Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:30am CET
Have you been caught yet?
They don't just want to know who you are, they want to BE who you are. By duplicating a legitimate website, phishers can convince you that email asking for your personal information came from your bank, an online retailer, even your ISP. Their high-tech identity theft costs American consumers and businesses billions, and if you access the Internet, you're a target. Whether you manage corporate security or just shop online, this book is loaded with weapons you can't afford to be without.
- Be able to identify and avoid phishing emails and websites
- Recognize spyware, understand how it benefits phishers, and learn how to get rid of it
- Take appropriate steps to safeguard your organization against attack
- Learn how to protect yourself online
- Find out how to report phishing incidents, and why you should
- Understand the scope of phishing and how it threatens our online infrastructure
- Explore additional resources that will keep you up to date
- Discover how to get off the hook if you've already swallowed the bait
About the Author
Rachael Lininger works as a technical writer in the information security department of a major U.S. financial institution. She has documented too many phishing cases to count.
Russell Dean Vines is a best-selling author and president of The RDV Group, a security services firm. He is a specialist in cyber counter-terrorism and a consultant on security vulnerabilities.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:27am CET
A manual on wedding photography, organized as a detailed "shooting script" for a typical wedding day. Over 150 photographs take the reader step-by-step through all the pictures that clients expect to see in their albums, from formal portraits to candid shots at the reception. The revised edition includes information on digital imaging and using the Internet. The book can also be used as a business tool, and offers advice on: techniques for making sales presentations to clients; how to choose a professional laboratory; how to use digital files; how to create wedding albums that make an impact; and how to maximize the business potential of the Internet.
About the Author
George Schaub is an experienced author and well published writer/photographer, who lives in Sea Cliff, New York.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:26am CET
Python is an ideal language for solving problems, especially in Linux and Unix networks. With this pragmatic book, administrators can review various tasks that often occur in the management of these systems, and learn how Python can provide a more efficient and less painful way to handle them.
Each chapter in Python for Unix and Linux System Administration presents a particular administrative issue, such as concurrency or data backup, and presents Python solutions through hands-on examples. Once you finish this book, you'll be able to develop your own set of command-line utilities with Python to tackle a wide range of problems. Discover how this language can help you:
- Read text files and extract information
- Run tasks concurrently using the threading and forking options
- Get information from one process to another using network facilities
- Create clickable GUIs to handle large and complex utilities
- Monitor large clusters of machines by interacting with SNMP programmatically
- Master the IPython Interactive Python shell to replace or augment Bash, Korn, or Z-Shell
- Integrate Cloud Computing into your infrastructure, and learn to write a Google App Engine Application
- Solve unique data backup challenges with customized scripts
- Interact with MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, Postgres, Django ORM, and SQLAlchemy
With this book, you'll learn how to package and deploy your Python applications and libraries, and write code that runs equally well on multiple Unix platforms. You'll also learn about several Python-related technologies that will make your life much easier.
About the Author
Jeremy Jones Jeremy Jones is a software engineer who works for Predictix. His weapon of choice is Python, but he has done some shell, plenty of Perl, a touch of Java, is currently learning C#, and finds functional programming languages (especially OCaml) fascinating.
Noah Gift Noah Gift is an author, speaker, consultant, and community leader, writing for publications such as IBM Developerworks, Red Hat Magazine, O'Reilly, and MacTech. His consulting company's website is www.giftcs.com , and his personal website is www.noahgift.com . Noah is also the current organizer for www.pyatl.org , which is the Python User Group for Atlanta, GA. He has given presentations at PyCon and PyAtl.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:26am CET
Professional Microsoft Search SharePoint 2007 and Search Server 2008
As the amount of digital information continues to grow at an exponential rate, gone are the days of remembering where all that information is stored. Providing efficient and reliable ways for users to find the information they need when they need it is of paramount necessity. This book comes to the rescue by offering a means to access information in a quick and streamlined fashion.
This unparalleled team of authors thoroughly covers the Enterprise Search Technology and explains the best ways to use Enterprise Search so that you can navigate the right technologies and techniques to get the most from your search investments. You'll discover why security is such a vital aspect of Search, and how security is built within Search through authentication and authorization against a myriad of systems. By learning to use, administer, and develop on the SharePoint 2007 and Search Server 2008 technologies, you'll be able to help others with the ever-changing search landscape.
What you will learn from this book
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How to plan and deploy an Enterprise Search solution
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Ways to configure and administer Search that will meet specific customer requirements
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Best practices and processes for building Search-driven applications
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Techniques to extend Search with the Search API, new federation capabilities, user interface, or XSL and connectors
Who this book is for
This book is for developers and IT professionals who are responsible for everything from information access and discovery to writing search applications and want to use the breadth of the SharePoint 2007 and Search Server 2008 technologies to become more efficient.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:24am CET
The book gives an accessible account of modern probabilistic methods for analyzing combinatorial structures and algorithms. It will be an useful guide for graduate students and researchers.
