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Comment on 'CSI' review
This is not really a review but a comment on one of the other reviews.I noticed that the same review for "Computer Sci Instructor 'CSI'" appears for both the 3rd and 4th editions.I don't know if his review was only entered for one of the editions, but that Amazon erroneously entered it in both editions.Perhaps, he copied the same review for both editions since he felt the same comments applied to both.
Lots of content - but very wordy and reader unfriendly
I had adopted this book to teach Distributed Systems to a senior level undergrad class. I think I may have made a mistake, not knowing before hand how hard it would be for me to read this book (despite having some background in distributed systems). The students constantly complained of it being too "Wordy" and "vague".Few generic figures and mostly all text that seemed to be a rehash of several IEEE/ACM papers without giving sufficient examples or explanation.Some times, the authors did indeed explain some concepts with examples. At other times, they just left the concepts in vague mathematical notation or arcane definitions expecting the readers to make sense of it.While the english is grammatically correct, it is written in such a stuffy academic style that I found myself having to read most paragraphs twice or thrice before I could figure out what the author was trying to say.At times, I was thinking the authors should have been lawyers instead. (If the authors are reading this .. please consider the maxim: A picture is indeed worth a thousand words).A side note: I am not averse to reading academic papers. I do that all day long.But I just don't think a textbook should be written in that style.
A very good book for distributed systems.
As the awareness of resource sharing and cooperation has increased, distributed systems have gained unprecedented attention. However, designing a practical distributed application is a demanding and complicated task. Coulouris et al. have excellently addressed this design issue with Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design. This book covers various topics from fundamental concepts and principles of distributed systems to some advanced topics, such as replication and distributed multimedia systems. For each topic, the authors provide information in sufficient depth and breadth for readers to conduct further research.
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Never Received
Book was out of stock, i found out a week after I ordered it.

CRAP!!!
I'm learning RPG in AS/400 right now. I have a good working knowledge of C++, VB, and PHP, but I can tell you now that learning RPG has been the hardest because my class uses this god forsaken book. It's like trying to learn Aramaic, it's very old and it has a lot of different quirks about it that prevent you from doing anything other than sifting through your code, trying to figure out what went wrong. Usually though, it's a problem with the AS/400 and not your code at all. This book has crappy examples and reads like an instruction manual from Tiawan. I'm down to my last day of college, and I have three programs to do or I don't graduate, in other words, I'm screwed, and this book is no help whatsoever. If you are a teacher looking into a new book for teaching this stuff, don't get this one. If, for some reason, you are actually trying to learn this crap on your own, DO NOT GET THIS BOOK!!! Paleolithic language, with a book about it written by robots. It would be easier to learn Japanese...

Not for beginners
I purchased this book while in College and attempted to use it several times to program in RPG, however, the lack of extensive examples and the lack of explaination towards older RPG code has caused me to look for something more useful. I had a lot of trouble trying to learn from this book, althought it may be ok as a reference. ... Read more

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Outdated book, but valuable for some uses
The book itself is the "learn by programming" which works for some people and not for others. The others is mainly looking for answers for there problem which this bokk probably will not give you. However if you are inituative and can see outside the box you learn a lot of programming from the book and it is from the most basic to advanced topics included. The book is totally outdated since qbasic is replaced by visual basic. I however find it useful when I use an old scrapped PC which I build over to control units for all and everything, from alarmsystems to ROV control, even industrial control systems. Is it for the hobbyist... No not anymore, but for those few who still uses DOS machines it is a great tool

A Remarable Book For Young Teens.
Greg Perry makes learning in this edition easy, and very enjoyable for people who want to learn qbasic. Even today there are many people that use the language, especially young teens. A fine book for programming starters
This book is an excellent starter for those who want to start learning how to program. You don't need to buy the software because more than likely your computer will have QBasic. I had sold the book and regreted doing so, and now I purchased it again because it also makes a great reference. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Basic (Programming Language)    2. Computer Books: Languages    3. Computers - Languages / Programming    4. Dos (Computer Operating System)    5. Programming Languages - General    6. QBasic (Computer program langu    7. QBasic (Computer program language)    8. Basic, Visual Basic & QBasic    9. Operating systems & graphical user interfaces (GUIs)   

Editorial Review

Networks just aren't homogeneous anymore, despite the best efforts of operating system vendors to bring about the contrary. Many network administrators need to know how to get around in half a dozen operating systems or more; itinerant consultants find themselves in the same boat. Read more

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Not worth the money
This book portends to be a universal command guide, and in all fairness they managed to get a good number of commands in the text. Unfortunately the ones the missed are significant (e.g. UNIX tar, which is universal in UNIX and Linux). I would not recommend this book for someone looking for help in distinguishing the difference in Linux and BSD commands.

my review on this book
The book is amazing, it has all the commands i need, from windows to UNIX, but the downside of this is it doesn't have the HP-UX version. i hope they release an updated version of this book with the ones they're missing. One more thing is the pages of this book are too thin, one false move might cause the page to break. I hope the next release should more physically better. I hope you release a universal database version too. And for all the authors of this book out there... keep up the good work.

