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Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Ethereal Packet Sniffing Publisher: Syngress Authors: Angela D. Orebaugh, Gilbert Ramirez Rating: 4/5  How anxious (paranoid?) are you about your network? Has a cracker taken over one of your machines and is using it to sniff your traffic? Or maybe to propagate worms, or emit spam, especially the phishing variety, which needs a server that cannot be directly owned by the phisher. For all these reasons, and as a prophylactic measure against them, sysadmins often use network analysis tools that come with their operating systems, like tcpdump under linux and unix and windump under Microsoft. But these tend to be limited in their analytic capability. A group of people wanted to improve matters. They banded together and called their product Ethereal. It is offered freely as open source, and has been tested on linux, most unixes and various Microsoft OSs. Strictly speaking, it has not been officially released. Which makes this book a little curious, on first glance. The book documents version 0.10.0, and has a CD with all the necessary code. The authors felt that pragmatically this version is stable enough and offers significantly better functionality over the alternatives. Granted, you may be trepid about installing beta code, on principle. But the authors argue persuasively that the Ethereal functionality, both in a GUI and at the command line, warrants a serious consideration by any sysadmin. Another reason to install Ethereal has to do with the case where you are already using some proprietary network analyser. If you also run Ethereal, then the two analysers act as cross checks on each other. While Ethereal may have some bugs, so too might that other product. But how might you ever know about the latter, without using Ethereal?
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Title: Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity Publisher: New Riders Press Authors: Jakob Nielsen Rating: 5/5  This beautifully produced volume by a leading expert in usability engineering might well be called a handbook because of its throughness. It is packed with principles of usability applied to web design. Use it to move the code-mad developer to consider design issues or to bring a wildly creative sort back to reality. The only problem is that I hesitate to pass the book to the staff developer who needs it for fear that I won't get it back.
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Title: Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness Publisher: Oxford University Press Authors: Roger Penrose Rating: 5/5 My favorite Penrose book! Though probably totally off-base, it was a fun read.
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Title: Java 2: The Complete Reference, Fifth Edition Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Authors: Herbert Schildt Rating: 4/5 This is a very good book for starters who come from VB world and want to get hands on knowledge of java fast. The book would help u to grasp and learn java pretty fast and then u can open any book written on java and build ur skills accordingly.
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