Special features included: a simple treatment of Talagrand's inequalities and their applications; an overview and many carefully worked out examples of the probabilistic analysis of combinatorial algorithms; a discussion of the "exact simulation" algorithm (in the context of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods); a general method for finding asymptotically optimal or near optimal graph colouring, showing how the probabilistic method may be fine-tuned to exploit the structure of the underlying graph; a succinct treatment of randomized algorithms and derandomization techniques.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:24am CET
If you are a music producer, recording engineer, musician, or composer there is definitely something in this book for you. If you are about to purchase new equipment, wish to troubleshoot technical problems, need guidance on how to achieve professional sounding results, or are looking for inspiration for new ideas - keep this book by your side. Fully illustrated in color throughout with screen grabs demonstrating step-by-step examples packed with helpful tips and notes, this book will enhance your understanding of the system. Mike Collins is Technical Consultant to the Music Producers Guild (MPG) contributing to the Education Group and organizing technical seminars. For several years Mike has operated a Pro Tools project studio and has been involved in everything from dance remixes, to TV ads, background and featured music for TV and video, album editing and compilation and recording jazz. Mike offers consultancy, troubleshooting and personal tuition to other professionals with Pro Tools-based project studios as well as seminars on Music Technology, Pro Tools and other music software. He has written over 500 articles for audio, music technology and computer magazines and advises on college education programs. Mike’s wide-ranging career and experience enables him to bring excellent insight from all sides into his writing, from technical detail to creative expression. Starting out as a musician and club DJ, Mike soon moved into professional recording working for EMI and other music companies. He has worked as a songwriter, Film Sound Consultant for Dolby Labs, produced TV recordings and was Senior Recording Engineer and Music Technology Specialist for Yamaha. He has also been a MIDI programmer working on records, films and music tours with bands such as the Shamen and well-known film composers such as Ryuichi Sakamoto. He has worked on CD-ROM projects for Apple and Canon and set up a programming and editing website for the Guild of Record Producers and Engineers. He has a BSc in Electroacoustics and an MSc in Music Information Technology.
About the Author
Mike Collins is a music technology consultant and writer who has been making music in London's recording studios variously as a MIDI programmer, session musician, recording engineer, producer and arranger since 1981. He offers freelance Pro Tools engineering, consultancy, troubleshooting and personal tuition, as well as presenting seminars and lectures on related music technology and audio recording topics. Mike has written over 500 articles for magazines such as Macworld (UK), Pro Sound News Europe, Sound on Sound and AudioMedia, and for Electronic Musician and MIX in the USA.
Mike's wide-ranging career and experience enables him to bring excellent insight from all sides into his writing, from technical detail to creative expression. Starting out as a musician and club DJ in the 1970's, Mike moved into professional recording in the 1980's, initially as a Songwriter/Producer for EMI Records. Later he worked as a Songwriter for Chappell Music; as a Film Sound Consultant for Dolby Labs; as a Music Producer for TV recordings; and as Senior Recording Engineer and Music Technology Specialist at Yamaha's London R & D Studio. Throughout the 1990's Mike worked as a MIDI Programmer on records, films and music tours with bands such as the Shamen and film composers such as Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Arnold. Mike was Executive Consultant to Re-Pro (The Guild of Record Producers and Engineers) between 1996 and 1999 and Technical Consultant to the Music Producers Guild (MPG), contributing to the Education Group and organising and presenting Technical Seminars between 1999 and 2002. He has a BSc in Electroacoustics and an MSc in Music Information Technology.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:23am CET
The theory of probability is a powerful tool that helps electrical and computer engineers to explain, model, analyze, and design the technology they develop. The text begins at the advanced undergraduate level, assuming only a modest knowledge of probability, and progresses through more complex topics mastered at graduate level. The first five chapters cover the basics of probability and both discrete and continuous random variables. The later chapters have a more specialized coverage, including random vectors, Gaussian random vectors, random processes, Markov Chains, and convergence. Describing tools and results that are used extensively in the field, this is more than a textbook; it is also a reference for researchers working in communications, signal processing, and computer network traffic analysis. With over 300 worked examples, some 800 homework problems, and sections for exam preparation, this is an essential companion for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Further resources for this title, including solutions (for instructors only), are available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521864701.
