Network management has become more than just being able to make all the connections. The network manager must know how to handle all kinds of issues in the emerging client/server environments. McConnell presents a complete window into real-life network management, from traffic analysis through virtual LANS, covering net management systems from HP, Novell, Sun, IBM and DEC. The book shows how to use all the capabilities of tools that allow network managers to manage complex, multi-protocol systems, and covers intelligent agents that collect information and correct network problems. It also shows how to use instrumentation to restart systems locally or remotely and includes a special section on Virtual LANS.

Managing Client-Server Environments: Tools and Strategies for Building Solutions

Computers & Technology

McConnell, John

Software

PRENTICE/HALL

This book is today of historical interest. Today networking is ubiquitous, and it there seems to be an inevitability in it. This book reviews what was available in 1988, when Digital Equipment Corporation was quick to embrace the OSI layered system and others were not. The emergence of this technology was disruptive to organizations, and the book includes a short case study of the USDA which had computing centers spread across three main computing centers located in Fort Collins, which used Unisys systems while Kansas City and New Orleans had IBM computers. This was before there were standards like OSI and the USDA Office of Information Resources Management had to development there own system. The OSI standard was on the horizon and they proceeded with that in mind. There is much explanatory material. The book gives a sense of what it was like in the 1980s. It i snot an academic study.

Internetworking Computer Systems: Interconnecting Networks and Systems (Prentice Hall Advanced Reference Series)

Certification

Welcome to the wacky, wonderful world of Adobe creative director Russell Brown! In this brand-new book/CD package, the man who's proven he'll do anything to get you excited about Photoshop showcases the possible by distilling his legendary presentations into a form you can take advantage of without attending a conference or high-priced seminar. In The Photoshop Show Starring Russell Brown, you get the best of both worlds: the charisma and wild energy of Russell Brown the presenter (in the video tutorials that accompany the chapters), plus the practical instruction you need to achieve the dazzling results displayed in the sample artwork. 
 Through beautiful, four-color art, a teaching style that emphasizes the fun and imaginative, and an accompanying CD that includes QuickTime movies and project files, this volume takes you through all of Photoshop's features. Video tutorials include Motion Magic, Seeing in Black and White, and Changing the Scenery. In Part Two, you'll learn how to transform an ordinary portrait (yours?) into Frankenstein's monster. With Russell as your guide, you'll even find instructions on Digital Shaving with the Healing Brush--how cool is that?

The Photoshop Show Starring Russell Brown

Arts & Photography

Gyncild, Brie

Brown, Russell

Photography & Video

Adobe Pr

Hcb - Algebra Volume I

Pearson/Education

For any baseball fanatic, a trip to Cooperstown can take on the aura of a holy pilgrimage. Yet many fans are unaware of what goes into the selection of players to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Part I of this volume offers a chronology of Hall of Fame voting from 1936 to the present. Part II provides information about the awards won (Cy Young, MVP, Rookie), honors (Sporting News All-Star selections), and other career details (longevity, benchmark statistical achievements) that tend to sway voters. And Part III summarizes the voting trends by position.

Cooperstown by the Numbers: An Analysis of Baseball Hall of Fame Elections

Reference

McFarland

For human resources departments struggling to highlight their worth amidst company cuts and streamlining, author John McConnell offers a rigorous yet simple solution that is far less costly and intimidating than an outside audit. In this invaluable resource he provides readers with a proven, painless process for gauging how well their HR departments are performing. Auditing Your Human Resources Department does this by scrutinizing the eleven key functions of human resources, including recruitment and selection, compensation, benefits, education, training and development, diversity, and EOE. Using these functions as a framework, you’ll be able to gather key information, score your self-assessment, analyze relevant data, and fix any problem spots to strengthen and maximize the effectiveness of your HR efforts.The completely revised second edition includes new information on strategic planning and HR, the impact and benefits of important technology developments, and new federal workplace laws. With hundreds of pages of questionnaires, checklists, and forms, this book supplies the tools to pinpoint department strengths, improve weaknesses--and turn HR into an essential business asset.

Auditing Your Human Resources Department: A Step-by-Step Guide to Assessing the Key Areas of Your Program

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

AMACOM

A Ring, a Horse and a Clown: An Eight Generation History of the Hannefords

Astley & Ricketts

Earth Day

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Wipf and Stock

Measure, manage, and improve the speed and reliability of web services <ul>
<li>Complete reference for creating relevant, effective Service Level Agreements</li> <li>Detailed discussions of both technical and business performance metrics and their statistical treatment</li> <li>Performance and management implications of various web services delivery infrastructures, including caching and load distribution</li> <li>Discussion of the transport infrastructure, including quality of service (QoS) technology and traffic shaping</li> <li>Instrumentation system design</li> <li>Measurement collection, aggregation, correlation, and use for real-time service level control and reporting</li> <li>Quick problem detection, "triage" problem diagnosis, and root-cause analysis</li> <li>Automated, policy-based system management</li> <li>Load testing, modeling, and capacity planning for web systems</li> <li>Calculation of return on investment for web infrastructure improvements</li> <li>Structured plan for implementation of SLM techniques</li>
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The web has become a major vehicle for transforming business processes, but ineffective management of web-based services can result in high costs and user dissatisfaction. Service Level Management (SLM) is therefore a competitive weapon in the web marketplace, providing the tools needed to improve performance and reliability of web services while simultaneously controlling costs. Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services shows you how you can measure, manage, and improve network performance and quality of experience (QoE) for critical web services. Starting with an explanation of SLM and common performance metrics, the book provides detailed discussions of methods to measure and improve performance. Service Level Agreements, instrumentation, performance-improvement technologies, load testing, and long-term planning are all covered in detail. This book provides both technical engineers and non-technical managers with an organized, cohesive plan for measuring, improving, and evaluating the performance of web-based services. Whether you are delivering services to other businesses or directly to customers, Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services walks you through the complete process of designing a balanced solution for your situation. Use it to help design a system with the speed, reliability, and flexibility that are critical success factors for your business. This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.

Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services

Cisco Systems

After a half-century of activism, John McConnell, the true founder of Earth Day, here relates his global promotion of peace, justice, and Earth care. Following the Kennedy assassination, McConnell's Minute for Peace gained worldwide attention. This led to his Earth Day and other initiatives aimed at promoting people and planet. In this book, he shares the views that garnered support during the environmental movement from 1969 onward, and that have inspired followers for forty years at annual Earth Day ceremonies at the UN and cities across the globe. John McConnell coined the term Earth Day in 1968, proposed its celebration on the spring equinox to the City of San Francisco in October 1969, and announced it in November at a U.N.E.S.C.O. Conference. The City responded by hosting the first Earth Day on March 21, 1970. Margaret Mead, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, President Ford, and thirty-three Nobel laureates supported McConnell's Earth Day, and thirty-six worldwide dignitaries signed McConnell's Earth Day Proclamation, supporting Earth Day on the spring equinox, an annual planetary holiday linking people everywhere without regard to politics, culture, national border, or religion. In 1957, after Sputnik, McConnell promoted the Star of Hope, a satellite devoted to peace. This effort sparked his origination of Earth Day, the Earth Flag, Earth Trustees, and the Earth Magna Charta. He worked with UN officials and other leaders to overcome differences and build common ground for peace, aiming to ensure our planet's future and human survival. This book chronicles his global mission, his life journey, and his unique contributions toward a peaceful and cherished planet.

Earth Day: Vision for Peace, Justice, and Earth Care: My Life and Thought at Age 96

Resource Publications

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