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This is one of the best books, easy to read and understand. There are questions at the end of each chapter (which are short and to the point) that help you test yourself on what you learned.

As a technical instructor I have used this book for class lecture. This book has great organization, and coverage of the material. I reccomend this book to anyone looking for study material for CIPT.

This is the best Ciscopress book that I have read, and I have read a few. It explains everything very nicely from designing to implementing VOIP network, Cisco CallManager to handsets. I read this book and was then able to successfully implement VOIP/IPTEL network for the company I worked for. 100% worth the buy.

This book is first a general introduction to voice over internet protocol (VOIP) and to the specifics of the Cisco approach. The basic concept is simple, send your voice communications over the internet using packet switching is a lot cheaper than the traditional Bell system approach of circuit switching where your circuit is vastly underused.

Cisco has put their products together into a product line around their Cisco Unified CallManager product, a part of the Cisco direction called AVVID: Architecture for Voice, Video, and Integrated Data.

While this book has the obvious goal of getting you to pass the Cisco IP Telephony (CIPT - 642-444) exam, it goes beyond what most 'exam cram' books do and will make you much more knowledgable about actually working with the equipment and software. The book gives you a complete background rather than just a list of questions and canned answers.

Having experiences in deploying non-Cisco Voice over IP solution, I found this book very helpful in explaining Cisco Unified Communications, particularly Cisco CallManager concepts and configuration. The obvious goal for this book is to help users to pass Cisco IP Telephony (CIPT) exam (642-444). However, it can also server as a quick reference guide to help preparing users to install, configure and maintain a Cisco IP Telephony solution. The book does focus primarily on Cisco CallManager version 4.1 and is definitely not for beginners.

The book has 34 chapters where each one of them explains the concept and configuration in a concise and clear way and helps the readers understand the subject easily.

It opens with Cisco Unified Communications concept and CallManager components. Chapter 2 and 3 discuss CallManager clustering, deployment, installation and upgrades.

Chapter 4 explains Cisco IP phones and other IP Telephony endpoints. I found that this chapter is useful to distinguish different models and features that each Cisco IP phones provides.

Chapter 5 explains CallManager configuration to support IP phones, Chapter 6 talks about IP telephony user configuration. I learnt that Cisco CallManager provide end users access to configure their own IP Phones for common features such as speed dial and call forwarding. This is a very useful feature that many other VoIP Telephony providers do not provide. This will certainly ease network administration load and reduce support calls.

Chapter 7 explains Bulk Administration Tools (BAT) to apply bulk changes to Cisco CallManager cluster. Chapter 8 talks briefly about PoE, voice VLAN and Class of Service (CoS). I wish that it can elaborate more on Quality of Service (QoS) instead of dedicating just 2 pages on CoS.

Chapter 9 to 14 explain the most important and useful subjects in this book. They discuss Cisco gateways and trunks concepts as well as configuration, route plan, route filter, transformation masks, hunt groups, call forwarding, call restriction, partition, calling search spaces, call admission control, Automated Alternative Routing and Survivable Remote Site Telephony. These chapters have been greatly condensed and have less detail for the target audience for this book. However, readers can find more details on these subjects in Cisco Product Documentation in Cisco web site.

Chapter 16 to 19 mentions VoIP features sic as IP Manager Assistant, Attendant Console and others. Chapter 20-27 explains IP Telephony security. They start from securing Windows Operating System (we might need another book to discuss this) to hardening IP phones all the way to introducing encryption and authentication fundamental. Users who are familiar with RSA, MD5, SHA, and PKI can skip some of these chapters. I found that Chapter 22 is one of the most interesting chapters since it talks about toll fraud prevention. I think that this chapter alone can justify the purchase of this book since it exposes me to different ways to mitigate toll fraud done by external callers and internal users.

