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Do you detest those excruciating seminars which you have to attend in order to sell your products?

Do you want to update yourself and try being technologically advanced, a techno-geek? We’ll tell you exactly what you could do to be one.

Ever heard of a webinar?

Well, many people haven’t so if you don’t know anything, it’s just fine! A webinar is basically a seminar which is presented over the internet, or Web. Web seminars, web conferences and internet meetings are all synonyms for this new technology and are used in sales and marketing applications, to influence potential customers.

Unlike webcasts, where the audience can only watch and listen, webinars are presentations where the members of the large audience can interact with the presenter via the internet. Hassle free and sleek!

Webinars are used for a variety of purposes – internet-based meetings, remote training and one-to-one meetings sharing details over their computer desktops. Hosting such webinars require knowledge about specific software that configures the presenter and the audience’s computers for easy communication. If you are keen on keeping yourself up-to-date with the world of technology, you might just want to know more about the various features of this web wonder!

We guess you might just want to present seminars using this software rather than having to present product via a webcast!

Well, we guess an integrated net telephone conferencing for audio seminars, the ability of the audience to view the presenter’s screen during live product demos, a continuous streaming video and scope for animated and interactive presentations, the unique features of recording and playback options, the option of segregating the audience into subgroups to help interact better, to be able to present questionnaires and polls to the audience and even manage question and answer sessions during the seminar, all seem to be a boon to you to boost your career options!

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Imagine a conference in another city while you are sitting at home sipping on coffee and using this software. It would mean cutting down on the travel expenses, a huge benefit, and it would also ensure that the webinar goes off without the slightest glitch.

All you need is systematically planned webinars, trained personnel to handle the software and a whole lot of practice! Webinars welcome you to the future.
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Building Secure Servers with Linux will help you master the principles of reliable system and network security by combining practical advice with a firm knowledge of the technical tools needed to ensure security.The book focuses on the most common use of Linux--as a hub offering services to an organization or the larger Internet.The book does not cover firewalls, but covers the more common situation where an organization protects its hub using other systems as firewalls, often proprietary firewalls.Writing for Linux users with little security expertise, the author explains security concepts and techniques in clear language beginning with the fundamentals. An all-inclusive resource for Linux users who wish to harden their systems, the book covers general security as well as key services such as DNS, the Apache Web server, mail, file transfer, and secure shell.With this book in hand, you'll have everything you need to ensure robust security of your Linux system. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (11)

Non Fiction
Bought to help while away a long plane flight, this book was somewhat useful as a introduction to linux security, and where to start when looking at exposing servers to the evil outside world.Included is more importantly what not to start, and what not to do, at the beginning.Not a bad book.

Must-have book to secure your linux server!
The author covers all of the major issues facing an administrator looking to secure a linux server.I purchased this book based on the reviews here and I have not been disappointed.

If you are a security professional or would like to be, this is the book for you.Take advantage of the author's years of experience as well as the knowledge he has gleaned and refined from his years of writing security articles for Linux Magazine.

This book saved my day...more than once!
Several months ago I decided to setup my personal weblog on one of my home based Linux box. I knew, that counting on cheap DSL router "firewall" capability, to keep real hackers out of the system is simply not enough (and counting on the fact, that hacker wannabes and script kiddies outnumber real hackers in real life, is not reassuring either).

Sure, soon after, I opened necessary ports on DSL router for web, mail and ftp service I regularly noticed port scanning probes in router log. I questioned myself if I really built secure Linux box or not? What should I do next time, to strengthen security right from the beginning, and not later, when server is already in use?Where to place Linux server and how to protect my internal network? Of course, I realized that my general knowledge about security (especially on Linux) is insufficient. I'm following Mr. Bauer excellent articles in Linux Journal for some time, appreciating not only the author knowledge in the field of security, but also his writing skills. It was a logical choice for me to begin learning about security on Linux with the help of his book.

It's not some kind of "super" book on the security subject that'll give you answers on all your questions and the same time cover all security aspects.
On contrary, it covers the most important security issues concerning the services and tools that you'll probably use or support on average Linux box connected to the net. This book really helped me a lot in that respect, not only with home project but also on my daily job that is only occasionally related with network security.

If my case sounds familiar to you then you're definitely the prime candidate for this book.

