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In The Best Project Management Tips & Techniques for CTOs, ExecSense examines easy-to-implement strategies that other leading CTOs find most successful in helping them more effectively plan, organize, and manage key technology projects. Take the 60 minutes to view this webinar (on your computer, mobile phone, iPod, iPad, Kindle or printed out) to learn best practices for maximizing your personal productivity, managing your colleagues you have working on various technology projects, and specific ways to inspire your team to make sure that you get the best results possible.

The webinar is led by an expert on project management best practices specifically for CTOs, Andy Kaufman (President, Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development Inc.), and focuses on:

- Everything you need to know in 60 minutes about the best project management tips and techniques for CTOs, and how to maximize your own and your team's productivity

- Easy-to-implement project management tips and techniques for CTOs, including how to revamp the way you strategize and organize your approach to new technology projects, how to better manage colleagues you have working on a project, specific ways to inspire team members to reach and exceed key project goals, how to improve your budget forecasting, and how to leverage effective project management techniques to being seen as a technology team that can handle the company's most important projects

- The 10 questions most asked by CTOs with respect to how they can improve their project management skills, avoid the project management mistakes that CTOs most commonly make, and inspire their team members to reach and exceed project goals

- Case studies of CTOs widely regarded as the best project managers, what works best for them, and important tips and tricks they use that you can immediately capitalize on ... Read more

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Chapters: Robert D. Putnam, Jay Cooke, Donald V. Bennett, Chris Redfern, Andy Farkas, Harry C. Gahn, Kenn Kaufman, William Gordon, Mark Wagoner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: . Robert David Putnam (born 1941 in Rochester, New York) is a political scientist and professor of public policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also visiting professor and director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester (UK). Putnam developed the influential two-level game theory that assumes international agreements will only be successfully brokered if they also result in domestic benefits. His most famous (and controversial) work, Bowling Alone, argues that the United States has undergone an unprecedented collapse in civic, social, associational, and political life (social capital) since the 1960s, with serious negative consequences. Putnam graduated from Swarthmore College in 1963, won a Fulbright Fellowship to study at Balliol College, Oxford, and went on to earn master's and doctorate degrees from Yale University, the latter in 1970. He taught at the University of Michigan until going to Harvard in 1979, where he has held a variety of positions, including Dean of the Kennedy School, and is currently the Malkin Professor of Public Policy. His first work in the area of social capital was Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, a comparative study of regional governments in Italy which drew great scholarly attention for its argument that the success of democracies depends in large part on the horizontal bonds that make up social capital. In 1995 he published '"Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital" in the Journal of Democracy. The article was widely read...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=615394 ... Read more

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Linux is the most exciting development today in the UNIX world - and some would say in the world of PC-compatible.A complete, UNIX-compatible operating system developed by volunteers on the Internet, Linux is distributed freely in electronic form and for low cost from many vendors.Its software packages include the X Window System (X11R6); Emacs and TEX; a complete software development environment including C, C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk, and more; libraries, debuggers, multimedia support, scientific and database applications, and much more.Developed first on the PC, it has been ported to many other architectures, and even a POSIX-compliant version has been developed.

Running Linux explains everything you need to understand, install, and start using the Linux operating system.This book includes a comprehensive installation tutorial, complete information on system maintenance, tools for document development and programming, and guidelines for network web site administration.

New topics in the second edition include:* Printer configuration, management, and use* Configuration of network clients for NFS and NIS* Expanded information on configuring a wide range of hardware devices* Updated configuration information for the kernel and Xfree86Amazon.com Review
The Linux operating system has made a lot of progress in the past few years, and Running Linux has progressed right along with it to remain the single best general-purpose book for curious computer users who want to install, use, and enjoy Linux. The team of authors present a text that's simultaneously detailed and readable. Coupled with an inquisitive and capable reader, that's a recipe for success with the world's most popular open-source operating system. This new edition adds coverage of the GNOME desktop environment, the Apache/MySQL/PHP server suite, and the Postfix mail transfer daemon. It also covers core capabilities and behaviors of Linux through kernel version 2.4. There's better coverage of network security (including firewalling and ADSL link configuration), and coverage of how to set up audio-related hardware and software.

Perhaps best of all, this book conveys a sense of the "Linux attitude" as the authors see it. Linux, they say, is largely about experimentation, research, trial and error, and participation in a community. This comes in welcome contrast to books that focus on recipes (follow these steps to accomplish A; do these things to make your system do B). Though the authors of this book provide lots of how-to information, it's always presented with an eye toward further exploration. In explaining how to build the kernel, for example, the authors provide six concise steps as a reference, but then go on for several pages about designing makefiles and how to deal with error messages. This book's a treat. --David Wall

Topics covered: Assuming you know next to nothing about Linux, socially and historically as well as technically, this book teaches you what you need to know to make the operating system meet your desktop and server computing requirements. Coverage takes you from preparing to install Linux (in a multi-OS environment if you wish), continues through system administration and the most useful applications (like TeX and Internet clients), and proceeds to cover programming tools and server daemons (notably Apache, MySQL, and PHP). The coverage is mostly generic, but peculiarities of Red Hat, SuSE, and Debian get attention, too. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (136)

Unnecessary
I got this book after a friend of mine highly recommended. Unfortunately I feel buying a book on Linux makes little sense giving that Linux constantly changes and the book is never up to date. Also there is a ton of material out there on the WEB so unless you just want your bookshelf to look good there really isn't much reason for buying Linux books.

Other then that I think this is still the best written book about Linux. It's easy to read and it doesn't make you fall a sleep after first few pages.

