Parallel hardware has been ubiquitous for some time now. It’s difficult to find a laptop,
desktop, or server that doesn’t use a multicore processor. Beowulf clusters are
nearly as common today as high-powered workstations were during the 1990s, and
cloud computing could make distributed-memory systems as accessible as...
Penetration testing is often considered an art as much as it is a science, but even an
artist needs the right brushes to do the job well. Many commercial and open source
tools exist for performing penetration testing, but it’s often hard to ensure that you
know what tools are available and which ones to use for a certain task....
Service Manager 2010 is without a doubt the most customizable and extensible product in
the System Center suite. The ability to customize and extend the product is enabled by
the common technology platform born in Operations Manager that now underlies other
Microsoft products such as System Center Essentials, Windows InTune, Virtual...
The goal of Management Information Systems, Sixth Edition is to provide a real-world understanding
of information systems (ISs) for business and computer science students. Like its predecessor, this
Sixth Edition provides students with a firm foundation in business-related information technology
(IT) on which they can build successful...
Welcome to jQuery UI Themes: Beginner's Guide. This introductory text will get you started
with developing your own themes for jQuery UI applications. Starting with the general
concepts of user interface themes, this book walks the reader through everything from
the most basic ideas in jQuery UI to more advanced topics such as icons...
Developing software with testable requirements is the theme of this book. A
testable requirement is one with an acceptance test. Acceptance tests drive the
development of the software. As many development groups have experienced,
creating acceptance tests prior to implementing requirements decreases defects
and...
The Internet plays a significant and growing role in real-time industrial manufacturing, scheduling and management. A considerable research effort has led to the development of new technologies that make it possible to use the Internet for supervision and control of industrial processes.
Autodesk Inventor was introduced in 1999 as an ambitious 3D parametric modeler based not on
the familiar AutoCAD programming architecture but instead on a separate foundation that would
provide the room needed to grow into the fully featured modeler it is now, a decade later. Inventor
2011 continues the development of Inventor with...
The practice of IP address management (IPAM) entails the application of network management disciplines to Internet Protocol (IP) address space and associated network services, namely Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Domain Name System (DNS). The linkages among an IP address plan and configurations of DHCP and DNS servers are...
Microsoft has recently changed its certification program to contain three primary series:
Technology, Professional, and Architect. The Technology Series of certifications are intended
to allow candidates to target specific technologies and are the basis for obtaining the Profes
sional Series and Architect Series of certifications. The...
This comprehensive book prepares you for Microsoft's new certification, MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Exam 70-236 serves as both the single exam requirement for achieving the MCTS designation as well as the entry exam for the MCITP certification for Exchange Server 2007. Inside, you'll find the practical and in-depth...
With more and more images and videos being available in the compressed
format, researchers have started taking interest in the aspect of designing
algorithms for different image operations directly in their domains of representation.
This would not only avoid the inverse and forward transformation
steps and potentially make the...
