Leverage Fast-Growing Fedora with this Comprehensive Guide Here's the practical information you need to install, configure, and administer the latest version of Fedora as a network or a desktop operating system. Written by Red Hat Certified Engineer and bestselling author Michael Jang, Mastering Fedora Core 5 contains more than a thousand pages of in-depth coverage, including new installation procedures, the very latest utilities, and high-level discussions of new commands and applications. The book includes a DVD with the full distribution of Fedora Core 5. Coverage Includes <ul>
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Mastering Fedora Core 5

Computers & Technology

John Downes

MICHAEL JANG

Operating Systems

Sybex, Inc.

Take charge of your career with certification that can increase your marketability. This new edition of the top-selling Guide is what you need to prepare for CompTIA's Security+ SY0-101 exam. 
Developed to meet the exacting requirements of today's certification candidates and aspiring IT security professionals, this fully updated, comprehensive book features: <ul>
<li>Clear and concise information on crucial security topics.</li> <li>Practical examples and hands-on labs to prepare you for actual on-the-job situations.</li> <li>Authoritative coverage of all key exam topics including general security concepts; communication, infrastructure, operational, and organizational security; and cryptography basics.</li> </ul>
The Guide covers all exam objectives, demonstrates implementation of important instructional design principles, and provides instructional reviews to help you assess your readiness for the exam. Additionally, the Guide includes a CD-ROM with advanced testing software, all chapter review questions, and bonus exams as well as electronic flashcards that run on your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm handheld. Join the more than 20,000 security professionals who have earned this certification with the CompTIA authorized Study Guide.

Comptia Security+: Exam Sy0-101

Pastore, Mike

Certification

Take charge of your career with certification that can increase your marketability. This new Deluxe Edition of the top-selling Security + Study Guide is what you need to prepare for CompTIA's Security+ SY0-101 exam. Developed to meet the exacting requirements of today's certification candidates and aspiring IT security professionals, this fully updated, comprehensive book includes: * Clear and concise information on crucial security topics * Six practical exams and over 600 practice questions, more than any other CompTIA Security+ book on the market * Special Security Administrator's Troubleshooting Guide appendix * Practical examples and hands-on labs to prepare you for the real world * Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a test engine and electronic flashcards Inside, find authoritative and coverage of all key exam topics, including: * General security concepts * Communication security * Infrastructure security * Basics of cryptography * Operational and organizational security This book has been reviewed and approved as CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC). Students derive a number of important study advantages with CAQC materials, including coverage of all exam objectives, implementation of important instructional design principles, and instructional reviews that help students assess their learning comprehension and readiness for the exam. Featured on the CD SYBEX TEST ENGINE: Test your knowledge with advanced testing software. Includes all chapter review questions plus bonus exams. ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS: Reinforce your understanding with flashcards that can run on your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm device.

CompTIA Security +

Pastore, Michael

Dulaney,Emmett

With this comprehensive guide, you’ll find out how to effectively install, configure, and manage Microsoft’s powerful messaging and collaboration server, Exchange Server 2007. From reducing the amount of spam your company receives to ensuring you have the right disaster recovery strategy, authors Barry Gerber and Jim McBee share their extensive real-world experience as they walk you step-by-step through each process. You’ll learn the essential techniques for planning and design, deployment, administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

McBee, Jim

Gerber, Barry

Networking & Cloud Computing

Configure, run, and troubleshoot Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Home Basic with the detailed coverage you’ll find in this comprehensive guide. With a task-based approach and clear instructions, this book helps you become an advanced user of Windows Vista—even if you’re just starting out. From administering your computer and surfing the Web securely to advanced maneuvers such as creating your own movies and burning DVDs, you’ll find what you need to master the powerful features of Windows Vista.

Mastering Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium and Basic

Hart-Davis,Guy

Learn to install, configure, run, and troubleshoot the professional versions of Vista in this comprehensive new guide from two leading Windows authorities. From Vista's all-new interface, 32-bit/64-bit architecture, and advanced security features to its fantastic new capabilities for audio and video recording, editing, and broadcasting, you’ll get the techniques and task-by-task instruction you need to master this dramatically different OS.

Mastering Windows Vista Business: Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise

Business & Money

Minasi, Mark

Mueller, John Paul

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Develop the skills you need in the real world Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you'll find in this practical book. Using a "year in the life" approach, it gives you an inside look at network administration, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you'll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of network administration, including: <ul>
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<li>Choosing an Internet access technology</li> <li>Configuring wireless components</li> <li>Determining optimal placement of routers and servers</li> <li>Setting up hubs, switches, and routers</li> <li>Configuring a Windows(r) client</li> <li>Troubleshooting your network</li> </ul>
The Street Smarts series is designed to help current or aspiring IT professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. And because the exercises are based upon exam objectives from leading technology certifications, each Street Smarts book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep.

Network Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to CompTIA Network+ Skill

Skandier, Toby

Achieving accurate skin tones is one of the most challenging tasks in digital photography. Master this challenge with professional photographer Lee Varis as he covers a range of skin: women and men, young and old, various tones, in-studio and outdoors, tattoos, and more. His step-by-step tutorials and before-and-after illustrations demonstrate various techniques for topics such as digital-specific lighting challenges and what can and cannot be done in post-process. 
A free CD-ROM accompanies the book and contains sample image files to use while following the tutorials, plus equipment recommendations and technical reference materials that enhance and reinforce the instruction. Order your copy of this practical guide today and get a complete start-to-finish approach to integrating everything from posing models to shooting and retouching candid scenes.

Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, And Retouching Faces And Bodies

Arts & Photography

Varis, Lee

Photography & Video

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 instruction you need, including full coverage of all exam objectives, practical hands-on exercises, real-world scenarios, challenging review questions, and more. The book includes a CD with advanced testing software and electronic flashcards. 
For Instructors: Teaching supplements are available for this title.

Mcts: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Configuration (Exam 70-236)

Miller, Kevin

Schmied, Will

Second Life: The Official Guide is the perfect book for anyone interested in Linden Lab?s fascinating Second Life metaverse. This book explores in detail every aspect of Second Life?s rich and multilayered virtual world, explains how it works, and offers a wealth of information and practical advice for all Second Life residents. The first part of the book, ?Getting a Second Life,? acquaints potential and new players with the Second Life world. It describes the metaverse?s geography as well as its society, explaining the written and unwritten rules. The second part, ?Living a Second Life,? deals with the practical and economic aspects of Second Life: creating and customizing an avatar, building objects, scripting, and making money. The third part of the book, ?Success in Second Life,? discusses ways to enjoy Second Life more. This section includes profiles of successful Second Life residents, discusses fascinating in-world events, and examines how some are using Second Life for business, training, and other purposes. The book closes with a glossary as well as quick-reference and additional-resources appendices. The accompanying CD-ROM features special animations, character templates, and textures created by Linden Lab exclusively for this book. The disc also guides new users through installation and includes a code that grants a special object their first time entering the metaverse.

Second Life: The Official Guide

Rymaszewski, Michael

Wallace, Mark

Au, Wagner James

Winters, Catherine

Ondrejlka, Cory

Games & Strategy Guides

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