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Greetings from Amazon.co.uk Delivers Computers Editor, Tamsin Todd FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL: * What We're Reading "Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed" by Bill Ball and David Pitts "Programming Internet Email" by David Wood "My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World" by Julian Dibbell * Interview with John Naughton * Article on Howard Aiken * Not Yet Published * Bestsellers "A Brief History of the Future" by John Naughton "MySQL & mSQL" by Randy Jay Yarger, George Reese et al "Professional Active Server Pages 2.0" by Alex Fedorov et. al. ***WHAT WE'RE READING*** "Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed" by Bill Ball and David Pitts http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672316897/entertainments08 "Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed" comes with its eponymous operating system on CD-ROM---but that's not the only reason to buy this red-hot manual. At 1,200 pages, "Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed" contains some of the best printed documentation around, for all levels of users, from first-time user to expert. "Programming Internet Email" by David Wood http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924797/entertainments08 The most popular Internet application isn't the World Wide Web or Push technologies--it's humble e-mail. In "Programming Internet Email", David Wood explains how a loose federation of connected networks turned into the world's largest message system, and how to harness the capabilities of the Net's original Killer App. "My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World" by Julian Dibbell http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1841150576/entertainments08 In the early 90s a virtual rape took place in LambdaMOO, an online role-playing space. "Village Voice" journalist Julian Dibbell was there, and in "My Tiny Life" he reports from the front line of cybersociety, as the players debate how to handle the rape, making virtual politics as they go. ***AN INTERVIEW WITH NET GURU JOHN NAUGHTON*** "A Brief History of the Future" is engineer-turned-"Observer" columnist John Naughton's passionately personal account of Internet history. In an interview with Amazon.co.uk, Naughton explains why traditional media don't understand the Net, why programmers do and why Net technology should matter to everyone. Computers & Internet ****ARTICLE ON COMPUTER PIONEER HOWARD AIKEN*** Howard Aiken and his team at Harvard University designed the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (later called the Harvard Mark I), the giant calculating computer that inaugurated the computer age---but his contribution to computing is often dismissed by historians. Amazon.co.uk takes a trip down computer memory lane with a look at new books about Howard Aiken and his controversial invention. Computers & Internet ***BESTSELLERS*** "MySQL & mSQL" by Randy Jay Yarger, George Reese, Tim King http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924347/entertainments08 "Professional Active Server Pages 2.0" by Alex Fedorov, Richard Harrison, et al http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861001266/entertainments08 "A Brief History of the Future" by John Naughton http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0297643304/entertainments08 ***NOT YET PUBLISHED*** "Extreme Programming Explained" by Kent Beck http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201616416/entertainments08 "Beginning Linux Programming Second Edition" by Richard Stones and Neil Matthew http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861002971/entertainments08 "Lego(R) Mindstorms(TM) Robots" by Jonathan B. Knudsen http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565926927/entertainments08 ****** You'll find more great books, articles, excerpts and interviews in Amazon.co.uk's Computers & Internet section at Computers & Internet
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