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A compilation of 100 electronic circuits grouped in ten categories with ready to use printed circuit board designs, parts layouts, circuit design explanation and installation guides.
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Good for those who know the basics of assembling electronic circuits but not for all.......2007-04-29
If you don't know how to etch a pcb board, nor drill a hole in a pcb, nor transfer a pcb pattern to the copper side of pcb, don't jump to buy this book. These basic skills are not discussed in this book. Go and buy other books that teach these skills.
If you know the basic skills though, you can buy this book. It can add to your collection of circuits.
I like jobs professionally done.......2007-03-12
I like how they did the diagrams, pcb layouts and schematics. Very clean and professional.
I also recommended collecting the other volumes: volume 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 of the same title.
Good reference book for regular reference.......2007-03-12
This reference book is good both for a bright kid or an adult that wants to learn how to construct some useful circuits. There is plenty of information and several important concepts are explained so that the beginner is not lost in the middle of a project (as is the case with many books). Also, it offers lots of parts replacement options throughout the book.
While this book may not be perfect (which one is?), anybody interested in electronic hobby and do a little thinking will be pleased with how the material is presented. Clear and clean schematic diagrams, CAD produced pcb layouts, and detailed IC pin specs. No hand drawing to be seen here, all are professionally done with CAD programs.
Highly recommended. See for yourself.
Good reference for electronic circuits.......2007-03-11
The quality of the print, the design, and the layout is excellent. The use of professional CAD and graphic software is very obvious. Nothing is hand drawn here. That is good. I like that.
The book assumes that you the reader (and hobbysts like me) already know how to read a circuit, to solder, to make pcb's using the usual techniques. The best thing with this books are the ready-to-copy pcb layouts. It shortens my work time enormously.
I like the book so well that I also bought the other volumes in the series. For readers, do not forget to check out the Electronic Circuits volumes 1.1 and 1.2, which can be found also here at amazon.com
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If you are a network administrator, you're under a lot of pressure to ensure that mission-critical systems are completely safe from malicious code, buffer overflows, stealth port scans, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, CGI attacks, and other network intruders. Designing a reliable way to detect intruders before they get in is an essential--but often overwhelming--challenge. Snort, the defacto open source standard of intrusion detection tools, is capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP network. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching, and matching. Snort can save countless headaches; the new Snort Cookbook will save countless hours of sifting through dubious online advice or wordy tutorials in order to leverage the full power of SNORT. Each recipe in the popular and practical problem-solution-discussion O'Reilly cookbook format contains a clear and thorough description of the problem, a concise but complete discussion of a solution, and real-world examples that illustrate that solution. The Snort Cookbook covers important issues that sys admins and security pros will us everyday, such as:
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But the Snort Cookbook offers far more than quick cut-and-paste solutions to frustrating security issues. Those who learn best in the trenches--and don't have the hours to spare to pore over tutorials or troll online for best-practice snippets of advice--will find that the solutions offered in this ultimate Snort sourcebook not only solve immediate problems quickly, but also showcase the best tips and tricks they need to master be security gurus--and still have a life.
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A great case for proprietary software.......2007-05-26
Have you ever wondered why some things are free and some are not free? Well, suppose you needed a firewall with intrusion detection. Or, just suppose you needed an intrusion detection system. So you get Snort and this book and then you figure out to get it to log to PostgreSQL. Fine. Then you go to page 175, 5.6 Installing and Configureing ACID. Then you follow the procedures to get ACID to analyse you Snort output. After a few attempts you discover that the "Solution" given on page 176, is incomplete. After a lot of trial and error, you finally get it to work. But then you find out that ACID itself, needs a whole lot of configuring itself. The farther you get into ACID, the more errors you find. Then you go back and forth from the configuration files until you just give up on it.
One problem when people publish incomplete procedures - probably because they themselfs could not get it to work - is something like this: "Oh, yes, well that computer over there has been broadcasting for quite some time. I guess we should have had Norton or McAfee in it". Sure, Ethereal is better than nothing, and a proprietary solution is better than what is in this book. Boooooooooooo!
