I have been working with Hyper-V since the beta release of it for Windows Server 2008. There was a lot to learn with the brand new product. It quickly became evident that Hyper-V was just a tiny piece of the entire puzzle. A Hyper-V project is much more than just a virtualization project. It is a project that will change how your server...

Welcome to the official Mac OS X Server Essentials training course offered by Apple Computer. This book serves as a self-paced guide and is designed to help you build the basic skills you need to effectively administer Mac OS X Server. Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Server Essentials details the graphical tools that Apple provides to...

Recognizing patterns is at the core of man's attempts to understand the universe that we inhabit. Through the development of sensors and instruments, we have extended our ability to gather data far beyond the range and scale of man's natural senses. As a result we are now able to gather data on phenomena occurring in the far reaches...

This book, Cisco Unity Connection, by Dave Schulz, hits the bull’s-eye of its intended topic: Cisco Unity Connection. This book zeroes in on the target with clarity and depth. Anyone that uses or considers using the Cisco Unity Connection product needs a copy of this book to read when planning a deployment, administering the...

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1. Full-feature timer system. The HCS12 timer system provides input-capture, outputcompare, pulse-width...

This monograph on Security in Computing Systems: Challenges, Approaches and Solutions aims at introducing, surveying and assessing the fundamentals of secu rity with respect to computing. Here, “computing” refers to all activities which individuals or groups directly or indirectly perform by means of computing sys tems,...

Building on the first edition of Joomla!: Visual QuickStart Guide, this task-based guide is the perfect tool for those just starting with Joomla, as well as, seasoned professionals who want to know how to use the latest version of the software to its fullest. It shows how to create, customize, and maintain a dynamic Joomla 1.6 website...

From its beginnings, the Internet has fostered communication, collaboration and networking between users. However, the first boom at the turn of the millennium was mainly driven by a rather one-sided interaction: e-commerce, portal sites and the broadcast models of mainstream media were introduced to theWeb. Over the last six or seven...

Materialized views have recently seen a renewed interest in the research and commercial communitites because of their applications in warehousing, retailing, billing, visualization, integrity constraints, query optimization, and decision support. All leading database vendors are currently implementing in their systems materialized views...

The REX School/Symposium *A Decade of Concurrency - Reflections and Perspectives' was the final event of a ten year period of cooperation between three Dutch research groups working on the foundations of concurrency. Ever since its inception in 1983. the goal of the project has been'to contribute to the crossfertilization...

The book you hold in your hands, or see on your screen, is the result of a series of studies of how teams all over the world specify, develop, and deliver the right software, without defects, in very short cycles. It presents the collective knowledge of about 50 projects, ranging from public websites to internal back-office systems....