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Parallel Operating Systems with Windows and Linux introduces the key features of computer operating systems.It assumes that the students have previously used a personal computer with the Windows or Linux operating systems.This text uses a unique approach for the presentation of operating system concepts.Each concept will first be presented conceptually.Then the concepts will be demonstrated on both of the two operating systems in parallel.This parallel structure will be enabled by using Microsoft Virtual PC 2004.Students will be able to instantly switch between the two operating systems to complete the numerous hands-on activities. ... Read more

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Completely satisfied customer!
Book came in new condition as stated and was received very quickly!Would definitely do business again and highly recommend store/seller!

Awsome!!!
well i ordered it cause i needed it for my class and it got here just when they said it would and im happy bout that.

Actually went to the school who has these teachers.
The exercises are bland, and definitely doesn't even begin to properly cover linux. almost treats linux as a step child. give it a cookie just because its here and i dont want to hear its supporters cry. it also seems to treat the distribution fedora as the alpha and omega of linux. it does vaguely mention there are others, but just barely and easy to miss.

the good points are, its almost idiot proof. i say almost, because, well, most people still couldn't get the ideas given in this book. the subjects are decently explained, and all exercises are incrementally stepped through. how tough is it to follow this?

type dir /s into command prompt to see a listing of the files in your current directory and all directories below it. some how, people manage to mangle that. its literally like, step one leads directly to step two, just type what you see on page, its done. maybe that was the problem it babied them too much, lord help us if we are required to think for ourselves. hi pete, meet repete.

Thank goodness my teacher Mr. BOz was there to clear the fuzzy parts of it, and actually understand the in depth workings (mostly in the linux areas). *shameless plug to praise him*

This book is probably better for one grade under. like the class where the teacher slowly says "This is a computer!" *hears ooos and ahhs from crowd* "press this button to turn it on!* *even more ooos and ahhs*.

Still, this is a good book to have for reference, just don't expect to be enthralled to learn. ... Read more

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A complete program of textbook, lab manual, and software, this Microsoft Official Academic Course provides everything students need to build the knowledge and skills necessary to support end users and computers running the Microsoft suite of productivity applications. In addition, this textbook will help students to prepare for the Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician examination 70-272: Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System. The Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician is a new two-exam credential available from Microsoft Learning. The certification is directed at the skills needed for working in a variety of environments, including corporate environments as well as support for home users via phone support, remote support, and retail counter support. A complete set of instructor resources supports the book. ... Read more

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Now fully updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2, this all-in-one training kit provides in-depth preparation, practice, and review for one of two required exams for the Microsoft Desktop Support Technician Certification (MCDST). Covering Exam 70-271, this kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from an expert, exam-certified author; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case studies, and troubleshooting labs for the skills and expertise you can apply to the job.

Focusing on building your ability to resolve end-user incident requests by configuring and troubleshooting the Windows XP operating system in the corporate or home environment, this official study guide covers system installation, managing access to resources, configuring and troubleshooting hardware devices and drivers, configuring and troubleshooting the desktop and user environments, and troubleshooting network protocols and services.

Ace your exam preparation by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The flexible, best-of-class test engine on CD-ROM features 425 practice questions. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 120-day evaluation version of Windows XP software and other resources on the CD, making this kit an exceptional value and a great ... Read more

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Easy to Understand
This product is easy to use and understand. I have read through the book slowly, little by little, but gives great key words and summaries that help to understand the material.

Good so far
I'm half way through this book and like what Ive got. It Is well written and has reviews and summaries at the end of each chapter and section. Also has plenty of test prep material.

In Depth
This product is exact and in depth.It does a great job of reviewing for the tests and the includes an xp sp2 cd as well as a support cd.I covers installs and explains permissions and security in a comparison matter.Even if you troubleshoot XP all day long, you will learn at least one new thing from this book.

Discription was different from what it said
I puchased this book because of the discription said that this book is look like new.
It wasn't.There is no CD, and it seemed like somebody tore it off.
It didn't look nice at all.I couldn't read some parts because of it.
I returned for refund. I will never purchase from here.

Amazon continue to impress
Yet again Amazon has impressed me. Book prices in Australia are ridiculously expensive. I was able to get this and 70-272 and two other unrelated books for less than the price of one bought locally.

