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Book SynopsisTable of Contents Introduction xxx Part I: Hardware and System Confi gurationCHAPTER 1 Explain Linux boot process concepts 1 Boot Loaders 1 Boot Options 3 File Locations 6 Boot Modules and Files 7 Kernel Panic 9CHAPTER 2 Given a scenario, install, confi gure, and monitor kernel modules 11 Commands 11 Files 15CHAPTER 3 Given a scenario, confi gure and verify network connection parameters 17 Diagnostic Tools 18 Configuration Files 28 Bonding 34CHAPTER 4 Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux environment 37 Basic Partitions 38 Filesystem Hierarchy 40 Device Mapper 41 Tools 44 Location 54 Filesystem Types 58CHAPTER 5 Compare and contrast cloud and virtualization concepts and technologies 59 Templates 60 Bootstrapping 62 Storage 63 Network Considerations 65 Types of Hypervisors 66 Tools 67CHAPTER 6 Given a scenario, confi gure localization options 69 File Locations 70 Commands 70 Environment Variables 73 Character Sets 75 UTF-8 75 Part II: Systems Operation and MaintenanceCHAPTER 7 Given a scenario, conduct software installations, confi gurations, updates, and removals 77 Package Types 78 Installation Tools 78 Build Tools 86 Repositories 88 Acquisition Commands 89CHAPTER 8 Given a scenario, manage users and groups 93 Creation 94 Modification 94 Deletion 96 Queries 96 Quotas 98 Profiles 102 Important Files and File Contents 106CHAPTER 9 Given a scenario, create, modify, and redirect fi les 109 Text Editors 110 File Readers 114 Output Redirection 117 Text Processing 123 File and Directory Operations 129 Bonus: regex 141CHAPTER 10 Given a scenario, manage services 143 Systemd Management 144 Systemd-analyze blame 148 Unit Files 148 SysVinit 152CHAPTER 11 Summarize and explain server roles 157 NTP 158 SSH 158 Web 159 Certificate Authority 159 Name Server 159 DHCP 160CHAPTER 12 Given a scenario, automate and schedule jobs 165 cron 165 at 165 crontab 167 fg 170 bg 171 & 171 kill 171 Ctrl-c 172 Ctrl-z 172 nohup 172CHAPTER 13 Explain the use and operation of Linux devices 173 Types of Devices 174 Monitoring and Configuration Tools 176 File Locations 182 Hot Pluggable Devices 185CHAPTER 14 Compare and Contrast Linux Graphical User Interfaces 187 Servers 187 GUI 188 Remote Desktop 189 Accessibility 192 Part III: SecurityCHAPTER 15 Given a scenario, apply or acquire the appropriate user and/or group permissions and ownership 193 File and Directory Permissions 194 Context-Based Permissions 203 Privilege Escalation 209 User Types 211CHAPTER 16 Given a scenario, confi gure and implement appropriate access and authentication methods 213 PAM 214 SSH 221 TTYs 228 PTYs 230 PKI 230 VPN as a Client 231 SSL/TLS 232 Transport Mode 232 Tunnel Mode 232 IPSec 232 DTLS 233CHAPTER 17 Summarize security best practices in a Linux environment 235 Boot Security 236 Additional Authentication Methods 237 Multifactor Authentication 237 Importance of Disabling Root Login via SSH 239 Password-Less Login 239 Chroot Jail Services 240 No Shared IDs 240 Importance of Denying Hosts 240 Separation of OS Data from Application Data 241 Change Default Ports 241 Importance of Disabling or Uninstalling Unused and Unsecure Services 242 Importance of Enabling SSL/TLS 243 Importance of Enabling auditd 243 CVE Monitoring 243 Discouraging Use of USB Devices 243 Disk Encryption 244 Restrict cron Access 244 Disable Ctrl-Alt-Del 244 Add Banner 245 MOTD 245CHAPTER 18 Given a scenario, implement logging services 247 Key File Locations 247 Log Management 249CHAPTER 19 Given a scenario, implement and confi gure Linux fi rewalls 257 Access Control Lists 258 Technologies 259 IP Forwarding 263 Dynamic Rule Sets 263 Common Application 265CHAPTER 20 Given a scenario, backup, restore, and compress fi les 267 Archive and Restore Utilities 268 Compression 269 Backup Types 272 Off-Site/Off-System Storage 274 Integrity Checks 275 Part IV: Linux Troubleshooting and DiagnosticsCHAPTER 21 Given a scenario, analyze system properties and remediate accordingly 277 Network Monitoring and Configuration 278 Storage Monitoring and Configuration 287 CPU Monitoring and Configuration 289 Memory Monitoring and Configuration 292 Lost Root Password 295CHAPTER 22 Given a scenario, analyze system processes in order to optimize performance 297 Process Management 297 Process States 297 Priorities 298 Kill Signals 299 Commands 300 PIDs 305CHAPTER 23 Given a scenario, analyze and troubleshoot user issues 307 Permissions 307 Access 309 Authentication 309 File Creation 310 Insufficient Privileges for Authorization 312 Environment and Shell Issues 312CHAPTER 24 Given a scenario, analyze and troubleshoot application and hardware issues 313 SELinux Context Violations 314 Storage 314 Firewall 317 Permission 318 Service Accounts 319 Group Memberships 319 Dependencies 319 Troubleshooting Additional Hardware Issues 320 Part V: Automation and ScriptingCHAPTER 25 Given a scenario, deploy and execute basic BASH scripts 327 Shell Environments and Shell Variables 328 #!/ bin/bash 332 Sourcing Scripts 332 Directory and File Permissions 333 Extensions 333 Commenting 333 File Globbing 334 Shell Expansions 334 Redirection and Piping 336 Exit Codes 336 Metacharacters 336 Positional Parameters 337 Looping Constructs 337 Conditional Statements 338 Escaping Characters 340CHAPTER 26 Given a scenario, carry out version control using Git 343 Arguments 343 Files 349CHAPTER 27 Summarize orchestration processes and concepts 351 Agent 351 Agentless 352 Procedures 352 Attributes 352 Infrastructure Automation 352 Infrastructure as Code 352 Inventory 353 Automated Configuration Management 353 Build Automation 353 APPENDIX Create your own journal 355 9780135591840, TOC, 7/19/19