Snort Cookbook a second glance!.......2005-09-29
Snort Cookbook O'reilly
by: Orebaugh, Biles & Babbin
What can I say designing a reliable detection system is a challenge at best.
This book makes it seem easy! I thought this was the best layout of a tech.book I have ever saw.
Problem > Solution > Discussion. they gave you the information in a precise way with out overloading you
with material you did not need. The Rules section was espcially useful...
The only downside is I wanted to see more on rules with samples.
Overall this was a very useful Book. I already had snort in place this made it much more useful.
Brett Hoff
Good information overshadowed by outdated or poor advice.......2005-08-09
I read the Snort Cookbook because I am always trying to learn more about Snort. I've read almost every book on the open source intrusion detection system, so I hoped the Snort Cookbook might offer advice not found elsewhere. Unfortunately, whatever good material appears in the book is overshadowed by outdated or outright bad advice. The best Snort book is still Syngress' Snort 2.1, so I recommend reading that title.
The Snort Cookbook starts poorly with ch 1, which at 50 pages is the book's largest. After repeating installation instructions covered in online resources, the book turns to dubious packet collection recommendations. Item 1.10 suggests creating a listen-only Ethernet cable but never mentions disabling ARP traffic with ifconfig's -arp option. Item 1.11 describes how to build a homebrew tap but doesn't address signal regeneration problems that could result in traffic loss.
Item 1.12 gives terrible advice: "If your Snort machine has only one network interface, using the passive tap, run both lines to a small hub. Then from another port of the hub, run a cable to your IDS. This will combine and maybe even buffer the traffic for the IDS and give a full duplex connection." Wrong -- this is a nice way to never see traffic when full-duplex packets from the two transmit lines collide in the hub.
Item 1.14 says "Snort itself is incapable of sniffing a wireless network," but it ignores the fact that while Snort doesn't understand 802.11 traffic, the sensor can join a wireless network and interpret what it sees. Item 1.15 demonstrates more ignorance of hardware issues by saying "Linux-compatible gigabit Ethernet cards are available with up to six ports. Coupled with machines that have space for three or four PCI cards, you could have as many as 24 Ethernet ports." This suggestion completely ignores the fact that a single gigabit NIC will saturate a 32 bit, 33 MHz PCI bus, and many BIOS will not be able to handle interrupts from more than about 8 NICs in a PC.
Item 1.25 says "two to four million records is the max for MySQL," which is odd. One MySQL database I use to collect session data on Sguil has over 31 million records. Item 1.25 also covers the often-repeated and incredibly naive method of having Snort log directly to a database, without utilizing Barnyard as an intermediary. Thankfully we see Barnyard covered in ch 2, but recommended for "high-speed network[s], such as 1 Gbps or greater." Barnyard is definitely appropriate when monitoring at less than gigabit speeds.
Throughout the book, the obsolete ACID Web-based alert console appears. BASE has been available since October 2004; it addresses stale code problems in ACID and should have been covered. I was disappointed to see the Sguil suite mentioned but never given any discussion, even though the older Snort 2.1 book introduces using Sguil. Item 4.2 mentions "RST scans" even though they are a fiction of one security researcher's imagination. Item 6.6 claims to offer ways to test Snort by showing three programs (Snot, Sneeze, Stick) that have had little effect on modern Snort implementations (e.g., 2001 on).
On the positive side, in many cases the Snort Cookbook properly addresses questions which frequently appear on the snort-users mailing list. Items 2.15 and 2.16 show how to send Snort alerts to email, a pager, or cell phone using Syslog and Swatch. Item 3.2 discusses rule updates with Oinkmaster. Rule issues in ch 3 were generally helpful, like dynamic rules (3.4), evasion issues (3.10), optimization (3.13), and even Spade (3.18). Perfmon coverage in items 4.6 and 7.0 help discover how well Snort is working. I also liked the policy-based IDS ideas in item 7.5.
