Oracle Essentials, 3rd Edition: Oracle Database 10g This new edition distills a vast amount of knowledge into an easy-to-read volume covering the full range of Oracle's features and technologies. The book includes an overview of Oracle 10g, along with recent releases 9i and 8i. Oracle Essentials 3rd Edition: Oracle Database 10g provides everything you'll need to install and run the Oracle databases. If you're new to Oracle or upgrading to Oracle 10g, you'll find this comprehensive guide essential. Read Chapter 1, Introducing Oracle, online.

Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks -- From How to Hack a Toaster to building Cubicle Intrusion Detection Systems, Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks offers an array of inventive customized electronics projects for the geek who can't help looking at a gadget and wondering how it might be "upgraded." Beginning with basic hacks, tools, and techniques for those who may not have a background in electronics, the book covers the tools of the hardware hacking trade and basic soldering techniques. Clear step-by-step instructions allow even those with no formal electronics- or hardware-engineering skills to hack real hardware in very clever ways. Four Beta Excerpts are available online.

Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks -- If you find yourself disoriented by the new Mac® environment, Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks will get you acclimated quickly to the foreign new areas of a familiar Unix速 landscape. The new edition of this book is your guide to figuring out the BSD Unix system and Panther-specific components that you may find challenging. The book includes a quick manpage-style reference to the "Missing Manual Pages" -- commands that come with Mac OS X Panther, although there are no manpages. Chapter 14, MySQL abd PostGreSQL, is available online.