtual reality interaction
Authors: Gerhard Reitmayr, Dieter Schmalstieg
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (2001)

This article describes OpenTracker, an open software architecture that provides a framework for the different tasks involved in tracking input devices and processing multi-modal input data in virtual environments and augmented reality application. The OpenTracker framework eases the development and maintenance of hardware setups in a more flexible manner than what is typically offered by virtual reality development packages. This goal is achieved by using an object-oriented design based on XML, taking full advantage of this new technology by allowing to use standard XML tools for development, configuration and documentation. The OpenTracker engine is based on a data flow concept for multi-modal events. A multi-threaded execution model takes care of tunable performance. Transparent network access allows easy development of decoupled simulation models. Finally, the application developer's interface features both a time-based and an event based model, that can be used simultaneously, to serve a large range of applications. OpenTracker is a first attempt towards a "'write once, input anywhere"' approach to virtual reality application development. To support these claims, integration into an existing augmented reality system is demonstrated. We also show how a prototype tracking equipment for mobile augmented reality can be assembled from consumer input devices with the aid of OpenTracker. Once development is sufficiently mature, it is planned to make Open-Tracker available to the public under an open source software license.
Relevance score normalization for metasearch
Authors: Mark Montague, Javed A. Aslam
Venue: Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management (2001)

Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes the performance of the combination. This problem can be naturally decomposed into three subproblems: (1) normalizing the relevance scores given by the input systems, (2) estimating relevance scores for unretrieved documents, and (3) combining the newly-acquired scores for each document into one, improved score.Research on the problem of metasearch has historically concentrated on algorithms for combining (normalized) scores. In this paper, we show that the techniques used for normalizing relevance scores and estimating the relevance scores of unretrieved documents can have a significant effect on the overall performance of metasearch. We propose two new normalization/estimation techniques and demonstrate empirically that the performance of well known metasearch algorithms can be significantly improved through their use.
3d Graphics and Animation: From Starting up to Standing out with Cdrom
Authors: Mark Giambruno
Venue:  (1997)

:Designed for those looking to break into the business, this tutorial and guide gives readers a broad overview of the 3-D marketplace. With high-powered hardware and 3-D software packages dropping in price and becoming more available to the average computer user, this book has the potential of becoming the foundation of a career in 3-D graphics and animation.Offers practical, real-world tutorials that will have readers creating 3D graphics quicklyDiscusses techniques for using 3D programs on all platformsCD-ROM includes demo versions of 3D software, texture samples, sample animation, color bars, and more!
Datacloud: expanding the roles and locations of information
Authors: Johndan Johnson-Eilola
Venue: Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Computer documentation (2001)

This presentation traces the locations and roles of computer documentation over the latter half of the twentieth-century in order to construct a model of information/knowledge space as it relates to different forms of work. The paper then provides suggestions about future forms of documentation and interface based on ethnographic research of workers in recently emerging forms of work, including nonlinear audio/video production and videogame playing. The final section of the paper provides concrete suggestions about forms of documentation and interface that will be required to support these new forms of work.
Windows Scripting Secrets with CD
Authors: Tobias Weltner
Venue:  (2000)

:The most comprehensive book on the market, Windows Scripting Secrets uncovers the never-before-documented features and hidden system functions that make the new Windows Scripting Host a more powerful tool. The book includes more than 200 ready-to-use scripts, and the CD-ROM contains ready-to-use libraries and examples from the book, as well as numerous scripting tools. A few of the insights inside include Kick-starting WSH and VBScripts "Kidnapping" and creating COM objects Tweaking your Registry, and monitoring system status Powering up with Kodak Imaging Running a Windows network with ADSI scripts You can automate almost any system task or enhance your current functionality using the scripting solutions detailed here. From the CD-ROM, sample more than 450 scripts, or try looking for an answer in the fully searchable electronic version of the book.