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Great book to learn the Art of Network Monitoring!
I am not sure how I was first introduced to the author, Mr. Bejtlich.I cannot remember if I first noticed his work via his excellent blog or this, his first book.Either way, after reading "The Tao of Network Security" by Richard Bejtlich, I feel he has prepared and educated me in a way unlike any other author.The first item you must recognize is the tone that this book dictates right from the outset.The book begins by citing many different authors, their books and their value.I knew immediately that I was in for a treat.And I was right!
Shows a disciplined approach to network security monitoring
A problem with the approach many people take to network and security monitoring is that they expect it to be plug and play.Install the software and then stop attackers in their tracks.If only it was so easy.But one can't simply install monitoring software or an IDS, collect data and expect it all to correlate and correct itself.
One of a kind
This book has everyting as it pertains to network security monitoring. If you read this book from cover-to-cover, then you can consider yourself prepared to deal with anything that comes at you. This book presents material that would normally take years to learn in an easy-to-follow format. This book is a must have for anyone who is serious about their job and wants to make the jump to becoming an expert. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

Many C/C++ programmers know at least the basics of TCP/IP, but becomingan expert network programmer usually requires a lot of experience and sometimeshard-to-find knowledge. Written to give the intermediate or advanced developer aleg up in creating robust network applications using TCP/IP and relatedprotocols, Read more

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excellent for developing network programs
I bought this about 4 years ago.It was extremely helpful for the socket programs that I have had to develop.I don't do TCP/IP socket programming full time, but this helped me to develop several robust applications.I used it to develop a BGP peering monitor application as a server that also uses sockets for remote reporting.I also used it in developing an active network probing application that looks for forwarding plane faults, making use of various active sending and recieving sockets: UDP, raw and ICMP.

entry-level textbook disguised as "tips"
I don't know why this book is rated so highly.There's nothing wrong with the content (what little there is), but I feel that it's misrepresented as a book for intermediate level network programmers.I was expecting discussion on when to use select() vs. multi-threaded vs. single-threaded servers, for example.But this book is more for beginners (Tip #1, "Understand the difference between connectionless and connection-oriented protocols").
Perfect reference for network programmers
This book is a perfect addition to the library of any network programmer. It brings the balance between practicality and knowledge to a topic as TCP/IP Programming. If you want more knowledge go with Stevens, but if you want to learn fast or to review some concepts or even have a reference book, this is your book.
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Simply badly designed for exams
I believe that the writers made some bad choices when they first began to write this book. First of all, unlike most other certification books the exam goals are not together in one section. Instead there are whole chapters for queries, indexes, views, etc with all of the information about each topic in that chapter. So if you wanted to read about 'query optimization' you would have to read the sections within that chapter about query optimation from the queries chapter, from the index chapter, some from the views chapter, etc. So if you want to review a specific topic that you are not as good at you will be doing a lot of page flipping.
This Won't Prepare You For 70-229 But a Good Starting Point.
This book is a very easy read, explains concepts clearly, but lacks the kind of detail necessary for passing the 70-229 exam, especially if you are taking this as an elective on the developer track. It will get you through most of what you need to know at 10,000 feet, but it will not take you to a passing score. It taught me things I had never used and for that it is well worth the time investment. I also love the fact that you can install the "e-book" on a laptop and a desktop at home and never carry the hard cover book around.
Book for SQL novice
This book is good for a person whom does not know any thing about SQL and Database Designing. If you are an Experience whom trying to get ready for the exam. then save your money and look for different one. This book will just wast your time. ... Read more

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Good book -weak in areas
I bought this book for my Solaris 10 Upgrade exam -result, passing score!However unless you are an experienced SA,I would recommend not using this book as your sole study guide.There are a few technical inaccuracies in addition the material fails to delve deeply enough into certain key exam areas such as Sol on X86. Post-exam, I view it as a nice Sol 10 reference to keep around.

Good but not perfect
A well written book, gives you almost the information you need to pass the certification exams and also some additional information. Unfortunately it still lack a few information that SUN ask in some questions. I think this is a good book and reference, but you need to already know Solaris and SUN platforms or you'll find this book a bit difficult.

It's really a nice book!
It's a good book, it contains all details about Solaris 10..& repeating Solaris '10'..as there're many books claiming it's subject is Solaris 10 but in fact they don't cover any of Solaris 10 new topics..this book does.
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Deploying Oracle applications in any organization is an enormous task, and Read more

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Amazon doesnt have this book and did not deliver after 2 months too!
I have tried to buy this book from Amazon. When buying it says it will ship in 2-3 weeks, but even after two months Amazon keeps mailing that it would still be delayed by a month. Be careful while buying this book from amazon, as in my case the purpose is finshed before i even got the book.