Chapter 28 to 29 discusses IP Video Telephony. I am pretty sure that these chapters will be outdated fast and there will be another book to discuss this topic in detail as Cisco will continue to release more products for IP Video Telephony including the newly released Cisco TelePresence Meeting solution. That acquisition for Scientific-Atlanta certainly helps Cisco to penetrate into this IP Video market niche.

Chapter 30-34 basically explains various tools to manage and monitor Cisco IP Telephony.

In conclusion, the author has provided a very concise and understandable reading with the few number of pages provided. Each chapter goes straight to the topics, explains in an easy to follow manner, provides some configuration examples and screenshots and closes with a simple brief summary with review questions.

Overall, I consider this book an important tool in my preparation for CCVP certification as well as a reference guide. I liked this book a lot and certainly will recommend others to read this. I like the way it presents the materials in a brief and concise manner. I gave the book five out of five stars for its good and concise explanation.

HomePage 3.0 is an older program but it has the advantage of being cross-platform (meaning Mac and PC) on the same disk. I have made a dozen websites using it and it is a wonder to behold. Newer standards have overtaken the WWW so not all of the new functions are integrated into it.

It has a first rate tutorial on the disk which can help you to make perfectly decent small websites. However, this book is the perfect manual to go along with that tutorial. In fact I think it is essential to own this book so that you can address problems as they arise without having to bounce around between the program, the Help, and the tutorial.

As with most of the Visual Quickstart series, this one is filled with pictures so that those of us who cannot grab the meaning from the text alone can guide ourselves with the screenshots showing what the text just spoke of.

I recommend both this program and this book to my students who wish to build their own websites, even though both the book and the program are out of print.

This book was very helpful getting me up and running and doing what I wanted to do--make my website. It was also helpful in stepping me through publishing my first database on FileMaker Pro. I would reccomend it to anyone wanting to use Home Page. I should say that Home Page is a very easy to use, but powerful program. It is quite intuitive. This book just happens to make it even easier to use. I just kept it on my desk and if I hit a snag it would unsnag me.

i need to know how to make a web page for 5$ if any one can give me instructions how to make a page mail me them thanks. p.s.hoss8617@aol.com

This book was very helpful getting me up and running and doing what I wanted to do--make my website. It was also helpful in steping me through publishing my first database on FileMaker Pro. I would reccomend it to anyone wanting to use Home Page. I should say that Home Page is a very easy to use, but powerful program. It is quite intuitive. This book just happens to make it even easier to use. I just kept it on my desk and if I hit a snag it would unsnag me.

I found this book very understandable and full of explanations. It summarized much of what the help menu in Claris Homepage offered, but showed detailed diagrams and steps on how to complete the functions for most web page design. I recommend this to any beginner with Claris Homepage to use as a basis to learn the program and understand the buttons and capabilities of the total program.

Working in the IT field, I found this book to be very helpful-- especially from a historical perspective--explaining the various highspeed options available. I read this, although I have been trouble-shooting highspeed issues on a helpdesk, for a long time. When studying for Network +, I read references about T1 lines, and other methods of highspeed access that I have never used, personally, or only used in a corporate office invironment, as a User.

This book explains all the (mostly out-dated, in heavily populated areas) technologies, and helps to grasp the basics when studying for the Network+ certification.

I have read some of Mark Soper's works in the past (Upgrading and Repairing PCs Technician's Portable Reference, his articles in SmartComputing, etc.) and have always found them informative and relevent to my purposes. This book is no different. Soper presents broadband technology in a way that is both extremly detailed and easy to understand. It is humorous and very readable, qualities not often found in computer books. Yet it covers the topics (ISDN, DirectPC/Duo, DSL, Cable, etc) throughly and doesn't skimp on any vital detail. I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who is considering broadband service, anyone who has it already, or just anyone who enjoys learning about emerging technologies.

With all of the recent information floating around about "High-Speed" internet connections, one can literally go insane trying to decipher fact from fiction, not to mention attempting to figure out which service is right for YOU. When I came across this book, which I did here on amazon, I was very excited, but still unsure of what I would be getting my hands on. I thought that perhaps it would assist me a little here or there, and help out with the most basic information possible.