EXTREMELY helpful, well-written
I run a small home network with a registered static IP.I wanted to secure it and use it to run a web server and an app server.By trade I am an enterprise Java developer.Prior to reading this book, I had had zero experience securing any kind of server, and nearly zero experience administering Linux boxes at all.I was pretty intimidated by the concepts of computer security in general.Also, you should know that I actually read 90% of this book.

Let me say without hesitation that this book has changed my life. I have secured my network, protected my data, detected attempted hacks, and learned a TON. This knowledge has also helped me tremendously in my day job, as an awareness of the overall network security environment is essential to being a good enterprise developer. I give 100% of the credit to Mr. Bauer, whose writing is complete, comprehensible, succinct, and lively. He progresses logically through the material, covering firewall architecture, server hardening, use of ssh for all administration, log watching, web and DNS security, threat detection, and many other topics. His coverage is a judicious mixture of utilitarian and theoretical - he gives you just the right instructions to accomplish your goals, and just enough background to make it interesting and understandable.This approach makes his chapters on bastion hosts, ssh, and tripwire especially definitive.His humor, unlike that of many other technical authors, actually is funny and helpful.When he refers to the complex Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm as a "large-prime-number hoe-down," he succeeds in both entertaining and providing an adequate summary for the average network administrator.Bauer's sense of organization and style enables him to take the mystique and complexity out of computer security and empower the reader.

I take extreme exception to the negative reviewer who claims that Bauer relies too heavily on graphical tools, which is bad since one should not even have X11 running on a secure server. Obviously this other reviewer never read the book. In his chapter on hardening Linux, Bauer EXPRESSLY SAYS not to install X11 on a secure server.Almost NOWHERE in the book does he use graphical tools.What the other reviewer has written is unfair and untrue.Maybe he read a different book.

One minor quibble I have is that the log monitoring software Bauer suggests, "swatch," is adequate but has really been superseded by "logwatcher," which comes with Red Hat Linux. Logwatcher has built-in smarts, and does not need to rely on downloading modules from CPAN onto your secure server.But consider this:the fact that I can even raise this issue, after previously knowing absolutely nothing about computer security, is further testament to the greatness of this book.

Great articles, but an incomplete book
This book was created by gluing together the famous "Paranoid Penguin" columns that the author writes for Linux Journal.Now, the articles are great.When expanded into book form, there's more space available for detail.However this book doesn't have the breadth to be a good security book on it's own.Since it only pulls from the articles, it misses many key points that would be necessary for someone to really secure their machine.Many of the topics here are not geared toward securing your machine, or building a secure server at all - they're more "how to do things securely".Now that is a good thing, but the book title makes it sound like you need only this book to build a secure machine, and that is definately not the case. ... Read more

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• Completely updated for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 R2, this book is packed with practical examples for today's programmer, Web developer, or system administrator
• Combines a comprehensive overview of the VBScript technology and associated technologies with sample code at every stage from beginner to advanced user
• Discusses the general syntax, functions, keywords, style, error handling, and similar language-specific topics and then moves into an expanded reference section covering the object models in detail
• Presents advanced coverage on Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI), PowerShell, security scripting, remote scripting, database scripting, and more

Customer Reviews (44)

Good for the beginner
I haven't read much of the book but what I did read was geared for the beginner.It appears to be an adequate presentation.

Solid book - even for beginners
Great Reference - Good examples, wish the index covered sample code better.Many functions and examples were in the book, but not found in the index.One of the more useful books for VBScript using it as straight programming for reading files and processing directories from a command window.

VBScript A+
This is one of the best reference books I have purchased in a while, things are really starting to pick-up speed now (repetitive tasks).

Covers Basics, and quickly moves on to Advanced topics
This books covers many basic topics that I already knew from books such as the Microsoft "Windows 2000 Scripting Guide".It also moves on to advanced topics such as COM objects covered in the Microsoft book "Advanced VBScript for Windows administratiors".If you are not looking for a book to teach you basic programming (If you are looking for a more basic book, try the Microsoft Windows 2000 scripting guide.), but a book to teach you VBScript, this is the book for you.

As for myself, the appendix that covers the various sub-types of the VARIANT variable, and how to cast them as specific sub types (VBScript does not allow one to declare a variable of a specific type, such as a string or integer, as Visual Basic does) was worth the cost of the book alone.
I wish I'd has this information a year ago!!!

