Archive for the 'Computers and Internet' Category

Hackerteen: Volume 1: Internet Blackout (Hackerteen)

Hackerteen: Volume 1: Internet Blackout (Hackerteen) Yago wanted to use his computer skills to earn extra cash and support his family. But something went horribly wrong: his teacher, the greatest hacker in the country, is accused of a crime he didn’t commit-and an innocent girl is blackmailed. Thus begin the adventures in Hackerteen.

I Can’t Believe I’m Buying This Book: A Commonsense Guide to Successful Internet Dating

I Can’t Believe I’m Buying This Book: A Commonsense Guide to Successful Internet Dating It’s official: There is no longer a stigma associated with Internet dating. It’s true. We promise. Nearly 50 million Americans have tried it. That means roughly half of the single adult population has filled out an online dating profile or has at least browsed a few personal ads, just to see who’s out there. Quickly disappearing are the days of awkward setups and random encounters. Today’s singles simply post a profile on a handful of dating websites, then sit back and wait for the dates to roll in. Well, that’s the idea anyway. The reality is that most people slap together vague and uninspired dating profiles and quickly become disillusioned when “the one” doesn’t respond the next day. In I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M BUYING THIS BOOK, Internet dating expert Evan Marc Katz—a former MatchNet consultant and avowed online dater—demystifies the world of Internet dating. He offers practical advice on choosing the right dating website, writing eye-catching profiles, striking up that first email “conversation,” turning a first date into a second, and much more. Equal parts how-to guide and inspirational pep talk, I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M BUYING THIS BOOK is like having a chat with a good friend, in this case, a hysterically funny, insightful friend who tells it like it is while remaining cheerfully optimistic about the universal quest for love. Whether you’re an online dating junkie or a complete newcomer, an enthusiastic twentysomething or a been-there-done-that divorc e, this irreverent and intelligent guide will teach even the most jaded single how to master the dating game and find true love online.
Customer Review: The first part of the title is right
If you buy this book, you may very well end up hitting yourself over the head with something near at hand (probably the book itself) and exclaiming “I can’t believe I bought this book!” Luckily, the worthless book in question is also mercifully brief and bound in paper, so hopefully you will do no more than emotional damage to your psyche. That’s about the only positive thing you will be able to say about the experience of either reading or hitting yourself over the head with this book. The written contents are a mix of the amazingly obvious and the horribly shallow and sexist. A good book on organic gardening is more likely to help you attract a romantic partner.

Job Hunting Online: A Guide to Using Job Listings, Message Boards, Research Sites, the Underweb, Counseling, Networking Self-Assessment Tools, Niche Sties (Job Hunting on the Internet (Online))

Job Hunting Online: A Guide to Using Job Listings, Message Boards, Research Sites, the Underweb, Counseling, Networking Self-Assessment Tools, Niche Sties (Job Hunting on the Internet (Online)) The Internet can be an invaluable tool in any job hunt–but only when you know how to use it. Cowritten by career guru Richard Nelson Bolles and his son, nontraditional career expert Mark Emery Bolles, JOB-HUNTING ONLINE helps job seekers navigate the overwhelming amount of information available on the Internet to find the most useful sites and avoid common pitfalls. Filled with hundreds of annotated website recommendations and newly reorganized to follow the action steps of a successful job hunt, this time-saving desktop guide is essential to an effective online job search.

Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action

Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action Hands-on networking experience, without the lab!
The best way to learn about network protocols is to see them in action. But that doesn’t mean that you need a lab full of networking equipment. This revolutionary text and its accompanying CD give readers realistic hands-on experience working with network protocols, without requiring all the routers, switches, hubs, and PCs of an actual network.
Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action provides packet traces of real network activity on CD. Readers open the trace files using Ethereal, an open source network protocol analyzer, and follow the text to perform the exercises, gaining a thorough understanding of the material by seeing it in action.
Features
* Practicality: Readers are able to learn by doing, without having to use actual networks. Instructors can add an active learning component to their course without the overhead of collecting the materials.
* Flexibility: This approach has been used successfully with students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Appropriate for courses regardless of whether the instructor uses a bottom-up or a top-down approach.
* Completeness: The exercises take the reader from the basics of examining quiet and busy networks through application, transport, network, and link layers to the crucial issues of network security.
Customer Review: A Hands-On Approach to Computer Networking Theory.
Studying computer networks without this book would be like studying to be a motor mechanic without any practical experience in taking an engine to pieces.The CD accompanying this book contains a large number of actual traces captured during a variety of tcp/ip processes and the ethereal program included allows you to closely examine the headers and data in each packet.This is a very practically oriented book and one which I can thoroughly recommend.
Customer Review: Brilliant but you now need to download Wireshark instead of Ethereal.
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