"Adrian Wong is one of the few really devoted scholars in the field of computer hardware. He applies a rare scientific rigorousness to his work that makes it stand out among the usual stuff on the net. He is a real asset to the PC enthusiast."

—Jeremy Smith, ABIT Computer

"By far the best BIOS Guide there is."

—Steven Lynch, HardOCP.com

"The BIOS Optimization Guide is a one-of-a-kind resource that I refer to anybody who wants to tweak their computers to run the best. And I wouldn't refer others to something I wouldn't use myself. I've referred to the BOG countless times as I upgrade my BIOS or get a new motherboard. The in-depth explanations really let you know what each BIOS option means, and which settings these options yield the highest performance and stability."

—Brandom Hum, AllHardwareZone.com

"Adrian knows more about tweaking a BIOS than Bill Gates knows about Windows. Short and sweet: If you own a computer you need to know about the BIOS; and Adrian is flat-out the authority when it comes to understanding, configuring, or tweaking a computer's BIOS."

—Digital Dave, WinOSCentral.com

"The BIOS is the basic input–output system of any computer that defines how the individual parts of the hardware are interacting with each other. Many of the parameters are completely transparent to the user; however, there are others that are user accessible and allow customizing the performance depending on the individual needs and the choice of components in the system. What was a myth-surrounded part of any computer only some 5 years ago has been largely decrypted by now, mostly due to efforts coming from enthusiasts. Any guide like this will offer invaluable help not only as a reference, but also for troubleshooting of personal computers."

—Michael Schuette, LostCircuits.com

"If you ever wanted to know what you can do with your BIOS, Adrian has it covered. Being an admirer for more years than I can count, the BIOS Optimization Guide is a fantastic journey into the inner workings of a PC at the root level. It has taught me how to tweak my PC in a safe way and get the most out of my system. Period."

—David Kroll, ExtensionTech.net

"It is the one piece of the system that is powered continually—even when the computer is unplugged. It is the first program that runs on start-up. Without it, no operating system would install. It is the first component that requires configuration. It is the first feature that requires your attention. It is... THE SYSTEM BIOS. The very first procedure to be performed on a newly assembled computer system is to ensure that the system BIOS is up-to-date. This procedure in itself can be clouded in mystery and present some trepidation for the average user. Then comes the Black Art of BIOS configuration. Has the BIOS detected the hardware correctly? Is there some hardware that should remain disabled? What do each of the BIOS settings mean, and more importantly, what do they do? Whether you are planning to build a new system or merely upgrade an old one, it is advisable to have some knowledge of the system BIOS. The Definitive BIOS Guide from Rojak Pot represents one of the most complete resources for BIOS configuration currently available. Check it out!"

—Thomas Monk, Accelenation.com

"The BIOS Optimization Guide is a truly useful resource for those looking to get the most out of their systems. I often point people to the BOG to learn more about memory timings and what they mean."

—Sean Sinha, OCZ Technology

"95% of all Bios optimizations that I now know I learned from Rojak Pot's guide. And so did everyone else. If they tell you different, they are not telling the you the truth or they read it on a site that stole the information from his."

—Frank Trockel, Trainwrecker.com

"Whether you are an overclocking uber geek or a first-time computer user, Adrian's BIOS Optimization Guide is a must. I can truthfully say that 90% of what I have learned about BIOS optimization has been through the use of Adrian's guide. Why else would I refer to him as 'The King of the BIOS'?"

—Kevin Elliot, Hi-TechReviews.com

"Adrian has done the tech community a great service by making this guide. It has personally saved me time on both repairs and evaluations. With BIOS options as numerous as they are today, it's wonderful to have a one-stop-source to decipher them all."

—Nathan Warawa, GamingIn3D.com

"You know, I couldn't count the amount of times I've referred people to your BIOS Guideelit's very informative, and saves me the time of explaining why people should disable Video BIOS Shadowing, why Fast Writes isn't such a big deal for today's games, and much more." "Just wanted to say thanks for saving me time and also helping me out. (I learned a lot from it, too!) Keep up the most excellent work."

