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I thought this Cyber.kdz book was better than all the Cyber.kdz books put together. In this one Josh and Tereza actually met each other. This one also has more action and adventure. This is the most exciting Cyber.kdz book. While traveling on the Amazon, Josh says he sees a smuggler's ship. Then him and Tereza go to police but the officer just gives them candy. So they see Marisa, a reporter that's coming to see the eclipse over the Amazon River. But then the smugglers catch them and throw them in a ship. To find out what happens read the book.

I may be a computer nerd, but this book is great! The Kids get to actually meet each other! I hope that the 6th one is good!

Tereza invites Josh to spend vacation with her in a Amazon nature camp. Josh - at first reluctant - becomes super eager when he discovers that the best eclipse in years is also best viewed from the Amazon. So he goes busto to get himself to the Amazon - like work at a fish shop in Seattle to raise the money. Josh super hates fish. Well, the nature camp is cool but the loggers aren't. Someone is stealing endangered trees.Tereza is suspicius and so is an American science reporter they team up with. Before Tereza and Josh quite realize it - they've been kidnapped.

Cyber kids to the rescue ... but in a pretty neat and cool way. You see, the science reporter is out cold but she has some nifty equipment that gets Josh on the Internet from the ... Hey, I'm not going to tell you the whole story but it is one neat adventure.

Ever have to send someone several files and rather than send them one at a time you want to send them as one complete file? You think that some sort of compression utility would be the answer but are not sure of which one. Well after 13 years and trying just about all of them I found WinZip to be the best and this book is an extremely helpful resource to making sure you are using WinZip to the maximum potential.

With only 160 pages you might think that everything you need to know couldn't possibly be in this book, think again. As the pages unfold you'll be amazed as to how much and how much detail is actually included.

With a starting point of the basics of WinZip you begin to find out what exactly can be done. Then comes the wizard, either the classic mode or the wizard mode to you the choice of how to handle the files you are working with.

From there you'll find out how to work with virus software, setting passwords and for those still in the DOS age you to have the option to work on the command line. The book has included a number of keyboard shortcuts that should make things easier for everyone.

I like the outline at the beginning of each chapter to let you know what is being covered. I also was pleasantly surprised and pleased with the step-by-step instructions with screen shots to help you along the easy. Overall this may be the one go to reference for all of the WinZip questions you have.

I have used WinZip for a number of years but I never knew that it could do 1/2 the stuff that this book points out. For example, WinZip can create files that can actually unzip themselves. It can also protect your ZIP files with passwords and even test file integrity to make sure your ZIP files are not corrupt. One thing I really like is that it turns out you can set up your anti-virus program to scan the contents of ZIP files to make sure that they do not contain any viruses before you open them. On top of that the author does a really good job of keeping things short and sweet and yet making sure that everything is explained as much as it needs to be. I'll give this one 2 thumbs up!

Zip files can be easily opened and organized by those who understand the basics of managing them, and this covers the standard WinZip software which is usually used in the process. Beginners as well as those already familiar with WinZip will find Jerry Lee Ford's Book Of WinZip to be an invaluable guide to the program's useful, often hidden features; from file compression types and upgrading to modifying archives or printing a contents list. An invaluable guide to a popular, much-used program.

I bought the book hoping to get a grasp on broadband, what it means and the different solutions. I was pleasantly surpised when I realized that it not only answered the questions I had, but it provided a lot more information from home based to wide area solutions. I also found the style very readable and not filled with the typical techno jargon. Great stuff.

I recommend this to anyone who needs a solid grounding in networking. This book clarifies the major networking technologies plus others I'd never even heard of! DSL, Cable, Fixed Wireless, 3G, WiFi, Satellite, Phoneline, Powerline, FTTx Digital Transmission, Frame Relay, Gigabit Ethernet, LRE, WDM/DWDM, MPLS, ATM, SONET, Content Delivery. Good content.

A very solid grounding on current and emerging broadband technologies written in a way that is easy to understand.