The back cover of the Snort Cookbook says the book "can save you countless hours of sifting through dubious online advice or wordy tutorials." That online advice is frequently more correct than what appears in this book. While some of the book is helpful, often that material has already been introduced in online documentation or best covered in Syngress' Snort 2.1. Perhaps a second edition will address the concerns in this review and produce a more useful cookbook for future readers.
It's a Rough World Out There.......2005-05-26
When the Internet was being set up, who could have possibly believed just how unfriendly a place it was going to be out there. After all, it was just a concept where scientists could exchange papers. Even if you would have told the original developers where it was going to go they would have just laughed at you.
Anyway, Snort is another tool in stopping the bad guys from coming into your system. In particular it is an intrusion detector. Note the word detector. Snort monitors your system to see what's happening. It is not an anti-virus like program that detects, quarantines, deletes, etc. an infected file. Instead it watches what is going on in the system and looks for behavior that is outside the rules.
Snort watches, records and reports on what the systems in you network might be doing. On a big network, running Snort could well be a full time job. It can produce volumes of information. Some of this information regarding your employees might be considered spying on them, there are also some words (a few more wouldn't hurt) on what you can do to outsiders vs. your own people.
Good but not a tutorial.......2005-05-21
Actually, probably everything you'd need for a tutorial is in here; it just isn't put in one place up front. Therefor, for someone totally unfamiliar with Snort, the sudden jump from installation to cook-book recipes may be confusing and unsettling.
As there is plenty of material at http://www.snort.org/docs/ and as getting Snort running isn't all that complicated anyway, that's not a major flaw.
Like another reviewer here, I think the rules sections are probably the best part of the book, though I was also impressed by the attention given to the specifics of Windows and Mac OS X - it's nice to see that level of completeness.
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A compilation of 101 electronic circuits grouped in ten categories with ready to use printed circuit board designs, parts layouts, circuit design explanation and installation guides.
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Clean, clean, clean.......2007-03-12
Clean, clean, clean. Obviously, the authors and production staff did a good job.
I like it. Highly recommended.
Highly recommended reference for hobbyists and profis alike.......2007-03-12
This reference book is good for anybody who wants to learn how to construct (and understand) some useful circuits. There is plenty of information and several important concepts are explained. Also, parts replacement options are written all throughout the book.
While the book may not be perfect (which book is?), anyone interested in electronics and take the time to do a little thinking will be pleased with how the material is presented.
Clean and clear schematics, clean pcb layouts, no hand drawings. Obviously, CAD programs were used in creating the design layouts.
Highly recommended.
Sample copy of printed circuit board.......2006-10-25
Here is a sample of a printed circuit board (parts placement layout) that I found inside this new book. This one is the 23rd circuit featured inside this book. The quality of the print, the design, and the layout is excellent. The use of professional CAD and graphic software is obvious. Nothing is hand drawn here. That is good. I like that. Following is an excerpt from the book about this particular circuit:
A highly reliable doorbell with "touch" switch can be easily constructed with few components. When the "touch" plate is touched by a finger, enough stray power line current is introduced into the transistor T1 so that it conducts. Succeeding transistors T2,T3,T4 also conduct and eventually trigger the doorbell (the bulb lights if one is installed).
The touch switch can be constructed from a copper plate, aluminum foil or similar metallic materials. The supply voltage can be between 6 and 12 volts. The standby current is around 6 mA. Obviously, the circuit can also be applied as an alarm device for metallic objects.
This is interesting for me. It is useful, simple to construct, and the printed circuit board layout is ready made. I just need to photocopy the layout and transfer it on my raw pcb. Super! The cover looks great too!
