Power Networking, 2nd Edition: 59 Secrets for Personal & Professional Success

Book Description

This book empowers you to create mutually beneficial long-term relationships.

Customer Reviews:

Reading this was a series of WOW moments.......2006-07-26

Instead of the usual business approach, this is more a "new age" or "self-help" perspective. For someone who has lived by "If you want it done right, do it yourself", this was like a 2x4 to my head. Many practical tools. Your reading time should be well spent!

Solid Networking Guide.......2005-05-21

Donna Fisher has done an excellent job of pinning down the essentials to networking. I'd definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to edge in the business or social field.

Great Way to Learn the Basics.......2005-05-14

As I talk to more and more people, it becomes obvious that most of them have a vague idea of what networking is, but really no idea how to get started or how to be effective. This book gives a great starting place. The assessment allows the reader to take a hard look at where they are now and then using the steps, to make a plan for improving their life and career. I would highly recommend this for people who want to get started on improving their networking skills.

False reviews.......2005-04-01

To answer one reviewers question: I've see these "5 star" reviewers in every networking title sold (see all of their reviews listed). Has Rick Frishman ever reviewed a networking book he didn't rave about? Better still, has he ever read any of the books he reviews? These "reviewers" have written their own networking books and are hawking each other's books, deceiving potential buyers. I guess this is their form of networking. A potential book buyer should disregard what they say.

Semi-useful, but nothing new .......2004-11-01

If you've read at least one networking book, you most likely will find little, if anything, useful from this one. I must admit there are some helpful hints such as: 1) Avoid the Lone Ranger mentality, 2) Give without expecting anything in return, 3) Gain value from every contact, 4) Become an active and perceptive listener, & 5) The 3 Foot Rule.

These(like most of the 59 "secrets") present a somewhat hackneyed approach to networking. Although worth a look-see, I would recommend a check out from the library for this title, rather than wasting your mula.

Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring, 3rd Edition

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Spartan Systems Inc. ( Low voltage contractor )
Book is documentation, not a "How to"
The definitive guide
A Great Book for the IT Manager

Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring, 3rd Edition
David Barnett , David Groth , and Jim McBee
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ASIN: 0782143318

Book Description

The physical linkages responsible for carrying a company's data continue to be the most neglected components of the typical network—to the extent that nearly 700f all network-related problems result from poor cabling.

In this third edition of a widely acclaimed resource, three networking experts share their extensive experience, teaching you the cabling skills you need to build a reliable, efficient, and cost-effective network cabling infrastructure. As you master these techniques, you'll learn to avoid common pitfalls and troubleshoot problems as quickly as they arise. Coverage includes:

Choosing the right cables and components for your network architecture and topology
Avoiding unnecessary and unexpected costs
Understanding the current limitations of data communications and network cabling
Understanding how laws and building codes constrain cabling
Understanding the function and importance of universal cabling standards
Determining when you have a cabling-related network problem
Assembling a complete cabling toolkit
Integrating voice and data on the same cable system
Setting up an infrastructure in which desktops, printers, copiers, and other nodes share cabling
Understanding issues of bandwidth, impedance, resistance, attenuation, crosstalk, capacitance, propagation, delay, and delay skew
Working effectively with USB and Firewire
Knowing when to discard legacy cabling and begin anew
Documenting your cabling
Creating an RFP and selecting a vendor

Customer Reviews:

Spartan Systems Inc. ( Low voltage contractor ).......2007-02-09

This book is good for beginners, Connector and cable identification is easy with the color insert. My installers each have a copy, keep it for reference. [...]

Book is documentation, not a "How to".......2006-11-02

I would not recommend this book. It covers some individual cabling components, but it does not have a coherent review chapter that explains "How" to run cable through a building. It does not cover different situations that might arise in running cable and doesn't have tips on things like, avoiding electric cables and plumbing, how to ensure you have enough cable for the job, etc. Again, it documents individual components, but it does not cover much of "How" to run cable.

