Virtualization for Dummies, Sun and AMD Special Edition
by Bernard Golden and Clark Scheffy
This special edition eBook explains Sun and AMD virtualization offerings and how they work together. The brief and easy-to-read booklet written in the well recognized Dummies style shows you how to save energy, time and money, and improve scalability. Optimize your environment with Sun virtualization solutions and see how quickly your business grows.
Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy
by Lawrence Lessig
For more than a decade, we"ve been waging a war on our kids in the name of the 20th Century's model of "copyright law." In this, the last of his books about copyright, Lawrence Lessig maps both a way back to the 19th century, and to the promise of the 21st. Our past teaches us about the value in "remix." We need to relearn the lesson. The present teaches us about the potential in a new "hybrid economy" — one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. That future will benefit both commerce and community.
Higher-Order Perl
by Mark Jason Dominus
Most Perl programmers were originally trained as C and Unix programmers, so the Perl programs that they write bear a strong resemblance to C programs. However, Perl incorporates many features that have their roots in other languages such as Lisp. These advanced features are not well understood and are rarely used by most Perl programmers, but they are very powerful. They can automate tasks in everyday programming that are difficult to solve in any other way.
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
by John Broughton
Want to be part of the largest group-writing project in human history? Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the user-generated online reference for the 21st century. Considered more popular than eBay, Microsoft.com, and Amazon.com, Wikipedia servers respond to approximately 30,000 requests per second, or about 2.5 billion per day. It's become the first point of reference for people the world over who need a fact fast.
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference
by Keir Thomas
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is a compact yet succinct and comprehensive guide for everyday Ubuntu use. It's ideal for anybody who needs vital information on working with Ubuntu but who doesn't have time to wade through thick documentation. First, you'll learn about installation--getting Ubuntu onto your computer--after which you'll learn how to configure your computer's hardware. Following this, you'll be introduced to the Ubuntu desktop, and the tricks and techniques of efficient day-to-day usage.
IBM system/360 principles of operation
by IBM
This manual is a comprehensive presentation of the eharaeteristies, functions, and features of the IBM System/ 360. The material is presented in a direct manner, assuming that the reader has a basic knowledge of IBM data processing systems and has read the IBM System/360 Systems Summary, Form A22-6810. The manual is useful for individual study, as an instruction aid, and as a machine reference manual.
The manual defines System/360 operating principles, central processing unit, instructions, system control panel, branching, status switching, interruption system, and input/output operations.
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines
by Apple Computer Inc.
Recently the field of computer-human interaction has exploded with new ideas, technologies, and issues. In response to these many developments, Apple presents this beautiful, full-color book that not only describes the interface guidelines for Macintosh computers, but also examines the theory behind the famous Macintosh "look and feel" and the process of designing and testing an interface.
The Relational Model for Database Management: Version 2
by E. F. Codd
"An important adjunct to precision is a sound theoretical foundation. The relational model is solidly based on two parts of mathematics: firstorder predicate logic and the theory of relations. This book, however, does not dwell on the theoretical foundations, but rather on all the features of the relational model that I now perceive as important for database users, and therefore for DBMS vendors. My perceptions result from 20 years of practical experience in computing and data processing (chiefly, but not exclusively, with large-scale customers of IBM), followed by another 20 years of research.
Essays in computing science
by C. A. R. Hoare and C. B. Jones
Charles Antony Richard Hoare is one of the most productive and prolific computer scientists. This volume contains a selection of his published papers. There is a need, as in a Shakespearian Chorus, to offer some apology for what the book manifestly fails to achieve. It is not a complete 'collected works'. Selection between papers of this quality is not easy and, given the book's already considerable size, some difficult decisions as to what to omit have had to be made.
Cryptography and data security
by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning
Electronic computers have evolved from exiguous experimental enterprises in the 1940s to prolific practical data processing systems in the 1980s. As we have come to rely on these systems to process and store data, we have also come to wonder about their ability to protect valuable data.
Data security is the science and study of methods of protecting data in computer and communication systems from unauthorized disclosure and modification. The goal of this book is to introduce the mathematical principles of data security and to show how these principles apply to operating systems, database systems, and computer networks. The book is for students and professionals seeking an introduction to these principles. There are many references for those who would like to study specific topics further.