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Cassini At Saturn – Huygens Results brings the story of the Cassini-Huygens mission and their joint exploration of the Saturnian system right up to date. Cassini entered orbit around Saturn June 2004 so this update includes 8 months of scientific data available for review, including the most spectacular images of Saturn, its rings and satellites ever obtained by a space mission. As the Cassini spacecraft approached its destination in spring 2004, the quality of the images already being returned by the spacecraft clearly demonstrated the spectacular nature of the close-range views that will be obtained. The book contains a 16-page colour section, comprising a carefully chosen selection of the most stunning images to be released during the spacecraft’s initial period of operation.
The Huygens craft, released by Cassini, parachuted through the clouds of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in January 2005. David Harland tells the exciting story of the this craft’s journey to the surface of one of the most enigmatic bodies on the Solar System, the only moon to have a dense atmosphere and possibly lakes of liquid gas at -190ºC on its surface. Titan is considered to be an early Earth in deep freeze, possibly with the building blocks of life in its atmosphere. There will undoubtedly be enormous interest in the first results and images of Titan’s surface, and this book is the first incisive summary of this groundbreaking material.
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Not for the average reader.......2007-08-13
It may be true that this book contains a lot of information about Saturn and its moons and all the other findings in the outer solar system, however, the writing style is quite complicated for someone that isn't thoroughly experienced in the field of astronomy.
The writing style is extremely technical and overly detailed. For example, there are several sections in the book where the author describes each specific part on the space probe that NASA has built using highly technical terms that only a veteran astronomer or NASA scientist would be familiar with. The average reader will get lost quite fast in all the technical explanations and get quite frustrated. Here is a typical example of the style of writing that the author uses:
"The Ultraviolet Spectrometer (UVS) did not have a lens, it had a series of linear apertures set in line which served as a collimator to produce a field of view 2 by 15 milliradians, then a diffraction grating illuminated a linear array of 128 detectors, each of which measured the brightness on a 1024 point scale to measure the range of 50-170 nanometers in a spectral resolution of 1 nanometre. It was to investigate ultraviolet glows in interplanetary space and in ionospheres, and use limb sounding measurements of the extent to which insolation was absorbed during solar occultations to profile the chemical composition of the upper regions of planetary atmospheres...."
If you can figure out such details then this book is for you. He uses this kind of writing throughout the majority of the book and it gets quite frustrating to try to decipher all the technical jargon.
Furthermore, the author fails to focus on perhaps the most important part of the subject matter, the planets and the moons themselves. He spends so much time going into every little detail of how NASA actually sends its probes to their locations that you get lost trying to figure out what he was trying to explain to begin with. He constantly uses terms only familiar to physics and chemistry majors.
If you are looking for a more amateur-friendly book about astronomy then I recommend checking out David Grinspoon. His writing is a lot less technical and he focuses on the important big picture instead of letting his readers get lost in all the insignificant details that are only important to a scientist, not an amateur astronomy enthusiast.
Excellent Update.......2007-06-05
This is a new edition of Harland's fine 'Mission to Saturn', adding
100 new pages of Cassini findings through summer 2006, including of
course the results of the Huygens encounter at Titan. As usual, a
handy, comprehensive volume, nicely written and illustrated. (There is no point in buying Mission to Saturn now, since its contents
are included in CaS:HR)
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It damns the dam with precise and powerful arguments........1999-08-29
This is a collection of essays which document the many reasons the Three Gorges Dam should not be built, the lose of arable land, the dislocation of millions of people, the loss of 5,000 years of art and architecture, etc. Author Dai Qing, an outspoken opponent of the dam since the beginning, is to be highy commended for speaking out while others cower in silence. To put it in Western terms, it is David taking on Goliath, times 10.
There are a lot of detailed figures and facts in some of the essays. They're easily skimmed. But read this book if the subject matters to you and particularly if you're planning to take a cruise through the Three Gorges or have already taken it. While on the cruise, one is told only of the glory and power of the dam, which is to say, given the party line, but one should know the lie behind the line and the potential tragedy that awaits, the tragedy of the River Dragon coming again.