The book does have pointers spread throughout the book, such as dropping a metal bead chain down a stud cavity, then inserting a magnet into the outlet box hole to retrieve the bead chain. After that, you can attach a pull string to run the cat5 cable. However, this book seems very disorganized. It sprinkles tips throughout unrelated chapters. It repeats concepts frequently in different chapters, and sometimes the repeated topics have discrepancies. For example, one chapter mentions patch cables should not exceed 10 feet, and a different chapter says patch cables should not exceed 15 feet.

I would NOT recommend this book if you're wanting to learn "How" to run cable. I would also not recommend this book for anyone wanting to run cable in residential buildings. This book covers commercial buildings almost exclusively.

The definitive guide.......2006-07-12

"Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring" is the definitive guide to all of your commercial and residential cabling needs.

A Great Book for the IT Manager.......2006-05-16

In the IT world, it is easy to find computer books on various subjects such as Windows, but just try and find a good book on Network Cabling! Here is the book I have been looking for! Now I don't have to call a cabling contractor every time I have a simple question about how to do something.

This book goes into several areas that most computer books don't even address. Do you want to know more about Punchdown Blocks? This book addresses the subject. Do you want to know about Cable Testing? This book discusses NEXT, FEXT, and other common cable test measurements.

If you do any of your own cabling or you want to be more involved with designing your own network layout, I suggest you get this book. It will explain a lot of things that you will never learn about in most computer related classes.

Power Up Your Small-Medium Business: A Guide to Enabling Network Technologies (Network Business)

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Powerful Business Guide for Network Success

Power Up Your Small-Medium Business: A Guide to Enabling Network Technologies (Network Business)
Robyn Aber
Manufacturer: Cisco Press
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The Case for Virtual Business Processes: Reduce Costs, Improve Efficiencies, and Focus on Your Core Business (Network Business)

ASIN: 1587051354

Book Description

A businessperson's guide to network technologies

Written for any business professional. Understand the purpose and business value of network technologies in order to know which ones to adopt.
Assess the benefits. Provides criteria that help you ask the right questions of vendors and other advisors to make technology choices and prepare budget justifications.
Apply advice for your business. See which network technologies are best suited to your priorities and processes and the tradeoffs between various alternatives.
Covers the technologies you need to know. Topics include wireless networks, IP telephony, managed services, network security, and other enabling technologies.
Become more competitive. Learn from benchmark examples of how technologies are adopted and employed by others to create differentiation for your organization.

Small-medium businesses (SMBs) cannot grow without finding more effective ways to streamline their processes, develop differentiated products and services, deliver them to the right customers, and work collaboratively with partners. Growth-directed SMBs must set themselves apart for success by adopting innovative yet proven tools to improve efficiencies, stimulate productivity, be more responsive to customers, and boost the bottom line. Network technologies can help do that and more.

The challenge is knowing where to begin.

Power Up Your Small-Medium Business: A Guide To Enabling Network Technologies addresses the need for clear, business-aware technical information. It explores the relevance and business value of network technologies and how to gauge what's right for your organization. The book also provides a high-level primer on network technologies in plain English. It defines the technologies and how they work in accessible language.

Beyond that, Power Up Your Small-Medium Business: A Guide to Enabling Network Technologies provides advice on proven network technologies as business enablers, arming you with the right questions to ask of yourself and your vendors when planning new or enhanced networks. With this book as an educational resource on networking, you will be better prepared to invest in network technologies and shape your own success.

This volume is in the Network Business Series offered by Cisco Press. Books in this series provide IT executives, decision makers, and networking professionals with pertinent information on today's most important technologies and business strategies.

158705135403152004

Customer Reviews:

Powerful Business Guide for Network Success.......2004-06-21

Finally someone has written a book on computer networking for the man/woman who signs the check rather than the network technician.

While there are hundreds of books for executives about management style, organization, profit/loss, people selection and marketing. This is the first easy-to-read, easy-to-understand book we've read that tells you how to use technology to streamline your business processes and use the dizzying array of previously mysterious technologies to monitor and control business processes, product/service development and reaching the right customers profitably.

