Hacking is the art of creating problem solving, whether used to find an unconventional solution to...

Have you ever noticed that in just about every Mac book, the author will include a couple of tips in each chapter (you'll usually find them in the sidebar, or at the bottom of the page in a tinted box). Sometimes it's a shortcut, a faster way to do something, or a clever workaround that just makes your life easier. People really...

Small, special-purpose computing devices and high-end core Internet servers need fast, reliable database management. Berkeley DB is an embedded database that provides high-performance, scalable, transaction-protected and recoverable data management services to applications. Extremely portable, this library runs under almost all...

When something goes wrong with your Linux firewall, you need to fix itright now. You don't have time for endless newsgroup searches, confusing man pages, emails to the developers... it's an emergency! One book brings together all the step-by-step solutions and proven problem-solving techniques you'll need when the time comes:...

This straightforward, practical, and complete guide to mastering the powerful and complex OpenBSD operating system,...

This is a practitioner’s book, combining theoretical and practical applications for project professionals. It is a loosely coupled work flow that...

Sys admins can field scores of complaints and spend months testing software suites that turn out to be too aggressive, too passive, or too complicated to setup only to discover that SpamAssassin (SA), the leading open source spam-fighting tool, is free, flexible, powerful, highly-regarded, and remarkably effective. The...

The first section of the book teaches the fundamentals of PHP. And then, building upon what has been taught in the first section, sections two through...

Today’s corporate decision makers are more sophisticated buyers than ever before. Whilst most love to buy, all hate being ‘sold to’. They are no longer willing to be pushed, pressurized or otherwise badgered into making a decision to buy what you are offering. Indeed, the harder you push, the more likely it is that they will...