Looking for better
There is a new edition of this book out now.
Not a book to recommend for basic users of today's Linux.

THe best Linux Book on the Market
This is hands-down, the best Linux book on the Market today...It navigates you easily through an ocean of knowledge when dealing with this operating system.One can quite literally begin at page one and read through the final chapter and have an expert view of Linux Operating Sytems.Highest recommendations.

So far, so good...
BEWARE: Many of these customer reviews are dated.For example, the best and worst cited by Amazon are from 1999 and 2001, respectively.This is the 5th edition, published in late 2005/early 2006.FYI...

I gave it four stars simply because what I did read was very helpful, but I have much more to go.I may give it five later.

My GoTo Book
I love this book; I recommend it to people at least twice a day when I visit [...].This book covers every aspect of installing and booting a GNU/Linux operating system, from choosing a distribution, to running specific pieces of software.It includes tangible and detailed, though introductory, material on hardware, networking, software installation, using Emacs and Vi, desktop environments, security, and package management.Many of the topics, such as Samba and networking, focus on making your GNU/Linux installation part of a wider network with a variety of operating systems.Some of it, for example the chapter on TCP/IP is not even GNU/Linux-specific, but is highly educational.

The best quality of this book that makes it my goto book is that it is a good introduction to thinking about things in the Unix tradition, and firmly keeps encouraging the reader to use the command-line instead of steering him or her to GUI tools.That's why I suggest reading the entire book (not necessarily comprehending, but reading) before trying to install a GNU/Linux distribution. ... Read more

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In the successful series format--the official tie-in to the heralded biopic of the late comic genius Andy Kaufman, the popular and controversial star of Taxi, starring Jim Carrey, Courtney Love, and Danny DeVito, from the same team who wrote and directed the award-winning The People vs. Larry Flynt. Known as a "comic's comic," Andy Kaufman built his career on guest appearances on Saturday Night Live and David Letterman, transformed his "foreign man" character into the enormously successful Latka Gravas on the popular TV show Taxi, and then made headline news wrestling any woman who challenged him. His career ended tragically when he died of lung cancer at the age of 35. Today, Andy Kaufman's work is seen constantly on reruns of Taxi and on Comedy Central, and he is a cult figure for an entire generation of comics, from Michael Richards (Seinfeld) to Sinbad. Robin Williams, Steve Martin, and especially, Jim Carrey, have lauded Kaufman as the originator of modern comic sketches. No one on earth could bring Andy Kaufman back to life like the amazing Jim Carrey. In a remarkable performance, Carrey transforms himself into Latka Gravas, Tony Clifton, and many of Kaufman's other personas. Man on the Moon not only captures the genius and madness of Andy Kaufman (and Jim Carrey) for their fans but introduces Kaufman's work to an entire new generation.In the Newmarket Shooting Script Series format, here is the complete shooting script, an introduction and notes by the award-winning screenwriters, movie stills, credits, and an interview with the director. Also appearing in the movie is Danny DeVito as Kaufman's agent, Courtney Love as the comic's girlfriend, the cast of Taxi (Judd Hirsch, Marilu Henner, Christopher Lloyd, and Tony Danza), David Letterman, wrestler Jerry Lawlor, and many, many others. Produced by Jersey Films known for Pulp Fiction, Out of Sight, and Living Out Loud. ... Read more

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Puts the film in an entirely different light
If you've seen the film enoughto be fiarly familiar with it's structure and narrative,this script will be a revelation.As stated in the title,this is a "shooting script",the original version submitted to the producers at the onset of the film's production,before the actors and director started fiddling with it.There are many,many scenes and passages here that greatly clarify the direction of the story and provide crucial motivations and psychological subtexts that you may miss in the completed film.However,scriptwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaczewski provide insight into this in the fantastic forward to the script,in the process giving a fascinating glimse into all the labirynthine exigencies involved in getting an original spark of insiration into the multiplex.They explain the step-by-step process of telling Kaufman's story-what to put in,what to leave out,how to handle certain aspects of his life,shaping the messy,complicated,and open-ended events of his career into something resembling a coherent,three-act drama.Ultimately,they decided-wisely-to treat the film as Andy would have,to let his art and performances define the film,just as they defined his life,and to use a constantly shifting base of perspective to keep the audience on thier toes,a brilliantly executed exercise in what-is-real and what-isn't.If you loved the film,this script provides an essential companion that will give you a new appreciation for it,but even if you're not particularly fond of it,or even Andy Kaufman hiomself,this is still a fascinating look at the creative process,and how it holds up throughout the production of a film.Highly recommended.

Yes! It's that good!
"Man on the Moon" has to be on my top three best screenplay list for 1999-2000.It's a great screenplay with great words and conversations.I love it and I'm sure you will too.

Excellent
As an aspiring screenwriter, it's a beautiful thing when two talented writers put out a screenplay for an incredible movie that looks as good as it is. None of that reformatted junk, this is the actual scriptreproduction.And, as for the content, it couldn't be better. There areparts different from teh movie, which aren't necessarily better, but addmore insight to the life of comic genius Andy Kaufman. ... Read more

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Classic issue of Playgirl magazine featuring Jane Fonda on the cover and in an interview inside. Also in this issue: Playgirl's Man of the Year Antonio Contrelle (complete with fold-out), an almost nude pictorial of Tommy Chong, a look back at the celebrities who have been nude in Playgirl, nude snapshots, a feature on Andy Kaufman, fiction, and lots more! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on February 22, 2004. The length of the article is 489 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Una investigación torcida.(Twisted)(Reseña de película)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 22, 2004
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 10Issue: 573Page: 34(1)

Article Type: Reseña de película

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