Ms Aber has balanced her technical background at 3Com and Cisco with her practical SMB experience gained involved in a struggling start-up - OneWorld Systems - and modestly successful mid-sized firm - Novartis.

Power-Up Your Small-Medium Business is divided into four logical sections - the value of networking, network basics, advanced technologies and implementation considerations. The network basics section is probably very intriguing to people who tinker and tweak technology, for most business owners and managers we thought it was a lot like reading a book on how your car engine works - interesting but more than we wanted to know.

Because most SMB owners/mangers are more focused on results rather than the how-to, the first section - value of networking - is a good primer on the strategic aspects of the technologies. Forget about having to take a computer science course on how network technologies do whatever they do. Whether you sit at the desk where the buck stops or have to make recommendations that will help your area of responsibility - engineering, manufacturing, logistics, marketing or sales - Ms Aber explores why business people need to use the technology in dollar and cents as well as real business terms.

Since we know enough about the technologies to be dangerous, we skipped to the fourth implementation section because this is where most sales and technical people seem to throw up all the smokes and mirrors as to what they are going to do for you. Again using words that real people can understand she lays out a variety of application scenarios that small - medium business managers can consider.

Her approach is to give you a set of basic to full-blown technology recommendations you can use depending upon your budget. More importantly, unlike most technologists who fall in love with and design/implement a closed-loop solution for you she outlines some technology growth plans you can use.

As a result you don't have to commit to solution A, B, C, D or E but can buy off on solution A/B and have a plan on how you can get to E as your company grows. In addition and equally important she gives the reader an insight into the technologies you may want to consider - wireless everywhere, video-enablement and electronic business-to-business or business-to-consumer - that firms may possibly use to give them a competitive edge in their markets.

Just by reading these two sections a business manager or unit manager has the tools he or she needs to hire someone - internally or externally - to carry out the company's network-powered program.

The reader is well armed with information to know what questions to ask, what to expect, and how to use the technologies once the company has them in place.

The middle sections are really reference chapters. Want to know networking basics? Ms. Aber lays out the areas - computer networks, switching/routing, security, intranet/extranet and virtual networks - so you can understand the concepts. Again she delivers enough information you can actually understand so you know when people are making recommendations that will benefit your company or their profit.

The advanced technology or "gee whiz" section is fun to read. She actually makes it easy for you to understand what is here now and on the horizon that can be used to give you an edge over the guy down the street, across the country or half-way around the globe. It is pretty obvious that Ms Aber thoroughly understands her technologies because she explains them so well that whether you have an accounting, marketing or MBA degree you can do a little dreaming and imagine how the technologies can be used in your organization or by others in your marketplace.

Ms Aber's writing makes dry and dull disarmingly easy to understand.

Whether you head a small-medium size company or are a business unit manager, Power Up Your Small-Medium Business is a good primer and working tool to understand what is out there and available to you as well as what it can do for your company's bottomline.

If you are in one of the ten million 100-1,000 employee firms that have an IT department the book will help you understand what your people are recommending to you, and whether you believe the recommendations will help you reach your goals.

If you are like us and in the majority of American business - 20 - 100 employees - where a network manager has to wear two or three hats, the book becomes even more valuable. Most of us outsource the network technology implementation and have a service person on call...just in case. Ms. Aber gives the business owner the power to understand what the technologies are, what they are going to be and how we can use them to our advantage.

Finally the biggest segment of American business has a roadmap they can read - and understand - about the mysterious field of network technologies that focus on discussing them in business terms, not techie terms.

Book Description

Power analysis attacks allow the extraction of secret information from smart cards. Smart cards are used in many applications including banking, mobile communications, pay TV, and electronic signatures. In all these applications, the security of the smart cards is of crucial importance.