—Matt Burris, 3DGPU.com

"...this isn't so much a Knowledge base but a labor of love. Not only has this guide had a place in both Titch's and My Favorites for many years, but I'm really excited to see it still going after many, many years. Well done, Adrian. Keep up the excellent work."

—JohnL, The ModFathers.com

"Adrian Wong of Adrian's Rojak Pot has been building up his BIOS Guide since late 1999. Today, he hit version 6.0, and the guide is now comprehensive in its scope. It comes highly recommended from me due to the fact that BIOS optimizations can yield positive results in performance and compatibility for everyone. Adrian also goes into far greater detail than even your best motherboard manual and even debunks some "myths" that some manufacturers still propagate."

—Ryu Connor, Tech-Report.com

"This is one of the most comprehensive and user-friendly guides I have found to date. I was able to do various tweaks with my mem/cpu that increased my overall system performance by about 15%. Many of the BIOS tweaks will depend on your mobo and whether certain options are even available in your BIOS menu. However, I do recommend that even ppl that aren't familiar with working with the BIOS give it a go with this guide... Really helps to answer all your questions."

—James, TimSoft.com

"Some bookmarks occupy space in my Favorites folder just in case I need such a resource in the future, but others are frequent visits. I can easily see this one being a resource to which I refer often. This site contains very good explanations of the numerous configuration options you see in the BIOS. ...this truly is a link you'll want to keep around. This one is already sync'ed to my iPaq!"

—LockerGnome.com

"This is the most comprehensive BIOS Guide available. Just about every option in a modern BIOS is explained. The best performance setting is usually pointed out, and the explanations are easy to follow. A must for any overclocker wanna-be."

—Tim B., OCWorkbench.com

"I'd like to congratulate the author of the BIOS Optimization Guide. This is absolutely marvelous. I was looking specifically for advanced information on the AGP Aperture Size setting, and you guys have got TEN paragraphs on it."

—Sherman, Microsoft Support Services

The first authoritative guide to optimizing your PC's BIOS

Your PC's BIOS enables your software and hardware to work together. But they can work together better—way better. If you want the best possible PC performance and stability, this book shows you exactly what to tweak, and how to tweak it.

Until now, most BIOS information was terse, incomprehensible...practically useless. Not anymore! Breaking Through the BIOS Barrier: The Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide for PCs reveals the secrets behind 200 of today's most important BIOS settings. You won't just learn what they're for: You'll learn exactly how to use them in both optimization and troubleshooting.

Author Adrian Wong created the Web's #1 BIOS resource: the BIOS Optimization Guide at Adrian's Rojak Pot. Nobody knows more about your PC's BIOS... and no other book delivers this much accurate, usable information!

Learn about:

• The BIOS—what it really is, what it does, and how to optimize it safely
• All the different BIOS features and how to optimize them
• Optimizing your system memory, CPU, PCI bus, AGP port, USB ports, hard disks, and more
• Customizing the boot sequence and accelerating the bootup process
• Maximizing system security and stability
• Restoring your BIOS in any emergency, step by step
• Myths and misconceptions surrounding the BIOS—and the truth

If you're a gamer, PC enthusiast, or tech support professional... if you care about PC performance and reliability... if you're passionate about what goes on under the hood... this is the book you've been searching for!

© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

The practical guide to building "on demand" enterprise infrastructure

This book brings together innovative strategies and technologies for becoming an "on demand" enterprise: one that can respond almost instantaneously to any customer demand, market opportunity, or threat.

Leading IBM enterprise consultant Craig Fellenstein shows how to build On Demand infrastructure for integrating all your business processes, partners, suppliers, and customers. Drawing on consulting engagements with many of the world's largest organizations--and IBM's own processes--Fellenstein shows how to:

• Plan and migrate towards an on demand operating environment
• How autonomic computing streamlines and simplifies IT service delivery, and dramatically improves business agility
• Use grid computing to deliver new business services more quickly, flexibly, and cost-effectively
• Leverage on demand technologies to enter new global markets and become a world-class e-Business service provider

Whether you're an IT or business leader, manager, analyst, or strategic planner, this is the blueprint for your on demand revolution.