To my surprise, and delight, this book was truly AWESOME. So much so that I just received it a couple of weeks ago, and I'm now on my second reading. The book is packed with information. It not only delves into the aspects of Cable Modems and DSL(which is does so very intensely), but also tells you how you can optimize your standard dial-up modem connection to the internet. You can't lose with this book--if you already have an internet connection, the knowledge on getting the most out of THAT hook-up is worth the price of the book. In addition, the author definitely has a sense of humor, and that REALLY helps when you sit down to read a book, and along with educating you, you're also given a dose of humor that's JUST ENOUGH to make the education FUN.

The book also gives the reader information on what to do in order to have your computer completely in order BEFORE the installation of a broadband hook-up takes place, whether you do it yourself, or somebody's going to be installing it for you. This book even delves into how computers work, and the processes of computers connecting to one another to put the wheels of the internet into motion. The reader won't be BOGGED down with this, however, as the book is written in a very clear, concise manner. You'll also learn little tricks here and there throughout the book on how to maintain your computer for overall optimal performace. What a great book--I couldn't recommend it more highly!

DSL? Cable Modem? Satellite? Wireless? These are among the choices you will have to make if you decide to "upgrade" to high speed Internet access. It's difficult to know which one will work best for you. This book helps to explain the differences between each of them. The introductory part explains ways to get higher speeds from your current analog modem before diving into the different kinds of high speed Internet options you have.

The second part of the book is divided into chapters explaining ISDN, DSL, satellite, and wireless Internet and how each one works. It also gives you an idea of which specific type might work best for your individual needs. The next part of the book is divided into chapters explaining how to install whichever service you've decided on, complete with "installation checklists" at the end of these chapters.

There are also a couple chapters devoted to keeping your PC secure from "hacker attacks," which is always a problem, but even more so if you have this kind of Internet connection. Finally, there's a section devoted to troubleshooting problems, even a glossary at the book's end so you can familiarize yourself with related terms, and if nothing else amaze your friends with your knowledge of this technology!

This book provides an excellent overview of the high speed Internt technology available today.

I have read some of Mark Soper's work before (Upgrading and Repairing PCs, SmartComputing, etc.) and have always found it to informative and relevant to what I needed. This book is no exception. Incredibly readable and humorous for a computer book, it provides an excellent balance between technical detail and practical knowledge. Easy to understand and yet packed with information, this is a must have book for anyone even slightly interested in high-speed Internet access. I recommend this book to anyone who is considering broadband, anyone who already has it, or just anyone who enjoys emerging technologies.

If you practice law and are finding that clients are increasingly demanding you to be more tech-savvy, you'll want a copy of Jerry's book on your shelf. Sharing the same high-quality information that Jerry has put into his presentations for years, he makes this book a superb collection of lessons that will keep you flipping pages through to the end. This book is not one that you'll read once and put away - you'll find it answers just about any question you'll have about using the Internet on a day-to-day basis. Unlike most books about the Internet, this is one whose value will remain for quite some time.

Jerry Lawson's The Complete Internet Handbook for Lawyers (1999), is the standard reference for attorneys who use the Internet or who don't yet but should. Besides providing his own substantial guidance for using the Internet, Mr. Lawson surveys, organizes, and synthesizes data and resources from and about the Internet. If there is one book for attorneys about using the Internet, The Complete Internet Handbook for Lawyers is it. The book is a bargain at $50 given the time it will save and revenue it will help generate.

You could run all over the Web just identifying the opportunies and issues presented by the Internet for your law firm. Then you'd need to evaluate a slough of disparate information to arrive at answers to those questions. Or, you could buy this book and have an astoundingly comprehensive and qualified treatment in one convenient and easy-to-ready package. I had a copy that somehow walked out of my office. I know why it's not coming back. Whoever has it is using it. I bought another copy, which I am now guarding.