Power Analysis Attacks: Revealing the Secrets of Smart Cards is the first comprehensive treatment of power analysis attacks and countermeasures. Based on the principle that the only way to defend against power analysis attacks is to understand them, this book explains how power analysis attacks work. Using many examples, it discusses simple and differential power analysis as well as advanced techniques like template attacks. Furthermore, this volume provides an extensive discussion of countermeasures like shuffling, masking, and DPA-resistant logic styles.

By analyzing the pros and cons of the different countermeasures, Power Analysis Attacks: Revealing the Secrets of Smart Cards allows practitioners to decide how to protect smart cards. This book also provides valuable information for advanced-level students, and researchers working in information security.

Scripting VMware: Power Tools for Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration

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Great reference for developers and admins alike
was the time to short?

Scripting VMware: Power Tools for Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration
Al Muller
Manufacturer: Syngress
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Rob's Guide to Using VMWare: Covers Workstation, ACE, GSX and ESX Server, 2nd Edition

ASIN: 1597490598

Book Description

This book contains simple and advanced scripting using both ESX and Linux commands to provide awesome virtual tools to automate administrative tasks of ESX Server.

This book will cover the native tools that VMware provides with ESX Server. It will then discuss in detail the different scripting APIs and how they can be leveraged to provide some very useful, practical and time saving tools to manage a virtual infrastructure. From virtual server provisioning to backups and everything in between, this book is a one stop shop for virtual tools.

* An essential guide to virtualisation using both Linux and ESX commands

* The companion Web site for book provides dozens for working scripts and tools presented in the book

* Maximise VMware's powerful scripting language to automate time consuming administrative tasks

Customer Reviews:

Great reference for developers and admins alike.......2007-05-13

While this book is not full of product information for administrators, it serves the purpose that it was intended for...showing you how to programmatically automate ESX and VirtualCenter tasks.

The book limits the use of shell scripts and command-line tools, opting more for object-oriented programming languages. A thorough walk-through of code for both ESX 2.5.x/VC 1.x as well as ESX 3.x/VC 2.x is included in the book, with samples in VB, C#, Perl, and Java. I particularly liked the explanation of the SDK web service architecture and the idiosyncrasies of consuming the web service with typical SOAP clients.

If you're thinking about creating custom software to interact with VMware products or you simply want to write custom scripts to ease administration, this is a great reference book for you!

was the time to short?.......2006-12-14

like nearly every VMware administrator or consultant I couldn't wait for the release of this book. After a delay to the first announcement of about 7 months I hoped to get a book including all news about VI3 too.

But the whole book seems to be a patchwork, mixing ESX2/VC1 and VI3 mostly without a comment at what version the reader is. It's quite obvious that some of authors have written their chapters at ESX 2 times without updating to ESX 3 like chapter 7 (backup).

Some of the chapters are really useless like the first kickstart chapter, which doesn't contain any news beside the manual, even rather the screenshots are from an old beta version I think and it's not mentioned that you must change a xml file to make the kickstart generator available.

Not one new esxcfg- commands of ESX3 is even mentioned!!! You are searching without success for the backup scripts like vcbmounter.

Most scripting example or tips can be found for several month or even years (like APC Powerchute installation) within the VMware forum.

Many people begin to use python or java for scripting VI3 - yes, you don't even find the letter j in the index!

The only fact I'm giving two stars instead of one are the scripting chapters for VB .net and the downloadable scripts from the syngress website if you own that book.

Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks: with Special Focus on Vibrations

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Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks: with Special Focus on Vibrations
Shad Roundy , Paul Kenneth Wright , and Jan M. Rabaey
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ASIN: 1402076630