What was even better is that despite a delivery estimate date of 5 weeks, the books arrived in only 11 days. I was shocked when i saw the courier at the door.

Amazon has a customer for life.

The book looks great, I have only just started studying, but it looks like its just what I wanted. Just need to do the exam now :) ... Read more

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Windows Operating Systems and Quality of Service Networking provides an overview of Quality of Service technologies, and how they can be implemented in a Windows based system. Author Yoram Bernet is a leading authority on Quality of Service, having been one of the main architects of many QoS technologies in the IETF and a Program Manager for QoS at Microsoft. With the rapid increase in network traffic, network professionals have been scrambling to add capacity to their networks.But new applications, such as multimedia, keep driving up the demand for network services, and network traffic continues to increase.Quality of service technologies improve this situation by making efficient use of network capacity and giving you, the network professional control over how network capacity is allocated to various applications and users.This book explains the myriad QoS technologies that play a role in a QoS enabled network, with a focus on how to implement these technologies within Windows. ... Read more

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A must have for QOS on Windows
This book skips the jargon and spells everything out -- Yet has key details for intermediate or advanced readers.

Excellent book
I found this book very informative, a great resource on any IP QoS related topics, including very thorough explanations of how different protocols and parts of thereof came about.It is remarkably comprehensive and free of little typos and inconsistencies that seemingly became a "rule" of technical writing.

I highly recommend it for anybody who is working on IP networking problems.

Network QoS and Windos OS -
The book - Networking Quality of Service and Windows Operating Systems provides an in-depth introduction to Quality of Service followed by a set of theoretical applications of QoS mechanisms to network engineering scenarios.

The beginning of the book contains the requisite presentation of QoS queuing mechanisms, and IETF work in both the Integrated and Differentiated Services areas. There is also a good discussion on the issues surrounding policy management in QoS enabled networks.

However this books' primary value (and worth its price alone,) are

1) it's discussion of the Quality of Service implementation on the Microsoft Windows 2000 platform. It is essential for anyone developing and hosting QoS enabled applications on the Windows platform. It provides in-depth discussion of the Windows Generic QoS API, QoS Service provider, as well as the traffic control API, and traffic control components including a great discussion on the internal queuing for QoS enabled applications. In the final chapter, the author covers Microsoft value added services for Quality of Service with a discussion of the Access Control Server (ACS) and Subnet Bandwidth Manager(SBM).

2) the authors' intimate knowledge and vision really show with his introduction of a Quality/Efficiency Product(or Q/E product) for QoS enabled networks.This idea is outlined in chapter two, and further referenced in threads throughout the remaining chapters of the book and provides a measurement tool for determining the efficiency of the network over differing QoS mechanisms. The Q/E product -if automated - would go a long way to providing networks with dynamic tools for near real-time QoS provisioning processes inside the network. The Q/E product could provide the foundation on which policy automation and dynamic resource reconfiguration could take place.The Q/E product for a network could be adjusted when promoting applications into or demoting applications out of the QoS space in a network. The impacts of which would be known to existing network SLA's. Although this idea is in its infancy, it provides food for thought to those doing future network research and development in the area of QoS tools and automation.

I highly recommend this book to Networking Engineers, Application and Network Developers, as well as Network Performance and Management planners.

Comprehensive QoS Reference
Over the past year I've read a lot of material regarding QoS. I wish this book was in print when I first started researching QoS! This book is very well written and comprehensive. Not only does it do a excellent job of explaining how QoS is incorporated in Microsoft Windows, it also provides in-depth information regarding all the protocols and mechanisms that make up QoS. This book ties it all together very nicely. ... Read more

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Silberschatz: Operating Systems Concepts, 6/e Windows XP Update Edition, the best selling introductory text in the market, continues to provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems. The 6/e Update Edition offers improved conceptual coverage, added content to bridge the gap between concepts and actual implementations and a new chapter on the newest Operating System to capture the attention of critics, consumers, and industry alike: Windows XP.

