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Title: IPv6 Essentials Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Silvia Hagen Rating: 4/5  If your day to day involvement with IP consists only of managing WINS, DNS, DHCP and subnet configurations, then this book is not for you. Don't get me wrong, there are many interesting sections worth reading that go far in introducing administrative aspects of IPv6, and no time is wasted reading them. This title, however, is for those of you who daily get really dirty with IP and want to know everything there is to know about the new version, the differences between the versions, the features and behaviors of IPv6, and the new tools for configuration, management and tracking. The book starts of with a very brief and concise history of IPv6, and then jumps right into well explained sections on packet structure, addressing, and ICMP. Each of those sections are written clearly and interestingly, make good use of figures to visually illustrate the information being discussed. Once the structure and hardware-related management points have been driven home, the author provides many chapters that serve as an excellent reference guide and will prove useful well after your initial read. Chapters on IPv6 security, QoS, Upper-layer and routing protocols proceed extended reviews and demonstrations of real-life networking design aspects, protocol version interoperability, co-existence configurations, and toped off with platform specific utility demonstrations. If you are planning on moving your environment to IPv6, increasing your understanding of the technology for more informed decisions, or looking for a reference guide to assist in your current administration of an IPv6 environment, this is the title for you.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (2nd Edition) Publisher: Sams Authors: Laura Lemay, Richard Colburn, Robert Kiesling Rating: 5/5  The first book which I bought to try to learn Perl was a needlessly high hurdle to jump: Programming Perl, by Larry Wall (the inventor of the language). While I wouldn't go so far as to regret the purchase, Wall seems more interested in demonstrating whatever cute, obscure trick jumps into his mind at the moment, than in giving the reader a systematic grounding in the language. It isn't what one new to Perl needs-- especially being, as it is, a language with so many inelegancies and side-effects. Then I bought and studied this book by Till, whose patient pedagogy allowed me to find my feet. I think, in fact, that Till is too humble. If one really sat at the computer and concentrated on the book for several hours a day, as he plans, one could learn what he teaches in no more than seven days. In my experience, it is also practical as a reference later, within the scope of the basic topics covered. Of course it is not exhaustive; but holding that against it is about like criticizing Euclid for not discussing calculus. Now I can go back to Wall's book with some hope of appreciating what he says this time.
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Title: Enterprise Architecture Using the Zachman Framework Publisher: Course Technology Authors: Carol O'Rourke, Neal Fishman, Warren Selkow Rating: 5/5 Finally the topic of enterprise architecture is addressed in a way that is easy to understand. This book is easy to read. It's a lengthy book, maybe too lengthy, but a path in the table of contents gets you through the 'meat'of the book quicker. The questions at the end of the chapters help you think about what you just read. For those of you familiar with other enterprise architecture books like Melissa Cook and Steven Spewak, you will find that this book covers all 36 cells, not just parts of it. The framework presented is meticulously explained and described toward the end of the book. The commonplace case studies throughout the book show you how to reduce complexity by sharing information in a very methodical manner, piece by piece. The author clearly emphasizes how to document this communication by creating models for each cell of the framework. The last chapter in the book actually shows you examples of ways to implement. You'll recognize everyday occurrences of just trying to get the work done. Other books have sections containing information about the Zachman framework, but this is the only one I've seen that is totally based on it. It's a good read and well worth your time if you are interested in architecture and you want to get started somewhere. If only they'd taught this stuff when I was in school.
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Title: Unix Power Tools, Third Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Shelley Powers, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides Rating: 5/5 This book is a true treasure chest, full of tips and tricks for Unix admins, users, enthusiasts. The CD ROM comes very handy too. Definetely worth the money.
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