Book Description

The vast reduction in size and power consumption of CMOS circuitry has led to a large research effort based around the vision of ubiquitous networks of wireless communication nodes. The wireless devices are usually designed to run on batteries. However, as the networks increase in number and the devices decrease in size, the replacement of depleted batteries is not practical. Furthermore, a battery that is large enough to last the lifetime of the device would dominate the overall system size, and thus is not very attractive. There is clearly a need to explore alternative methods of powering these small communication nodes. This book, therefore, focuses on potential "ambient" sources of power that can be scavenged or harvested and subsequently used to run low power electronics and wireless transceivers.
A wide range of potential power sources are briefly explored. Based on a comparison of these many potential sources, commonly occurring vibrations was chosen as an attractive, and little explored, power source. Models for different types of power converters using both electrostatic and piezoelectric conversion mechanisms have been developed. The models have been validated by testing prototypes driven at vibrations similar to those found in many industrial and commercial building environments. Finally, integration of a piezoelectric generator, power circuit, and custom design radio transceiver is demonstrated.
Power sources are becoming a bottleneck to the widespread deployment of wireless sensor networks. This work reviews many potential alternative sources of ambient power that can be scavenged. Vibration to electricity converters are explored in great detail, and based on studies and experiments, are shown to be an attractive power source in many applications.
Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks with Special Focus on Vibrations will be of interest to researchers and professionals in the areas of wireless electronics, smart structures and MEMS as well as power electronics.

Peer-to-Peer : Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies

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This book changed my life
Still the best overview I know of
Excellent coverage of p2p
dasper
A Great Summary

Peer-to-Peer : Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies
Andy Oram
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ASIN: 059600110X

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

Peer-to-Peer is a book about an emerging idea. That idea is that the traditional model of participating in the Internet, in which a small computer operated by an everyday user (a "client") asks for and receives information from a big computer administered by a corporation or other large entity (a "server"), is beginning to give some ground to a new (new to the fringes of the Internet, anyway) model called peer-to-peer networking. In peer-to-peer networking, all participants in a network are approximately equal. Furthermore, the participants are usually ordinary computers run by everyday people. The ICQ chat service and the Napster music-sharing community are examples of what this book is about.

The chief advantage of peer-to-peer networks is that large numbers of people share the burden of providing computing resources (processor time and disk space), administration effort, creativity, and--in more than a few cases--legal liability. Furthermore, it's relatively easy to be anonymous in such an environment, and it's harder for opponents of your peer-to-peer service to bring it down. The primary disadvantage of peer-to-peer systems, as anyone will attest who's had an MP3 download prematurely terminated when a dialup user went offline will attest, is the tendency of computers at the edge of the network to fade in and out of availability. Accountability for the actions of network participants is a potential problem, too.

This is a book about the idea of equipping ordinary Internet users' computers with mechanisms that enable them to connect, more or less automatically and without human attention, to other everyday Internet users' machines. By forming networks of computers at the so-called "edge" of the Internet, it's possible to offer valuable services without the burden of building and administering large, centralized computer systems of the sort that host traditional Web sites. Napster is the most successful example to date, though nerds will note that it's not a completely peer-to-peer system because users register their file libraries with a central server when they log on to the service.

Don't approach this book expecting to learn how to build the next Napster system. It's not a how-to book. It's not even much of a why-to book. Rather, it's a book that aims to get its readers thinking about what happens when information systems shift away from the client-server model and toward the peer-to-peer model (that's one of the book's points, by the way, that this is not a one-or-the-other architectural decision).

Mostly, Peer-to-Peer makes its point by letting experts in peer-to-peer take turns in the spotlight. Any other approach would be kind of ironic, wouldn't it? In any case, David Anderson explains how SETI@home puts space buffs' idle computing cycles to use in analyzing radio noise from outer space. Gene Kan explains how Gnutella (a truly serverless environment) works. The architects of Publius explain how distributed computing is especially resistant to censorship and denial-of-service attacks. Other contributors discuss peer-to-peer chat software, anonymous remailing services, and other applications of peer-to-peer design.

There's no one from Napster represented as an author in this collection of essays, but Clay Shirky presents an essay called "Listening to Napster." In that essay, Shirky gives an opinion on why Napster has succeeded: It focused on providing something consumers wanted, and bypassed Internet conventions (like the Domain Naming System) because they weren't the best way to provide the service. This is not an earth-shattering revelation, but it's true, and it's something developers of any new service (Internet-based or otherwise) need to keep in mind.

