Ronald J Leach
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This book delivers what the title states: It describes the 101 most important UNIX and Linux commands and system calls. The book bridges the gap between on-line tutorials and manual pages on one hand, and books of 1,000 pages or more that explore the nuances of many shell commands in exhaustive detail. While most of these sources provide excellent information, they do not really solve the plight of the novice user, nor do they fully answer the questions...
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About 20 years ago I was a cruise lecturer assisting a local guide on a shore excursion from the port of Monaco to nearby Nice and Eze. In Eze, I saw a street sign referencing a Templar castle that was destroyed in 1706. We were on a steep hill some 2,000 feet above the port of Monaco. I wondered why the castle was so high, far too high to protect tiny Monaco below. I wondered how Monaco could have avoided major destruction or annexation by the...
3) Why 2K?
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This book, originally published in 1999, describes what could have happened during the era of the famous Y2K hysteria, when computers and communications devices would have had to function when four digits were needed to use the current date instead of the two digits that were commonly used in many systems. Of course, none of the expected disasters happened and none of the Y2K terrorist plots really. Or did they? Certainly the vulnerabilities of the...
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User Guide to Microfilm and Microfiche is intended for anyone who is just that, a user of these technologies. This inexpensive guide will help anyone learn the best way to read microfilm and microfiche data, and to help preserve these somewhat fragile media. The author is a long-time Computer Science professor with considerable experience with multiple digitization projects for numerous organizations. He first used microfilm professionally and 1961...
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The main characters in our story, Jay Allan Scripps and Rowena Moore, have connected after many years after a mysterious accident. He is hiding from his past, while she leads a reclusive existence. They are motivated by a perhaps misguided need to improve their world. Their unique use of guns forms helps save lives in a neglected area of the city."Baltimore Blue and Freddie Gray" is a work of fiction set in Baltimore during the eventful time of...
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This updated edition of Software Reuse: Methods, Models, Costs is an essential guide to successful systematic, life cycle-based reuse. It explains in depth the fundamentals, economics, and metrics of reuse and shows how it can succeed, even in rapidly changing technology environments. This book emphasizes the type of complex systems that may evolve into "systems of systems."
Important material has been added on the changed state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice...