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This book is presented as a resource for every teenager and an essential tool for parents and teachers. However, the authors specifically target it at computer-savvy, keyboard-comfortable teens who use the internet daily and want to learn how to secure their systems, preserve their digital lifestyles, and protect their data. The book aims to provid

The System Center Operations Manager data warehouse stores many objects, making it possible to report on performance, availability, configuration, and security. You can use data collected by Operations Manager for issue tracking, awareness, planning, and forecasting, all of which are important factors for maintaining and managing your environment.

When it comes to system design, failure is inevitable. Scientists and engineers implement solutions based on the available information, without a complete knowledge of the future. You can't always anticipate the next zero-day event, viral media trend, weather disaster, or shift in technology. But you can be prepared to respond when incidents like t

Step into the wonderful world of making with this book from the makers of HackSpace, now part of The MagPi magazine, filled with all the best projects, tutorials, and articles for makers and hackers. Book of Making 2025 distils the essence of HackSpace down to our favourite maker projects. Whether you want to build a rocket or hot air balloon, lear

Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have quickly become the dominant architecture for achieving state-of-the-art results on a variety of natural language processing tasks. If you're a data scientist or coder, this practical book -now revised in full color- shows you how to train and scale these large models using Hugging Face Transformer

The Little Book of Semaphores is a free textbook that introduces the principles of synchronization for concurrent programming. In most computer science curricula, synchronization is a module in an Operating Systems class. OS textbooks present a standard set of problems with a standard set of solutions, but most students don't get a good understandi

.NET is far from dead. Although JavaScript, Go, and Swift have gathered plenty of developer attention, .NET remains a dominant framework. But it hasn't been entirely smooth sailing. With .NET's coupling to Windows environments, .NET apps haven't had access to the bleeding edge of server automation or application deployment. Configuration management

AI coding assistants are helping teams create software faster than ever. But to turn that speed into real innovation, organizations must go beyond writing code and deliver software quickly, securely, and reliably. While AI-assisted coding is now mainstream, what happens after the code is written is still catching up. AI-Native Software Delivery is

Although many large corporations are reluctant to release the software they use in-house publicly as open source, those companies can still use principles and processes of open source for developing their in-house software - a practice popularly known as InnerSource. But adopting open source practices without understanding the cultural context behi

The data-driven revolution is finally hitting the media and entertainment industry. For decades, broadcast television and print media relied on traditional delivery channels for solvency and growth, but those channels fragmented as cable, streaming, and digital devices stole the show. In this ebook, you'll learn about the trends, challenges, and op