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----- Forwarded message from Marsee Henon <marsee@oreilly.com> ----- From: Marsee Henon <marsee@oreilly.com> To: waltman@pobox.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, December 4 Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:11:13 -0800 ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members December 4, 2003 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Dancing Barefoot -Mac OS X Unwired -The Best of The Joy of Tech ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly at Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, CA--January 6-9 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -The Buzz from 2003 Emerging Technology Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly to Handle Distribution for Fellow Computer Book Publishers -Wil Wheaton to Write Three Books for O'Reilly -Free Exhibit Hall Pass for LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, New York, NY--January 21-23, 2004 -BIND DoS Attack -RouteWord: An Interesting Diversion -Introduction to the Peer-to-Peer Sockets Project -Java vs. .NET Security, Part 1 -Five XSLT Basics -Creating Your Own Code Snippets with Whidbey -Free Exhibit Hall Guest Pass for Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, CA--January 6-9 -iPod as Digital Photographer's Best Friend -Collaborative Editing with Rendezvous -Animal ASCII Art--Do You Have Some? ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? Ask your group leader for more information. For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to: http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html Don't forget, you can receive 20% off any O'Reilly book you purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***Free ground shipping is available for online orders of at least $29.95 that go to a single U.S. address. This offer applies to U.S. delivery addresses in the 50 states and Puerto Rico. For more details, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html ***Dancing Barefoot Order Number: 6748 Wil Wheaton--blogger, geek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation's Wesley Crusher--gives us five true tales of life, love, and the absurdities of Hollywood in "Dancing Barefoot." Far from the usual celebrity tell-all, "Dancing Barefoot" is a vivid, personal account of Wil's search for his true self. If you've ever fallen in love, attended a Star Trek convention, or pondered the meaning of life, you'll find a kindred soul in the pages of "Dancing Barefoot." http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/barefoot/ ***Mac OS X Unwired Order Number: 5083 "Mac OS X Unwired" is a one-stop, wireless information source for technically savvy Mac users. The book provides a complete introduction to all the wireless technologies supported by Mac OS X, including Wi-Fi, infrared, Bluetooth, and GPRS. If you're considering wireless as an alternative to cable and DSL, or using wireless to network computers in your home, office, or on the road, this book will show you the full-spectrum view of the wireless capabilities of Mac OS X, and how to get the most out of them. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macxunwire/ Chapter 4, "Wi-Fi on the Road," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macxunwire/chapter/index.html ***The Best of The Joy of Tech Order Number: 5784 Frustrated and frazzled by technology? Or perhaps your cynicism is starting to wane? This book is a collection of the very best from The Joy of Tech online series. It also features several new, never-before-seen comics, exclusive notes from the artists about their work, an appendix of the JoyPolls, a lexicon of JoyWords, and an introduction by David Pogue. "The Best of The Joy of Tech" is an oasis of top-notch humor and images sure to refresh the mind's page and reboot the will to live. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bestjoytech/ ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***O'Reilly at Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, CA--January 6-9 In addition to all of our fabulous new Mac titles, authors David Pogue ("Missing Manual Series," and Derrick Story ("iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual," "Digital Video Pocket Guide," and "Digital Photography Pocket Guide") will grace our booth with presentations during the show. We are in booth #2143 this year. Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA http://macworldexpo.com/macworldexposf/V40/index.cvn ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***The Buzz from 2003 Emerging Technology Conference Check out the O'Reilly Network's news coverage and blogs from the 2003 Emerging Technology Conference to help you decide for 2004. http://www.oreillynet.com/et2003/ You can also download presentation and multimedia files from 2003. