Computers titles at manybooks.net http://manybooks.net/ New Computers additions to the manybooks.net library. Thousands of free books, pre-formatted for reading on your PDA - eReader, PDF, Plucker, iSilo, Doc, or zTXT eBooks for your Palm, Pocket PC, Zaurus or Rocketbook! en-us webmaster@manybooks.net Sat, 11 Oct 08 09:01:01 -0500 <![CDATA[Man and Superman]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/shawgeor33283328.html A Comedy and a Philosophy

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Language: English

Published: 1903

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/shawgeor33283328.html <![CDATA[GNU/Linux AI & Alife HOWTO]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/eikenberryjother08AI-Alife-HOWTO.html Author: John Eikenberry

Language: English

Published: 2006

This howto mainly contains information about, and links to, various AI related software libraries, applications, etc. that work on the GNU/Linux platform. All of it is (at least) free for personal use. The new master page for this document is http://zhar.net/howto/

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/eikenberryjother08AI-Alife-HOWTO.html <![CDATA[Linux ADSM Mini-Howto]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/koeningtother08ADSM-Backup.html Author: Thomas Koening

Language: English

Published: 1997

This document describes how to install and use a client for the commercial ADSM backup system for Linux/i386.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/koeningtother08ADSM-Backup.html <![CDATA[Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/rogerspother08Advocacy.html Author: Paul L. Rogers

Language: English

Published: 2000

This document provides suggestions for how the Linux community can effectively advocate the use of Linux.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/rogerspother08Advocacy.html <![CDATA[ADSL Bandwidth Management HOWTO]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/singletarydother08ADSL-Bandwidth-Management-HOWTO.html Author: Dan Singletary

Language: English

Published: 2003

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/singletarydother08ADSL-Bandwidth-Management-HOWTO.html <![CDATA[How to Develop Accessible Linux Applications]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/snidersother08Accessibility-Dev-HOWTO.html Author: Sharon Snider

Language: English

Published: 2002

This document provides Linux software developers with guidelines and test cases for developing accessible Linux applications.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/snidersother08Accessibility-Dev-HOWTO.html <![CDATA[Linux Accessibility HOWTO]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/ruemother08Accessibility-HOWTO.html Author: Michael De La Rue

Language: English

Published: 2002

The Linux Accessibility HOWTO covers the use of adaptive technologies that are available for the Linux operating system, as well as the software applications and hardware devices that can be installed to make Linux accessible to users with disabilities. The information provided targets specific groups of individuals with similar disabilities.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/ruemother08Accessibility-HOWTO.html <![CDATA[Linux ACP Modem (Mwave) mini-HOWTO]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/sullivanmother08ACP-Modem.html Author: Mike Sullivan

Language: English

Published: 2001

This document describes how to build, setup, and use the driver and user space application necessary for using the ACP (Mwave) Modem in the IBM Thinkpad 600, 600E, and 770 models which include the on board ACP modem hardware. The latest version of this document can always be found at http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/sullivanmother08ACP-Modem.html <![CDATA[ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hogbineother08ACPI-HOWTO.html Author: Emma Jane Hogbin

Language: English

Published: 2004

Outlines how to patch a kernel for ACPI support.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hogbineother08ACPI-HOWTO.html <![CDATA[The 3 Button Serial Mouse mini-HOWTO]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/shortgother083-Button-Mouse.html Author: Geoff Short

Language: English

Published: 1998

How to get a 3 button serial mouse working properly under Linux.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/shortgother083-Button-Mouse.html <![CDATA[3D Graphics Modelling and Rendering mini-HOWTO]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/jarvisdother083D-Modelling.html Author: Dane Jarvis

Language: English

Published: 2001

Details download and installation instructions for a graphics rendering and modelling development environment using RedHat Linux.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/jarvisdother083D-Modelling.html <![CDATA[4mb Laptop HOWTO]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/richardsonbother084mb-Laptops.html Author: Bruce Richardson

Language: English

Published: 2000

How to put a "grown-up" Linux on a small-spec (4mb RAM, <=200mb hard disk) laptop.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/richardsonbother084mb-Laptops.html <![CDATA[802.1X Port-Based Authentication HOWTO]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/strandlother088021X-HOWTO.html Author: Lars Strand