The J2EE(TM) Platform has become the technology of choice for developing professional e-commerce applications, interactive Web sites, and Web-enabled applications and services. Servlet and JSP(TM) technology is the foundation of this platform: it provides the link between Web clients and server-side applications. In this 2nd edition of the worldwide bestseller, the authors show you how to apply the latest servlet and JSP capabilities. Unlike other books that treat servlet or JSP technology in isolation, Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages provides a unified treatment, showing you when servlet technology is best, when the JSP approach is preferred, and when (and how) servlets and JSP should work together.

Part I provides exhaustive coverage of the servlet 2.4 specification. It starts with server configuration, basic syntax, the servlet life cycle, and use of form data. It moves on to applying HTTP 1.1, cookies, and session tracking. Advanced topics include compressing Web content, incrementally updating results, dynamically generating images, and creating shopping carts.

Part II gives an in-depth guide to JSP 2.0. It covers both the "classic" JSP scripting elements and the new JSP 2.0 expression language. It shows how to control the content type, designate error pages, include files, and integrate JavaBeans components. Advanced topics include sharing beans, generating Excel spreadsheets, and dealing with concurrency.

Part III covers two key supporting technologies: HTML forms and database access with JDBC(TM). It explains every standard HTML input element and shows how to use appropriate JDBC drivers, perform database queries, process results, and perform updates. Advanced topics include parameterized queries, stored procedures, and transaction control.

Design strategies include ways to integrate servlet and JSP technology, best practices for invoking Java code from JSP pages, plans for dealing with missing and malformed data, and application of the MVC architecture.

Handy guides walk you through use of three popular servlet and JSP engines (Apache Tomcat, Macromedia JRun, and Caucho Resin) and some of the most widely used database systems (MySQL, Oracle9i, Microsoft Access).

Volume 2 of this book covers advanced topics: filters, custom tag libraries, database connection pooling, Web application security, the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL), Apache Struts, JavaServer Faces (JSF), JAXB, and more.

• The same clear step-by-step explanations that made the first edition so popular
• Completely updated for the latest standards: servlets 2.4 and JSP 2.0
• Hundreds of completely portable, fully documented,industrial-strength examples

Detailed treatment of Apache Tomcat, Macromedia JRun, and Caucho Resin Online access to all source code, available free for unrestricted use at the author's www.coreservlets.com web site.

This is the SQL reference you'll reach for first, every time!

If you're an SQL programmer, you can easily picture how useful a comprehensive, single-volume Transact-SQL command reference manual would be in streamlining your work. And if that book was rich in examples, was written with users of all levels of expertise in mind, and was even designed to fit comfortably on your desktop, you'd probably buy it right away, wouldn't you? Well, look no further—Transact-SQL Desk Reference, by noted programming instructor Deac Lancaster, is exactly the book you need.

As it turns out, Transact-SQL Desk Reference is just the book Deac himself was looking for. The problem was, no such book existed, so he saved programmers everywhere a lot of trouble and he wrote it himself! The book answers the question, "How exactly do I write a statement to do a particular job?" by providing the full syntax of each command along with examples showing each command in action. Then, to assist you in making your code more portable, Transact-SQL Desk Reference shows where Transact-SQL diverges from the ANSI SQL standard. The commands are arranged by functional area and are well indexed and cross-referenced, making it as easy as possible to find what you're looking for-even if you don't know the command's name. Inside, you'll find:

• SQL commands grouped logically by purpose and function, plus an index so you can jump right to the command
• Definitions that give the full syntax of each command, along with examples of each command in use plus tips on maximizing portability
• Additional chapters covering RDBMS concepts, details of Transact-SQL, and advanced SELECT queries!

This book is intended for programmers of all levels working with Microsoft SQL Server.

