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Product:
Building Internet Firewalls by D. Brent Chapman & Elizabeth D. Zwicky
($29.95)
Company: O'Reilly & Associates
(Sebastopol, CA)
Telephone: (707) 829-0515 x231, (800) 998-9938
Fax: (707) 829-0104
E-mail: info@ora.com
URL: http://www.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/item/fire.html
Description:
This book is a practical guide to building firewalls on the Internet. It
describes a variety of firewall approaches and architectures and discusses how
you can build packet filtering and proxying solutions at your site. It also
contains a full discussion of how to configure Internet services (e.g., FTP,
SMTP, Telnet) to work with a firewall, as well as a complete list of resources,
including the location of many publicly available firewall construction tools. 544 pages; ISBN 1-56592-124-0
Product:
Essential System Administration, 2nd Edition, by Aeleen Frisch
($32.95)
Company: O'Reilly & Associates
(Sebastopol, CA)
Telephone: (707) 829-0515 x231, (800) 998-9938
Fax: (707) 829-0104
E-mail: info@ora.com
URL: http://www.ora.com/item/esa2.html
Platforms: Sun OS 4.1, Solaris 2.3, AIX 4.1, Linux 1.1, Digital Unix OSF/1, SCO Unix version 3, HP-UX versions 9 and 10, and IRIX version 6
Description:
This new
edition has been updated for the latest versions of all major Unix
platforms and the entire book has been reviewed and tested
on all of the platforms covered. In addition, coverage of networking,
electronic mail, security, and kernel configuration has been expanded
substantially. The fundamentals of Unix system administration in a
real-world, heterogeneous environment are covered. 788 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-127-5
Product:
HTML for Fun and Profit by Mary E. S. Morris
Company: SunSoft Press
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (415) 336-5063
Fax: (415) 961-6070
E-mail: sunsoftpress@Sun.com
URL: http://www.sun.com:80/smi/ssoftpress/books/Morris/Morris.html
Description:
HTML for Fun and Profit is about writing HTML pages for the World Wide Web.
Written in a step-by-step, hands on, tutorial style, it presents all the
information needed by an aspiring web page author, from setting up a server to
creating HTML documents with hypertext links to designing tables and using CGI
scripting. Although the book is slanted towards the Unix system, PC, and
Macintosh platforms are also discussed.
264 pages (includes a CD-ROM); ISBN 0-13-359290-1
Product:
INTERACTIVE Unix Operating System by Marty C. Stewart
Company: SunSoft Press
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (415) 336-5063
Fax: (415) 961-6070
E-mail: sunsoftpress@Sun.com
URL: http://www.sun.com:80/smi/ssoftpress/books/Stewart/Stewart.html
Description:
The INTERACTIVE Unix System V/386 Release 3.2 operating system is designed to
run on PC architecture with minimal hardware requirements providing an alternative to DOS systems for small business, manufacturing, and
end users.
Written for first-time system administrators and end-users, this
guide goes step-by-step through the CUI menus for configuring, tailoring, and
maintaining your INTERACTIVE Unix System V/386 Release 3.2, Version 3.0 through
Version 4.1. It is also a reference for any SVR 3.2 Unix system.
250 pages; ISBN 0-13-161613-7
Product:
PANIC! Unix System Crash Dump Analysis by Chris Drake and Kimberley Brown
Company: SunSoft Press
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (415) 336-5063
Fax: (415) 961-6070
E-mail: sunsoftpress@Sun.com
URL: http://www.sun.com:80/smi/ssoftpress/books/Drake/Drake.html
Description:
This book to concentrates
solely on system crashes and hangs, explaining what triggers them and what to
do when they occur. Panic! guides you through system crash dump postmortem
analysis towards problem resolution. The advice and
tricks of the trade presented in Panic! should help you establish what
killed your system.
450 pages (includes a CD-ROM) ISBN 0-13-149386-8
Product:
Solaris Porting Guide, Second Edition, by SunSoft Developer Engineering
Company: SunSoft Press
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (415) 336-5063
Fax: (415) 961-6070
E-mail: sunsoftpress@Sun.com
URL: http://www.sun.com:80/smi/ssoftpress/books/SPortGuide/SPortGuide.html
Description:
The Solaris
Porting Guide provides a comprehensive technical overview of the
Solaris 2.x operating environment and its related migration strategy.
The second edition is current through Solaris 2.4 (both the SPARC and
x86 platforms) and provides the information necessary to migrate
from Solaris 1 (SunOS 4.x) to Solaris 2 (SunOS 5.x). Other additions
include a discussion of emerging technologies such as the Common
Desktop Environment (CDE), hints for application performance tuning,
and pointers to further information, including Internet
sources. 675 pages; ISBN 0-13-443672-5
Product:
GNP WorkServer, a NEBS-certified, high-availability communications server
(from $35,000 to $300,000)
Company: GNP Computers
(Monrovia, CA)
Telephone: (818) 305-8484
Fax: (818) 305-9177
E-mail: info@gnp.com
URL: http://www.gnp.com/prodserv/telco/wksrvr.html
Description:
Based on the Sun Microsystems SPARCengine, the WorkServer
can use a Sun SPARC 5, 10, 20 or UltraSPARC motherboard as its CPU.
GNP has added functionality to the server such as remote power cycling,
on-line maintenance, and diagnostics. It is targeted at the telecommunications and commercial markets.
Applications include Internet access, voice-activated
speed dialing systems, wireless communications, advanced intelligent networks,
toll fraud, billing authentication, and digital signal processing.
NEBS is the Bellcore standard for availability and reliability
under adverse conditions such as earthquake, shock, temperature and humidity
extremes, airborne contamination, and acoustic noise.
