DocBook is almost 10 years old. It began in 1991 as a joint project of HaL Computer Systems and O’Reilly. Its popularity grew, and eventually it spawned its own maintainance organization, the Davenport Group. In mid-1998, it became a Technical Committee (TC) of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
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The Internet is now a household term in many countries. With otherwise serious people beginning to joyride along the Information Superhighway, computer networking seems to be moving toward the status of TV sets and microwave ovens. The Internet has unusually high media coverage, and social science majors are descending on Usenet newsgroups, online virtual reality environments, and the Web to conduct research on the new “Internet Culture.”
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Linux is an operating system, a software program that controls your computer. Most vendors load an operating system onto the hard drive of a PC before delivering the PC, so, unless the hard drive of your PC has failed, you may not understand the function of an operating system.
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Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8 are the professional standard authoring tools for producing high-impact web experiences. ActionScript is the language you use to add interactivity to Flash applications, whether your applications are simple animated SWF files or more complex rich Internet applications.
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The aim of this book is to describe a selection of tools and techniques that can be used to script automatic maintenance and configuration tasks.
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If you don’t know what the Web is, you probably picked up the wrong book. But here’s some history and background, just to make sure we’re all coming from the same place.
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The BeOS is a wonderful operating system waiting for applications. On its own, the system provides unmatched support for text, graphics, efficient multithreading, and other underpinnings of modern applications-but the user can’t take advantage of them without suitable design and display tools. That’s where you- and this book-come in.
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The Java AWT Reference is the definitive resource for programmers working with AWT. It covers all aspects of the AWT package, in versions 1.0.2 and 1.1.
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What do you call a large project? For our purposes, it is one that requires a team of developers, may run on multiple architectures, and may have several field releases that require maintenance. Of course, not all of these are required to call a project large. A million lines of prerelease C++ on a single platform is still large. But software rarely stays prerelease forever. And if it is successful, someone will eventually ask for it on another platform. So most large software systems wind up looking very similar after awhile.
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One of the many advantages of free operating systems, as typified by Linux, is that their internals are open for all to view. The operating system, once a dark and mysterious area whose code was restricted to a small number of programmers, can now be readily examined, understood, and modified by anybody with the requisite skills. Linux has helped to democratize operating systems. The Linux kernel remains a large and complex body of code, however, and would-be kernel hackers need an entry point where they can approach the code without being overwhelmed by complexity. Often, device drivers provide that gateway.
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