T. R. Halvorson, author of Law of the Super Searchers: the Online Secrets of Top Legal Researchers.

The Complete Internet Handbook For Lawyers is comprehensive, definitive, and exceptionally well organized survey and explanation of the Internet specifically designed for law students, practicing attorneys, legal paraprofessionals, and law firm staffers. From the essentials for getting started on utilizing the Internet, to doing legal research on the Internet, to marketing legal services on the Internet, to ethic and security issues involving the Internet, to philosophical and practical considerations for the present and future practice of law and the influences of Internet, Jerry Lawson's The Complete Internet Handbook For Lawyers is a highly recommended, essential, practical reference and guide.

Rarely, law books are published which teach a complex and essential subject effortlessly. This is such a book for Lawyers about the Internet. The author's explanations of relatively new and still arcane subjects are excellent. His section discussing Public Key Encryption is a good example of the style and ease of learning thoughout the book. Other lawyers have tried and generally failed to explain this type of encryption in a way which is comprehended by the average lawyer who barely passed or may have even flunked algebra. Using a 250 word analogy, author Lawson teaches it in a manner that lawyer and layman alike can easily understand. Realizing that the Internet is new and changing in ways no single person can fully comprehend, the author also includes a unique chapter by a number of knowledgeable lawyers and support personnel who contribute their own observations and conclusions. No lawyer who has to practice for the next decade can ignore the Internet. For those who haven't started, or those who haven't yet incorporated the Internet and Email into their practice, there is no better place to begin than with this handbook.

Creative Destruction presents a fascinating revival of an old concept in the context of recent technological developments and innovation. It offers a brilliant account of how information technologies accelerate the process of creative destruction today and helps understand how information society articulates with in a wider framework of economic history. Those interested in Latin America will appreciate, in particluar, the recent developments in the telecommunications industry in the region.

It is a thorough analysis of the technological advances of our era and the depth of the internet industry. I was particularly interested in the implications for Latin America and the technological transfer from liberalization. It is a useful book for practictioners and for more academic minds.

This is an outstanding collection of articles. These papers combine scholarly depth with usefulness for practitioners. They will help you understand where we've been and forecast where we are going with the Internet. I teach courses on Internet Business Strategy and will use this collection next year. My favorites are Baumol's "Innovation and Creative Destruction; McKnight's "Internet Business Models: Creative Destruction as Usual" and Lehr's "A New Theory of the Internet Firm." They provide a solid conceptual basis for understanding the implications of the Internet economy. One thing truly unique about this book is the thoughtful and detailed discussions of the implications of the Internet on international business. There are six papers that focus on these issues. I have not seen this anywhere else. In a world where people publish books peddling derivative nostrums about the network economy, it's a pleasure to finally find one that deals with these issues in a serious, thoughtful and, most of all, useful way.

Rather than focusing on a single angle and building a long argument in its favor, this compendium's treatment of diverse dimensions of creative destruction lets the reader paint his or her own picture of the net effects of Schumpeter's famous concept. The book's 11 articles touch on topics as diverse as the future of telecommunications firms in a Net-centric world, the impact of regulatory reform on the Internet in Europe, the institutional barriers to Internet-driven creative destruction in Japan, and the impact of open-source software business models.

Creative Destruction is a Lego-box of interesting ideas that managers and academics can recombine into constructs valuable to their work, teaching, or research. I found it very rich reading.

There are three recent publications with the same title (Creative Destruction) whose authors correlate Joseph Schumpeter's concept of "creative destruction" with the contemporary business world. Foster and Kaplan explain "why companies that are built to last underperform the market -- and how to successfully transform them" whereas in their work, Nolan and Croson offer "a six-stage process for transforming the organization." In the third volume co-edited by McKnight, Vaaler, and Katz, various authors and co-authors of 13 anthologized essays examine various "business survival strategies for the global Internet economy." I highly recommend all three volumes as well as two of Schumpeter's works: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, and, Essays: On Entrepreneurs, Innovations, Business Cycles, and the Evolution of Capitalism.