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The book will be comprehensive, covering missions and results from the 1950s until the present day, and some of the latest missions and their results will appear in a popular science book for the first time. The authors will also cover many unflown missions, providing an indication of the ideas that proved to be unfulfilled at the time but which may still be proven and useful in the future.
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Until now, no book has explored the full expanse of Marshall McLuhan's thinking. Here we have assembled alongside his most prescient aphorisms excerpts from the full range of his astounding life's work. One revolutionary book distills the wisdom and wit of the man who explained to us the "the medium is the message" and that we are "now living in a global village", that "privacy invasion is now our most important knowledge industry" and that "obsolescence is the moment of superabundance".
Cover to cover, Anthology is not only one hundred percent McLuhan's own words, these are McLuhan's finest words. McLuhan called these bold perceptions probes and today they gleam like gems embedded everywhere in his life's output - in his books, in more than 200 speeches, in his classes (especially the Monday Night Seminars), and most of all in the nearly 700 shorter writings that he published between 1945 and 1980. In recent years, his son Eric McLuhan and William Kuhns have combed through all these sources to compile and edit what has become Anthology - The Book of Probes.
The collection is so fresh that most probes will be new to even the most avid readers of McLuhan, and opens a new portal to McLuhan's mind, one that promises to change the ways in which we recognize and interpret McLuhan in the future. Readers will marvel at how the consistency, the clarity of concept, and the abundant wealth of observations, some made twenty or thirty years apart, dovetail to form a whole.
Art Director and Designer David Carson presents McLuhan's images with new insight, and has built a work of art that is reminiscent of those lasting works permanently commissioned and interpreted by new generations.
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The book is like a review of pre-filesharing culture.......2005-03-18
The art in THE BOOK OF PROBES starts early, with pictures and computer graphics generated by David Carson going out of the blue and into the black on pages 4-400 including 33 pages preceding the author, title, list of editors, and contents, which lists "Probes 8 - 545" for pages that have a mixture of such art, Commentary on pages 403-448 and Fragments, before the Album with regular pictures, explanations, and credits on pages 547-574. People familiar with the book will become able to find portions by checking the color of the edges of the pages. Pages 4-33 and 54-397 are white along the bottom, in a strip which includes tiny page numbers; pages 402-425 (except for the yellow strip on the bottom of pages 405-406) have the numbers in a blue strip; pages 440-449 have a green bottom strip; etc. The primary concern is with communication, but I would like to pick up the pieces in the alphabetically arranged Fragments that suggest how closely the atomic nature of evidence of modernity includes expectations of a mushroom cloud in our future.
"All invention is a form of bodily fission, with the ensuing chain reaction in the body and the environment." (p. 456).
"Light is information without `content,' much as the missile is a vehicle without the additions of wheel or highway. As the missile is a self-contained transportation system that consumes not only fuel but its engine, so light is a self-contained communication system in which the medium is the message." (p. 487).
"Rapid changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons." (p. 503).
"The environment always manages somehow to be invisible. Only the content, the previous environment, is noticeable. The BOMB itself became content, having had a short reign as environment." (p. 517).
"The metropolis is obsolete. Ask the Army." (p. 524).
"Western literate man is easily inclined to make moral protests, but is seemingly incapable of recognizing the formal or `acoustic' structure of situations which are disturbing and destroying him." (p. 538).
I am getting off of the subject, as modern readers tend to do, but I have so many concerns that I am worried about why the following biological observation applies so well to mass politics:
"Smoothness and repetitive order, the attributes of teeth, enter into the very nature of the power structure." (p. 505).
The pages with a green strip on the bottom, 441-448, contain "McLuhan and Saussure" by W. Terence Gordon. Saussure's "Course in General Linguuistics" predicted that universal laws of semiotics could be discovered, and McLuhan used `LOM' as his note for Laws of Media "over and over and listing the passages where Saussure's groundwork buttressed the emerging synthesis of ideas that McLuhan would articulate first in 1977 and fully explore in the posthumously published Laws of Media (1988)." (p. 442). Politics is largely the result of accepted terminologies for approaching areas that are perceived as problems, particularly in democracies, where a person's politics provides some frame of reference for picking the future he or she would prefer. "To use a brand of car, drink, smoke or food that is nationally advertised gives a man the feeling that he belongs to something bigger than himself." (p. 535). Spending a trillion dollars for a strategic weapons system that could destroy parts of our world which do not conform to our wishes is like the icing on the cake of modern life.
