This book covers concepts, structure, and mechanisms of operating systems. Stallings presents the nature and characteristics of modern-day operating systems clearly and completely. Includes major programming projects.

Review of Build Your Own Multimedia PC
'Ian Sinclair has done it again. He has produced yet another excellent book on personal computing... a must for all those beginning to take an interest in the practical side of IBM-style PCs.' Computing Magazine

On the surface, Mac OS X isn't all that different from Mac OS 9.1. Indeed, most users will be just as happy with the slightly older version of the Macintosh operating system as with version X. But for people who have longed for a more robust kernel with true preemptive multitasking, better graphics support, and a stronger suite of programming tools, Mac OS X is manna. Like too many other books that choose to focus on Mac OS X as just another Mac System for everyday home and office users, Mac OS X: The Complete Reference explores the new Mac OS in terms of its basic features before delving into its new architecture, server capabilities, and BSD Unix-derived features.

В Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" свыше 300 новых функций, и некоторые из них весьма впечатляют. Однако система по-прежнему поставляется без руководства пользователя. На помощь снова приходит Дэвид Пог, книга которого, благодаря юмору и глубокому знанию предмета, уже шестой год возглавляет список бестселлеров среди изданий, посвященных Макам. Книга "Mac OS X Leopard. Основное руководство" расширена и полностью переработана, в ней вы найдете ответы на все свои вопросы. Среди новых тем: автоматическое создание резервных копий с помощью Time Machine, удаленный доступ с помощью инструмента Screen Sharing (Общий экран), мгновенный просмотр документов с помощью Quick Look, виртуальные экраны Spaces. Кроме того, в книге описаны более 50 бесплатных программ, поставляемых вместе с Маком, включая Safari, iChat, Mail, Automator, Preview и TextEdit. Приложения включают решение возникающих проблем, подробный список клавиатурных комбинаций, а также словарь, где можно отыскать аналог любимой функции в Mac OS X 10.5 при переходе с Windows.

QuickTime is the industry standard for developing and distributing multimedia content on the Web and CD-ROM, for both Windows and Macintosh computers. This book includes QuickTime Pro 6 and a full set of content development tools for both Windows and Macintosh developers. This third edition of the best-selling and award-winning QuickTime for the Web is a hands-on guide showing how to integrate animation, video, recorded sound, MIDI, text, still images, VR, live streams, games, and user interactivity into a Web site. It now also covers how to benefit from QuickTime support for the MPEG-4 global multimedia standard.

There is a deep need for privacy education and technology with which to educate the e-services industry, and provide it the tools to build privacy preserving e-services. Privacy Protection for E-Services fulfills this need by reporting on the latest advances in privacy protection issues and technologies for e-services, covering important material, such as: consumer empowerment, assessing privacy risks, security technologies needed for privacy protection, systems for privacy policy enforcement, and even methods for assessing privacy technologies. Privacy Protection for E-Services is a must-read for consumers, educators, researchers, designers, and developers who are interested in the protection of consumer privacy for Internet services.