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Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring, and supporting IIS 7.0 with insights from a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and IIS experts at Microsoft. You get 800 pages of in-depth technical guidance on using IIS 7.0 to help enable users to easily host and manage Web sites, create Web-based business applications, and extend file, print, media, and communication services to the Web. This RESOURCE KIT covers IIS architecture, migrating servers and applications, capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning, security, top administration and troubleshooting scenarios, and real-world best practices. Complete with scripts, tools, utilities, and an eBook on CD, this is the definitive resource for administering IIS 7.0.

The Usborne Internet-Linked First Encyclopedia of Science

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The Usborne Internet-Linked First Encyclopedia of Science


Firefox is leveling out while Chrome and Safari continue to grow. Opera? It’s hanging on to relevance. Between July and August, Internet Explorer dropped 0.34 percent, a drop smaller than June’s or July’s gain.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet Twenty five years ago, it didn’t exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. “Where Wizards Stay Up Late” is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. In the 1960′s, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, “Where Wizards Stay Up Late” captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.
Customer Review: Riveting
This book was riveting and actually a page turner. I could not put it down and was able to read it in one day. It is informative and interesting. This book clues you in to the creation of the internet and to the people behind that endeavor. It will make you a more well informed person and expand your perspectives relative to achievement.
Customer Review: Well organized, back to the beginning history of the Internet
The author’s have done a wonderful job of balancing a modicum of technical detail with all the personalities and people who contributed to the early days of the Internet.

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.