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Book SynopsisAn expert on computer privacy and security shows how we can build privacy into the design of systems from the start.We are tethered to our devices all day, every day, leaving data trails of our searches, posts, clicks, and communications. Meanwhile, governments and businesses collect our data and use it to monitor us without our knowledge. So we have resigned ourselves to the belief that privacy is hard--choosing to believe that websites do not share our information, for example, and declaring that we have nothing to hide anyway. In this informative and illuminating book, a computer privacy and security expert argues that privacy is not that hard if we build it into the design of systems from the start.Along the way, Jaap-Henk Hoepman debunks eight persistent myths surrounding computer privacy. The website that claims it doesn''t collect personal data, for example; Hoepman explains that most data is personal, capturing location, preferences, and other information

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Book SynopsisThe book is based on the best papers of IEEE IRI 2018 and IEEE FMI 2018, Salt Lake City, July, 2018. They have been enhanced and modified suitably for publication. The book comprises recent works covering several aspects of reuse in intelligent systems including Scientific Theory and Technology-Based Applications. New data analytic algorithms, technologies, and tools are sought to be able to manage, integrate, and utilize large amounts of data despite hardware, software, and/or bandwidth constraints; to construct models yielding important data insights, and to create visualizations to aid in presenting and understanding the data. Furthermore, it addresses the representation, cleansing, generalization, validation, and reasoning strategies for the scientifically-sound and cost-effective advancement of all kinds of intelligent systems including all software and hardware aspects. The book addresses problems such as, how to optimally select the information/data sets for reuse and Table of ContentsExperimental Studies on the Impact of Data Sampling with Severely Imbalanced big data. How to Optimally Combine Univariate and Multivariate Feature Selection with Data Sampling for Classifying Noisy, High Dimensional and Class Imbalanced DNA Microarray Data. Big Data and Class Imbalance in Medicare Fraud Detection. Movie Recommendations Based on a Recurrent Neural Network Model. A Recommendation System Enhanced by Topic Modeling for Knowledge Reuse in MOOCs Ecosystems. Toward a Computer Vision Based Approach for Developing Algorithms for Soccer Playing Robots. Context-dependent Reachability Analysis for Hybrid Systems. Netflow Feature Evaluation for the Detection of Slow Read HTTP Attacks. Predictive Analysis of Server Log Data for Forecasting Events.