UCG book in research and teaching
I had waited a long time for a book that could serve me as "manual pages" for different operating systems.Read more

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Good introduction, but that's it
This thin book is a good introduction to the idea of that you should make good software interfaces, but doesn't tell you how to do that. For that, Spolsky provides an excellent bibliography at the end.
Amatuer at best
This book has a number of problems.
The Title is Honest
One of the first question I always notice about books: Is the title honest? For this book I can unabashedly say, Yes.This book is for programmers.
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Very nice and complete introduction book
Before I encountered this book it was quite a bit of frustration in attempt to learn BSD and UNIX to the point I can really use it. For some reason there so many good books in a subject with one of two inclinations: or the book is too theoretical and very little of the real workflow provided or it is too down to earth and it is difficult to understand what is behind the sophisticated command line zingers.
Highly recommended for learning how a kernel works in practice
First of all you should be warned that this is not an introduction to get started with UNIX kernel programming. The Design of the UNIX Operating System by M.J. Bach provides a good general introduction to UNIX kernel programming. The design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating system is an excellent book to deepen knowledge of the UNIX kernel by looking how a current UNIX is implemented in practice. Even if you plan to write code for another kernel, working through the FreeBSD kernel with this book as a guide is a good excercise to become consious of the fundamental problems and solutions in kernel design. FreeBSD (or any of the other BSDs) is a good starting point, because the BSDs have relatively stable kernel subsystems and APIs due to the long cycles in BSD development.
The OTHER freeOS explained
A BSD Bible. I never could read the Bible. I do Believe ...
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Not a useful reference, pocket or otherwise
This book has a major deficiency as a reference: you can't easily find a specific topic. The book has no index and the table of contents is too high-level to help you find a particular topic (for example, "vi Commands" as a table of contents entry isn't really going to help you locate a particular command).
Vi - your answers
Great Vi book for Unix Beginners. It gives great examples to use the command being inquired.

Commandline editor guide
This is a handy little book to have around if you use the "vi" text editor and haven't mastered all the commands. Or if you use a different text editor regularly, but find yourself in a place that has only vi. I have about 5 of the O'Reilly Pocket reference books and find them handy reminders for languages, etc. This book is not intended to "teach" a person how to use vi. It is what it says, a "reference" to jog your memory or possibly find how to cut and paste text or one of the numerous functions systems folks wind up doing at times. I do prefer a different editor but vi is ubiquitous. ... Read more

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The JUNOS Cookbook is a real joy
Aviva's flair for concise explanation makes this book a real joy. It's rare that I read just one recipe. If you want a concentrated dose of JUNOS that's sweet and easy to swallow, then get this book.

Great reference for even JUNOS experts
Even though you've been configuring or operating Juniper routers for long time and you think you are familiar enough with JUNOS, you'll still learn something you don't know from this book; the "Problem/Solution/Discussion/See Also" structure helps to quickly find and read the exact information you need and nothing more, if you don't need to, just like you would use a standard dictionary.
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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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Awesome ! Awesome ! book .
This is a really awesome book. In my opinion, nobody to date has explained pointers better than Mr. Daconta. By the time I finished reading the book and doing the exercises, I was really thinking out "pointers" and how they were being represented inside the machine, which is what makes this book great.
Remove thy veil and immerse yourself in the land of pointers
Pointers are by far the most important, and most difficult aspects of C/C++. Most books, however, gloss over the subject and leave the reader desiring more. Daconta understood this and addressed many of the questions in this book. Excellent explanations covered..which are hard to find...
Since I am a programmer and mainly built applications using visual basic, I always had an urge to master c++ due to the power of this language, but pointers were the only hurdle for me to overcome this goal. I always had bad times understanding MFC offered classes and the way whole infrastructure work, coz they play with pointers alot..and after all learning C++ and coding in c++ is not difficult without pointers but the fact is, if someone really wanna code in C++ they better do it efficiently other wise no need to switch, you should remain on ur currently practice language..This book not only taught me what pointers are but really made my mind think and work like a compiler..I really appreciate the author Micheal C Daconta and his team of putting such a masterpiece into existance, with out this book I simply believe one cannot solve the mystery of pointers coz no other stuff is available that is comparable to this book..Read more