Being a digital design engineer, I wanted a book that would provide an insight into the way caches are used to solve the classic memory bandwidth problem. This book completely matched my expectations and more! It starts with a overview chapter that already touches most aspects that are involved with cache functionality. It ends with a real-world schematic of a simple (but working!) cache implementation of a 68020 procesor. The second chapter is a killer one and focusses in-depth on the tricks that can be used for squeeze more performance out of the basic cache implementation and the issue that might pop up. The first two chapters contained the information that I was really looking for. Chapter three handles some differences between RISC and CISC processor. Only 11 pages, a bit dated. Chapter four concentrates on cache coherency in multi-processor designs and some ways to solve problems. These are topics that I didn't have to deal with in the past. Interesting stuff! Finally, a chapter is devoted to some tricks that have been used to solve very specific problems. I found the book is balanced, well written and was detailed enough to satisfy my needs.

This book (hard cover) is the ultimate reference about memory cache architecture. If you want to learn deeply how this circuit works, this book is perfect. It covers also the architecture of RAM memory.

The book deals with different kinds of cache design, real world cache problems and interesting cache tricks. good to have as an on shelf reference for a practicing design engineer.

At last a comprehensive view of what a total security program needs to be. So much of the literature on the subject is about technology only that this wholistic approach is a breath of fresh air. It is clearly and simply written and provides an easy to follow roadmap for any security manager to follow in developing an enterprise security program.

The CISO Handbook: A Practical Guide to Securing Your Company lives up to its title as being a practical guide to security. The book is antithetical approach to the products equal security approach, and takes a pragmatic approach to security.

The authors have extensive real-world experience and approach information security from a holistic perspective. They clearly understand what it takes to build an information security program. One of the biggest mistakes in security is that it is seen as plug and play. Buy a security product, install in, and like magic, you have this thing called data security. But that only works in the world of product brochures and marketing material, not in the real world. The book does not approach security from a plug and play perspective, but as an endeavor that requires a multi-year effort to come to fruition.

The five chapters deal with security from its true source, namely that of risk. The chapters are: Assess, Plan, Design, Execute and Report. These five areas encompass all of information security and those firms that have built an information security infrastructure all done it by focusing on these five areas.

The first area, Assess, is all about risk management. Many companies will purchase security products without even knowing what their specific risks are, and have often not performed a comprehensive risk analysis. Without a comprehensive risk analysis, any security product will simply operate in a vacuum. The benefits of a risk assessment and analysis are that they ensure that an organization is worrying about the right things and dealing with real, as opposed to perceived threats. The ultimate outcome of a risk analysis should be to see if the organization can benefit from the security product.

Chapter 1 ends with an assessment checklist of various areas that go into a risk assessment. One of the questions in the checklist that you likely will not see anywhere else is "describe the political climate at your company". Too many security people think only about the technology and neglect the political implications of a security system. Not taking into consideration the politics is a surefire way to potentially doom a project. Similar questions detailed in the checklist will give the reader a good feel for how secure their organization truly is; as opposed to the often perceived view of being much more secure.

Chapter 2 is aptly titled Plan. The planning phase is meant to combine the issues of assessment and to integrate options to mitigate those risks. The way in which a specific security technology or methodology is implemented is dependent on the organization. Rather than using a cookie-cutter approach, effective planning ensures that the security technologies chosen support your security program. Far too many organizations make the mistake of simply buying products without giving enough consideration into the myriad details of how they will be deployed, managed and used.

Chapter 2 emphasizes the need for planning, and the book as a whole emphasizes the need for the use of a methodology when dealing with information security. For many security technologies, the challenges of are not so much with the technology, but rather with ensuring that the technology meets business requirements, is scalable and reliable, etc.

Building a comprehensive information security program is likely to be more complex than previous experience of typical IT projects. As well as project management, technical and operational aspects, there are many policy, legal and security issues which must be taken into consideration. By following a structured methodology based on practical experience, many of the potential traps and pitfalls can be avoided. The risks to the business and the project are reduced and those that remain are quantified at an early stage.

The planning checklist at the end of chapter 2 will helps by ensuring that the solutions identified are deployed in the context of a well designed information security program. It can also be used as a wake-up call to management that often seriously underestimates the amount of time and manpower required to create an effective information security program.

One of the added benefits of planning is that it makes it much easier to integrate new regulatory requirements into the security program. A well-planned network can retrofit new requirements much more quickly and efficiently. This is a critical need given the increasing amount of new regulations that will come into play in the coming years, in addition to current regulations such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and much more.

