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Remote Office Manager 4.1

Remote Office Manager continues to be an effective remote control solution for Windows systems, with security a key focus.

There are concerns about security with any remote-control software. Remote Office Manager addresses these issues in a number of ways: authentication, encryption and user control. User authentication can make use of Windows Active Directory accounts or Remote Office Manager ‘s own built-in system. This provides user accounts with individual passwords and permissions, while authentication itself is based on a Diffie-Helmann key-exchange algorithm using 2,048-bit keys for additional security. User login names and passwords are stored on the server systems and not with the viewer software. The software can still use Windows’ user authentication services, avoiding the need to maintain separate sets of user accounts, and Kerberos support is available, too. Since user accounts are maintained on the individual servers, it’s possible to mix authentication methods on the network.

All Remote Office Manager transmissions are encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption in both directions, and the default port numbers can be changed as required. The server software can run as a Windows service, starting when Windows boots up, or run as a separate program that can be started when needed. Further security options include the ability to disable features such as Telnet or file transfer, and to prevent a remote viewer from initiating a server shutdown. The server software can restrict access to machines within specified IP address ranges.

One new feature of this release is its enhanced communication options. In particular, the chat facility offers multi-user support for both public and private channels, whether in text or audio mode.

The Viewer component offers full control and view modes, a phonebook to store details of known server connections, and a network scanner to look for active Remote Office Manager servers on the network. It can connect to a remote system over the internet, or through a dial-up connection using Windows Dial-up Networking and Remote Access Services software, and can even use a direct cable connection between two systems.

Once a session is established, further features such as chat or so-called Telnet sessions can be established using the existing security settings, obviating the need to enter login data each time. The “Telnet” sessions aren’t real Telnet sessions, but give access to the server system’s command line via the server software’s encrypted connection. They will, therefore, be available even when the Windows Telnet service has been disabled, and will also be more secure.

Remote Office Manager 4.1 builds on the successful client-server architecture used in previous releases and is compatible with 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7/Vista.

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The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture $10.49 The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford’s assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new aesthetic beauty once seen in the ideas of Ford and scientific management pioneer Frederick Winslow Taylor. In "The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical," Mauro Guillen recovers this history and retells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management–one that permanently reshaped the profession of architecture. Modernist architecture’s pioneers, Guillen shows, found in scientific management the promise of a new, functional, machine-like–and beautiful–architecture, and the prospect of a new role for the architect as technical professional and social reformer. Taylor and Ford had a signal influence on Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and on Le Corbusier and his "Towards a New Architecture," the most important manifesto of modernist architecture. Architects were so enamored with the ideas of scientific management that they adopted them even when there was no functional advantage to do so. Not a traditional architectural history but rather a sociological study of the profession of architecture during its early modernist period, "The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical" provides a new understanding of the degree to which modernist architecture emerged from a tradition of engineering and industrial management.

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Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture $16.97 Literary Nonfiction. Cross-Genre. This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays–many originally published as catalogue texts by art galleries–on the syntax of the suburban home, Vancouver fountains, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, scaffolding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites–poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be. SOFT ARCHITECTURE exists at the crossroads of poetry, theory, urban geography and cultural criticism, some place where the quotidian and the metaphysical marry and invert. And it makes for one of the most intriguing books you’ll ever read. Originally published by Clear Cut Press in 2004, this revised edition features a foreword and new material.