A Useful Tool.......2004-10-06
First of all, I'm baffled about previous posters claiming Carson is not the designer here with no explanation for the charge. Secondly, does it really matter if Carson assistants contributed under his guidance (if that be the case)?
I'm a big fan of Marshall McLuhan and Carson, so I was pre-disposed to a welcome reception of this volume, and indeed I feel it delivers the goods. At times Carson's designs appear perhaps unnecessarily minimalist, until one considers what must be his reverence for the top billing - McLuhan's probes. McLuhan's 'probes' are ironizable (self-deconstructing) conceptual assertions intended to serve the phenomenological purpose of disclosing new percepts about the world. And in this way the book delivers effectively if used as such.
Happy probing..
Keep Probing for McLuhan.......2004-04-25
Reading the advance hype for this book got me very excited. At last! I can understand Marshall McLuhan! Don't get me wrong. It's not that I haven't encountered MM before, but understanding him eluded me. I had hoped for more deluxe versions of the Quentin Fiore collaborations: War and Peace in the Global Village and The Medium is the Massage. But instead of timely, interesting photos, David Carson resorts to typography to frame pithy little McLuhan epigrams. Like those other two books, you at least get your shots of MM one line at a time, and some of the lines are very memorable indeed. Yes, I'm convinced Marshall McLuhan was a prophet (small "P" or maybe big "p"), and that everything he said has already happened. We live in a global village full of hot and cool media; the medium is the message. How obvious it all seems. Reading this book is ancient history. It's already happened. I just wish I could understand it better. Don't bother with the DaVinci code. Crack the McLuhan code and we will all know what's going on. This book reinvents "coffee table books"--it's an 8 inch square two inches thick--so it goes well on little coffee tables from Ikea. I see why they didn't use photos--Corbis owns them all, unlike the public domain galleries in the two earlier books cited (which dazzlingly show more than they tell). Someone new to McLuhan, finding Probes on the tiny coffee table, would probably drink it in, like someone quaffing a particularly good drink. But having finished the tumbler, they'd likely wander off to find the hostess and a refill, asking where she learned her mixology. Those reading, or rather encountering, Probes will also be left inquiring about McLuhan, and probing for more understanding.
who really designed this book.......2004-03-19
The design in this book is great and was obviously not really designed by David Carson at ALL.
read this book.......2003-12-31
"Like Kafka and Freud, McLuhan is a writer who is often referred to or quoted without being understood, resulting in a shorthand for cultural conditions that everyone recognizes but few can articulate. This title provides a refreshing representation of the philosopher's work, artfully arraying his ideas as brief statements in the space of the page and setting them against stunning imagery and design work by David Carson."
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Books:
- Exploring Publication Design (Design Exploration Series)
- Expressive!
- Extreme Design
- Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy (Fancy Nancy)
- Forms, Folds, and Sizes: All the Details Graphic Designers Need to Know but Can Never Find
- Forms, Folds, and Sizes: All the Details Graphic Designers Need to Know but Can Never Find
- Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents
- Grantseeker's Toolkit: A Comprehensive Guide to Finding Funding (Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management Series)
- Graphic Japan
- Head First Design Patterns (Head First)
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- Introduction to Design and Analysis: A Student's Handbook
- Samoyeds
- Eastern Ukraine Business and Industrial Directory
Electronic Circuits Volume 1.1
The Circuit Designer's Companion, Second Edition
Timer, Op Amp, and Optoelectronic Circuits & Projects
Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits, Volume 7
Electronic Formulas, Symbols & Circuits
