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Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users

No Starch Press, 2005

Linux is an operating system, just like Windows or Mac OS. If you're looking at this book, you're probably somewhat of a Linux newbie. Maybe you're a Windows refugee--you just can't take it anymore or you want to stop paying through the nose for software and the latest buggy upgrade. Or you just want to try something new.

Linux Made...

Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing

No Starch Press, 2006

Dot Net Expertise, May 7, 2006
"It is very well illustrated; a big plus for a beginner's book."

DesktopEngineer.com, April 14, 2006
"Good layout which takes the learner through practical examples...

Wicked Cool Java : Code Bits, Open-Source Libraries, and Project Ideas

No Starch Press, 2005

Wicked Cool Java contains 101 fun, interesting, and useful ways to get more out of Java. This isn't intended as a Java tutorial--it's targeted at developers and system architects who have some basic Java knowledge but may not be familiar with the wide range of libraries available. Full of example code and ideas for combining them in useful...

Wicked Cool Perl Scripts : Useful Perl Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems

No Starch Press, 2006

You can do a lot of strange and wonderful things with the Perl language—if you know how. Many Perl programmers have been frustrated at one time or another because the system was missing some simple and obvious utility. Wicked Cool Perl Scripts is your guide to writing those utilities quickly and easily.

This book contains a wide...

Just Say No to Microsoft: How to Ditch Microsoft and Why It's Not as Hard as You Think

No Starch Press, 2005

Just Say No to Microsoft begins by tracing Microsoft's rise from tiny software startup to monopolistic juggernaut and explains how the company's practices over the years have discouraged innovation, stunted competition, and helped foster an environment ripe for viruses, bugs, and hackers. Readers learn how they can dump Microsoft...

Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level

No Starch Press, 2006

No prior knowledge of assembly language required!

In the beginning, most software was written in assembly, the CPU’s low-level language, in order to achieve acceptable performance on relatively slow hardware. Early programmers were sparing in their use of high-level language code, knowing that a high-level language compiler would...

Cult of iPod

No Starch Press, 2005

Wired news editor Leander Kahney follows up his bestselling The Cult of Mac with The Cult of iPod, a comprehensive look at how Apple's hit iPod is changing music, culture, and listening behavior. The Cult of iPod includes the exclusive back story of the iPod's development; looks at the many ways iPod's users pay...

Art of RAW Conversion: How to Produce Art-Quality Photos with Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Leading RAW Converters

No Starch Press, 2006

The RAW file format used by digital cameras is essentially the raw data that a camera captures when it takes a photo. RAW files allow the digital photographer to edit and manipulate their photos with less data loss than in other file formats (such as JPEG). There are many RAW conversion tools, and it's often a good idea to use more than one to get...

The Debian System: Concepts and Techniques

No Starch Press, 2005

The Debian GNU/Linux operating system approaches Linux system administration differently than other popular Linux distributions, favoring text-based configuration mechanisms over graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Debian may appear simplistic and even slightly outdated, but it is actually very robust, scalable, and secure. Debian's open development...

Nagios: System and Network Monitoring

No Starch Press, 2006

**Covers Nagios 2.0**

"WOW! This books is incredibly detailed and Wolfgang has done an excellent job. I don't think I could have gone into that much detail if I wrote a book mysel. Kudos!" —Ethan Galstad, Nagios main developer

Good system administrators know about problems long before anyone asks,...

PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid

No Starch Press, 2006

"...The World's first user-friendly book on email privacy...unless you're a cryptographer, or never use email, you should read this book." —Len Sassaman, CodeCon Founder

"Today, most email is sent like a postcard. We all should want to put our mail back into secure envelopes again. PGP and GPG are two of the leading tools...

The Book of Visual Basic 2005: NET Insight for Classic VB Developers

No Starch Press, 2006

From the author of the highly acclaimed Book of VB .NET comes this comprehensive introduction to Visual Basic 2005, the newest version of Microsoft’s popular programming language. If you’re a developer who is new to the language, you will learn to use VB 2005 effectively. If you’re from the old school of VB but...

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