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McGraw-Hill’s Law Office Management for Paralegals $28.75 McGraw-Hill’s Law Office Management for Paralegals is an applied, practical text written specifically for paralegal courses that cover day-to-day law office management topics. The text begins with an overview of the legal industry and the various players involved. Then, it moves into the specific needs and duties that paralegals have to come to fill. Each chapter includes a recent, applicable case opinion, along with many ancillaries, such as charts, tables, figures, and exercises to aid in students’ development. The text’s appendices cover a wide range of documents, including the Model Codes of Ethics from two top paralegal organizations, the NALA and NFPA; a listing of paralegal associations with URLs; continuing legal education requirements of the NALA and NALs; a sample retainer agreement; and an article pertaining to the limitation of fees for malpractice cases. This text is a must for students who wish to gain industry-level knowledge of working in a law office in approachable and hands-on way. The Paralegal Supersite Site

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Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 $41.77 This book is for SharePoint developers working with Publishing sites–sites that leverage MOSS 2007 WCM capabilities. It does not cover administrative topics in any great detail, only where absolutely necessary. For the most part, no two chapters are dependent upon each other, so each chapter can be used as a reference independently of the others. Readers need not have any development experience with SharePoint, but they should have some experience with and a working knowledge of ASP.NET 2.0 development practices and topics. Of course, it is beneficial if the reader does have at least a working knowledge of what SharePoint is all about. This book covers MOSS 2007 WCM Publishing sites. You will find some chapters that seem to cover general WSS 3.0 topics, but everything is treated in the context of a Publishing site. While the chapters are arranged in a logical order, it is not necessary to read the book from cover to cover in a linear fashion. The following is a brief description of each chapter: Chapter 1, "Embarking on Web Content Management Projects"–This chapter explains what this book is all about, who the target audience is, and who will benefit most from the book. It also details what the reader needs in terms of a local development environment in order to implement the solutions. In addition, each of the subsequent chapters is explained very briefly to provide an overview and clarify how each chapter fits in. Chapter 2, "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Development Primer"–This chapter covers the fundamentals of WSS, including definitions of terms such as farm, Web application, site collection, site, list, and document library, and the general architecture of WSS. Some basic object model techniques are demonstrated in this chapter. Chapter 3, "Overview of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Web Content Management"–This chapter briefly explains each of the various components that make up MOSS. In addition, while the book is development-focused, the "ABCs" of content-centric Internet sites is covered. Chapter 4, "SharePoint Features and the Solution Framework"–Both new to WSS 3.0, the SharePoint Feature and solution frameworks are covered in great detail in this chapter, as well as a process for automatically creating WSS solution packages on every project build. Chapter 5, "Minimal Publishing Site Definition"–Many users create new WCM sites by using the Publishing Portal template. Unfortunately, this adds quite a bit of unnecessary content to the site. This chapter picks apart the Publishing Portal template and Publishing Features and demonstrates how to create a minimal Publishing Portal template. Chapter 6, "Site Columns, Content Types, and Lists"–Three core components to every WSS 3.0 site–site columns, content types, and lists–are covered in this chapter. Chapter 7, "Master Pages and Page Layouts"–This chapter covers everyth

Architecture in the United Kingdom $11.89 Contemporary architecture by country TASCHEN’s new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects?from the firmly established to the up-and-coming?with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects? or firms? most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series celebrates the richly hued architectural personality of each nation featured. Architects/firms included: David Adjaye Alsop Architects Caruso St John Architects Chetwood Associates David Chipperfield Edward Cullinan dECOi Ellis Williams Eva Jiricna Foreign Office Architects FOA Norman Foster Nicholas Grimshaw Zaha Hadid Michael Hopkins Richard Rogers

Inside Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server $3.95 Take a detailed look at SharePoint Server 2007 internals–and master th e intricacies of developing intranets, extranets, and Web-based applications. An expert in collaboration technologies takes you deep inside SharePoint Server architecture, delivering task-oriented guidance and extensive code samples to help you build robust enterprise content management solutions. Discover how to: Build collaboration and publishing portals for your intranet and extranet Customize and brand your site with master pages, CSS, and navigation options Programmatically support search administration and execute search queries Create scripts to customize the provisioning flow of your portal Use the Business Data Catalog to integrate collaborative workspaces with line-of-business applications Add browser-based form capabilities with InfoPath Forms Services Develop Web-based business intelligence solutions using Excel Services Apply policy and document routing frameworks to help enforce information management rules PLUS–Get Microsoft V isual C# code samples on the Web

