Scripting VMware Power Tools or The Art of Digital Music

Scripting VMware Power Tools: Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration

Author: Al Muller

This book contains simple and advanced scripting using both ESX and Linux commands to provide awesome virtual tools to automate administrative tasks of ESX Server.

This book will cover the native tools that VMware provides with ESX Server. It will then discuss in detail the different scripting API's and how they can be leveraged to provide some very useful, practical and time saving tools to manage a virtual infrastructure. From virtual server provisioning to backups and everything in between, this book is a one stop shop for virtual tools.

* An essential guide to virtualisation using both Linux and ESX commands

* The companion Web site for book provides dozens for working scripts and tools presented in the book

* Maximise VMware's powerful scripting language to automate time consuming administrative tasks

Interesting book: Condemned or Office 2003 Bible

The Art of Digital Music: 53 Visionary Artists & Insiders Reveal their Creative Secrets

Author: David Battino

The Art of Digital Music shows firsthand how top artists - pioneers such as Alan Parsons, Herbie Hancock, BT, Todd Rundgren, Steve Reich, and Phil Ramone - use digital technology in their work. Through a dynamic blend of practical, hands-on production tips, inspiring case studies, extensive graphics, and in-depth interviews, the authors explore the creative freedom these new tools afford.

In addition to artist interviews, this entertaining volume features lively discussions with technological pioneers - the producers, engineers, software wizards, and Internet visionaries who are shaping the sound of the future. In addition to audio examples, the accompanying DVD features tours of artists' studios. The Art of Digital Music will appeal to musicians who use technology to make music and fans who want to understand how technology is changing the way music is created, experienced, and shared.

Designing and Engineering Time or Find Gold in Windows Vista

Designing and Engineering Time: The Psychology of Time Perception in Software

Author: Steven C Seow

Build Applications, Websites, and Software Solutions that Feel Faster, More Efficient, and More Considerate of Users’ Time!

One hidden factor powerfully influences the way users react to your software, hardware, User Interfaces (UI), or web applications: how those systems utilize users’ time. Now, drawing on the nearly 40 years of human computer interaction research –including his own pioneering work –Dr. Steven Seow presents state-of-the-art best practices for reflecting users’ subjective perceptions of time in your applications and hardware.

Seow begins by introducing a simple model that explains how users perceive and expend time as they interact with technology. He offers specific guidance and recommendations related to several key aspects of time and timing–including user tolerance, system responsiveness, progress indicators, completion time estimates, and more. Finally, he brings together proven techniques for impacting users' perception of time drawn from multiple disciplines and industries, ranging from psychology to retail, animal research to entertainment.

·   Discover how time and timing powerfully impact user perception, emotions, and behavior

·   Systematically make your applications more considerate of users’ time

·   Avoid common mistakes that consistently frustrate or infuriate users

·   Manage user perceptions and tolerance, and build systems that are perceived as faster

·   Optimize “flow” to make users feel more productive, empowered, and creative

·   Make reasonable and informed tradeoffs thatmaximize limited development resources

·   Learn how to test usability issues related to time -- including actual vs. perceived task duration

Designing and Engineering Time is for every technology developer, designer, engineer, architect, usability specialist, manager, and marketer. Using its insights and techniques, technical and non-technical professionals can work together to build systems and applications that provide far more value –and create much happier users.

Table of Contents:

Preface

1 Designing and Engineering Time

2 Perception and Tolerance

3 User and System Response Times

4 Responsiveness

5 Detecting Timing Differences

6 Progress Indication

7 Expressing Time

8 User Flow

9 Testing Time

10 Techniques

11 Violations

Go to: Cocina Vegetariana Saludable or Everyone Can Cook Appetizers

Find Gold in Windows Vista

Author: Dan Gookin

Windows Vista represents a major improvement to Windows--one that's been long in coming. Because of that, many readers will be experienced Windows users who have grown accustomed to doing things a certain way. The new version of Windows will present a challenge to them. This book is for that reader.

Getting up to speed on a new version of Windows is a frustrating game called "Where have they buried the bodies?" People know what they want to do; they just don't know the new places to find what they need and the new steps involved to accomplish the task. Find Gold in Windows Vista shows readers the new places and the new steps in the new Windows. This book is different because computer users who already know Windows but are merely concerned with finding where the bodies are buried can use it to find quickly the exact information they need.

While experienced readers can enjoy this book's topical and to-the-point approach, beginners and those intimidated by computers will enjoy the tutorial aspect. This is the "Ask Dan" flavor of the book, where Dan explains in his usual, avuncular style how to do things for folks who are intimidated or perhaps just don't know a better way to get things done.