• The definitive, real-world guide to Oracle data warehousing
• Maximizing performance, flexibility, and manageability in production environments
• Hardware/software architectures, star schema design, partitioning, and more
• Industrial strength data loading and query optimization techniques
• By the world-renowned architect of 7-Eleven's multi-terabyte datawarehouse

Maximize Oracle data warehouse performance, flexibility, and manageability

Oracle DBAs finally have a definitive guide to every aspect of designing, constructing, tuning, and maintaining star schema data warehouses with Oracle 8i and 9i. Bert Scalzo, one of the world's leading Oracle data warehousing experts, offers practical, hard-won lessons and breakthrough techniques for maximizing performance, flexibility, and manageability in any production environment. Coverage includes:

• Data warehousing fundamentals for DBAs--including what a data warehouse isn't
• Planning software architecture: business intelligence, user interfaces, Oracle versions, OS platforms, and more
• Planning hardware architecture: CPUs, memory, disk space, and configuration
• Radically different star schema design for radically improved performance
• Tuning ad-hoc queries for lightning speed Industrial-strength data loading techniques
• Aggregate tables: maximizing performance benefits, minimizing complexity tradeoffs
• Improving manageability: The right ways to partition
• Data warehouse administration: Backup/recovery, space and extent management, updates, patches, and more

Master Java development with this award-winning multimedia CD-ROM and book package!

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Created by leading corporate trainers Deitel & Associates, Inc., this hands-on, interactive training course combines the world’s #1 Java training CD-ROM—The Java 2 Multimedia Cyber Classroom, Fifth Edition—and the leading Java textbook, Java How to Program, Fifth Edition. Start with basic syntax, then master flow, control, methods, arrays, objects, strings, graphics, GUI development, exceptions, multithreading, files/streams, networking, multimedia, data structures, collections and more. This new edition contains enhanced coverage of inheritance and polymorphism, NIO, Web development with JDBC™, servlets and JSP™. It also contains an end-to-end object-oriented design learning experience, fully updated for the latest UML™ standard. With its unique combination of live code, audio commentary and in-depth printed and online explanations, you’ll master Java faster than you ever thought possible!

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Praise for WebDAV: Next-Generation Web Authoring:

"WebDAV combines the ease of use of a file system with the global reach of the Web-and this is the book that will tell you how to use it."
—Clay Shirky, Internet technology consultant

"Lisa Dusseault has unparalleled WebDAV expertise and deep protocol implementation experience. This book is a critical resource for those seeking to understand and leverage WebDAV's potential, providing the most in-depth coverage of WebDAV available anywhere."
—Jim Whitehead, co-designer of WebDAV

"WebDAV extends the underlying communication framework of the Web, HTTP, to support the essential components of sharing. With an organized, clear style, this book explains not only what WebDAV is and how it works, but also its role in a wide variety of Internet applications. A tour de force."
—Larry Masinter, chair, HTTP Working Group, and principal scientist, Adobe Systems

"Until now, anyone who wanted to understand WebDAV had to wade through dozens of Web pages, several complicated standards, and messages from many mailing lists. This book gathers all the relevant information into one complete and easy-to-read reference."
—Greg Stein, author of mod_dav, Apache Foundation chairman

The definitive guide to WebDAV authoring, management, and publishing.

Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is the IETF standard protocol for Web site authoring and wide area collaboration. WebDAV's document sharing and management services make it the ideal platform for Internet file and data management applications. This comprehensive book covers the WebDAV protocol from the bits on the wire all the way to custom application design and implementation.

Experienced WebDAV implementer Lisa Dusseault not only provides a complete description of WebDAV but also illustrates that behavior with numerous examples and protocol traces from real clients and servers. The author covers each protocol feature, first explaining how it works and then illustrating its use in a live implementation. In each case, the author describes not only how the protocol was supposed to work, but how it actually does, with attention to the steps required to make a working implementation.

This book delivers crucial details needed by application designers, software engineers, and information managers:

• Complete coverage of the protocol and popular implementations
• Practical design rules for quickly designing and deploying any WebDAV-based application
• Real-world application case studies, including online calendaring and photo albums
• Two chapters on building custom WebDAV applications, including ready-to-run examples compatible with Internet Explorer®
• Coverage of the new Versioning and Access Control standards