Chapters 3, 4 and 5 progress in a similar manner with the topics of Design, Execute, and Report. Each chapter details the essentials of the topic and shows how it is critical to the efficacy of an successful information security program.

What the reader may find missing from the book is particulars of the various security technologies. But that is the very function of the book, to show that information security is not primarily about the products, rather the underlying infrastructure on which those products reside on. Any product that is not deployed in a methodology similar to that of The CISO Handbook is likely to find itself lacking. The product might be there and hum along; but the security that it provides will likely be negligible.

The uniqueness of The CISO Handbook is that is shows how to design and implement an effective security program based on real world scenarios, as opposed to product reviews and vendor evaluations.

The CISO Handbook: A Practical Guide to Securing Your Company is indeed a most practical guide, as its title suggests. It is quite helpful to anyone in a security organization, whether they are the CISO, system administrator, or in a different capacity. The CISO Handbook: A Practical Guide to Securing Your Company lives up to its title as being a practical guide to security. The book is antithetical approach to the products equal security approach, and takes a pragmatic approach to security.

The authors have extensive real-world experience and approach information security from a holistic perspective. They clearly understand what it takes to build an information security program. One of the biggest mistakes in security is that it is seen as plug and play. Buy a security product, install in, and like magic, you have this thing called data security. But that only works in the world of product brochures and marketing material, not in the real world. The book does not approach security from a plug and play perspective, but as an endeavor that requires a multi-year effort to come to fruition.

The five chapters deal with security from its true source, namely that of risk. The chapters are: Assess, Plan, Design, Execute and Report. These five areas encompass all of information security and those firms that have built an information security infrastructure all done it by focusing on these five areas.

The first area, Access, is all about risk management. Many companies will purchase security products without even knowing what their specific risks are, and have often not performed a comprehensive risk analysis. Without a comprehensive risk analysis, any security product will simply operate in a vacuum. The benefits of a risk assessment and analysis are that they ensure that an organization is worrying about the right things and dealing with real, as opposed to perceived threats. The ultimate outcome of a risk analysis should be to see if the organization can benefit from the security product.

Chapter 1 ends with an assessment checklist of various areas that go into a risk assessment. One of the questions in the checklist that you likely will not see anywhere else is "describe the political climate at your company". Too many security people think only about the technology and neglect the political implications of a security system. Not taking into consideration the politics is a surefire way to potentially doom a project. Similar questions detailed in the checklist will give the reader a good feel for how secure their organization truly is; as opposed to the often perceived view of being much more secure.

Chapter 2 is aptly titled Plan. The planning phase is meant to combine the issues of assessment and to integrate options to mitigate those risks. The way in which a specific security technology or methodology is implemented is dependent on the organization. Rather than using a cookie-cutter approach, effective planning ensures that the security technologies chosen support your security program. Far too many organizations make the mistake of simply buying products without giving enough consideration into the myriad details of how they will be deployed, managed and used.

Chapter 2 emphasizes the need for planning, and the book as a whole emphasizes the need for the use of a methodology when dealing with information security. For many security technologies, the challenges of are not so much with the technology, but rather with ensuring that the technology meets business requirements, is scalable and reliable, etc.

Building a comprehensive information security program is likely to be more complex than previous experience of typical IT projects. As well as project management, technical and operational aspects, there are many policy, legal and security issues which must be taken into consideration. By following a structured methodology based on practical experience, many of the potential traps and pitfalls can be avoided. The risks to the business and the project are reduced and those that remain are quantified at an early stage.

The planning checklist at the end of chapter 2 will helps by ensuring that the solutions identified are deployed in the context of a well designed information security program. It can also be used as a wake-up call to management that often seriously underestimates the amount of time and manpower required to create an effective information security program.

One of the added benefits of planning is that it makes it much easier to integrate new regulatory requirements into the security program. A well-planned network can retrofit new requirements much more quickly and efficiently. This is a critical need given the increasing amount of new regulations that will come into play in the coming years, in addition to current regulations such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and much more.

Chapters 3, 4 and 5 progress in a similar manner with the topics of Design, Execute, and Report. Each chapter details the essentials of the topic and shows how it is critical to the efficacy of an successful information security program.