Product:
Raptor
($9,500)
Company: Tech-Source Inc.
(Altamonte Springs, Florida)
Telephone: (800) 330-8301, (407) 262-7100
Fax: (407) 339-2554
E-mail: sales@techsource.com
Platforms: PCI
Description:
A fully functional 2048 x 2048 color graphics accelerator for the
Industry Standard PCI Local bus. Code named Raptor, the single slot
PCI card combines a array of high-end display subsystem
features that formerly required a VME box level solution. Raptor is
designed for use in ultra high resolution, high performance color
graphics applications such as Air Traffic Control and Vessel Traffic
Control.
Product:
XC8100 device family
(XC8106 - $85.10. Volume pricing by 2H96 will be less than $30 each.)
Company: Xilinx Inc.
(San Jose, California)
Telephone: (800) 494-5469; Literature (800) 231-3386
Fax: (408) 559-7114
E-mail: ann.dennis@xilinx.com
URL: http://www.xilinx.com/whatsnew.htm
Platforms: Windows, Sun SPARC and HP 700 Series
Description:
New family of FPGAs based on MicroVia technology and
proprietary architecture. Employing a fine-grained,
programmable-cell structure, and routing resources. Family was
developed for high gate efficiency and ease-of-use. Using top-down
design methods with the synthesis-targeted XC8100 FPGAs, desingers can
achieve near 100-percent gate utilization and high routability across application areas.
Product:
DSSLIB parallelized math library for EPC's Fortran 90
Company: Edinburgh Portable Compilers, (Saratoga, CA)
Telephone: (800) 372-1110, (408) 867-1039
Fax: (408) 867-5317
E-mail: info@epc.com
Company: Dakota Scientific Software, Inc.
(Rapid City, SD)
Telephone: (800) 641-8851, (605) 394-8851
Fax: (605) 348-9623
E-mail: sales@scisoft.com
Platforms: Solaris 2.x, Windows NT, and Windows 95
Description:
Through an agreement with Edinburgh Portable Compilers, Dakota Scientific Software has produced a
version of its optimized and parallelized math library DSSLIB that is
compatible with EPC's Fortran 90 compiler and EPC will begin offering DSSLIB
to its customers immediately.
Product:
EasySpooler
(Starts at $1,200 for a 6-pack)
Company: EasySpooler
(Dallas, TX)
Telephone: (214) 522-2324
Fax: (214) 522-1306
E-mail: ezinfo@seaysys.com
Platforms: Solaris, AIX, Sun/OS, Motorola, AT&T SVR4, Digital Unix IRIX, Ultrix, HP-UX, UnixWare, ICL, DG-UX, Tandem, NCR, Sequent, UNISYS
Description:
EasySpooler brings mainframe print management and scheduling to Unix
and Solaris. A user with a short print job can interrupt a long job
that has tied up a printer. After printing the short job the spooler
then automatically picks up the long job where it left off.
EasySpooler 4.3 boasts several new features:
Product:
Foundation Manager for Unix and multi-port Foundation Agent and Foundation Probe
(FM for Unix - $7,990; Probe (with PC) from $4,995)
Company: Network General Corporation
(Menlo Park, CA)
Telephone: (800) SNIFFER (415) 473-2000
URL: http://www.ngc.com/product_info/fm1.html
Platforms: SunOS, HP-UX, AIX and Solaris
Description:
Standards-based RMON solutions that use a Unix workstation for
the manager and a PC for the high performance agents or probes.
The Foundation Manager for Unix console functions
include continuous history collection, enabling automated reporting on
network activity when used with Network General's Reporter. Also
includes QuickStats, which provides a quick visual scan of segment
conditions using a collection of graphs, dials, and charts.
The Foundation Agent, a software-only product, and the Foundation
Probe, which includes a PC, adapter cards, and the Foundation Agent
software, simultaneously monitor up to four Ethernet networks or up to
three Token Rings from one PC. The Foundation Manager and Foundation
Probe can be remotely configured from a central Unix workstation over a
local or wide area network (LAN/WAN).
Product:
ProLog by BIM
($7,000)
Company: BIM Engineering Europe sa/nv
(Louvain-la-Neuve, BELGIUM)
Telephone: +32 10 47 06 11
Fax: +32 10 47 08 11
E-mail: prolog@bim.be
Platforms: Sun SPARC (Solaris, SunOS), IBM RS/6000 (AIX) Intel PC (Solaris), HP PA-RISC (HP-UX)
Description:
A Prolog system with a window-based environment, this Prolog implementation offers flexible integration thanks to its
external language facility. It comes with several interfaces to
graphical and database packages and a set of library files.
Also includes the GUI generator, Carmen.
Product:
VxServerSuite NFS Edition, VxServerSuite/HA
(single system starts at $2,495. A two-system license for VxServerSuite/HA from under $11,000.)
Company: VERITAS Software Corporation
(Mountain View, CA.)
Telephone: (415) 335-8000
Fax: (415) 335-8050
E-mail: vx-sales@veritas.com
URL: http://www.veritas.com/
Platforms: Solaris
Description:
VxServerSuite is available in two
configurations: VxServerSuite NFS Edition is a single-system
configuration that offers fast recovery from system failures and
increased performance; and a two-system, high-availability
configuration, VxServerSuite/HA NFS Edition.
VxServerSuite/HA allows system administrators to configure
pairs of systems as failover clusters. If a system providing
NFS services fails, its partner system can take over its NFS
workload, with minimal interruption and without manual
intervention. Performance
testing using the LADDIS benchmark shows significant improvement in NFS
operation throughput and responsiveness over the standard Solaris file
system and Sun's Solstice DiskSuite.
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