Ebook: Network Security Tools

This concise, high-end guide shows experienced administrators how to customize and extend popular open source security tools such as Nikto, Ettercap, and Nessus. It also addresses port scanners, packet injectors, network sniffers, and web assessment tools. Network Security Tools is the one resource you want at your side when locking down your network.

Ebook: PC Hacks

Covering both Windows and Linux, PC Hacks combines the bestselling Hacks series style with the world’s most popular computing hardware. Hacks for enhancing performance and preventing problems with your PC include overclocking CPU and video cards, tweaking RAM timing, selecting the best performing components, and more. The guide includes advice on reusing an old PC [...]

Ebook: Advanced PHP for Web Professionals

In this concise, hands-on tutorial, PHP expert Christopher Cosentino delivers dozens of powerful new techniques for building serious Web applications. Through professional-quality examples drawn from his six years as a PHP developer, Cosentino walks you through building friendlier, more usable sites; improving user authentication; generating dynamic graphics; parsing XML documents; building database-independent Web applications; and [...]

Ebook: PHP Manual

PHP, which stands for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor” is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. The main goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically [...]

Ebook: Unix Backup and Recovery

PREFACE
Like many people, I had to learn backups the hard way. I worked at a large company where I was responsible for backing up Unix SVr3/4, Ultrix, HP-UX 8-10, AIX 3, Solaris 2.3, Informix, Oracle, and Sybase. In those days I barely understood how Unix worked, and I really didn’t understand how databases worked-yet it [...]

Ebook: Benchmarks prove the performance of the Red Hat Linux Advanced

This paper describes how recently announced database benchmarks demonstrate the performance of Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, Oracle9i Database with Real Application Clusters (RAC) running on HP ProLiant hardware. Combined with the compelling Total Cost of Ownership model presented by this software and hardware combination, the paper shows why solutions such as this are rapidly [...]

Ebook: C++ in a Nutshell

C++ in a Nutshell packs an enormous amount of information on C++ (and the many libraries used with it) in an indispensable quick reference for those who live in a deadline-driven world and need the facts but not the frills.
Cross-references link related methods, classes, and other key features. This is an ideal resource for students [...]

Ebook: C Pocket Reference

Ideal as an introduction for beginners and a quick reference for advanced programmers, the C Pocket Reference consists of two parts: a compact description of the C language and a thematically structured reference to the standard library. The representation of the language is based on the ANSI standard and includes extensions introduced in 1999. An [...]

Ebook: MySQL/PHP Database Applications

The focus of this book is applications development. We are concerned it takes to get data-driven Websites up dan running in an organized and efficient way. The book does not go into arcane detail of every aspect of either of these tools. For example, in this book, you will not find a discussion of PHP’s [...]

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