What the reader may find missing from the book is particulars of the various security technologies. But that is the very function of the book, to show that information security is not primarily about the products, rather the underlying infrastructure on which those products reside on. Any product that is not deployed in a methodology similar to that of The CISO Handbook is likely to find itself lacking. The product might be there and hum along; but the security that it provides will likely be negligible.

The uniqueness of The CISO Handbook is that is shows how to design and implement an effective security program based on real world scenarios, as opposed to product reviews and vendor evaluations.

The CISO Handbook: A Practical Guide to Securing Your Company is indeed a most practical guide, as its title suggests. It is quite helpful to anyone in a security organization, whether they are the CISO, system administrator, or in a different capacity.

This is a well-written practical guide to building and delivering an information security improvement programme. Presenting sage advice in a consistent manner, the book is a helpful primer for the person tasked by management with `fixing information security'.

The book is written by and for those in the front line, not in ivory towers. The three authors each have CISSP and other information security qualifications plus 10 to 20 years' work experience in information security management, meaning that their advice holds weight. They all combine hands-on with management and/or consulting expertise, meaning that they view information security in a business context.

The primary focus of the book is to guide, advise, encourage and support Chief Information Security Officers (or equivalents) working on their information security improvement programmes. It's a bit like having a personal trainer at the gym: the trainer points out the aims of the training and suggests how to the trainee might improve his technique, but the trainee must interpret the advice, internalize it and of course put in the hard work to improve.

The book generally avoids making specific recommendations for particular information security controls. The reader is expected to be able to figure out for himself (perhaps using some of the techniques and checklists presented) what the security improvement projects will actually achieve. Instead, it emphasizes the programme management aspects. This approach is more broadly applicable since each organization's information security needs differ. There are numerous other books and standards describing best practice security controls, but few address the overall planning.

The overall flow of the book follows the suggested lifecycle of an information security implementation or improvement project:
Assess - identify the drivers or needs for security improvement (e.g. risks, legal obligations) and the constraints
Plan - obtain management support for the programme, prepare an improvement strategy and build your team
Design - prepare information security policies, conduct a gap analysis and prepare a portfolio of projects
Execute - numerous suggestions to help manage the improvement projects successfully
Report - management reporting.

Each chapter contains a consistent structure with an introduction, some theoretical framing, the `guts' and a conclusion which links to the next chapter. The `guts' reflect the authors' practical approach, offering pragmatic and helpful guidance to the newly appointed or would-be CISO.

The writing is clear and straightforward, with key messages consistently presented and reinforced throughout the book. There are useful checklists, tables and process flows embedded in the text although some of the block diagrams seem rather too high-level and pointless (that's just my personal opinion).

I am currently working with a client to initiate a large information security improvement programme and so enjoyed reading this book cover-to-cover in a few sittings. It was gratifying to find that we are already following the recommended approach with few if any exceptions, and there's nothing substantial we would quarrel about. Better still, I am glad to have picked up some good tips and look forward to thumbing through this book every month for the next year or so. If you are a CISO, I commend this book to you.

Steven, you have done a wonderful contribution to our profession with so many nice books. This one is also really
great. My sincere congratulations !

These books, this one and Part 2, are great for anyone who wishes to learn Circuit Analysis. Both books are straight and to the point in explaining theory. Ample amounts of examples and problems test one's understanding of this material. The integration of MATLAB use into the subject is well done. Anyone should be pleased at using these books as either a main textbook or as a self-study supplement.

Circuit Analysis I With MATLAB Applications by electrical engineer and educator Steven T. Karris (Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley Extension) is a highly technical but accessibly written, college-level textbook for teaching engineering students how to analyze potential difference of voltage in a wide variety of increasingly complex circuits and much more. Embodying advanced math and physics material (all theorems and definitions are accompanied by carefully detailed and presented explanations and illustrations), the numerous exercises and practical applications are specific to the MATLAB software. Circuit Analysis I With MATLAB Applications is highly recommended as a scholarly text intended for (and appropriate to) undergraduate as well as advanced students in the field of electrical engineering.

we were using this book at gatech. I had two courses with him and I have learned a lot from Mr. "Samurai Professor"! God bless him!