· Brand new chapter on the newest operating system, Windows XP.
· Brand new chapter on Threads has been added and includes coverage of Pthreads and Java threads.
· Brand new chapter on Windows 2000 replaces Windows NT.
· Out with the old, in with the new! All code examples have been rewritten and are now in C.
· Client-server models and NFS coverage has been moved to an earlier part of the text.
· The sixth edition now offers increased coverage of small footprint operating systems such as PalmOS and real-time operating systems
· Updated! Core material in every chapter has been updated, as has coverage of Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.Amazon.com Review
Operating systems are large and complex, and yet must function with near-absolute reliability--that's why they're a class unto themselves in the field of software development. Since its first release 20 years ago, "the dinosaur book"--Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne--has been a valuable reference for designers and implementers of operating systems. The newly released sixth edition of this book maintains the volume's authority with new sections on thread management, distributed processes, and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). There's also information on the workings of the latest crop of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows 2000, Linux, FreeBSD, and compact operating systems for handheld devices.

This book is concerned with the design of operating systems, which is to say it enumerates the problems that pop up in the creation of efficient systems and explores alternative ways of dealing with them, detailing the advantages and shortcomings of each. For example, in their chapter on scheduling CPU activity, the authors explain several algorithms (first-come, first-served, and round-robin scheduling, among others) for allocating the capacity of single and multiple processors among jobs. They highlight the relative advantages of each, and explain how several real-life operating systems solve the problem. They then present the reader with exercises (this book is essentially a university textbook) that inspire thought and discussion. --David Wall

Topics covered: The problems faced by designers of system software for electronic computers, and strategies that have been developed over the past 20 years to address (and, in some cases, solve) them. Problems of CPU scheduling, memory allocation, paging, processes and threads, storage management, distributed processes and storage mechanisms, and security are all discussed thoroughly and with many authoritative references. ... Read more

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A must-read!
This is a review of the 5th and 6th editions of Operating Systems Concepts, by Avi Silberschatz and Peter Galvin; Greg Gagne was their co-author on the 6th edition.More recent editions are available which I haven't yet read.For readers of this review, the main advantage of the 5th and 6th editions is that you can buy them very cheaply here on Amazon.com from a 3rd-party bookseller. For example, at this very moment, I see that a used copy of the 6th edition can be picked up for only $2.48 before shipping and handling. That is the bargain of year!If you can afford a newer edition, by all means, go for it.

Anyway, even in spite of their having been superseded by more recent editions, the 5th and 6th editions are each an excellent introduction to operating systems concepts. It is to be hoped that CIS and MIS majors will use this book in their introductory course on operating systems, instead of a book that focuses only on Windows. IT, MIS and networking professionals whose only experience with operating systems has been the desktop and/or server version of Microsoft's or Apple's OSes, or Linux, should also read -- and re-read -- this book. It will make them more well-rounded professionals and enable them to recognize and intelligently consider issues that need to be looked at from an operating systems perspective. Other professionals will benefit from reading (and re-reading this) this book too. For example, product managers at telcos who make product catalog decisions about routers, PBXes, smartphones, or any other equipment that runs an operating system, will benefit from this book too, since it will enable them to factor operating system considerations into their decision-making process.

Among the best operating systems texts for its' time
Many years ago, I was contacted by a desperate department head in need of someone to teach operating systems. With only two weeks to go before the class started, he was beginning to suffer from a case of the jitters. I agreed to teach the class and this was the book that had already been selected for the course.
Through the course of the class, I never had any reason to complain about the selection. I found the material well presented and while I had to do the usual explanation and clarifications in class, there was nothing that I considered beyond the norm. The coverage was thorough and when I needed to select exercises for the students, I took them directly from the book and only occasionally modified them to emphasize a particular point.
After examining other operating systems texts, I still consider this one among the best, at least for its' time.

Not a very good book.Had to buy it for a class.
Not a very good book.Had to buy it for a class.

It's the "Concepts" Book
This book does a good job in keeping up with the Title, "OS Concepts". I won't go in detail justifying that, as it's already been done by several before me.

However, one point worth mentioning is that it's still a concepts book. To be a real programmer / computer science person, one needs to implement the concepts. In that regard, I'd recommed the book" Operating Systems: Design & Implementation by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull". That way you'll know what the code looks like.

This book is great to start with and learn how an OS works. "NO CODE INSIDE THOUGH"

Accessible treatment of complex topics
This book does a great job of presenting all details of operating system design and operation. When appropriate, the authors point out how Linux, Solaris or Windows implements a given topic. This is valuable for software developers who work on these platform and need to understand how the scheduler is going to react if you spawn new threads/processes.