Language: English

Published: 2004

This document describes the software and procedures to set up and use IEEE 802.1X Port-Based Network Access Control using Xsupplicant as Supplicant with FreeRADIUS as a back-end Authentication Server.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/strandlother088021X-HOWTO.html <![CDATA[Terminal Compromise]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/schwartauwetext93termc10.html computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims

Author: Winn Schwartau

Language: English

Published: 1991

Taki Homosoto, silver haired Chairman of Japan's huge OSO Industries, survived Hiroshima; his family didn't. Homosoto promises revenge against the United States before he dies. His passionate, almost obsessive hatred of everything American finally comes to a head when he acts upon his desires.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/schwartauwetext93termc10.html <![CDATA[The Jargon File]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/raymondericetext02jarg422.html Version 4.2.2

Author: Eric S. Raymond

Language: English

Published: 2000

This document is a collection of slang terms used by various subcultures of computer hackers. Though some technical material is included for background and flavor, it is not a technical dictionary; what we describe here is the language hackers use among themselves for fun, social communication, and technical debate. [20 Aug 2000]

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/raymondericetext02jarg422.html <![CDATA[Free for All]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/waynerpother06free_for_all.html How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High Tech Titans

Author: Peter Wayner

Language: English

Published: 2000

Read this story of how a loose-knit group of programmers, dreamers, philosophers, geniuses and fools discovered the fact that that they could write better software in less time by just giving it all away. Follow the ecstasy, the triumphs, the battles, the failures, the treachery, the cooperation, the wrong turns, the teamwork, the struggles, and the backbiting on the road to triumph and total global domination.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/waynerpother06free_for_all.html <![CDATA[The GNU Manifesto]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/stallmanother05gnumanifesto.html Author: Richard M. Stallman

Language: English

Published: 1985

Copyright (C) 1985, 1993, 2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/stallmanother05gnumanifesto.html <![CDATA[The Cluetrain Manifesto]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/variousother05cluetrain.html Author: Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger

Language: English

Published: 1999

95 Theses - Copyright 1999 Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberger

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/variousother05cluetrain.html <![CDATA[The Cathedral and the Bazaar]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/raymondericother05cathedralandbazaar.html Author: Eric S. Raymond

Language: English

Published: 1996

Version 3.0 Copyright (c) 2000 Eric S. Raymond. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Open Publication License, version 2.0.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Mail Must Get Through
The Importance of Having Users
Release Early, Release Often
How Many Eyeballs Tame Complexity
When Is a Rose Not a Rose?
Popclient becomes Fetchmail
Fetchmail Grows Up
A Few More Lessons from Fetchmail
Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style
The Social Context of Open-Source Software
On Management and the Maginot Line
Epilog: Netscape Embraces the Bazaar
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/raymondericother05cathedralandbazaar.html <![CDATA[The Coming Technological Singularity]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/vingevother05singularity.html How to Survive in the Post-Human Era

Author: Vernor Vinge

Language: English

Published: 1993

(c) 1993 by Vernor Vinge. This article may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes if it is copied in its entirety, including this notice.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/vingevother05singularity.html <![CDATA[All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/doctorowother05complexecosystems.html Author: Corey Doctorow

Language: English

Published: 2005

For the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, San Diego, California, 16 March 2005

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/doctorowother05complexecosystems.html <![CDATA[ERPANET Case Study: Project Gutenberg]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/erpanet14581458514585.html Author: ERPANET

Language: English

Published: 2004

Copyright (C) ERPANET 2004.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/erpanet14581458514585.html <![CDATA[Open Source Democracy]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/rushkoffd10751075310753.html How online communication is changing offline politics

Author: Douglas Rushkoff

Language: English

Published: 2003

The emergence of the interactive mediaspace may offer a new model for cooperation. Although it may have disappointed many in the technology industry, the rise of interactive media, the birth of a new medium, the battle to control it and the downfall of the first victorious camp, taught us a lot about the relationship of ideas to the media through which they are disseminated.

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