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Book SynopsisâœBecome the most competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy in the world by 2010â is the major objective of the Lisbon strategy for the European Community. The European Commission re-launched the Lisbon strategy in a new initiative called i2010 â a European Information Society for growth and employment, to promote a Single European Information Space (SEIS). The aim of this initiative is to promote a borderless European information space and establishing an internal market for electronic communications and digital services, to stimulate innovation through investment in research, to encourage the industrial application of ICT, and to make the European information society as inclusive and accessible as possible.SEEM (Single European Electronic Market) is a SEIS contributor, and its goal is to integrate electronic value chains, so that companies, organizations and individuals from different Member States can be linked without experiencing any access or interoperability probTable of ContentsSelected Contents: Editorial; Preface; Information space and the i2010 strategy; The SEEMseed reference architecture; Legal and trust issues in the SEEM; The stakeholders' vision; Reference framework for SEEM; Roadmap to SEEM implementation; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Annex A: Detailed interface descriptions

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Book SynopsisWith a growing focus on digital destinations, the publishing landscape is evolving at a dizzying speed and InDesign CC is at the forefront of the digital frontier. Known as the premiere layout application for magazine and print collateral, InDesign is also a powerful creation tool for both static and interactive PDF, Flash SWF, EPUB, and apps that can be published for sale in various app stores.This tutorial-based guide to InDesign CC provides you with a hands-on experience of the EPUB creation process, InDesign animation, Digital Publishing Suite app creation, creation of interactive PDFs, and a host of techniques that serve equally well in both print and digital production. This extensively detailed book is filled with over 700 screenshots, explicit diagrams, and step-by-step real-world exercises to get you up and running with:*InDesign Animation*Buttons, forms, and other interactive elements*Interactive PDFs*EPUB*App building with Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1: Interactive InDesign, Chapter 1: The Lay of the Land, Chapter 2: Designing for Interactivity, Chapter 3: The Interactive Interface, Part 2: Document Layout & Navigation, Chapter 4: Working with Text, Chapter 5: Multi-page Document Layout, Chapter 6: Hyperlinks and Cross - references, Chapter 7: Footnotes, Chapter 8: Creating a TOC, Chapter 9: Shapes and Color, Part 3: Buttons, Chapter 10: About Buttons, Chapter 11: Simple Image - based Buttons, Chapter 12: Multi-object Buttons, Part 4: Flash Animation and Output to SWF, Chapter 13: Introducing: Animation in InDesign!, Chapter 14: Getting Fancy with Animation, Chapter 15: Banner Ads, Chapter 16: SWF Output, Part 5: Interactive PDF, Chapter 17: Bookmarks, Chapter 18: Interactive PDF Forms, Chapter 19: Page Transitions, Chapter 20: Preparing for PDF Export, Part 6: EPUB, Chapter 21: EPUB Anatomy, Chapter 22: Images, Objects & The Flow, Chapter 23: Creating an InDesign Book, Chapter 24: HTML And CSS Fundamentals, Chapter 25: GREP, Chapter 26: EPUB Export & Publishing, Chapter 27: EPUB Resources, Part 7: Digital Publishing Suite, Chapter 28: Intro to DPS, Chapter 29: Designing for DPS, Chapter 30: Scrollable Frame Overlays, Chapter 31: Audio & Video Overlays, Chapter 32: Panoramas and Pan & Zoom, Chapter 33: Web Content Overlays & Hyperlinks, Chapter 34: Slideshow Overlays, Chapter 35: Publishing to DPS, Extras, Index

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Book SynopsisAmerica''s leading role in today''s information revolution may seem simply to reflect its position as the world''s dominant economy and most powerful state. But by the early nineteenth century, when the United States was neither a world power nor a primary center of scientific discovery, it was already a leader in communications-in postal service and newspaper publishing, then in development of the telegraph and telephone networks, later in the whole repertoire of mass communications. In this wide-ranging social history of American media, from the first printing press to the early days of radio, Paul Starr shows that the creation of modern communications was as much the result of political choices as of technological invention. His original historical analysis reveals how the decisions that led to a state-run post office and private monopolies on the telegraph and telephone systems affected a developing society. He illuminates contemporary controversies over freedom of information by exploring such crucial formative issues as freedom of the press, intellectual property, privacy, public access to information, and the shaping of specific technologies and institutions. America''s critical choices in these areas, Starr argues, affect the long-run path of development in a society and have had wide social, economic, and even military ramifications. The Creation of the Media not only tells the history of the media in a new way; it puts America and its global influence into a new perspective.