The one bad thing I can say is that some examples are too general and do not convey the proper detail. This is just a minor distraction and does not take away from the book's overall effectiveness. ... Read more

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Great Book
This book is written for the person new to computer networks, who wants to become certified.It is also a great refence book for those more experienced.I would highly recommend it.
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good book
I don't think categorizing as Win32 or System Programming is the book's fault. It is what I expected as a C++ programmer wanting to more about inside of Windows system. I bought it with doubt for three reasons: (1) 1/3 bad review, although it is only one (2) many used copies to be sold (3) I saw it on sale in some real world book store. But once I read it, I do think it is a very good book to start learning some system detail of Microsoft Windows. Fun to read too.

Exceptionally useful for advanced programmers
This book is basically about the applications of ActiveX (mostly MFC, but ATL is also used in Chap. 10) to Windows systems programming in a somewhat narrow sense, excluding low-level issues such as drivers, and also (mostly) security. Much of it is also relevant to NT and Win9X.

The examples are very well chosen, and if you study the code carefully you'll learn a lot, for there are many interesting details not discussed in the text.Have your on-line help at the ready -- and be prepared to do some sleuthing in atlsnap.h when you get to Chap. 10!Though the author cut his teeth on UNIX, he's also a Windows expert and handles the Windows API very adroitly, making the code a real pleasure to read.A few of the code examples don't quite work "right out of the box", but it's easy to fix them.Besides, a few bumps in the road help keep me awake.

The best chapters are the longest ones -- console apps, internet programming, shell programming and snap-ins (how many people know how to create a Windows shortcut programmatically?), and interprocess communications.There is also a long and useful review of ActiveX (I find some of ActiveX rather indigestible even the second or third time around).

If you don't know ActiveX yet, you're not ready for this book.But Williams has written another book on ActiveX, which judging from this one should be excellent; or you can learn the subject from Grimes et al., "Beginning ATL COM Programming" as I did, or some other way.

In sum, if you are already an advanced but nonexpert programmer this book will help you extend your knowledge further.

A book for serious programmers
I'm only about half way through this book but it is really worth it. The material is really about Windows NT in general with a lot of Win2K-specific material but it isn't just about Win2K so if you are coming from Win98 orwhatever that's OK.

I liked the ActiveX part -- I finally "get"ActiveX. I've never read such a clear explanation of the WHY of ActiveXbefore.

Because of the W2K stuff, some parts of it is stuff you probablywon't use every day. I don't care about fibers or job control, but someonedoes I'm sure. Completion ports are obscure but I like them.

The memorychapter talks alot about virtualalloc and how to make sparse arrays, readonly pages and stuff. Haven't got to that yet. Haven't got to the securitychapter either but it talks about PROGRAMMING security. Seems to meKerberos is more of an admin problem -- programmers don't see thedifference.

The ATL stuff near the end looks good too. Now that I'm moreinterested in ActiveX, I want to try ATL.

A big book but well worth thetime.

Windows 2000
In my humble opinion this book should have been classified as a more win32 api programming book. When I purchased it I was hoping to have a referenced comparison between systems programming in NT 4.00 and 2000. When I refer toSystems programming I refer to device driver, I/O control systems, FileSystems, etc. A really big disapointment was the section on Security,Kerberos was only mentioned in the last section of the chapter.

Theorder of topics seems strange, I guess I do not understand why ActiveXreceived a 100 pages in the second chapter while memory management received20 in chapter 7. ... Read more

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we needed this book asap because we missed it when ordering the other college books needed and it came quickly thnakfully! ... Read more

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Designed to accommodate the many professionals who will need a reference on implementing Microsoft's Windows 98. Contains valuable upgrade information, including caveats and warnings. Teaches the new features of Windows 98, such as OnNow, multiple monitors, DVD and Web TV support, including Program Guide information. ... Read more

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Windows is quickly becoming the platform of choices for both small and large scale computer telephony platforms. This is a practical guide to designing, using and developing telephony applications. Read this book if you are a developer, computer network reseller, IS manager or systems integrator. You will learn how to create robust and feature-rich solutions for Windows using proven techniques. You'll get coding examples, API selection tips and advice on VB and C++ tools and development. You will learn how to implement both standalone and client-server systems. It covers Windows95, Windows NT, TAPI, ECTF S.100, IVR, MAPI and telephony networking. ... Read more