MCSE/MCSA Implementing and Administering Security in a Windows 2000 Network: Study Guide and DVD Training System

MCSE/MCSA Implementing and Administering Security in a Windows 2000 Network: Study Guide and DVD Training System
Will Schmied | 2003-01-01 00:00:00 | Syngress | 864 | Networking
This book covers Exam 200-14 in great detail, digging into some of the most important details involved in locking down Windows systems and networks and taking a systemic approach to keeping Windows networks and systems secured.
Boasting a one-of-a-kind integration of text, DVD-quality instructor-led training, and Web-based exam simulation and remediation, this study guide & DVD training system gives students 100% coverage of official Microsoft MCSA exam objectives plus realistic test prep.
The System package consists of:
1) MCSE Implementing and Administering Security in a Windows 2000 Network Study Guide: Syngress's 1 million study guide users will find tried-and-true features and exciting new enhancements; included are step-by-step exercises plus end-of-chapter bulleted objectives reviews, FAQs, and realistic test prep questions in the same format as those on the actual exam.
2) Security DVD: A full hour of instructor-led training, complete with on-screen configurations and networking schematics, demystifying the toughest exam topics.
3) Security from solutions@syngress.com. Accompanying Web site provides students with authentic interactive exam-simulation software that grades their results and automatically links to e-book study guide for instant review of answer concepts.

Covers Critical Security Exam. This exam was created to meet the demand for a security-based examination which verifies an administrator's ability to implement and maintain secure Windows 2000 network.
Fast growing certification gains in popularity. The new MCSE certification launched in March and already there are 17,000 MCSA-certified professionals (data as of May, 31, 2002, Microsoft Corp.). This exam also serves as an elective for MCP status and other certifications.
Best selling author with over 150,000 copies in print. Tom Shinder's books have over 150,000 copies in print and he's a regular speaker at the security industry's leading Black Hat Briefings. His Configuring ISA Server 2000, has sold over 45,000 units worldwide in a year.
First in-depth security exam from Microsoft. As Microsoft certification guru Ed Tittell points out, "this is the first real, nuts-and-bolts security exam in the MCP line-up. This exam is the first MCP test to really dig into some of the most important details involved in locking down Windows systems and networks in the first place, and to step systematically through the processes involved in keeping Windows networks and systems secured thereafter."
$2,000 worth of training wrapped in a $60 book/DVD/Web-enhanced training system. Certification Magazine's 2001 reader survey revealed that the average certification costs nearly $2,000. So our low-priced study package delivers unsurpassed value for cost-conscious IT departments and trainees.
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The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics

The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics
Robert Kaplan | 2004-01-01 00:00:00 | Oxford University Press | 336 | Mathematics
Here's human imagination at work. The flights of fancy the Kaplans show us are not about dragons and wizards, but about imaginary numbers, square roots, triangles, and infinite series.

I bought this book to mine for ideas to use in the notes I am writing to accompany the Third Edition of Geometry by Harold Jacobs, and I struck a rich lode. My professional interests made me look at material of a more technical nature, such as the proof of the theorem of Pappus. Pappus noticed that if you take six points A, B, and C on one side of an angle and a, b, and c on the other side of this angle and join each point to the two points labeled by *different* letters, then the three points of intersection of these six segments lie on a straight line. I knew this as a fact since my high school days, but it is not easy to give a proof that is reasonable at that level. The Kaplans have a beautiful explanation of this result, putting it in context and giving a gentle proof. Very nice indeed.

They have found just the right diagram or line of argument for many things I have seen before. Those of us who have suffered through the terrors of trigonometry will remember that there are some angle sum formulas, though we may not remember exactly what they are. The diagram at the top of page 187 tells you why these formulas are true and will make them unforgettable, if you decide to remember it. The path to this figure is made easy and natural in the book. What was new to me was the idea of adding a box around the tipped triangle --- suggested in the throw away line at the top of page 186. This gives us just what we need, neither too much nor too little.

One virtue of this book is that you can leaf through it and dive into the text wherever you see an interesting illustration or some idea you have been wondering about. The topics are mostly self-contained and there is always a nice story or bit of historical context to give you a sense of where you are and how this fits into the larger picture.

Buy this book, browse it, read it, and now and then get out your paper and pencil and puzzle through whatever tickles your fancy. This book is not just *about* mathematics, it gives you the real stuff.
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Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Premier Reference Source)

Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (Premier Reference Source)
Mark Grimshaw | 2010-09-30 00:00:00 | IGI Global | 350 | Video Games
The sounds that a player hears while immersed in a game can have dramatic effects on that person, opening up a considerable, far-reaching field of research. Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments researches both how game sound affects a player psychologically, emotionally, and physiologically, and how this relationship itself impacts the design of computer game sound and the development of technology. This compilation also applies beyond the realm of video games to other types of immersive sound, such as soundscape design, gambling machines, emotive and fantastical sound to name a few. The application for this research is wide-ranging, interdisciplinary, and of primary importance for academics and practitioners searching for the right sounds.

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Complementary Fat Grafting

Complementary Fat Grafting
Samuel M. Lam,Mark J. Glasgold,Robert A. Glasgold | 2006-12-07 00:00:00 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | 144 | Internal Medicine

This book/DVD set is a thoroughly illustrated "how-to" guide to facial fat transfer, a new facial rejuvenation procedure that allows the surgeon to sculpt the face and restore it to its natural beauty. Fat is harvested from fattier areas of the body through a suction technique and injected into the face with a small cannula. The fat transferred becomes incorporated as living tissue and the results are extremely long lasting. The book guides readers through this procedure with easy-to-follow instructions and more than 200 full-color step-by-step illustrations.

