To conclude, these chapters have highlighted recent developments in these disparate habitats; they have also outlined some of the challenges we face in moving our field forward. In my view, these chapters underscore two important points and, although, my observations are not particularly novel, they are worth emphasising. First, there is the overarching importance of an experimental approach (s…

The book contains five parts and concludes with an appendix on troubleshooting. Part I: Overview - This part of the book provides an introduction to the world of wireless technologies. This world is governed mostly by standards (guidelines) that, among other things, aid in ensuring interoperability among similar and countless wireless devices. Part II: Hardware - The standards discussed in Pa…

In this book, focuses on the world of the ISP and in particular on the efficiency of their network operation and on the QoS that they (aim to) provide. Structures the book into four parts, namely the ISP market, network architecture, interconnection issues, and traffic and network engineering. In that way he situates descriptions of the technology issues and emerging solutions in their proper …

Chapter 1, Upgrading Drupal, focuses on preparing a Drupal environment for running a high performance Drupal website. We will discuss upgrading Drupal 5.x to Drupal 6.x, creating backups of our site files and databases, running the Drupal Status report, upgrading contributed modules to their latest 6.x versions, and running update.php. We will also tweak our PHP settings using the Drupal setti…

If you know anything about Linux you know that there are a lot of commands that accomplish the same task. To borrow the motto of Perl, a very popular scripting language with a long *nix history: “There’s more than one way to do it.” It is possible that no two people will do the same thing the same way, yet get the same results. In our book, we have used what we feel is the quickest and e…

This book would serve as the most comprehensive source for an expert as well as a beginner in the area of CNT-reinforced metal matrix composites and nanotechnology. This book will also be beneficial for graduate students and researchers in nanotechnology, materials engineers, mechanical engineers, and chemical engineers.

This book treats qmail more as an architecture than a mail server, and from that perspective guides the reader through the installation, administration, customization, and deployment of a qmail-based server. The book begins with a quick, minimal, step-by-step walkthrough of a bare-bones qmail server, and then introduces and explains the basic design of the qmail architecture in easily understo…

This book is the result of the collaborative effort of not just the principal authors, but of the Ubuntu Server team itself. As it is the official, authorized book on Ubuntu Server, the focus has been on a server guide based on our collective experience. Beyond that, the goal is to have something to offer to both the beginner system administrator and the battle-hardened senior sysadmin. On the …

The furore around virtualization is taking the technology world by storm and is a must for efficient utilization of network server capacity, storage administration, energy, and capital. VirtualBox is free which brings down your upfront costs for an agile data center. VirtualBox will transform your IT infrastructure into a lean data center on a Windows XP/Vista/7, Windows 2003/2008 Server, Linux…

This book is designed to provide real-world solutions to real-world problems. You will learn how to secure both client and server software from known attacks, and how to take a proactive stance against possible new attacks. From learning about encrypting e-mail messages with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) to using anti-virus and personal firewall software, to actually securing your operating syste…