This book grew out of a symposium held at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in the spring of 1999. The topic was "Creative Destruction -- or Just Destruction?" Those who presented papers were asked to address "the key technological, regulatory, organizational, and competitive dynamics compelling change in the way firms and stakeholders do business in an increasingly global and Internet-centric society." At the symposium there were (and in this volume there are) four points which are consistent with the theme of "creative destruction":

The Destruction of Traditional Industry Structures

The Destruction of Traditional Regulatory Structures

The Destruction of Traditional Competitive Positioning Strategies

The Destruction of Traditional Technological Assumptions

It is important to keep in mind that this is not a manual. Although there are numerous suggestions, checklists, points of emphasis, graphic illustrations, and examples offered, the volume's primary purpose is to stimulate continued discussion and debate on the major challenges now facing firms, governments, and other players -- while suggesting "how to exploit the new opportunities created by creative dynamics."

The material is organized within five Parts: Introduction, Theory and Practice of Creative Destruction, The Global Context for Creative Destruction, Business Destruction Strategies in the Global Internet Economy, and Creative Business Survival Strategies. For the reader's convenience, the editors offer brief comments about each subject and about each of those who address it. After reading the excellent Introduction, you may decide not to read the everything that follows from beginning to end. In that event, select what is directly relevant to your and your organization's most immediate and urgent needs and interests. (In all probability, some of those needs and interests will soon change.) The editors provide three supplementary sections (Contributors, Notes, and References) which assist and encourage further study as well as "continued discussion and debate."

I am curious to know what Schumpeter would say about the material in this book if he were discussing it as I am now. My guess (only a guess) is that he would observe that his basic concept of "creative destruction" remains relevant but the process is occurring at an ever-increasing velocity and in ways and to an extent he could not have envisioned 50-60 years ago. Another guess (only a guess) is that, based on what is now happening (and not happening) in the global community, he would suggest that process of "creative destruction" in all organizations (regardless of their size or nature) has only begun. The Chinese character for the word "crisis" has two meanings: "peril" and "opportunity." For many (perhaps most) organizations, the process of creative destruction means death; for others, it offers the opportunity for at least survival and perhaps regeneration. The authors represented in this superb volume help us to understand the differences between the two groups....also, the probable consequences of those differences.

Having read many a "hacking" book and attended the odd course too, I was very interesting in looking at this product as it is an adoption of Security Associates actual Defensive Hacking course.

This self study guide does a good job of replicating the actual course environment. The DVD video has all the labs which are clearly narrated by the instructor.

I would rate the contents of this book better than the genre of Hacking Exposed and so on...this study guide is really aimed at the proffesional pen tester (or hacker) but not a script kiddie level of person.

On the down side whilst the contents are good they are really deep. The DVD alone in 4 hours + so in effect this product attempts to be "Jack of all trades"...perhaps a focus on a smaller content base would have made it more managable to digest.

But on the whole good stuff.

I have bought self study guides from Security Associates for all of there current three primary course (Hacking, Forensics and Deployment).

This hacking study guide is good stuff, well presented, neat DVD (2 DVD's actually), easy to read contents. I really like the way the instructor clearly explains each and every single point.

The price may seem a bit high, but to be fair there is a lot of content covered, the DVD alone is around 3 hours plus, the written content is 300 pages + and you get 3 months support.

Well worth a look for the newbie and the experienced pro.

This is great stuff, not good but really GREAT. By far the best thing on the market with respect to how to really hack, and hack from a security proffesionals perpective, not a script kiddie.

This study guide does not teach you how to do port scans or use NMAP but talks (more than talks actually, rather shows live on the DVD video) about advanced techniques such as fragmentation attacks, advanced DNS hijacking attacks and so on...its the kind of thing which every security admin needs on his/her desk as the essentail reference guide.