Two DVDs accompanying the book contain videos demonstrating the procedure and pitfalls.

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A Text Book of Banking and Finance

A Text Book of Banking and Finance
N. K. Sharma | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | Sunrise Publishers & Distributors | 489 | Finances and Money
CONTENTS

1. Introduction 1
2. Banking Regulation Act - 1949 17
3. Banker-Customer Relationship 35
4. Requisites of a Cheque 61
5. Promissory Notes 72
6. Endorsements and Crossings 83
7. Reserve Bank of India and Its Role 104
8. E-Banking and Innovative Banking 113
9. Regional Rural Banks 137
10. Credit Creition by Commercial Banks 147
11. Credit to Priority and Neglected Sectors 167
12. Other Borrowers in Priority Sector 179
13. Guarantee of Loans for Small-Scale Industries 195
14. Credit Guarantee for Service Co-Operatives 209
15. Commercial Banking in India 222
16. Nationalised Commercial Banks 237
17. Regional Rural Banks 263

18. Role of Development Banking
19. Development Banking in India an Assessment
20. Importance of Money
21. Circular Flow of Money
22. Value of Money
23. Kinds of Money
24. Failure of Monetarism
25. Theory of Money
26. India's Development Finance
27. State Finances
28. Local Governments Finance in India
29. Public Enterprises in India
30. Co-operative Banks
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Intelligent Data Analysis: Developing New Methodologies Through Pattern Discovery and Recovery (Premier Reference Source)

Intelligent Data Analysis: Developing New Methodologies Through Pattern Discovery and Recovery (Premier Reference Source)
Hsiao-fan Wang | 2008-07-02 00:00:00 | IGI Global | 366 | Artificial Intelligence
Pattern Recognition has a long history of applications to data analysis in business, military and social economic activities. While the aim of pattern recognition is to discover the pattern of a data set, the size of the data set is closely related to the methodology one adopts for analysis. Intelligent Data Analysis: Developing New Methodologies Through Pattern Discovery and Recovery tackles those data sets and covers a variety of issues in relation to intelligent data analysis so that patterns from frequent or rare events in spatial or temporal spaces can be revealed. This book brings together current research, results, problems, and applications from both theoretical and practical approaches.

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Singular Integral Equations: Boundary Problems of Function Theory and Their Application to Mathematical Physics (Dover Books on Physics)

Singular Integral Equations: Boundary Problems of Function Theory and Their Application to Mathematical Physics (Dover Books on Physics)
N. I. Muskhelishvili | 2008-05-19 00:00:00 | Dover Publications | 464 | Mathematics

This high-level treatment by a noted mathematician considers one-dimensional singular integral equations involving Cauchy principal values. Intended for graduate students and professionals, its coverage includes such topics as the Hölder condition, Hilbert and Riemann-Hilbert problems, the Dirichlet problem, inversion formulas for arcs, and many other areas. 1992 edition.

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To be honest, I have not gone into a thourough and complete reading of the texbook, but I picked up several and sparse subjects in order to get a better understanding about some issues relating linear transport theory. But also in a limited use like that I cannot help recognizing that, even after half a century, this book remains a milestone in integral equations and boundary problems. Deep, clear, and available also to ready-to-use requests, it may seem a bit out of fashion for the light use of geometrical formalism, but also this latter feature makes it to be very strict to the point, if you need to strengthen the theoretical building of numerical calcualtions to be performed.
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Eventhough this text dates from 1946 it is difficult to find a more complete and accurate discussion on the boundary value problems raised up by the Cauchy integral.

Being one of the most outstanding pupils of the Vekua school (as Gakhov), Muskhelishvili explores every single particular case of the classical boundary value problems of complex analysis giving a complete solution to each, sometimes employing highly ingenious arguments. It includes also several applications.

As in the case of the book by Gakhov (also reviewed by myself) I wonder why this material is not standard in usual complex analysis courses, at least in the American continent. When you read this kind of books you realize that all your previous knowledge on the subject was almost useless, to say the least. My suggestion for the material to be mastered by complex analysis students is: First read an introductory classic like Ahlfors, Lang, or Markushevitch, and then proceed to Kress (Linear Integral Equations), Gakhov, and Muskhelishvili. Then you will be ready for the next step: Hypercomplex analysis.

The contents of the book are: The Hölder condition; Integrals of the Cauchy type; Some corollaries on Cauchy integrals; Cauchy integrals near the ends of the line of integration; The Hilbert and Riemann-Hilbert boundary problems; Singular integral equations with Cauchy kernels (case of contours); The Dirichlet problem; Various representations of holomorphic functions by Cauchy and analogous integrals; Solution of the generalized Riemann-Hilbert-Poincaré problem; The Hilbert problem in the case of arcs or discontinuous boundary conditions; Inversion formulae for arcs; Effective solution of some boundary problems of the theory of harmonic functions; Effective solution of the principal problems of the static theory of elasticity for the half-plane, circle and analogous regions; Singular integral equations for the case of arcs and continuous coefficients; Singular integral equations in the case of discontinuous coefficients; Application to the Dirichlet problem and similar problems; Solution of integro-differential equations of the theory of aircraft wings of finite span; The Hilbert problem for several unknown functions; Systems of singular integral equations with Cauchy type kernels and some supplements; + 3 appendices.

Includes full motivation for each topic, historical notes, and extensive references.

Please read some of my other reviews (just click on my name above).

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