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/22/presentations.html The 2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference February 9-12, 2004 Westin Horton Plaza San Diego San Diego, CA 92101 http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/ User Group members who register before January 9, 2004 get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and receive 20% off the "Early Bird" price. To register for the conference, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/28/register.html ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***O'Reilly to Handle Distribution for Fellow Computer Book Publishers We will be providing distribution, sales, and fulfillment services for three other leading independent publishers--No Starch Press, Paraglyph Press, and Syngress Publishing--starting January 1, 2004. We'll be sending UGs information and review copies for our new partners. For more information check out our press release: http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1124 Here's a recent article from our local newspaper, "The Press Democrat": http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/news/03oreilly_e1.html ***Wil Wheaton to Write Three Books for O'Reilly Any honest computer geek will admit that his obsessive coding is, at heart, a futile attempt to create a world as cool as those depicted in science fiction. New evidence of the symbiotic relationship between Sci Fi and geekdom surfaced, as O'Reilly, the geek publisher-of-record, announced plans to publish three books by Wil Wheaton, blogger, geek, and the actor who portrayed Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Wil's first two books, "Dancing Barefoot" and "Just a Geek," are almost unbearably honest tales of life, love, and the rigors of being an ensign on the Starship Enterprise. Take a look at Wil's December 2 blog announcement: http://wilwheaton.net/ And you can read our press release: http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1125 --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Free Exhibit Hall Pass for LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, New York, NY--January 21-23, 2004 Register online with Priority Code PC0260 by December 19, 2004 http://www.linuxworldexpo.com ***BIND DoS Attack Noel Davis looks at a denial-of-service attack against BIND and problems in KDE, GnuPG, screen, Ethereal, FreeRadius, mod_gzip, Pan, detecttr, OpenCA, EPIC, and libnids. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/12/01/insecurities.html ***RouteWord: An Interesting Diversion Graphs--loosely connected, unordered collections of nodes--are highly important to computer science. Visualizing graphs is even more important: think of maps, routes, webs, and any other interconnected relationships. O'Reilly author Andrew Odewahn explains how he accidentally created a new type of word puzzle while playing around with graph visualization. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/11/26/routewords.html Throughout the month of December, we're running daily RouteWord puzzles from Andrew Odewahn. Here's today's puzzle: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/12/routeword/index.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Introduction to the Peer-to-Peer Sockets Project The Peer-to-Peer Sockets project reimplements Java's standard Socket, ServerSocket, and InetAddress classes to work on the JXTA peer-to-peer network rather than on the standard TCP/IP network. Brad Neuberg shows how to configure and set up the P2P Socket libraries to run on your system, how to create and run P2P server and client sockets, and how to work with the P2P InetAddress class, and discusses security issues and limitations in the framework. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/12/03/p2psockets.html ***Java vs. .NET Security, Part 1 Java and .NET address similar code security issues, but which one offers the best security implementation? Denis Piliptchouk's series starts with a side-by-side look at how each performs configuration, code verification, and memory isolation. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/26/javavsdotnet.html --------------------- XML --------------------- ***Five XSLT Basics This article by Michael Fitzgerald introduces newbies to the five basics of XSLT 1.0, from what it is to how to get it to work--information you'll also find in the first chapter of Michael's book, "Learning XSLT." http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/11/26/learnXSLT.html Learning XSLT Order Number: 3277 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnxslt/index.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Creating Your Own Code Snippets with Whidbey One of the new features found in Visual Studio .NET Whidbey is Insert Snippets. The Insert Snippets feature allows you to insert commonly-used code blocks into your project, thereby improving the efficiency of your development process. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to add your own snippets to Whidbey. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/12/01/whidbeysnippets.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Free Exhibit Hall Guest Pass for Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, CA--January 6-9 Register online by December 8 with Priority code PC0211 http://www.macworldexpo.com ***iPod as Digital Photographer's Best Friend Yes, the iPod can store thousands of songs. But now you can use it to upload thousands of pictures too, directly from the memory card. And thanks to Panther, that's only the beginning of what is sure to become an indispensable tool for many digital photographers. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/12/02/photo_ipod.html ***Collaborative Editing with Rendezvous Apple's adoption of Zeroconf networking (branded as "Rendezvous") has opened the door to new ways of sharing information on local networks. In this article, Wei Meng Lee shows you how to use two collaborative editing tools: SubEthaEdit and iStorm. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/12/02/rendezvous.html --------------------- Fun --------------------- ***Animal ASCII Art--Do You Have Some? If you are an artist with you keyboard, please let me know. I am looking for ASCII versions of our famous O'Reilly animals. Please send an email to marsee@oreilly.com with your original rendition. Until next time-- Marsee ----- End forwarded message ----- Attachment:
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