SSH The Secure Shell or Wileys Teach Yourself C 7th Edition

SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide

Author: Daniel J Barrett

Secure your computer network with SSH! With end-to-end strong encryption, reliable public-key authentication, and a highly configurable client/server architecture, SSH (Secure Shell) is a popular, robust, TCP/IP-based solution to many network security and privacy concerns. It supports secure remote logins, secure file transfer between computers, and a unique "tunneling" capability that adds encryption to otherwise insecure network applications. Best of all, SSH is free, with feature-filled commercial versions available as well.

SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide covers the Secure Shell in detail for both system administrators and end users. It demystifies the SSH man pages and includes thorough coverage of:

• Basic to advanced use of SSH client tools for Unix, Windows, and Macintosh.
• Installing, configuring, and maintaining SSH (with special tips for large data centers).
• The three levels of SSH server control: compile-time and server-wide configuration for administators, and per-account configuration for end users.
• Application tunneling, port and agent forwarding, and forced commands.
• Undocumented features of popular SSH implementations.
• Detailed case studies of creating complex applications with SSH.
• Troubleshooting a wide variety of common and not-so-common problems.

Whether you're communicating on a small LAN or across the Internet, SSH can ship your data from "here" to "there" efficiently and securely. So throw away those insecure .rhosts and hosts.equiv files, move up to SSH, and make your network a safe place to live and work.

About the Author:
Daniel J. Barrett, Ph.D., has been immersed in Internet technology since 1985. Currently a software engineer and vice president at a well-known financial services company, Dan has also been a heavy metal singer, Unix system administrator, university lecturer, web designer, and humorist.

Dan has written several other O'Reilly books, including NetResearch: Finding Information Online and Bandits on the Information Superhighway, as well as monthly columns for Compute! and Keyboard Magazine. He and his family reside in Boston.

Look this: Factory Girls or Moneyball

Wiley's Teach Yourself C++, 7th Edition

Author: Al Stevens

* The number one C++ self-study course from the nation's number one C++ authority, the author of the Dr. Dobb's Journal "C Programming" column since 1988
* Completely updated with the latest revisions to the C++ compilers, this book uses a tutorial approach to teach one of the most widely used, yet hard to learn, programming languages-more than 100,000 copies sold over all editions
* Provides a complete working program to teach each lesson and carefully builds on previous lessons for greater understanding
* CD-ROM includes a complete Windows-hosted IDE and C++ compiler suite, allowing the reader to compile, run, and experiment with the example programs for a complete tutorial experience

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	The C++ Language	1
Ch. 1	An Introduction to Programming in C++	3
Ch. 2	Writing Simple C++ Programs	15
Ch. 3	Functions	53
Ch. 4	Program Flow Control	69
Ch. 5	C++ Data Type Organization	89
Ch. 6	Structures and Unions	105
Ch. 7	More About C++ Data	123
Ch. 8	Pointers, Addresses, and Dynamic Memory Allocation	135
Ch. 9	Reference Variables	159
Ch. 10	Recursion	169
Ch. 11	The Preprocessor	177
Ch. 12	Function Templates	193
Ch. 13	Program Organization	201
Pt. II	Working with Classes	219
Ch. 14	C++ Classes	221
Ch. 15	Constructors and Destructors	229
Ch. 16	Conversion	241
Ch. 17	Arrays of Class Objects	253
Ch. 18	Class Members	259
Ch. 19	Friends	275
Ch. 20	Classes and the Heap	283
Ch. 21	Overloading Operators	291
Ch. 22	Class Libraries	317
Ch. 23	Class Inheritance	327
Ch. 24	Multiple Inheritance	361
Ch. 25	Class Templates	375
Pt. III	The Standard C++ Library	393
Ch. 26	Standard C Library Functions	395
Ch. 27	Introduction to the Standard C++ Library	415
Ch. 28	Formatting IOStreams and the stringstream Classes	427
Ch. 29	File I/O Streams	441
Pt. IV	The Standard Template Library	461
Ch. 30	Introduction to STL	463
Ch. 31	STL Sequence Containers	469
Ch. 32	Associative Containers	497
Ch. 33	Genetic Algorithms	533
Ch. 34	Iterators	557
Pt. V	Advanced Topics	573
Ch. 35	Exception Handling	575
Ch. 36	Namespaces	597
Ch. 37	C++ Typecasts	607
Ch. 38	Runtime Type Information (RTTI)	615
Ch. 39	Locales	621
Ch. 40	Object-Oriented Programming	631
App. A	Library Listings	643
App. B	What's on the CD-ROM?	657
App. C	Quincy 2002 User's Guide	659
App. D	C++ Reference Tables	665
	App. E: Bibliography	671
	Glossary	673
	Index	685
	End-User License Agreement	705