Intranet Books

The intranet vs. Lotus Notes is like comparing "the internal combustion engine vs. General Motors." Lotus Notes requires far less administration in a more secured environment without the "frankenstructure" of hacking conflicting standards together. This book is simply riding on the wave of anti-Lotus Notes yellow journalism that is very powerful in a sales pitch, but cannot yield substantial ROI on delivery.

I wish that there was a comprehensive Step by Step book on how to install a NT Web Server-a reference that anybody can understand especially those who are taking the Internet into their own hands for the first time. Most of the books that claim to do this are too general in their coverage or are so poorly written they are not worth reading.

If you are looking for that detailed aspect, do not buy this book. Besides, it is out of date.

This book is more or less an insult to McGraw-Hill's reputation. It has little to add to help gain real knowledge of how-to, hands-on experiences. The enclosed CD is a come-on that simply reiterates what is in the text questions (that is, if you can get the CD to run at all). There must be other sources out there that are more helpful in helping one get real network knowledge and experience.

I received this book as a free offer from McGraw-Hill a few years ago when I was new to networking. I learned very little from it. I am so glad I only paid for the shipping and handling. If you are new to the field and need a good study guide, don't buy this one!

This book doesn't even deserve 1 star at all. What a waste of money and paper. The authors have no clue on what it is meant by "Study Guide"

The book is about 900 pages and it wasted 233 pages for introduction of CNA/CNE, the cert, and the advantage of the cert, etc. For 4.x Administratin, it only provide 22 pages (and there is 16 pages for Questions). Do you think that good studying content can be included in 40 pages?? You know the answer!!

This is easily the most misleading title I'm sad to say. I've wasted 60.00. It has no real information to prepare you for the Novell certification tests. e.g. Service and Support, probably the most complex test, gets 38 pages; only 16 that contain info and not a fraction of it covers what is on the test. If you use this as a study guide, you will NOT pass one test.

About the only thing it does is tell you the titles of the tests and you can get that for free from Novell. Also, it stresses the importance, and with this book the necessity, of taking the Novell courses and taking GOOD NOTES. Yet the cover boldly states "Master the material quickly - without costly courses."

If I could have looked through it at the bookstore, it would have been in my hands less than 2 minutes before it was back on the shelf.

I'm stuck. I'm trying to help others avoid getting stuck.

This book would be an intro for someone that had no idea what asearch engine was. This book is a work that would have beenacceptable when consumer's were just starting to realize the potential of the Internet. I found the book not informative enough to really be of any help. I'd rahter spend my $ in labor doing a search on the web and getting more in depth information.

This book is worth $28.50, not $285.00. For this price, I expected a technical, in-depth exploration of search engines, and instead got a pleasant but lightweight overview of the technology. This publisher should be drawn and quartered.

This publication borders on a scam.
It is a 24 page publication that does not give any information on how to use QuickPlace. It is full of links that may or may not work. I gave it one star because there is no lower rating.

This is one of those examples where if I'd had the ability to flip thru the pages before hand I wouldn't have purchased it. The 21 single sided sheets (not including cover & advertisment pages) are reprints of 5 or 6 short articles which in my case netted me all of two (2) potential tips. And even if the tips prove to work (the date on the material is 2002) they'll cost me $20 each which doesn't come close to offering any value for my money. My suggestion would be to save your money and read a phone book instead (you might actually find something useful!!!).

TCW

... The book seems to contain a lot of rumour and hype, recast to look like facts and serious substance. The most immediate giveaway that the author needs to learn something about the topics he writes about is his complete failure to recognize that Java (tee em, the programming language) is a totally different thing from JavaScript (also tee em :) He has a section title introducing security issues with Java Scripts, but the discussion refers simply to "Java" some of the technical descriptions clearly relate to Java, the programming language, but most of the "threats" he identifies are nothing of the sort.

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After reading this book, I felt that the book was another high gloss advertisement for the author's security consulting firm. Even the glossary is not even close to some of the common definitions that are used in the firewall/internet and security industry. The mention of firewalls throughout the book is cursory at best and does not mention vendors that produce commercial firewalls. The Companion CD is at most mostly demos and could have been better documented. Most of the information in the book could have been acquired off the internet a lot more easily than it is mentioned in the book. I hope in the second edition or the errata to the book, that it is hea vily revised to accomendate the present status of the computer security/internet and firewall industry.

As many books about HR this too is concentrating about the operative aspects of the HR process work out.e-HR is dealt from the very operative side,by this way the author leaves the reader the hard task of discovering and reorganizing the few strategical insights provided across the book.I would define it a poor value summary of many othere books,just trying to cover all the critical aspects of the argument but really not having an its own point of view.I shold have expected something really better from a book that has been realesed after an historycal period in which e-HR experiences have been tested in many organizations.In my opinion previously realeased books such as "Web-based Human resources" ,"A thousand tribes","Corporate portals" deal with the problem of the organizational process web-enabling in a more complex and meaningful way.
My suggestion is to enjoy other sources about the argument, first of all the IT systems vendors' sites whose material is really good value.

This book appears to have been rushed through the review process. Chapter 1 contains numerous cases where sample code is repeated instead of showing the output. There are references to appendices, but the book has no appendices. I am in the process of requesting a refund from publisher

In spite of the publication date of 2007 - this article was written in 2000.

Somewhere buried in the text is a discussion of developing LiveWire applications, but I had a hard time finding it as I waded through all the fluff! In fact out of this entire book, only 3 chapters deal with LiveWire development and the LiveWire extensions directly. These chapters are:

Ch. 8. Using Server-side JavaScript (a quick overview)
Ch. 9. Writing LiveWire Applications With JavaScript (the basics of writing appliations)
Ch. 10. Writing Database Applications (the database example from the LiveWire documentation)

The rest of the chapters deal with Navigator Gold, Netscape Plug-ins, and lots of other stuff designed to inflate the book. Heck, there's an entire chapter that tries to justify why to use LiveWire. There's an entire chapter on installing LiveWire. There's an entire chapters that drones on and on about the LiveWire tools, which each have there own chapter anyway. There's so much talk that the real discussion is lost.