Might be ok but...
I bought this book because I was trying to teach myself enough to become a Financials Developer.This still MIGHT be the right book for me.However, this is not a step by step guide to the installation.In addition, the book assumes some familiarity with accounting systems.

It's not a handbook, just an brief overview
We should appreciate that this is the first book published on market talking about Oracle Financials.However, this is the book that contains only general introduction. It doesn't have any detail information either for functional users or technical persons.As an Oracle Financial developer with many years of experience, I don't get any useful information out of it.May be it's good for somebody who don't know Oracle Financials at all. ... Read more

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The best book to learn Neural Networks
As an undergraduate Math and Computing student, when I took up a high-level course in Neural Networks as an open elective, the only book my instructor recommended was Neural Networks by Simon Haykin. I got that book, and was soon put off by the mathematical rigour it had.
best for beginnner
I found it is best for beginner with best suited examples. It teaches as if teacher is with you and the way examples seleted is the best. After completion of this book you feel as if expert in subjet with true fundamental knowledge in ANN programming. Best book to start with ANN Programming

helpful
I bought this book ages ago without any knowledge of neural nets and used the book and accompanying neutral.exe executable to conduct a research study.I am not a C/C++ programmer so I cannot speak to the clarity or quality of the code but I did carefully read the text of the book and I found it very helpful in understanding neural nets and applying them.(Readers might complement this book with a good, practical social sciences text on applying regression... for example, Masters and the AI community seemed to have a poor grasp of the phenomenon of "shrinkage" in noisy environments.)
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Just awful
ACE is great, no doubt.This book is not.If I had been scanning ACE code for years and needed a reference, this book might be great, but like a kid in a foreign land, this book only confused me more than it helped.Here's why:
An issue in example code of section 7.6.3
A good book for you to get into the world of ACE.
What would you do with all this power?
This book is yet another great example of how the ACE framework can save you a lifetime of development. Within this book is the knowledge and experience to excell your applications to the next level and become more productive then ever. If your code base deals with networking or even if you just need to have cross platform compatibility then this book is a must have to teach you the ways of ACE. ... Read more

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Best among the LPIC prep books
I just passed LPIC 101 with a good score thanks to this book. It follows the LPIC objectives very closely. Since the publication of the book the objectives were updated at the end of last year, so you might have to read upon those changed ones.
Good Linux administration overview as well as study guide
I picked this book up to use as a study guide for taking the LPIC-1 102 exam.(I passed, by the way.)This book was good read that kept my interest and proved a good overview to Linux system administration as well as a LPIC-1 study guide.And it covered a few topics in generally better detail than some other Linux books I've read.Even after the test is passed, I expect I will refer back to this book from time to time as one of my Linux references.
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Essential reading for programmers in its domain
I recently finished reading Pattern Oriented Software Architecture Vol 2: Patterns for Networked and Concurrent Objects. Believe it or not, it took me just one night to read this book cover to cover. The main reasons behind this are that a) the techniques described in this book are already well known to people working in a company that deals with some of the largest network applications in the world, and b) the book itself is very well written.
Simply the best
If you really want to understand concurrent networked systems, this is the book.It codifies things that have only been known as "black magic" in the past.I have used these concepts in code that I have written, and the results are amazing.It is quite focused on ACE, so you will get the most benefit out of it if you use ACE, but the concepts are presented generally so that using ACE is not required.

Good information badly written
This book summarizes some important distributed systems patterns researchers have identified in recent years.In that sense it is a necessary contribution to the software engineering literature.
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Editorial Review

The Certified Computer Technician title--otherwise known as A+ Certification--is one way to document your technical skills for your résumé, and Read more

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Great Book
What else can I say? If you complete this book, you will pass your A+ Certification. This book is money well spent.

Not worth the paper it is printed on.
The information in this book is worse than incomplete. The practice questions in the book and on the CD are nothing like those on the EXAM. There are many practice questions that are poorly worded, and have WRONG answers. There are also many questions with TYPO's. Example there was a question comparing DIMMS and RIMMS, but all the the answers referenced SIMMS. Stay away from this please!!!!
Passed my A+ because of this book!
I had taken the hardware exam and failed it the first time around. Then a friend gave me the Mike Meyers' Passport book and this one. He highly recommended Passport but after reading the first chapter I was bored to tears. After reading this book, the only thing I had to complain about were the bad jokes. The presentation of the information is solid, and he takes his time explaining things. He also puts in bullet points for what you should concentrate on when studying. After reading this book 1 time from cover to cover I took the hardware again and passed it, and passed the software on the first try. ... Read more

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Good, easy to understand, but a complementary book.
I passed BCMSN exam today with the help of this book. This is a good guide for people who has a basic knowledge of switching technics, but for certification purposes, it is missing some topics, other topics are incomplete and let you with doubt.
Missing tons of information
DO NOT rely on this book to pass the exam. It lightly touches most of the important subjects, but goes nowhere near deep enough to be useful. I agree is it better written that the BCSI book, but it needs to be much more thourough in its handling of the subject matter. Very poor considering its Cisco.