The book is very good and covers CMOS circuits in great details. It includes very good expanation diagrams. It covers not only basic static cmos family but also new cmos family circuits.

It is meant for digital CMOS circuit designers. Not meant for digital circuits level. All are at CMOS transistor level analysis and design. Usually, most of the digital CMOS circuits in the industry have already been laid out and kept as part of the standard cell library. Even though so, we still need to have a strong concept on digital CMOS circuits in order to be a good IC designer.

It is a very good book for the beginner and intermediate level, for those who has the interest to pick up CMOS digital circuits. The book is not meant to help the reader to be good at layouts, semiconductor physics and CAD tools. There are other books for those fields. The book presents a thorough explanation on digital CMOS circuit operation using both equations and words. A lot of diagrams and graphs/curves. That makes it very useful for self study. Helps the beginner (what i meant by "beginner" is that he/she should have a knowledge in fundamentals of semiconductor physics such as pn junction) to grasp the concept of digital CMOS circuit well.

I have 2 more books that are by Leblibici (CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits Analysis & Design) and Neil Weste (Princple of CMOS vlsi design) and I found that this is better than both the books for beginners and for CMOS purpose. But the book by Weste is a very good reference, not meant for self reading unless you have a good foundation in CMOS circuit design already. The book by Leblibici is almost as good as the one by Uyemura. So, I use Leblibici book for extra reference and would usually use the book by Uyemura for first read. Therefore, I found the book by Leblibici is just as important.

The book is excellent for teaching approximation algorithms. The book was new, but I benefit of a reduced price (probably promotional).

This book is a great sequel to Garey and Johnson. The appendix of this book gives a list of all NP optimisation problems together with their current approximability (or inapproximability results) in a Garey Johnson fashion.

Developing approximation algorithms for NP hard problems is now a very active field in Mathematical Programming and Theoretical Computer Science. There have been a number of exciting developments like semidefinite programming , the Goemans Williamson algorithm for max cut et al.

On the other hand, from a theoretical computer science point of view, we now have a proof that many of these problems cannot have polynomial approximation algorithms unless P=NP.

This book provides an excellent introduction to both areas. A worthy supplement to Garey and Johnson, Papadimitriou's books on combinatorial optimisation and computational complexity, Hochbaum's book on approximation algorithms, Alon and Spencer's book on the probabilistic method and finally Motwani and Raghavan's book on randomised algorithms.

This book is a great sequel to Garey and Johnson. The appendix of this book gives a list of all NP optimisation problems together with their current approximability (or inapproximability results) in a Garey Johnson fashion.

Developing approximation algorithms for NP hard problems is now a very active field in Mathematical Programming and Theoretical Computer Science. There have been a number of exciting developments like semidefinite programming , the Goemans Williamson algorithm for max cut et al.

On the other hand, from a theoretical computer science point of view, we now have a proof that many of these problems cannot have polynomial approximation algorithms unless P=NP.

This book provides an excellent introduction to both areas. A worthy supplement to Garey and Johnson, Papadimitriou's books on combinatorial optimisation and computational complexity, Hochbaum's book on approximation algorithms, Alon and Spencer's book on the probabilistic method and finally Motwani and Raghavan's book on randomised algorithms.

This is more advanced book for CFD (comparing with the volume I). More specifice topics were talked about in this book. It is a very good book for beginner, also a good reference.

This volume is an extremely clear summary of basic theory and comparative techniques for computational resolution of fluid mechanics problems. Code examples are clear and extremely helpful to practitioners trying to produce useful models.

The reader should be familer with the general techniques of Computaional Science. This book does an excellent review of thoes basic techniques which are basic for computational fluid dynamics. I just finished reading it and am Now starting on the second volume. I am doing a computer Simulation of Ship wakes and this book is I think nesessary reading before a researcher dives in to the mass of research papers published in this field.

This book and its author are just amazing. Konrad Zuse is definitly a unique character and so is his story of the invention of the FIRST computer during World War II in Berlin.

Zuse explains how and why he build the world's first computer. Easy to understand, but not belittling. This book is essential for anyone interested in the history of CS.

An excellent source of information for those who mistakenly thought that ENIAC was the first general purpose computer.