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This is the first book to analyze the technical, legal, and financial ramifications of revolutionary and controversial network strike-back and active defense techniques. The authors reveal tightly guarded secrets to expose your online attackers and provide valuable information for finding and prosecuting criminal hackers. Learn how to identify, target, and nullify your adversaries through expert techniques and real-life examples. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1931836205/ ***IPv6 Network Administration Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596009348 This essential guide explains what works, what doesn't, and most of all, what's practical about IPv6. A must-have for network administrators looking to fix their network's scalability and management problems, this book also covers other IPv6 benefits, such as routing, integrated auto-configuration, quality-of-services, enhanced mobility, and end-to-end security. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ipv6na/ Chapter 5, "Installation and Configuration," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ipv6na/chapter/index.html ***Windows XP Hacks, 2nd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596009186 "Windows XP Hacks, 2nd Edition" is an ideal all-in-one resource for XP beginners as well as experienced power users. Now completely revised and updated to cover Service Pack 2 (SP2), the second edition of this bestseller breaks down the new SP2 features, including IE pop-up blocker, Windows Firewall, and the new wireless client. You'll also find timesaving hacks for security, file distribution, digital media, web browsing, and more. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxphks2/ Hack 36, "Surf Anonymously Without a Trace," is available online along with 9 others hacks: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxphks2/chapter/index.html ***QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596009011 "QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual" is a comprehensive guide that examines everything the QuickBooks Pro Windows edition has to offer, from invoices and inventory to assets and accounts payable. By covering details in a friendly and lighthearted way, the book explains when and why a feature is useful and then offers indispensable, relevant advice. Each page provides insightful tips and tricks to help readers become more efficient, sophisticated users no matter what the extent of their existing knowledge. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/quickbookstmm/ ***Outlook 2003 Personal Trainer Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596009356 This fully illustrated book takes a modular approach to learning, allowing you to start with the fundamentals and then work your way up to advanced topics--at your own pace. Designed to address both beginners and experts, this handy reference is written in a non-technical style that you're bound to find engaging and informative. The companion CD tutorial guides you through each lesson interactively. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/outlookpt/ Chapter 8, "Advanced E-Mail Features," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/outlookpt/chapter/index.html ***Intrusion Prevention and Active Response Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 193226647X This is the first book-length work that specifically concentrates on the concept, implementation, and implications of intrusion prevention and active response. The authors establish a common understanding of the terminology and then compare the many approaches to intrusion prevention. In short, this book serves as a reference for next-generation IDS technology that provides active response and intrusion prevention functions both at the network and host levels. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/193226647X/ ***Python Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596009402 With its convenient, quick-reference format, this book is the perfect on-the-job reference that delivers need-to-know information at the flip of a page. This third edition has been refreshed to cover Python 2.4 and also includes an easy-lookup index to help developers find answers fast. The "Python Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition" serves as the perfect companion to "Learning Python" and "Programming Python." http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonpr3/index.html ***Word 2003 Personal Trainer Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596009364 As the most complete and engaging tutorial available for Word, this invaluable guide details all of the latest advancements to Word 2003, featuring sections on templates, WordArt, charts, and drawings, plus advanced topics like how to perform mail merges and create web pages. To best guide learning, this Personal Trainer includes detailed diagrams, dozens of task-oriented lessons, and a fully interactive training simulation CD--everything you need to become a Word pro. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wordpt/index.html Chapter 8, "Performing a Mail Merge," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wordpt/chapter/index.html ***Learning Windows Server 2003 Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596006241 "Windows Server 2003" is the right server for a world dominated by enterprise networks and web-based server applications, but getting this server up and running is a formidable task. Our no-fluff guide gives you exactly what you need for installing, configuring, securing, and managing Server 2003, and offers hands-on advice for planning, implementing, and growing Windows networks without trying to teach you how to be a system administrator. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lwinsvr2003/index.html Chapter 10, "Windows Terminal Services," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lwinsvr2003/chapter/index.html ***Cyber Spying Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1931836418 Have you ever wondered about that friend your spouse emails, or who they spend hours chatting online with? Are you curious about what your children are doing online, who they meet, and what they talk about? Do you worry about them finding drugs and other illegal items online, and wonder what they look at? This book shows you how to monitor and analyze your family's online behavior. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1931836418/index.html ***MAKE Subscriptions Available The annual subscription price for four issues is $34.95. When you subscribe with this link, you'll get a free issue--the first one plus four more for $34.95. So subscribe for yourself or friends with this great offer for charter subscribers: five volumes for the cost of four. Subscribe at: https://www.pubservice.com/MK/Subnew.aspx?PC=MK&PK=M5ZUGLA The MAKE blog is available at: http://www.makezine.com/blog/ ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Tom Stafford and Matt Webb ("Mind Hacks"), Foyles Bookshop, London, UK--March 23 Spend a mind boggling evening with "Mind Hacks" authors Tom Stafford and Matt Webb, who will demonstrate happiness, and optical tricks to see how the brain responds. In the process, you'll learn a little bit more about how this fearsomely complex organ works. No previous neuroscience experience necessary! Please bring a pen--and your brain--if you'd like to play along. The fun begins at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are 4 pounds (redeemable on the purchase of any O'Reilly title that evening), and can be booked by calling 0870 4202777, visiting Foyle's site, or dropping by the shop. 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, UK http://www.foyles.co.uk/foyles/events.asp ***Bonnie Biafore ("QuickBooks: The Missing Manual" & "Online Investing Hacks"), EduFest, Denver, CO--March 26 Bonnie is a featured speaker at the NAIC Rocky Mountain Chapter EduFest. http://www.better-investing.org/chapter/denver/events/7571 ***Bonnie Biafore, AAII Denver Chapter Meeting, Denver, CO--April 4 Bonnie discusses online investing with members of the Denver Chapter of the American Association of Individual Investors. http://www.aaii.com/loclchap/aaiichap/denver/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Register for the 2005 MySQL Users Conference, Santa Clara, CA-- April 18-21 The MySQL Users Conference, co-presented by O'Reilly Media and MySQL AB, brings together experts, users, and industry leaders with unique MySQL insights, offering attendees a detailed look into new features in MySQL 5.0, sessions and workshops designed to teach best practices, and exposure to new open source technologies. For more information, go to: http://www.mysqluc.com/ Use code DSUG when you register, and receive 20% off the registration price. To register for the conference, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/mysqluc2005/create/ord_mysql05 ***Where 2.0 Conference Debut Join us at the first O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference June 29-30 in San Francisco. Explore the emerging consumer and enterprise ecosystems around location-aware technologies--like GPS, RFID, WLAN, cellular networks, and networked sensors--that enable an ever-growing array of capabilities from local search and mapping to enterprise integration and commercial applications. Registration opens in April. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where/ To receive up-to-date conference news and information, sign up for the conference newsletter on oreilly.com. ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ - --------------------- General News - --------------------- ***From the Labs: ETech 2005 On the opening day of O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference, attendees got a preview of projects that may or may not ever be released as full scale products from Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/03/16/etech_2.html For more ETech coverage: http://www.oreillynet.com/et2005/ ***The SafariU Revolution: An Interview with Professor Kent Sandoe Professor Kent Sandoe of the Information Systems Department of Chico State University wanted to produce a textbook on information security for his Systems Management course this semester, but at the last minute, those plans fell through. He turned to SafariU, O???Reilly???s new web-based platform for creating, publishing, and sharing textbooks. Read about his experience in this interview. http://www.oreilly.com/news/safariusandoe.html Visit SafariU for a video demo http://academic.oreilly.com/safariu-more.csp ***No Starch Titles Included in MIT Review Article "Hack License," by Simson Garfinkel ("Database Nation"), includes No Starch's "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation" and "Hacking the XBox." http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/03/issue/review_hack.asp ***O'Reilly Learning Lab: $200 Instant Rebate Learning programming languages and development techniques has never been easier. Using your web browser and Useractive's Learning Sandbox technology, the Learning Lab gives you hands-on, online training in a creative environment. This month, receive a $200 instant rebate (and a Certificate from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education upon course completion) when you enroll in any Certificate Series. http://www.oreilly.com/redirector.csp?link=UACert&type=news - --------------------- Open Source - --------------------- ***Secure Batch Email with UUCP and SSH Not everyone has reliable, always-on Internet access. For some, reliability has to come through software, not hardware. Fortunately, protocols designed to work around slow and unreliable networks still work. Christophe Prevotaux demonstrates how to set up FreeBSD, Postfix, and SSH to send and receive email via UUCP. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/03/10/uucpmail.html ***Subversion UI Shootout As Subversion continues to take over from CVS, more advanced interfaces have started to appear. How do they compare to each other? How do they compare to the svn CLI tool? Jeremy Jones puts svn, RapidSVN, and TortoiseSVN though their paces and draws out UI principles along the way. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/10/svn_uis.html ***Building Connected Embedded Systems Embedded systems aren't all Linux; microcontrollers still dominate the scene. Erstwhile hardware hackers, rejoice! The tools for programming microcontrollers work just fine under Linux. George Belotsky starts a series on embedded development by demonstrating what you have to do to make Hello World run. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/10/microcontrollers.html ***Closed Source PHP A look at the many different options PHP Developers have for protecting their source code from prying eyes when creating commercial PHP Applications. http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=238739 - --------------------- Mac - --------------------- ***Getting Things Done with Your Mac Even the most savvy Mac user can have problems staying organized. A number of tips for using a Mac to help organize your life are available from 43 Folders and other sources. This article takes a look at them with the help of Merlin Mann himself. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/03/08/productivity.html ***Exploring the Mac OS X Firewall Like so many tools built in to Mac OS X, the firewall just works. But what's really going on inside it? Peter Hickman explains why the firewall works so well, and then takes you inside and shows you how to fiddle with things. In the end, he returns you safely to the default settings. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/03/15/firewall.html ***Inside StYNCies Stickies is one of the handiest little apps out there. It's been bundled with Apple's operating systems for ages, but Apple hasn't yet taken advantage of the new possibilities for it. This first installment of a two-part series works through building a partial implementation of StYNCies, a neat little utility that synchronizes your Stickies to your iPod and/or iDisk. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/03/11/cocoa.html - --------------------- Windows/.NET - --------------------- ***Receive Podcasts Using Your PC Receiving podcasts using free software, your PC, and a portable music player is a snap. Jake Ludington shows you how to do it in a few easy steps. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/03/15/podcasting_pc.html ***Enhanced Text Input in Windows Forms 2.0 Visual Studio 2005 provides enhanced controls for managing data input in Whidbey. In this new column by Jesse Liberty, he discusses the advanced WinForms Text Input control. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/03/14/liberty.html ***Go Wireless Here's an excerpt from "Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks, 2nd Edition," that shows you how to set up a simple wireless network, connect that network to the Internet, connect your wireless devices to other people's wireless networks, and prevent others from sneaking onto your network. All without wires, and the most amazing thing is that it actually works. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/excerpt/winxpannoy2_ch07_05/index.html - --------------------- Java - --------------------- ***Building Modular Applications with Seppia Isn't object-oriented programming supposed to be about code reuse? The Seppia framework encourages reuse by allowing you to combine functionality collected in multiple .jar files, stitching the behavior together with JavaScript. Lorenzo Puccetti has an introduction to this interesting framework. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/03/16/seppia.html ***Reducing Upgrade Risk with Aspect Oriented Programming Upgrading code in the field is usually frowned upon, if not prohibited outright, because of the risk and expense of pushing code changes through a release cycle. But could you just insert the tiny bit of code you need with AOP? Stephen B. Morris looks at how careful design and separation of responsibilities can make this less risky. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/03/16/aop-mgmt.html - --------------------- Digital Media - --------------------- ***High Tech Hybrid: the Casio EX-P505 Digital Camera The Casio EX-P505 is a smart-looking, 5-megapixel camera that fits in the palm of your hand. It captures full-frame, full-motion digital movies with ease, and it's packed with creative features sure to stir the imagination of fun-loving photographers. Derrick Story helps you decide if this is a high-tech toy or a real photographic tool. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/03/09/casio_p505.html ***Doc Wiley: Master of the 30-Hour Album Pro Tools wiz Doc Wiley combines studio psychology and cutting-edge technology to coax the best performances out of artists ranging from U2 to Whitney Houston. Here are some of his favorite approaches. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/03/16/doc.html - --------------------- Web - --------------------- ***Customizing Gmail with Grease Monkey Learn about using Firefox Extensions to customize Gmail, or any other web site you visit, thanks to the power of the Document Object Model and JavaScript. http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=239170 ***Why Consistency is Critical Consistency is the cornerstone of a positive user experience. But consistency means more than simply putting your nav at the top left, your search on the right. Gerry explores consistency, explaining what it is, why it's important, and the areas where consistency counts. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/why-consistency-is-critical ================================================ >From Your Peers =============================================== ***Powered by Detroit Flash/ColdFusion Conference, Detroit, MI-- April 9-10 The conference will feature expert speakers on Flash, ColdFusion, Flex, Dreamweaver, and more, with emphasis on development of Rich Internet Applications. Participants will engage in two days of cutting-edge seminars, talks, and discussions on the latest web development tools and techniques, while also enjoying the company of like-minded professionals. The event features Macromedia's Greg Rewis and Ben Forta as keynote speakers, and other top experts, including Kevin Hoyt, Michael Dinowitz, Hal Helms, Simon Horwith, Jeffry Houser, Charlie Arthart, Shlomy Gantz and Alexandru Costin. http://poweredbydetroit.org/ Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups across the globe are up to: http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi Until next time-- Marsee - ----- End forwarded message ----- - -- Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
