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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| What You Don't Need to Read | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| The Absolute Basics: A Network User's Guide | |
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| Networks Will Not Take Over the World, and Other Network Basics | |
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| What Is a Network? | |
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| Why Bother? | |
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| Servers and Clients | |
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| Dedicated Servers and Peers | |
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| The NOS Choice | |
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| What Makes a Network Tick? | |
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| It's Not a Personal Computer Anymore! | |
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| The Network Manager | |
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| What Have They Got That You Don't Got? | |
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| Life on the Network | |
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| Distinguishing between Local Resources and Network Resources | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| Logging On to the Network | |
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| Understanding Shared Folders | |
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| Oh, the Network Places You'll Go | |
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| Mapping Network Drives | |
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| Four Good Uses for a Shared Folder | |
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| Using a Network Printer | |
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| Logging Off the Network | |
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| Using a Network Printer | |
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| What's So Special about Network Printing? | |
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| Adding a Network Printer | |
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| Using a Network Printer | |
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| Playing with the Print Queue | |
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| Using Windows Print Queue Tricks | |
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| What to Do When the Printer Jams | |
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| Becoming a Server | |
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| Enabling File and Printer Sharing | |
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| Sharing a Hard Drive or Folder | |
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| Sharing a Printer | |
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| Mr. McFeeley's Guide to E-mail | |
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| E-mail and Why It's So Cool | |
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| Microsoft Outlook | |
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| E-mail Etiquette | |
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| Help! The Network's Down! | |
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| When Bad Things Happen to Good Computers | |
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| My Computer's Dead! | |
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| Ways to Check Your Network Connection | |
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| A Bunch of Error Messages Just Flew By! | |
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| The Windows Networking Troubleshooter | |
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| Time to Experiment | |
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| How to Restart Your Computer | |
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| How to Restart a Network Server | |
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| The Care and Feeding of Your Network Guru | |
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| Computer Bribes for Serious Network Trouble | |
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| Building Your Own Network | |
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| The Bad News: You Have to Plan Ahead | |
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| Making a Network Plan | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Considering Why You Need a Network, Anyway | |
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| Making Three Basic Network Decisions That You Can't Avoid | |
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| Using a Network Starter Kit--Networks to Go | |
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| Looking at a Sample Network Plan | |
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| Choosing Your Weapon (Or, Which Server Operating System Should You Use?) | |
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| Microsoft's Server Operating Systems | |
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| Novell NetWare | |
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| Other Server Operating Systems | |
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| Peer-to-Peer Networking with Windows | |
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| Planning Your Servers | |
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| To Dedicate or Not to Dedicate | |
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| How Much Disk Space Do You Need? | |
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| What to Put on a File Server | |
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| Planning Your Network Drive Mapping | |
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| Sharing CD or DVD Drives | |
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| Using a Separate Print Server | |
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| Buying a Server Computer | |
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| Keeping the Power On | |
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| Location, Location, and Location | |
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| Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave: Cables, Adapters, and Other Stuff | |
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| What Is Ethernet? | |
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| Two Types of Ethernet Cable | |
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| Hubs and Switches | |
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| Network Interface Cards | |
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| Network Starter Kits | |
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| Installing Network Cable | |
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| Professional Touches | |
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| Going Wireless | |
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| Configuring Your Network Computers | |
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| Installing a Network Interface Card | |
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| Installing a Server Operating System | |
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| Configuring Client Computers | |
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| Testing Your Network Installation | |
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| The Dummies Guide to Network Management | |
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| Help Wanted: A Network Manager's Job Description | |
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| Identifying the Network Manager: A Closet Computer Geek | |
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| Going by the Book | |
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| Managing the Network | |
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| Doing the Routine Stuff That You Hate to Do | |
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| Managing Network Users | |
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| Patching Things Up | |
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| Getting the Tools of a Network Manager | |
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| Who Are You? (Or, Big Brother's Guide to Network Security) | |
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| Do You Need Security? | |
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| Two Approaches to Security | |
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| Mastering Your Domain | |
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| User Accounts | |
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| Passwords | |
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| Generating Passwords For Dummies | |
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| User Rights | |
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| File System Rights (Who Gets What) | |
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| It's Good to Be the Administrator | |
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| User Profiles | |
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| If I Could Save Time in a Bottleneck: Optimizing Your Network's Performance | |
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| What Exactly Is a Bottleneck? | |
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| The Eight Most Common Network Bottlenecks | |
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| Tuning Your Network the Compulsive Way | |
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| Tuning a Windows 95/98 or Millennium Edition Server | |
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| Tuning Windows XP | |
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| Tuning a Windows NT/2000 Server | |
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| Tuning a NetWare Server | |
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| Things That Go Bump in the Night: How to Protect Your Network Data | |
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| Planning for Disaster | |
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| Backing Up Your Data | |
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| Changing the Oil Every 3,000 Miles | |
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| Guarding against Dreaded Computer Viruses | |
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| How to Stay on Top of Your Network and Keep the Users Off Your Back | |
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| Training Your Users | |
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| Organizing a Library | |