Some of the technical proposals presented here will get readers thinking. An example: Require that senders of e-mail solve a moderately complex math problem before recipients' mailboxes will accept their mail. The problem would be no big deal for a mailer to solve if he or she were sending messages one at a time, but the processor load would really add up for spammers who blast tens of thousands of unwanted emails onto the Internet in a single session. Another idea: mechanizing the concept of reputation so people know whose thoughts and whose creative works (like software) are worth using or believing.

More business-oriented readers might want to read more about the more subtle ways of incorporating peer-to-peer components into business models. Lots of traditional Web services--Amazon.com is an example--are supplementing their client-server activities with others that have peer-to-peer characteristics. Amazon.com, for example, lets operators of small Web sites promote goods and rely on the centralized resources for billing and fulfillment. There's no distributed software (other than a few links), but the company takes advantage of creativity and marketing efforts outside of its official core. Coverage of that sort of "soft" distributed computing might be a good supplement for the second edition of this book.

Peer-to-Peer is a thought-provoking book that will help its readers understand an exciting, still-emerging application architecture for the Internet. --David Wall

Topics covered: Peer-to-peer applications that run at the edges of the Internet, usually on home computers run by ordinary people. Much of this book comprises case studies on SETI@home, Gnutella, Freenet, Jabber, and other peer-to-peer services. Later chapters address technical issues, such as accountability, security, efficient use of limited bandwidth, and data cataloging.

Book Description

The term "peer-to-peer" has come to be applied to networks that expect end users to contribute their own files, computing time, or other resources to some shared project. Even more interesting than the systems' technical underpinnings are their socially disruptive potential: in various ways they return content, choice, and control to ordinary users. While this book is mostly about the technical promise of peer-to-peer, we also talk about its exciting social promise. Communities have been forming on the Internet for a long time, but they have been limited by the flat interactive qualities of email and Network newsgroups. People can exchange recommendations and ideas over these media, but have great difficulty commenting on each other's postings, structuring information, performing searches, or creating summaries. If tools provided ways to organize information intelligently, and if each person could serve up his or her own data and retrieve others' data, the possibilities for collaboration would take off. Peer-to-peer technologies along with metadata could enhance almost any group of people who share an interest--technical, cultural, political, medical, you name it. This book presents the goals that drive the developers of the best-known peer-to-peer systems, the problems they've faced, and the technical solutions they've found. Learn here the essentials of peer-to-peer from leaders of the field:

Nelson Minar and Marc Hedlund of target="new"> Popular Power, on a history of peer-to-peer
Clay Shirky of acceleratorgroup, on where peer-to-peer is likely to be headed
Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly & Associates, on redefining the public's perceptions
Dan Bricklin, cocreator of Visicalc, on harvesting information from end-users
David Anderson of SETI@home, on how SETI@Home created the world's largest computer
Jeremie Miller of Jabber, on the Internet as a collection of conversations
Gene Kan of Gnutella and GoneSilent.com, on lessons from Gnutella for peer-to-peer technologies
Adam Langley of Freenet, on Freenet's present and upcoming architecture
Alan Brown of Red Rover, on a deliberately low-tech content distribution system
Marc Waldman, Lorrie Cranor, and Avi Rubin of AT&T Labs, on the Publius project and trust in distributed systems
Roger Dingledine, Michael J. Freedman, and David Molnar of Free Haven, on resource allocation and accountability in distributed systems
Rael Dornfest of O'Reilly Network and Dan Brickley of ILRT/RDF Web, on metadata
Theodore Hong of Freenet, on performance
Richard Lethin of Reputation Technologies, on how reputation can be built online
Jon Udell of BYTE and Nimisha Asthagiri and Walter Tuvell of Groove Networks, on security
Brandon Wiley of Freenet, on gateways between peer-to-peer systems

You'll find information on the latest and greatest systems as well as upcoming efforts in this book.