VBScript 3rd edition programmer's reference
The book is very good for me as a beginner and want to master VBScript , each chapter of the 21 chapters is centric , heavy organized and easy to digest material with alot of short code examples , tutorials and figures , and the book end with 10 appendices covering the book in a nutshell and act as a reference , what interested my in the book is Sidebar and gadgets programming , task schedular scripting , powershell scripting using VBS , window script host for windows administration like copying and moving files and creating folders and making reports and automated task handling and HTA scripting , before reading the books i did not know that VBScript can do all that . ... Read more

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Really good book, really good transaction
This is a really nice book that I received in a short amount of time from seller.Recommend the book and seller.

Windows XP in a Nutshell, Second Edition
I think this book is one of the better ones written. I give it a 5 star rating.

Windows XP in a Nutshell
It is a well written reference book and every time I have used it, it has been very satisfactory.

Five starts for a well done book
Well written, not excessively wordy, not shallow, full of real content, even has a decent index. I've seen many much larger XP books with much less content. Vastly better than anything from MS-Press.

OK, if you're a beginner, you might want to get one of the "Idiot" books first, but that would be the only argument against this one.

Windows XP from a Macintosh User
I have a confession to make... I go both ways. That's right, I'm bi-directional. I bat for both teams. I use Windows just as much as I use a Mac. The dirty little secret is that I'm not that unusual; there are a lot of Mac users that have to work with Windows (my involvement is voluntary, which might be an oddity.)

A few weeks ago, I was handed a copy of Windows XP in a Nutshell. What the heck would a Mac user do with a book about Windows? Like I said, there are more than a few Mac users who have to work with Windows on occasion, and many of them won't use Windows enough to get fully comfortable with it. A book like this may be helpful for those kinds of people.

Part 1 (The Big Picture)
This section is the smallest of the book (beside the preface). It covers a bit of the history of Windows, some of the features of Windows XP and finishes with a brief walk through of the Windows' desktop. This part lays the groundwork for the rest of the book, which is more of a reference book than tutorial.

Part 2 (Alphabetical Reference)
This is the heart of the book and the largest section. It's an encyclopedic listing of the programs and features of Windows XP. It's broken up into four parts (the user interface, applications and tools, task and setting index and a list of commands for the command prompt.) This section is definitely not intended for reading from end to end. However, it is a good section to graze through (just flip though the pages, stopping on anything that catches you eye.) and, of course, good for when you're trying to find a specific topic.

Part 3 (Advance Topics)
This is a semi-tutorial on some of the more arcane aspects of Windows XP; networking, the registry and Windows Scripting. The chapter on networking is especially useful for people who haven't had the joy of setting up a Windows machine for a network. The chapter on the Windows Scripting Host, however,
isn't very useful for someone who is tangentially familiar with Windows.

Part 4 (Appendices)
This part has a mix of some very useful info, such as the chapters on installing and upgrading Windows, to the extremely arcane, like the listing of Windows Services. It's worth going through, at least until your eyes glaze over.

Dislikes
There are a couple things that turned me off, about the book, both as a reader and a Windows user.
The book is poorly organized, alternating throughout the book from tutorial to reference. I think that it would have been better if the material to be read were kept to the front of the book with all of the reference material in the back (appendix.)

I would have also liked it if the alphabetical reference were broken up and grouped (i.e. control panels would have their own section as would games.) One of the biggest things this book lacks is a discussion of Windows security. Any comprehensive discussion of Windows needs to include security, especially if the book is targeted (such as this one) toward neophyte users. While the authors to talk some about security, it's broken up and spread throughout the book.

Likes
One of the things that I really like about the book is that the authors seem to have followed the idea that "Brevity is the soul of wit" and give each of their topics just enough coverage and not get bogged down in the minutiae. While the book covers some topics, such as Internet Explorer, more than others, it doesn't go overboard (they cover IE in about six pages, half of which is the changes that came with Service Hack, er I mean Pack, 2.)
The other thing I like is that they continually write about the command line. The command line is an integral part of the Windows' OS (as much as it is with the Mac OS,) yet it's regularly regarded as some mysterious artifact, or else they deal exclusively with the command prompt, and end up in a game of one upmanship with the GUI. Seeing someone deal with the command prompt as just another part of the OS is quite refreshing.

What do I think?
If the book were better organized, I would heartily recommend the book to any Mac user who occasionally needs to use a Windows machine, but the book is a little too confusing for the kind of people who need confusing the least. Still the book has a good deal of useful information, especially the networking and Windows installation guide, and is worth considering if you're looking for a Windows reference

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