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Book SynopsisThis book in the Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics series is a comprehensive introduction to the statistics currently used in corpus linguistics.Trade ReviewGives many instructive examples of statistical techniques applied to language data, provides exercises at the end of each chapter, and has a clear glossary. Year's Work in English Studies This book is essential for learning statistical analysis of texts. Most importantly, Oakes's is the only current corpus-linguistic book that devotes such a large portion of its pages to stylistics ! the whole book is worthwhile for the literary scholar. Language and Literature Gives many instructive examples of statistical techniques applied to language data, provides exercises at the end of each chapter, and has a clear glossary. This book is essential for learning statistical analysis of texts. Most importantly, Oakes's is the only current corpus-linguistic book that devotes such a large portion of its pages to stylistics ! the whole book is worthwhile for the literary scholar.

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Book SynopsisThe first book to reveal the intensity of the relationship between Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace; an outstanding contribution to historical STEM literature

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Book SynopsisThe increasingly sophisticated and powerful information technology we are creating plays an ever more prominent role in facilitating interaction and cooperation in everyday life. The time has come to harness it in the service of scientific research. This pathbreaking book describes the technical and social challenges and opportunities of electronic collaboration and offers specific examples of the ways in which it has not only facilitated but in some cases enabled work by scientists. Key players all, the chapter authors illuminate the general issues with their first-hand accounts. Very few researchers today can work in isolation. Electronic Collaboration in Science provides the first clear road map for all whose investigations are leading them into this fascinating new multidisciplinary domain.Table of ContentsContents: W.A. Wulf, Foreword. S.H. Koslow, M.F. Huerta, Preface. G.M. Olson, T.A. Finholt, S.D. Teasley, Behavioral Aspects of Collaboratories. D.L. Burk, Intellectual Property Issues in Electronic Collaborations. P.M.D. Gray, G.J.L. Kemp, Federated Database Technology for Data Integration: Lessons From Bioinformatics. G. Cameron, P. Rogriguez-Tomé, R. Apweiler, Electonic Collaboration in Molecular Biology. R.T. Kouzes, Electronic Collaboration in Environmental and Physical Science Research. F.E. Bloom, W.G. Young, Electonic Collaboration: Implications for Neurosciences.

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Book SynopsisRevised and expanded guide demonstrates microcomputer usage by working through one simple design challenge and explaining its solution. This edition features the contributions of an Ada expert, demonstrates (in 14 new chapters) the development of a microcomputer system structured by this language, a

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Book SynopsisIn the competitive business arena companies must continually strive to create new and better products faster, more efficiently, and more cost effectively than their competitors to gain and keep the competitive advantage. Computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) are now the industry standard. These seven volumes give the reader a comprehensive treatment of the techniques and applications of CAD, CAE, and CAM.Table of ContentsLong-Range Planning of Chemical Manufacturing Systems. Feature-Based Design in Integrated Manufacturing. Flexible Factory Layouts: Issues in Design, Modeling, and Analysis. Structural Control of Large-Scale Flexibility Automated Manufacturing Systems. The Design of Human-Centered Manufacturing Systems. Model-Based Flexible PCBA Rework Cell Design. Model of Conceptual Design Phase and its Applications in the Design of Mechanical Drive Units. Computer Assembly Planners in Manufacturing Systems and their Applications in Aircraft Frame Assemblies. Petri Net Modeling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Shared Resources.

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Book SynopsisIn the competitive business arena companies must continually strive to create new and better products faster, more efficiently, and more cost effectively than their competitors to gain and keep the competitive advantage. Computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) are now the industry standard. These seven volumes give the reader a comprehensive treatment of the techniques and applications of CAD, CAE, and CAM.Table of ContentsKnowledge-Based System in the Design, Implementation, and Validation of Resource Scheduling on the Shop Floor of Manufacturing Systems. Neural Network Systems Techniques in the Intelligent Control of Chemical Manufacturing Plants. Rule-Based Expert System for Designing Flexible Manufacturing Systems. Tool Condition Monitoring in Manufacturing System Machine Tools Using Neural Networks. Intelligent Real-Time Expert System Environment in Process Control. Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Control Methods for Milling Operations in Manufacturing Systems. Instrumental Robots Design with Applications to Manufacturing. Object-Oriented Techniques and Automated Methods for Robotic Assembly in Manufacturing Systems. CAD-Based Techniques in Task Planning and Programming of Robots in Computer Integrated Manufacturing. Physical Model Techniques for Design of Robotic Manipulators in Manufacturing Systems.