Vast improvement over 2nd edition
Although the BCMSN test is the easiest in the CCNP, this book is worth the upgrade. One of the CCNP books you can actually read.
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Great tool for final exam preparation!
CCDA/CCDP Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack won't teach you the concepts of network design, so it can't be compared to and won't replace a study guide. The only purpose of this book is to help you in finding weak areas and providing a summarization of all exam topics to aid you in your study.
Nice summary tool
Having just passed the CCDA DESIGN exam 640-861 and CCDP ARCH exam 642-871 within the period of one week, I found this book to be one of the more useful study tools.The ARCH exam is really an extension of the DESIGH exam...in fact the two tests share some of the same knowledge, so it's best to take them consecutively to cut down on your study time.The Flash Cards in this book relate directly to the Quick Reference Sheets and these Sheets are probably the most outstanding feature of this book.They do a great job of summarizing most of what you need to know to pass this exam.The study questions were great, too, at filling in small details that you will see on the exam.I want to stress that this was not the only study tool I used, but this book was outstanding for final test preparation.Highly recommended.

Useful but PDA users beware
All in all I found this to be a good supplement to my other CCDA study material. It particularly was useful to skim though the cards prior to reading that topic (from another source) and then really quizzing yourself after finishing the chapter.
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great help!
Cisco Unity Deployment and Solutions Guide is THE book to figure out how to make Unity work and how to properly deploy it.
Making Unified Messaging Work
In the beginning there was the telephone. Then there e-mail, and not long after came sophisticated voice messaging systems that replaced the simple answering machines. Then all of this kind of communications becan to converge. The combined communications capability became called Unified Messaging. Cisco's Unity server is the state-of-the-art in unified messaging systems. And this book seems destined to be the Unity Bible.
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Great as an additional resource
I used these 9 cd's effectively as I studied for the exam.Since they are broken down by CD in to each topic, I read the PMBOK chapter, then read the corresponding chapter in Andy Crowe's book ( The PMP Exam: How to pass on your first try ), then I listened to the CD for that topic.It was great because it reinforced the book knowledge with audio knowledge, as well as applicable examples to relate to.
Good for commuters
Honestly these CD's will not provide you with anything you won't find in any other resource. What they are good for however is getting you into the exam state-of-mind and for reinforcing what you are learning or reviewing through other materials. The authors/voice talent are pretty lame, but they try to do the best they can with the material.
Excellent conversation
Thanks to Carl & Leroy, I pass the PMP exam, First i read the PMBOK once, I have couple of hours comute, I listen for 6 weeks every day while i go to work.
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Anyone wishing to become a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer has to pass four mandatory exams and two electives. Read more

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MCSE W2K Exam Cram Core Four
I am currently preparing for MCSE in Windows 2000.These books provide an excellent supplement to the material learned in class. Excellent prep
I'd have to say this is the best set of books to help you pass the core Microsoft exams you can get....but it is FAR from perfect.The Server book gave me to much of "you'll have to know" whatever to pass the exam, and then went on to NOT inform me of that subject.That's why I bought the book isn't it? A very useful resource
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good if you have oracle preknowledge
this is the first book i read to prepare for my OCA exam. at first i was a bit overwhelmed because the chapters are quite long and the languages are not very easy to understand (sometimes i have to reread a sentence two or three times before it clicks). but i guess it was also because by then oracle was still rather new for me. if you are an experienced dba (maybe a 9i oca or ocp) then i guess this book alone should be enough to get you a 10g oca. but if you are new to oracle, i would suggest you to study John & Damir book first (OCP All-in-one exam prep guide), it's easier to absorb and the chapters are shorter (although there are more chapters). then, if you still have the time (and the money) get this book to wrap up your preparation for the oca. i'm sure you will pass the exam like i did.

Best Technical Book I've Ever Read...
...and I'm a picky guy.
very good book
This is the only book I used to prepare for the OCA exam. and I passed the exam ... Read more

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More Than Just an Exam Cram
Although this book is centered on the preparation for the reader to take one ofthe CCNA examinations, it is more than that. In reality this book is an excellent introduction into the whole concept behind routing as conducted 'a la Cisco.' It covers routing in general and then gives an excellent introduction into the Cisco products that handle routing. Since Cisco is the largest provider of routing equipment this book serves as a source of information as to just which Cisco products are best suited for your particular application.
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