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Needs more emphasis on modeling and historical test cases
Thin-client computing has become very popular in recent years, and this is indeed a surprise if one acknowledges the fact that it is very similar to the main-frame environments of decades past and if one considers the drive toward client-server computing in the 1990's. Advances in computing are usually thought of as a rupture with the past. The incorporation of thin-client computing is in this sense surprising. Clearly there are some advantages in using thin-client computing, at least for relatively small organizations. However, for large organizations it can be problematic, requiring meticulous attention to the administration of the servers and making sure that the client applications have been developed with thin-client environments in mind.
Very complex
This book is indeed quite complex and not really geared toward beginners. The reader should have at least a basic to medium knowledge of the topic. By the way, I know that the German version is 100% more complicated and harder to understand than the English, I read both. So if you have a good command of English it might be easier for you to read and understand this book in its translated version.

Don't let the title fool you
First off, this book was bought to help understand and support a Windows 2003 Terminal Server environment.
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Good at what it does
What it does: lead the reader through the basic concepts of classic operating systems: processes, synchronization, memory, virtual memory, file systems, IO, and security. Each section alternates between text and answered problems, as is usual for a Schaum's Outline. That's very helpful - putting a concept to use on one problem drives the point home better than a hundred pages of reading. The reader who completes this book, working a good number of the problems, will have seen most of the topics presented in a one-term OS class. No problem there.
Excellent supplement
I have over 10 Schaum's guides for my various courses.I would say this OS guide is perhaps the best one along with the Seymour Lipschutz's erudite "probability" (not to be confused with Murray R. Spiegel's befuddled attempt for Schaum's). Mediocre book, disappointing
I was looking for a rigorous review to supplement my Operating Systems course and I found that this book certainly fell short of that.I wanted more practice for the kinds of questions we would get on exams, but many of the topics addressed were treated at too simplistic of a level.Read more

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how to reason about knowledge
Brachman and Levesque describe what may be considered the foundations of artificial intelligence. They look at how to represent knowledge. As far more than just a passive collection of facts. The "Reasoning" in the book's title is the important aspect of that representation. You can understand how to apply reasoning in a logical and systematic manner.
Don't have to be a math buff to understand
I came across this book looking for a text that would explain the context of First Order Logic, why it is used for so many knowledge representation problems, how it is used to solve them, and its limitations.I must say that this is far and away the best book I've found to answer these questions.If you search around a little at the competition, you will find much of the text quickly turning to mathematical proofs and deductions in their explanations.While this is of course necessary and helpful, it doesn't (for me) really give an idea of how and why these methods are used practically.You can tell that these authors spent some time on ensuring consistency and fluency of the writing, which I find so very helpful.
This book is an Eye-Opener!
I love this book- It is a comprehensive introduction into knowledge representation, with enough detail to create your own knowledge representation programs.
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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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Excellent look under the hood
I bought this book along with Mac OS X Server Essentials.While that book is good on the GUI interface, this book shows in good detail what is really going on under the hood and behind the scenes.I have a much better understanding of Open Directory and LDAP in general as well as Kerberos and Single Sign in logic. Many of the other services offered under OS X Server 10.4are also explained well.The command line information is good while not being so in depth as to lose the reader.You should have a basic familiarity with UNIX command line before trying to understand the concepts presented.The section on security is very good and presents a broad range of options to the administrator.

Great book from a top-notch trainer
As another review states, this book is the guide for the relevant Apple ACSA courses.It succinctly provides you with an understanding of the basic information needed to attack the certification exams.
Not for bedtime reading
This book is a one-to-one version of the course material found in the Directory Services Integration and Administration v10.4 course, the Security Best Practices v10.4 course and more. The exercises are well thought out and easy to do. Not so easy to remember are the 800+ pages, but it is not meant to teach you all you need to know about being an SysAdmin. It is enough to get you through these two exams, which give you 7 credits and the ACSA. And it is enough to set you off into a job as Junior SysAdmin or, as in my case, a supporter with server duties.
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"Look beyond the hype -- what's new and noteworthy and what Vista really means for tomorrow's desktop"
"Look beyond the hype -- what's new and noteworthy and what Vista really means for tomorrow's desktop" jumps out at you from