Friday, January 23, 2009

SELinux by Example or Excel 2002 for Dummies

SELinux by Example: Using Security Enhanced Linux (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)

Author: Frank Mayer

SELinux offers Linux/UNIX integrators, administrators, and developers a state-of-the-art platform for building and maintaining highly secure solutions. Now that SELinux is included in the Linux 2.6 kernel—and delivered by default in Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and other major distributions—it's easier than ever to take advantage of its benefits.

SELinux by Example is the first complete, hands-on guide to using SELinux in production environments. Authored by three leading SELinux researchers and developers, it illuminates every facet of working with SELinux, from it's architecture and security object model to its policy language. The book thoroughly explains SELinux sample policies—including the powerful new Reference Policy—showing how to quickly adapt them to your unique environment. It also contains a comprehensive SELinux policy language reference and covers exciting new features in Fedora Core 5 and the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.

  • Thoroughly understand SELinux's access control and security mechanisms
  • Use SELinux to construct secure systems from the ground up
  • Gain fine-grained control over kernel resources
  • Write policy statements for type enforcement, roles, users, and constraints
  • Use optional multilevel security to enforce information classification and manage users with diverse clearances
  • Create conditional policies that can be changed on-the-fly
  • Define, manage, and maintain SELinux security policies
  • Develop and write new SELinux security policy modules
  • Leverage emerging SELinux technologies to gain even greater flexibility
  • Effectively administer any SELinux system



Interesting book: Harvard Business Review on Compensation or Nat Turners Slave Rebellion

Excel 2002 for Dummies

Author: Greg Harvey PhD

Just because electronic spreadsheets like Excel 2002 have become almost as commonplace on today's personal computers as word processors and games doesn't mean that they're either well understood or well used. If you're one of the many folks who has Office XP on your computer but doesn't know a spreadsheet from a bedsheet, this means that Excel 2002 is just sitting there taking up a lot of space. Well, it's high time to change all that.

One look at the Excel 2002 screen (with all its boxes, buttons, and tabs), and you realize how much stuff is going on there. Excel 2002 For Dummies will help you make some sense out of the rash of icons, buttons, and boxes that you're going to be facing day after day. And when you ready to go beyond spreadsheet basics, this guide will also introduce you to



• Conjuring up charts

• Inserting graphics

• Designing a database

• Converting spreadsheets into Web pages



Most of all, Excel 2002 For Dummies covers the fundamental techniques that you need to know in order to create, edit, format, and print your own worksheets. In this book, you'll find all the information that you need to keep your head above water as you accomplish the everyday tasks that people do with Excel. This down-to-earth guide covers all these topics and more:



• Creating a spreadsheet from scratch

• Document recovery

• Formatting fundamentals

• Making corrections (and how to undo them)

• Retrieving data from your spreadsheets

• Protecting your documents

• Demystifyingformulas



Now, even if your job doesn't involve creating worksheets with a lot of fancy financial calculations or lah-dee-dah charts, you probably have plenty of things for which you could and should be using Excel. For instance, you may have to keep lists of information or maybe even put together tables of information for your job. Excel is a great list keeper and one heck of a table maker. You can use Excel anytime you need to keep track of products that you sell, clients who you service, employees who you oversee, or you name it.



Table of Contents:
Introduction1
Pt. IGetting In on the Ground Floor9
Ch. 1What All This Stuff?11
Ch. 2Creating a Spreadsheet form Scratch57
Pt. IIEditing Without Tears109
Ch. 3Making It All Look Pretty111
Ch. 4Going Through Changes151
Ch. 5Printing the Masterpiece187
Pt. IIIGetting Organized and Staying That Way213
Ch. 6Oh, What a Tangled Worksheet We Weave!215
Ch. 7Maintaining Multiple Worksheets241
Pt. IVLife Beyond the Spreadsheet263
Ch. 8The Simple Art of Making Charts265
Ch. 9How to Face a Database291
Ch. 10Of Hyperlinks and Web Pages313
Pt. VThe Part of Tens343
Ch. 11Top Ten New Features in Excel 2002345
Ch. 12Top Ten Beginner Basics349
Ch. 13The Ten Commandments of Excel 2002351
Index353

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