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Wireless Home Networking for Dummies

For Dummies, 2003

Pick the right equipment, secure your network, and share files

Share your Internet connection, access hot spots, and add on cool wireless peripherals

Thinking of going wireless? It’s not as scary as it sounds! This fast and fun guidebook helps you decide what you need, install it, and get the most from all its cool options....

Debugging With GDB: The Gnu Source-Level Debugger

Free Software Foundation, 2002

The GNU Debugger allows you to see what is going on "inside" a program while it executes - or what a program was doing at the moment it crashed.

GDB supports C, C++, Java, Fortran and Assembly among other languages; it is also designed to work closely with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

The GNU Debugger Program has four...

Sams' Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours

Sams Publishing, 1999

While this guide won't make you an expert in Linux, it will explain how to get Red Hat Linux to work and how to do basic things with it. Organized into 24 lessons that take about an hour apiece, this book helps you ensure that your system can handle Linux and walks you through the process of installing Red Hat Linux and the Xfree86 windowing...

Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age

Oxford University Press, 2007

Circuits from silk? Today's technophiles probably have no idea how much today's computer technology owes to the invention of one ingenuous textile manufacturer in nineteenth-century France. Here, master storyteller James Essinger shows through a series of remarkable and meticulously researched historical connections how the Jacquard loom...

Coders at Work

Apress, 2009

Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a brand-new companion volume to Apress’s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his...

Sams Teach Yourself OpenOffice.org 2, Firefox and Thunderbird for Windows All in One (Sams Teach Yourself)

Sams Publishing, 2005

The three leading open source alternatives to Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and Outlook are OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Thunderbird. If you are looking to make the migration to these open source applications, Sams Teach Yourself OpenOffice.org 2, Firefox and Thunderbird All in One will...

MySQL/PHP Database Applications, 2nd Edition

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Learn what it takes to get data-driven Web sites up and running using PHP 5 and MySQL

The popularity of using MySQL and PHP to create organized and efficient Web sites is growing at a steady pace. MySQL has proven itself to be fast, robust, and easy to use. It works well with PHP, and it’s perfect for Web applications for simple to robust...

Oracle Databases on the Web: Learn to Create Web Pages That Interface with Database Engines

Coriolis Group Books, 1997

Covers how to set up database systems to drive commercial Web and intranet sites. Provides the insight of two experienced Oracle database administrators. Presents need-to-know information in an easy-to-read format with clear examples and illustrations. Provides an understanding of the World Wide Web and details on Web security. Details database...

Java 2D Graphics

O'Reilly, 1999

One weakness of Java has been its graphics capabilities. Java 1.0 and 1.1 only included simple primitives for line drawing: lines could only be one pixel wide, they could only be solid, and there wasn't any good way to draw curves. Font management and color management were also weak. Java 2D (collectively called the "2D API") signals...

CSS: The Missing Manual

Pogue Press, 2009

"Almost 500 pages of CSS help, with more than 100 pages of practical tutorials to guide you through the process of implementing and refining CSS to save you many a wasted hour. At GBP25, you'll be hard pressed to find a better guide to designing with CSS." .NET, February 2007

Cascading Style Sheets can turn humdrum...

The Brooklyn Bridge (Building America: Then and Now)

Chelsea House Publications, 2009

Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge is widely considered the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century. This vision of designer John Augustus Roebling would be the longest bridge ever built at the time. During the 30-year construction period, the project withstood city politics, numerous construction conundrums and accidents, and...

Digital Photography Bible (Desktop Edition)

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

If a digital camera can do it, you can do it, too...

Good photography is more art than science. You need to know not only the hardware and software, but also how to compose a photo, edit and improve the images you get, and take pictures that achieve your objectives. From choosing a digital camera to taking shots that tell a...

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