Office of Administration $47.72 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Office of Administration is an entity within the Executive Office of the President tasked with overseeing the general administration of the entire Executive Office. The Office of Administration was formed by merging the administrative functions of ten entities that were present in the Executive Office by the signing of Executive Order 12028 by President Jimmy Carter on December 12, 1977. The organization’s mission is to provide administrative services to all entities of the Executive Office of the President, including direct support services to the President of the United States. The services include financial management and information technology support, human resources management, library and research assistance, facilities management, procurement, printing and graphics support, security, and the Office of White House mail and messenger operations. The Director of the organization oversees the submission of the annual budget Request and represents the organization before congressional funding panels.

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Internet Architecture and Innovation $48.99 The Internet’s remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. New applications continually enable new ways of using the Internet, and new physical networking technologies increase the range of networks over which the Internet can run. Questions about the relationship between innovation and the Internet’s architecture have shaped the debates over open access to broadband networks, network neutrality, nondiscriminatory network management, and future Internet architecture. In "Internet Architecture and Innovation," Barbara van Schewick explores the economic consequences of Internet architecture, offering a detailed analysis of how it affects the economic environment for innovation. Van Schewick describes the design principles on which the Internet’s original architecture was based–modularity, layering, and the end-to-end arguments–and shows how they shaped the original architecture. She analyzes in detail how the original architecture affected innovation–in particular, the development of new applications–and how changing the architecture would affect this kind of innovation. Van Schewick concludes that the original architecture of the Internet fostered application innovation. Current changes that deviate from the Internet’s original design principles reduce the amount and quality of application innovation, limit users’ ability to use the Internet as they see fit, and threaten the Internet’s ability to realize its economic, social, cultural, and political potential. If left to themselves, network providers will continue to change the internal structure of the Internet in ways that are good for them but not necessarily for the rest of us. Government intervention may be needed to save the social benefits associated with the Internet’s original design principles.

Business Rules Management and Service Oriented Architecture: A Pattern Language $43.29 Business rules management system (BRMS) is a software tools that work alongside enterprise IT applications. It enables enterprises to automate decision-making processes typically consisting of separate business rules authoring and rules execution applications. This proposed title brings together the following key ideas in modern enterprise system development best practice. The need for service-oriented architecture (SOA). How the former depends on component-based development (CBD). Database-centred approaches to business rules (inc. GUIDES). Knowledge-based approaches to business rules. Using patterns to design and develop business rules management systems Ian Graham is an industry consultant with over 20 years. He is recognized internationally as an authority on business modelling, object-oriented software development methods and expert systems. He has a significant public presence, being associated with both UK and international professional organizations, and is frequently quoted in the IT and financial press.

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Architecture & Patterns for IT: Service Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler’s Children $46.91 Information technology supports efficient operations, enterprise integration, and seamless value delivery, yet itself is too often inefficient, un-integrated, and of unclear value. This completely rewritten version of the best selling "Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning and Governance" retains the original (and still unique) approach: apply the discipline of enterprise architecture to the business of large scale IT management itself. Author Charles Betz applies his deep practitioner experience to a critical reading of ITIL version 3, COBIT version 4, the CMMI suite, the IT portfolio management literature, and the Agile/Lean IT convergence, and derives a value stream analysis, IT semantic model, and enabling systems architecture (covering current topics such as CMDB/CMS, Service Catalog, and IT Portfolio Management). The edition includes the fundamental discipline of traceable process, data, and system analysis. This best seller is a must read for anyone charged with enterprise architecture, IT planning, and IT governance and management. Presents a field-tested, detailed conceptual information model with definitions and usage scenarios, mapped to both the process and system architectures Updated to reflect the new set of concepts, practices, and procedures of ITIL v3.1 Synthesizes Enterprise Architecture, IT Service Management, and IT Governance in a practical way. Covers new applications of IT Service Management, moving from one overall IT value stream to several, described in Lean terms

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