Customer Reviews:

This book changed my life.......2005-11-22

I work in the MP3 player industry, so the title of my review is only a slight exaggeration. P2P technology created the MP3 revolution. This book takes an honest look back at where P2P came from and where it is going from several different viewpoints. I think it is a must-read for anyone working on the future architecture of computing technology. And it is just plain interesting if you are sitting on the sidelines--and you might just find a role you can play in the game.

Still the best overview I know of.......2005-09-22

It's five years old by now, which is a long time in this industry, but the book remains relevant by virtue of the solid writing and lack of fluff that we expect from O'Reilly, and by the third section's excellent in-depth coverage of fundamental issues: Performance, Trust, Accountability, Reputation, Security. Each of these has a lot of valuable information, references and ideas.

Particularly valuable to me were the discussions of:
- Analyzing and optimizing peer connection graphs
- How Groove uses cryptography to protect and authenticate data
- Using token economies and "nonfungible micropayments" to avoid denial-of-service attacks
- How trust relationships can be tracked

The coverage of specific technologies hasn't aged quite as well. There's too much on things that either never went anywhere (Red Rover?) or are extremely primitive by today's standards (Gnutella), while very important more recent ones like BitTorrent and Kademlia are understandably missing.

Still, as I said, I don't think there's a better book out there. I've bought others and been disappointed by their superficiality, even the "academic" books. Buy this one, and then be prepared to do some intensive web searching/surfing for research papers to catch up on later developments like Distributed Hash Tables, BitTorrent, Kademlia, Chord, Pastry, Coral, JXTA, PNRP, Bonjour...

Excellent coverage of p2p.......2004-03-13

In 2000, O'Reilly surveyed the field of peer-to-peer computing, and published this book. It has an excellent description of the key concepts behind all the major p2p implementations then existing. Napster, of course, was the best known. But Seti@home, Gnutella, Jabber, Freenet, Free Haven and others are also explained. These are compared with each other, so that you can see the different emphases and strengths of each.

Since the book's release, p2p usage has grown, and the attendant controversy about the downloading of copyrighted material, mainly music, has continued unabated. Napster in its original incarnation has gone. But other p2p networks, like Kazaa, have arisen.

Another type of p2p network has also emerged - for social networks. Companies include Friendster, Tribe.net, Ryze and others. Of course, these aren't covered in the book, because they did not exist when it was written. But as a measure of how comprehensive the book is, one of its chapters describes the key work on social networks and encompasses this entire group of companies.

The technical level is moderate throughout the book. While XML, SOAP and cryptography are described, you only need slight familiarity with these topics. The discussion involving them tends to be at a higher level of usage.

dasper.......2002-07-26

I've been a big fan of O'Reilly & Associates for years because of their consistent ability to provide highly readable and accurate technical books, often about technologies I find fascinating and useful. To me the editorial bias of most of those books is simply the love of the technology they describe. But O'Reilly has increasingly become a force in the organization and direction of new technologies. And it is that aspect of this book on P2P which has made the biggest impression on me. This book is different from the many other O'Reilly books I've read because it discusses the publisher's own ideas about P2P and involvement with it.

A Great Summary.......2001-12-13

This book provides a great summary of current P2P projects and the technologies used. It is non-technical book that would be a great intro to P2P, especially for "suits" who only think of Napster when you mention the word P2P. There are loads of gems in this text; I recommend this book to any computer enthusiast.

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The last decade has seen a rapid surge of interest in new sensing and monitoring devices for healthcare and the use of wearable/wireless devices for clinical applications. One key development in this area is implantable in vivo monitoring and intervention devices. Several promising prototypes are emerging for managing patients with debilitating neurological disorders and for monitoring of patients with chronic cardiac diseases. Despite the technological developments of sensing and monitoring devices, issues related to system integration, sensor miniaturization, low-power sensor interface circuitry design, wireless telemetric links and signal processing have still to be investigated. Moreover, issues related to Quality of Service, security, multi-sensory data fusion, and decision support are active research topics.