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Book SynopsisIn Offshore Software Development: Making It Work, hands-on managers of Offshore solutions help you answer these questions:What is Offshore and why is it an IT imperative? What do you need to do to successfully evaluate an Offshore solution? How do you avoid common pitfalls? How do you confront security and geopolitical risk? How do you handle issues related to displaced workers? The author applies her considerable experience in the analysis of such Offshore issues as the financial growth of the Offshore industry, keys to success in initiating a program, choosing and managing vendors, risk mitigation, and employee impacts. A detailed program checklist outlines the steps for successful Offshore execution, providing real-world exposure and guidance to a movement that has become a fixture in the IT realm. About the AuthorTandy Gold is a 20-year veteran of the technology industry who is focused on entrepreneuTable of ContentsTHE OFFSHORE IMPERATIVE. Crunching the offshore numbers: What the financials portend. Getting started in offshore. Choosing an offshore vendor: A look at the offshore maturity model. A HANDS-ON OFFSHORE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT TOOLKIT. Choosing locations for offshore: Country pros and cons. The offshore program checklist: What's really different? THE OFFSHORE PROGRAM CHALLENGE. Managing employee impact: Villain or savior? Managing risk through an offshore network security architecture. Putting it all together: Top 10 Do's and Don'ts of Offshore.

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Book SynopsisThe Industrial Information Technology Handbook focuses on existing and emerging industrial applications of IT, and on evolving trends that are driven by the needs of companies and by industry-led consortia and organizations. Emphasizing fast growing areas that have major impacts on industrial automation and enterprise integration, the Handbook covers topics such as industrial communication technology, sensors, and embedded systems.The book is organized into two parts. Part 1 presents material covering new and quickly evolving aspects of IT. Part 2 introduces cutting-edge areas of industrial IT. The Handbook presents material in the form of tutorials, surveys, and technology overviews, combining fundamentals and advanced issues, with articles grouped into sections for a cohesive and comprehensive presentation. The text contains 112 contributed reports by industry experts from government, companies at the forefront of development, and some of the most renowned academicTrade Review"I do not hesitate to recommend this new attractive handbook to a wide audience of engineering educators, students, and engineers in industry who are interested in Industrial IT." Industrial Electronics Society Newsletter, Vol.52, No.2, 2005Table of ContentsFUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. Computer software and web technologies. The Internet and IP networks. INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. Industrial Communication Systems. The Internet, web, and IT technologies in industrial automation and design. Intelligent sensors and sensor networks. Real-Time embedded systems. Integration technologies.

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Book SynopsisPerformance Assurance for IT Systems emphasizes the importance of addressing performance and technology-related issues from the beginning of the planning process, at the feasibility and bid stages. It promotes the concept of Performance Assurance throughout the entire system lifecycle, covering technology, relevant processes, and people-related topics. This accessible, jargon-free book shows how to meet the increasing pressure to deliver proposals and systems in shorter timescales, emphasizing pragmatic, cost-effective, and well-designed systems. The book consists of two major parts: Part I covers the processes deployed throughout the system lifecycle, including the choice of technologies, client requirements, sizing, stress testing, and capacity management; Part II provides a technology foundation made up of brief primers on hardware and software technologies, discussing key factors that influence performance and helping management make informed decisions on technical risk.Table of ContentsINDIVIDUAL AREAS OF INTEREST. Preparing for the challenge. Caveat emptor. Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks. Non-functional requirements and solutions. Hardware sizing: The crystal ball gazing act. Bid logistics. Designing for performance, scalability, and resilience. Awareness of queues. Non-functional acceptance. Post-production. Softer issues. So what? TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION. Introduction to technology tasters. Operating systems. CPU basics. Memory. Hard disk basics. Server infrastructure. Multiprocessors (shared memory). Hard disk: Fibre Channel, SAN and NAS. File access basics. Relational database basics. Back-end server clusters. Network basics. Firewalls. Server load balancing. Web server and cache server. LDAP server. Modern server-side development technologies.

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