This is really a good Self Study Guide full of material for those who really want to see how it is done and how to do it.

The live DVD of the labs and narration of the presentation is absolutely great as they provide numerous opportunities to re-read and review the material.

I've also attended the DefensiveHacking course and rate this book on par with attending the actual course.

For one (like me) who is fed-up with all the poor script kiddie hacking books on the market which teach nothing new...then I really recommend you try DefensiveHacking.

This self study guide taken from Security Associates globally taught course goes beyond the repeated stuff books like Hacking Exposed talk about again and again...what Hacking Exposed talks about in 300 pages DefensiveHacking completes in 30 pages and then in the rest of the 200+ pages gets stuck into advanced hacking and penetration techniques which are really an eye-opener, even for someone like me, who has been in the security industry for 6 years.

I recommend you take a look at this self study guide which comes with a super DVD to give one the impression who have actually attended the course, but at a fraction of the price!

I personally cannot wait for the other Security Associates courses such as Defensive Forensics and Defensive Deployment to released in self study formats.

I have been reading this book for the last 30 minutes and it's one wow after another. I just turned to my dog and said "This book is amazing!" hehe.

Seriously. The dive in and "look what you can do with ps" style of this book is very impressive. I bought it as an alternative to the more advanced wow book. This is the one I was looking for. 4 thumbs up!

you can start learning photoshop fast and easy. This book is suitable for beginners. It's full of illustrations and pictures, and to the point. In addition, you don't have to read a lot. it's a quick start. it's so informative and you can use it as manual too. even filters are covered, what are they and how you can use them step by step. good work Deke.

Photoshop is a deep and complex program and this book makes it (almost) simple. The book has several strengths -- first is McClelland's astonishing knowldge, next is his ability to explain complex things in terms even a beginner can understand, third is the brilliant way the information is organized. Face it, no matter how much knowlege a book contains, if you can't find the knowledge it's useless to you. The publisher and book designer make McClelland's information always easy to find, even if you are looking for some obscure feature like using the Color Range command to make a mask. No matter what your skill level, this book will open the Photoshop world further to you. I'm a graphics professional and I have a dozen Photoshop books on my shelf -- and this is the one I always pull out.

I love this book! I wish all software books were written this well. If you took 20 Photoshop books at random and put them through some magic process that took all the good stuff out and condensed them into 1 easy to read, well-organized, no fluff, no 1500 pages and 4 pounds of paper book, this would be what comes out.

When I picked this book off them shelf and started reading it, it was immediately obvious that the layout and organization were very good. The more I've used the book, the more I appreciate what it has to offer. Simply, a superior reference to Photoshop 6! It's really a "textbook" example of how to present information in a logical and easy to use fashion.

I didn't find having the images in black and white a problem at all. In the context of this book, color images would not add much information at all, although I'm sure they would add a lot to the price.

A superb reference book, well-written and organized. The Adobe user guide and Classroom in a book are now relegated to the back of the bookshelf.

Please please please...software book writers, use this book as a model of how to create your future books. This book shows well that less is often more. People are not buying software books by the pound, they are really more interested in quality information, not quantity!!

I'd like to give this book 10 stars, but 5 will have to suffice.

I **LOVE** this book! I've been using Photoshop since version 4 and i'm self-taught. I am not an expert yet but then i don't consider myself a novice either.

This book is for everyone. What i most like about this book is the easy style and sample pages, The quick shortcuts to just about doing everything, and the explanation of why one tool works better than another.

I just attended a 2-day Photoshop class and the instructor highly recommended this book. at first, i thought that it was for the very beginner, but it's some much more. It's like a dictionary... you keep it for reference.

as i glanced at the instructor's book, i noticed that it was truly worn. she said that she's had to buy a second copy because she's used it so much. you can't possibly memorize everything about photoshop.. so why not have the best resource in town?? This BOOK!