This book addresses the issues of this rapidly changing field of wireless wearable and implantable sensors and discusses the latest technological developments and clinical applications of body-sensor networks.

Work the Pond! Use the Power of Positive Networking to Leap Forward in Work and Life

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Take the Leap!
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Work the Pond! Use the Power of Positive Networking to Leap Forward in Work and Life
Darcy Rezac , Judy Thomson , and Gayle Hallgren-Rezac
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Networking requires you to "kiss a lot of frogs" (i.e., meet a lot of people) to find your "princes"-those precious few who can make a difference in your life. But the real secret to networking is discovering what you can do for someone else.

Networking guru Darcy Rezac helps redefine networking-his "what can I do for you?" approach has helped thousands overcome their fear of networking and find more success. Rezac uses his trademarked 7-step N.E.T.W.O.R.K. process to help readers avoid the "toads" and make the right connections-in business and in life.

N: Never leave home without one's business cards

E: Establish, exchange, engage-simple techniques that really work

T: Travel in pairs-how to have more fun networking

W:"Work the pond"-practice Positive Networking and use time wisely

O: Opportunity is everywhere-discover "small-worlds" connections

R: Repeat, repeat, repeat-the more networking one does, the better one gets

K: Keep it going-the art of follow-up and relationship-building

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Highly Informative and Engaging.......2007-03-30

Whether you hate to network, think you're not cut out for it, believe it's unnecessary or know you're already good at it, networking guru Darcy Rezac probably has something to teach you. Managing director for nearly two decades of one of the most dynamic networking business organizations in North America, Darcy uses the fairytale and its related cliché, "You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince," to explain what networking really is, then offers both commonsense and inspired wisdom. He discusses the nuts and bolts of business cards; traveling in pairs; engaging in conversation; working a room; creating new opportunities and maintaining contacts. A highly informative, engaging read.

an epiphany for the antisocial, private professional.......2007-01-18

WORK THE POND is an enjoyable read, built upon irrefutable logic, simply presented. It is readily apparent why the book has been so successful and so appreciated by people I admire; AND, even for those of us who are more private and less sociable in professional pursuits, it can be seen how the greatest successes in career and life have most likely been helped by friends and partners - a byproduct of networking of one kind or another, even if accidental!

People with unique talent and/or skills that are in high demand (artists, scientists et al.) - particularly if they have associates who are solid networkers - can probably fudge the deal, avoiding much of what this book suggests, but the wisdom of the message is that they'd likely be even more successful and respected if they networked methodically; meaning not at the expense of their productive and creative time, but complementary to it.

Gary Bannerman
Author, journalist, broadcaster and corporate communications consultant.

Take the Leap!.......2006-06-05

Here's your safety net for taking the leap into networking. "Work the Pond" is a must have tool for building successful relationships. The power of networking will enrich your life, personally and professionally beyond your imagination.

Darcy takes his message of "What can I do for you?" by sharing his knowledge and expertise on positive networking. He even tells you exactly where to find opportunity!

Valuable "Nuggets" of helpful tips are sprinkled throughout the pages that give you a book inside a book. One of my favorites: It's not the mistake that matters; it the recovery.

Thanks to Darcy, Judy and Gayle, these tips and techniques will surly expedite the process of my vision to touch and enrich a million lives. Know that you make a difference! I count you as one of my "Lucky Stars".

Work the Pond - A Key Tool for Small Business .......2006-02-01

Darcy's book has been a valuable tool for me. The success of my small business depends totally on my skills to connect with potential customers. Work the Pond is a practical guide with advice that I implemented right away. By focusing on what I can do for other people as advised in Work the Pond, the pressure's off me to pitch my products and I've found my network expanding.

Are you a networker?.......2005-11-12

It doesn't matter how you answered the title question in this review;whether you're a veteran of the networking wars, or a rookie, you need this book. The author presents the often misunderstood art of networking in a positive, straightforward fashion that enables networkers at all levels to improve and excel at this vital contact sport! At the very least, this is an opportunity to add some spice to your professional and personal quality of life!

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