About the Author
John A. Gubner received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Maryland at College Park, after which he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is currently a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include ultra-wideband communications, point processes and shot noise, subspace methods in statistical processing, and information theory.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:19am CET
This text introduces the C programming language using a range of engineering and science applications in the examples and exercises. The book assumes no programming experience and is suitable for an introduction to programming course (using C instead of Fortran or Pascal). Structured programming principles are introduced early and used throughout. Clear explanations and many example programs (using ANSI C) show C as a powerful tool in engineering and science applications. Includes exercises after each section, common programming error sections, and chapter summaries.
C for Engineers and Scientists is a direct result of the success (and the limitations) of its predecessor, A First Book of C. In this regard, my most heartfelt acknowledgment and appreciation goes to the instructors and students who found the earlier edition to be of service to them in their respective quests to teach and learn C.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:18am CET
This volume gives an overview of the state-of-the-art with respect to the development of all types of parallel computers and their application to a wide range of problem areas.
The international conference on parallel computing ParCo97 (Parallel Computing 97) was held in Bonn, Germany from 19 to 22 September 1997. The first conference in this biannual series was held in 1983 in Berlin. Further conferences were held in Leiden (The Netherlands), London (UK), Grenoble (France) and Gent (Belgium).
From the outset the aim with the ParCo (Parallel Computing) conferences was to promote the application of parallel computers to solve real life problems. In the case of ParCo97 a new milestone was reached in that more than half of the papers and posters presented were concerned with application aspects. This fact reflects the coming of age of parallel computing.
Some 200 papers were submitted to the Program Committee by authors from all over the world. The final programme consisted of four invited papers, 71 contributed scientific/industrial papers and 45 posters. In addition a panel discussion on Parallel Computing and the Evolution of Cyberspace was held. During and after the conference all final contributions were refereed. Only those papers and
posters accepted during this final screening process are included in this volume.
The practical emphasis of the conference was accentuated by an industrial exhibition where companies demonstrated the newest developments in parallel processing equipment and software. Speakers from participating companies presented papers in industrial sessions in which new developments in parallel computing were reported.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:18am CET
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 135 basic computer tasks. Each task-based spread includes easy, visual directions for performing necessary operations, including:
- Comparing types of computers
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Selecting memory and storage options
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Using Windows® or Mac OS® X
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Working with digital media
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Exploring e-mail and the Web
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Protecting your privacy online
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Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
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Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
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Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
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Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
About the Author
Paul McFedries is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. Paul has worked with many different types of computers since 1975 and has been a full-time technical writer since 1991. He has written over 50 books that have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include the Wiley titles
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows Vista,
Windows Vista Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks, and
The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office 2007. Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the language.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:17am CET
Fasciolosis, a parasitic disease caused by the liver fluke, has a tremendous impact on livestock each year. In addition, an estimated 2.4 million people are infected, and the disease is now recognized as an emerging human disease by the World Health Organization. This volume, the first comprehensive treatment devoted to these parasites and their control in over thirty years, brings together the many recent scientific advances and treatments, making it invaluable resource for doctors, parasitologists, and veterinarians.
About the Author
J. P. Dalton, School of Biotechnology, Dublin City University.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:16am CET
In Hacking Cyberspace David J. Gunkel examines the metaphors applied to new technologies, and how those metaphors inform, shape, and drive the implementation of the technology in question. The author explores the metaphorical tropes that have been employed to describe and evaluate recent advances in computer technology, telecommunications systems, and interactive media. Taking the stance that no speech is value-neutral, Gunkel examines such metaphors as "the information superhighway" and "the electronic frontier" for their political and social content, and he develops a critical investigation that not only traces the metaphors' conceptual history, but explicates their implications and consequences for technological development. Through Hacking Cyberspace, David J. Gunkel develops a sophisticated understanding of new technology that takes into account the effect of technoculture's own discursive techniques and maneuvers on the actual form of technological development.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:15am CET
University teaching is a special job. It is a joy to wake up in the morning knowing that during each working day, an extraordinary event or experience will jut out from the banal rhythms of administration, answering emails and endlessly buzzing telephones. Students, in these ruthless times, desperately want to feel something – anything – beyond the repetitive and pointless patterns of the casualized workplace and the selection of mobile phone ring tones. This cutting consumerism subtly corrodes the self. These students follow anyone who makes them feel more than a number, more than labour fodder for fast food outlets. I believe in these students, and I need to believe that the future they create will be better than the intellectual shambles we have bequeathed them. Being a teacher is a privilege to never take for granted. The bond between students and educators is not severed when a certificate is presented. We share a memory of change, of difference, of feeling that we can change the world, one person at a time.
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:14am CET
(National Research Council and Institute of Medicine) Presents the Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research's findings and recommendations. The guidelines are intended to enhance the integrity of privately funded research and covers the ethical concerns surrounding hES cell research and what scientists can do to address them. Softcover.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences.
About the Author
Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, National Research Council
