This book has been designed as a complete self-contained text for learning programming, using the Z80. It can be used by a person who has never programmed before, and should be of value to anyone using the Z80.

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Explains SELinux and its purpose, the LSM/SELinux architecture, its supporting services and how they are implemented within GNU/Linux.

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Chapter 1: How Self-Service Applications Help You Do More With Less
by Ken Camp

The Shortcut Guide to Improving Government Services Through Unified Communications focuses on four facets of unified communications technologies in terms of the value and impact each brings to government services at the local, state, and federal levels. This informative new eBook reviews how self-service applications can improve customer satisfaction, increase revenue, decrease costs, and enable resource sharing across government agencies. It uncovers the value in teleworking programs and technologies. It explores contact center solutions to improve communications both internally and with citizens. And lastly, this eBook addresses how government officials and organizations are using emerging social media networking tools to provide enhanced services to citizens.

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Chapter 1: The Power of iSCSI in Microsoft Virtualization
by Greg Shields

With the entry of enterprise-worthy iSCSI solutions into the market, IT environments of all sizes can leverage the very same network infrastructure they’ve built over time to host that storage. This already-present network pervasiveness combined with the dynamic nature of virtualization makes iSCSI a perfect fit for your storage needs. But correctly connecting all the pieces, however, can be a challenge. To help, The Shortcut Guide to Architecting iSCSI Storage for Microsoft Hyper-V digs deep into the decisions that environments large and small must consider. It looks at best practices for Hyper-V storage topologies and technologies, as well as cost and manageability implications for the solutions available on the market today.

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What is Application Virtualization?
by Chris Hampton

If you have spent time around the proverbial IT water cooler or stopped by your favorite tech blog lately, I am sure you have heard all the hype around virtualization. Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in the IT industry and according to Gartner Research, virtualization will be the number one technology initiative in 2009. With constrained budgets and a heightened sense of urgency from many corporate CFOs, IT directors and CIOs are turning to virtualization for cost savings.

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Here are several excellent AdobeFlex Tutorials and Learning Materials, atlearn.adobe.com, that explain how Flex works and how to use itto effectively build and create Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Flexuses the Adobe Flash platform to create user friendly, interactive, andmultimedia web applications. These Flex tutorials start out with thebasics, move onto creating a sample RIA, and thenteach the things […]

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A compact yet comprehensive guide to everyday Ubuntu use. Written for anybody switching to Ubuntu, particularly former Windows users, and assumes zero Linux knowledge.

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These RubyOn Rails Reference Cards And Cheat Sheets provideimportant reference material, techniques, and tips to be used for quickdevelopment in Ruby On Rails. Ruby On Rails, often shortened to Railsor RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Rubyprogramming language. It is intended to be used with an Agiledevelopment methodology which is used by […]

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Here are some excellent Web Technology Talks,available at CDATA Zone. These talks cover various webtechnologies, including web services, XML, PHP, SOAP, SOA, anddigital identity. All of these topics are drafted either in a pdf or aPowerPoint presentation. These user friendly slides contain screenshotswhich help make understanding and learning thesetechnologies easier. - Workingwith Web Services - AdvancedXML and Web Services in PHP - Whoam […]

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Here are 849online books covering Linux and Open Source topics,as linked below. These are excellent resources that will help you learnand understand these important technical and I.T. areas. Some of thesefreely available computer books are in Chinese, but most are in English. - Backup (3) - Database (61)Mysql  - Email(37)  - EmbeddedLinux  (17)  - Enterprise/Business (24) - Games (4) - GraphicsEngine  (2)  - […]

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