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The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition
Jul 12th
This is the second edition of Randall Hyde’s 1996 book on high-level assembler. It provides an introduction to writing assembler programs using the High Level Assembler (HLA) that incorporates many features found in higher-level languages.
The book originally started off in 1989 as a book for students of a course on assembler language the author was teaching and evolved into the first edition in 2003. This updated version was released in 2010. While assembler language is mostly used in the lower reaches of computer platforms in areas such as device drivers, it remains a fact that everything else in modern operating More >
Network Know-How: An Essential Guide for the Accidental Admin
Apr 16th
Broadly, Network Know-How: An Essential Guide for the Accidental Admin covers what exactly a network is and the hardware involved, planning and installing a network, and connecting devices to it. The 17 chapters that make up this book can be broken into the first four that explain what a network is and some of the physical parts that make up a network. The next four chapters cover designing a network and the actual process of building the network and finally the rest of the book covers how to use your network and add various devices, including game consoles, to it.
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Hacking: the Art of Exploitation
Apr 13th
The term “hacking” has come a long way from it’s late-1950’s origins (and even that was a relatively new usage then), and today it seems to have taken on generally negative connotations, which the author digs into briefly in the introduction; From then on, the language politics are left aside as the reader through an introduction to C programming while showing how the C code runs at a lower level.
Coding is done in C using the included boot-able Linux CD that allows you to run Linux without having to install it. Included on the CD is the Linux OS, the More >
