Explains the basics of UNIX and covers topics such as booting the system, using various shells, navigating directories and files, opening and editing files, email, chat systems, and system administration

Complete Idiot's Guide To Linux, Second Edition, covers: Preparing to install the system, Using shells and online documentation, The X Windows graphical interface, Networking and Internet, Administration, Configuring Linux for multimedia , and A guide to available software and tools. If you have been wanting to get started using Linux, but are not sure how to go about it or have not made deep inroads into your installed system, you'll benefit most from this book. In addition, the step-by-step guide to standard Linux tasks will satisfy your need to utilize the system's capabilities, especially its Internet functions.

A tutorial that teaches readers how to use the powerful UNIX operating system. The book's friendly format combines solid instructions with a light-hearted style full of wit and humor that takes the fear out of learning. Techno Nerd Teaches, OOPS!, E-Z shortcuts, and Speak like a Geek tips help users throughout the book.

A guide for beginners offers diagrams and instructions for creating and updating computer networks in the home and office, covering new technologies, troubleshooting, and security.

A primer written to teach the fundamentals of setting up and maintining a network within the Solaris operating environment.

A guide to Mac computing essentials showcases the updated features of OS X, covering installationg, integration, applications, networking, and troubleshooting.

"Artful Making" offers the first proven, research-based framework for engineering ingenuity and innovation. This book is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Harvard Business School professor Robert Austin and leading theatre director and playwright Lee Devin. Together, they demonstrate striking structural similarities between theatre artistry and production and today's business projects--and show how collaborative artists have mastered the art of delivering innovation "on cue," on immovable deadlines and budgets. These methods are neither mysterious nor flaky: they are rigorous, precise, and--with this book's help--absolutely learnable and reproducible. They rely on cheap and rapid iteration rather than on intensive up-front planning, and with the help of today's enabling technologies, they can be applied in virtually any environment with knowledge-based outputs. Moreover, they provide an overarching framework for leveraging the full benefits of today's leading techniques for promoting flexibility and innovation, from agile development to real options.