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| Keeping Up with the Computer Industry | |
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| The Guru Needs a Guru, Too | |
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| Helpful Bluffs and Excuses | |
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| Webifying Your Network | |
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| Connecting Your Network to the Internet | |
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| Connecting to the Internet | |
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| Sharing an Internet Connection | |
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| Choosing a Web Browser | |
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| Understanding Internet Addresses | |
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| Coping with TCP/IP | |
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| Worrying about Security Issues | |
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| Setting Up a Web Server | |
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| Choosing a Hosting Service | |
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| Setting Up Your Own Server | |
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| Registering Your Own Domain Name | |
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| Understanding the Web Alphabet Soup | |
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| Creating Your Own Web Pages | |
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| Planning Your Web Site | |
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| How to Organize Your Web Site | |
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| What to Include on Every Page | |
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| What Kind of Pages to Include In Your Site | |
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| Choosing Tools to Create Your Web Pages | |
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| Tips for Creating a Successful Web Site | |
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| More Ways to Network | |
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| Wireless Networking | |
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| Understanding Wireless Networking | |
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| Home on the Range | |
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| Wireless Network Adapters | |
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| Wireless Access Points | |
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| Dealing with Security Issues | |
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| Dialing In to Your Network | |
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| Understanding Dial-Up Networking | |
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| Configuring a Dial-Up Server | |
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| Configuring Your Home Computer for Dial-Up Networking | |
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| Making the Connection | |
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| Using Network Resources with a Dial-Up Connection | |
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| Don't Call Us--We'll Call You | |
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| Using Remote Access Service | |
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| Hardware-Based Remote Access | |
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| Virtual Private Networking | |
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| Using Microsoft Office on a Network | |
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| Installing Office on a Network--Some Options | |
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| Accessing Network Files | |
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| Using Workgroup Templates | |
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| Networking an Access Database | |
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| Networking Older Computers | |
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| Networking Older Computers Presents Challenges | |
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| Dealing with Older Computers in Two Ways | |
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| Using a DOS Client Computer | |
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| Configuring a Network Card in an Older Computer | |
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| Welcoming Macintosh Computers to Your Network | |
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| What You Need to Know to Hook Up a Macintosh Network | |
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| What You Need to Know to Use a Macintosh Network | |
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| What You Need to Know to Network Macintoshes with PCs | |
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| Using a Linux Server | |
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| Comparing Linux with Windows | |
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| Choosing a Linux Distribution | |
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| Installing Linux | |
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| Managing User Accounts | |
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| Configuring Linux Network Settings | |
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| Running the Apache Web Server | |
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| Running the Sendmail Mail Server | |
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| Doing the Samba Dance | |
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| Using Linux as a Firewall | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Big Network Mistakes | |
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| Skimping on Cable | |
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| Turning Off or Restarting a Server Computer While Users Are Logged On | |
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| Deleting Important Files on the Server | |
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| Copying a File from the Server, Changing It, and Then Copying It Back | |
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| Sending Something to the Printer Again Just Because It Didn't Print the First Time | |
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| Unplugging a Cable While the Computer Is On | |
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| Assuming That the Server Is Safely Backed Up | |
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| Connecting to the Internet without Considering Security Issues | |
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| Plugging in a Wireless Access Point without Asking | |
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| Thinking You Can't Work Just Because the Network Is Down | |
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| Always Blaming the Network | |
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| Ten Networking Commandments | |
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| Thou Shalt Back Up Thy Hard Drive Religiously | |
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| Thou Shalt Protect Thy Network from Infidels | |
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| Thou Shalt Keepeth Thy Network Drive Pure and Cleanse It of Old Files | |
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| Thou Shalt Not Tinker with Thine Network Configuration Files Unless Thou Knowest What Thou Art Doing | |
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| Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Network | |
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| Thou Shalt Schedule Downtime before Working upon Thy Network | |
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| Thou Shalt Keep an Adequate Supply of Spare Parts | |
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| Thou Shalt Not Steal Thy Neighbor's Program without a License | |
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| Thou Shalt Train Thy Users in the Ways of the Network | |
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| Thou Shalt Write Down Thy Network Configuration upon Tablets of Stone | |
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| Ten Things You Should Keep in Your Closet | |
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| Tools | |
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| Extra Cable | |
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| Duct Tape | |
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| Extra Connectors | |
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| Patch Cables | |
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| Twinkies | |
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| Extra Network Cards | |
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| The Complete Documentation of the Network on Tablets of Stone | |
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| The Network Manuals and Disks | |
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| Ten Copies of This Book | |
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| Ten Network Gizmos Only Big Networks Need | |
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| Repeaters | |
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| Managed Switches | |
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| Bridges | |
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| Gateways | |
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| It's a RAID! | |
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| Server Farms | |
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| Gigabit Ethernet | |
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| Protocol Analyzer | |
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| Ten Hot Network Buzzwords Guaranteed to Enliven a Cocktail Party | |
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| Intranet | |
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| Wi-Fi | |
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| Client/Server | |
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| Enterprise Computing | |
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| Interoperability | |
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| Fiber | |
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| E-commerce | |
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| Broadband | |
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| Dot-Com | |
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| .Net | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |