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Nfs Illustrated
The Network File System (NFS) protocol that enables remote access to files is now a key element of any LAN. It is also currently and increasingly used as a key technology with the Web and wide area networks. Written for programmers creating NFS-based applications, network engineers creating new implementations of NFS, and network managers, NFS Illustrated promotes a thorough understanding of that protocol through extensive diagrams and real protocol traces that show NFS in action. Covering NFS versions 2 and 3, the book also looks into WebNFS and the new NFS version 4, with Internet support. Detailed and authoritative, the book not only examines NFS in depth, but also describes the protocols that underlie and support it, including External Data Representation (XDR), Remote Procedure Call (RPC), the NFS MOUNT protocol, and the NFS Lock Manager protocol. It discusses several NFS variants and compares NFS to a number of alternative file systems. You will find a detailed discussion on the NFS filesystem model and a procedure-by-procedure description of NFS versions 2 and 3, illustrated through the use of snoop traces that capture and display protocol packets from the network. In addition, the book addresses real-world implementation issues faced by those building an NFS client or server, factors that affect NFS performance, and critical performance benchmarks. Specific topics of interest include: NFS version 4, highlighting performance improvements, security features, and cross-platform interoperability for Internet operation RPC authentication and security Differences between NFS versions 2 and 3 Implementation issues for clients and servers Read-ahead and write-behind Caching policies The Lock Manager protocol Automounting NFS variants, including Spritely NFS, NQNFS, Trusted NFS, and NASD NFS NFS competitors: RFS, AFS, DCE/DFS, and CIFS The PCNFS protocol for implementing NFS on PC operating systems SPEC SFS benchmarks, WebNFS, and firewalls Comprehensive and current, NFS Illustrated is an essential resource for network professionals who want to use this widespread and evolving technology to its fullest. 0201325705B04062001 - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461404029
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Telecom Protocol Finder
A reference and guide to data and telecommunications protocols and technologies, offering developers, field service engineers and other professionals a collection of information on all of today's services and technologies. Covers multiprotocol and multitechnology networks. Softcover. DLC: Telecommunication--Standards--Encyclopedias. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461505429
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary Thumb Index Edition Dictionary and CD-ROM Bundle
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is the most popular dictionary of its kind around the world. In 2002, Oxford University Press published a revised tenth edition of the dictionary. Now, we are pleased to present this new edition along with fully updated CD-ROM version, resulting in one authoritative, affordable, and essential package. Offering comprehensive coverage of current English vocabulary, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary includes more than 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions and hundreds of new words covering areas as diverse as e-commerce, technology, and fashion. The completely updated version of the CD-ROM includes the fully revised edition of the A-Z text that can be easily installed on a hard drive for maximum accessibility. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461508492
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Contains alphabetically arranged entries on authors, characters, and works which will prove useful to readers of English literature - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461508497
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3G Wireless Demystified
An all-in-one, application and service-focused look at how existing wireless technologies are evolving into 3G, and how this trend impacts the bottom line. Describes the different technology types, design issues for handset and network systems, economics, and the future of 3G. Appendices identify key companies involved with the products and services highlighted in the book. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461568550
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Monday Morning Mentoring Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder
An inspirational primer for managers of all levels shows how 'Jeff,' a successful corporate manager who has fallen into a slump, escapes from 'managementland' and reconnects with his people to get the company back on the road to success. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461504822
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Social Development in Pakistan Annual Review 2001 Growth Inequality and Poverty
The theme of SPDC's Annual Review of 2001 on Social Development in Pakistan is Growth, Inequality and Poverty. It is an attempt to present an independent and objective assessment of the process of unequal development and is intended to open a debate on this crucial aspect of the developmental process. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461569972
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Islam and Democracy
Are Islam and democracy on a collision course? Do Islamic movements seek to 'hijack democracy'? How have governments in the Muslim world responded to the many challenges of Islam and democracy today? A global religious resurgence and calls for greater political participation have been major forces in the post-Cold War period. Across the Muslim world, governments and Islamic movements grapple with issues of democratization and civil society. Islam and Democracy explores the Islamic sources (beliefs and institutions) relevant to the current debate over greater political participation and democratization. Esposito and Voll use six case studies - Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Sudan - to look at the diversity of Muslim experiences and experiments. At one end of the spectrum, Iran and Sudan represent two cases of militant, revolutionary Islam establishing political systems. In Pakistan and Malaysia, however, the new movements have been recognized and made part of the political process. Egypt and Algeria reveal the coexistence of both extremist and moderate Islamic activism and demonstrate the complex challenges confronting ruling elites. These case studies prove that despite commonalities, differing national contexts and identities give rise to a multiplicity of agendas and strategies. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461662694
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Fantastic Worlds Myths Tales and Stories
Covers fantastic narrative from ancient myths to modern science fiction in more than fifty tales which represent man's imagination in etiology, entertainment, and wonder - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461717702
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The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States
Reveling in the awareness that the best U.S. women's writing is, quite simply, some of the best in the world, editors Linda Wagner-Martin and Cathy N. Davidson have chosen selections spanning four centuries and reflecting the rich variety of American women's lives. The collection embraces the perspectives of age and youth, the traditional and the revolutionary, the public and the private. Here is Judith Sargent Murray's 1790 essay 'On the Equality of the Sexes', journalist Martha Gellhorn's 'Last Words on Vietnam, 1987', and Mary Gordon's homage to the ghosts of Ellis Island, 'More Than Just a Shrine'; powerful short stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Edith Wharton, Cynthia Ozick, and Toni Morrison; letters from Abigail Adams, Sarah Moore Grimke, Emma Goldman, and Georgia O'Keeffe; Alice B. Toklas's recipe 'Bass for Picasso', and erotic offerings from Anais Nin and Rita Mae Brown. The moving autobiography of Zitkala-Sa, whose mother was a Sioux, tells us more about 'otherness' than any sociological treatise, while Janice Mirikitani's and Nellie Wong's poems about being young Asian-American women, like Alice Walker's meditation on the beauty of growing old, speak to all readers. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461717743
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A House Built on Sand Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science
Cultural critics say that 'science is politics by other means, ' arguing that the results of scientific inquiry are profoundly shaped by the ideological, agendas of powerful elites. They base their claims on historical case studies purporting to show the systematic intrusion of sexist, racist, capitalist, colonialist, and/or professional, interests into the very content of science. In this hard-hitting collection of essays, contributors offer crisp and detailed critiques of case studies offered by the cultural critics as evidence that scientific results tell, us more about social context than they do about the natural world. Pulling no punches, they identify numerous crude factual blunders (e.g. that Newton never performed any experiments) and egregious errors of omission, such as the attempt to explain the slow development of fluid dynamics solely in terms of gender bias. Comprising new essays by distinguished scholars of history, philosophy, and science, this book raises a lively debate to a new level, of seriousness. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461717792
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