Web Content Caching and Distribution

Web Content Caching and Distribution

Author: Chi-Hung Chi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-09-29

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 3540304711

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Since the start of the International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW) in 1996, it has served as the premiere meeting for researchers and practitioners to exchange results and visions on all aspects of content caching, distribution, and delivery. Building on the success of the previous WCW meetings, WCW 2004 extended its scope and covered interesting research and deployment areas relating to content services as they move through the Internet. This year, WCW was held in Beijing, China. Although it was the first time that WCW was held in Asia, we received more than 50 high quality papers from five continents. Fifteen papers were accepted as regular papers and 6 papers as synopses to appear in the proceedings. The topics covered included architectural issues, routing and placement, caching in both traditional content delivery networks as well as in peer-- peer systems, systems management and deployment, and performance evaluation. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who submitted papers to WCW 2004 for their valued contribution to the workshop. This event would not have been possible without the broad and personal support and the invaluable suggestions and contributions of the members of the program committee and the steering committee.


Cached Out

Cached Out

Author: Russell Atkinson

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-09-22

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9781479325757

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Newly retired from the FBI and alone after the tragic death of his wife, Cliff Knowles takes up geocaching. While looking for a cache in the mountains he comes across a human skeleton and reports it to the sheriff's office. Then a second body is found - a fresh corpse this time - right after Cliff found another geocache nearby. When it turns out the first remains are those of a fugitive he was supposed to arrest years earlier, he becomes a suspect in a multiple homicide investigation. He has no choice but to use his sleuthing skills to identify the mysterious cache owner, known only as Enigmal, and free himself from suspicion.


Cached

Cached

Author: Stephanie Ricker Schulte

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2013-03-18

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0814708668

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“This is the most culturally sophisticated history of the Internet yet written. We can’t make sense of what the Internet means in our lives without reading Schulte’s elegant account of what the Internet has meant at various points in the past 30 years.”—Siva Vaidhyanathan, Chair of the Department of Media Studies at The University of Virginia In the 1980s and 1990s, the internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the United States and the world. It offered users new ways to relate to one another, to share their lives, and to spend their time—shopping, working, learning, and even taking political or social action. Policymakers and news media attempted—and often struggled—to make sense of the emergence and expansion of this new technology. They imagined the internet in conflicting terms: as a toy for teenagers, a national security threat, a new democratic frontier, an information superhighway, a virtual reality, and a framework for promoting globalization and revolution. Schulte maintains that contested concepts had material consequences and helped shape not just our sense of the internet, but the development of the technology itself. Cached focuses on how people imagine and relate to technology, delving into the political and cultural debates that produced the internet as a core technology able to revise economics, politics, and culture, as well as to alter lived experience. Schulte illustrates the conflicting and indirect ways in which culture and policy combined to produce this transformative technology. Stephanie Ricker Schulte is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Arkansas. In the Critical Cultural Communication series


Windows System Performance Through Caching Paperback

Windows System Performance Through Caching Paperback

Author: Timothy Mangan

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-06-24

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1105872513

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The caching of code and data is a common technique used throughout the Windows Operating System in order to improve system and application performance. While System Performance is a difficult subject, this work represents a digestable look at performance by isolating the top fifteen or so ways that caching is used in the Windows 7 Operating System. A book that not only explains how performance, but gives the reader techniques to investigate on his or her own. Each of the caching techniques described and detailed, and experiments are provided that the reader may use to look further into the performance of their own systems. Even performance experts will learn something new from this book. Numerous free tools are used for these experiments, and the appendix provides an excellent guide to using these tools. This book represents the culmination of years of research and a series of presentations made by the Author in front of audiences around the world.


NetLingo

NetLingo

Author: Vincent James

Publisher: NetLingo Inc.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 9780970639677

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With emphasis on the personal, business, and technology aspects that make using the Internet so unique, this handy reference presents more than 2,500 computer-related terms and industry-specific jargon for anyone who needs to learn the new language of the Net. Newbies as well as techies will find commonly used shorthand, modern office phrases, and a large collection of emoticons and ASII art. An index sorts the terms into 10 popular categories with a complete list of international country codes and file extensions.


Email, Internet, Web: The Personal Trainer

Email, Internet, Web: The Personal Trainer

Author: William Stanek

Publisher: RP Books & Audio

Published: 2014-05-15

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1627161481

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A book for yourself, a friend, a relative, and anyone else who needs help mastering email, Internet, and web essentials. Every year millions of people get access to the Internet. People that jump right in with both feet often have problems and become frustrated. But learning email, Internet and web essentials doesn't have to be a frustrating experience, you can learn everything you need to use email, the Internet and the web effectively by reading this book. To learn how to use the Internet, you need practical hands-on advice from an expert who understands what it is like to just start out. By working step by step through each of the technologies that tie the Internet together, you can learn how to use the Internet effectively, how to use email, how to find what you’re looking for on the web, and a whole lot more. These days it seems everyone has a smart phone, tablet, or laptop that can connect to the Internet, but not everyone knows how to use those devices effectively, especially when it comes email, the Internet, and the web. Well, this one-stop guide provides everything you and anyone else needs to know.


Pale Horse Coming

Pale Horse Coming

Author: Stephen Hunter

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-08-26

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 1439127816

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Pale Horse Coming, featuring Stephen Hunter’s beloved sniper heroes Earl and Bob Lee Swagger, the first Swagger thriller from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author. The time is 1951. A smooth-talking Chicago lawyer comes to chat with Sam Vincent, the former prosecutor of Polk County, Arkansas, about a dangerous subject—a big prison for violent black convicts near Thebes, Mississippi, up the Yaxahatchee River from Pasagoula. Thebes seems to have dropped out of the Union—letters and phone calls go unanswered, and the lawyer has questions that need answers. Would Sam—an ex-lawman, a white man and a Southerner—agree to go up there and find out what he can? The ex-prosecutor takes on the job, but first he goes to see his old friend Earl Swagger, and tells him that if he isn’t back in a week, Earl is to come looking for him. When Sam vanishes into the mists and swamps around Thebes, Mississippi, Earl packs his gun, explains to a distraught Junie that duty is duty and a promise is a promise, and sets off for Thebes, Mississippi to track his friend down. Soon enough, Earl—who approaches Thebes and its sinister prison with the stealth of a good Marine on a recon mission—realizes that something very strange indeed is going on there, that the prison is more than just a place that chills the blood of even the most hardened convict, that in fact the whole town of Thebes is hiding a secret—and it’s a place where people disappear all too easily, particularly inquisitive strangers, for whom burial in the swamps follows torture.


Takedown

Takedown

Author: James G. Lacey

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2013-03-31

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1612514340

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Over time the impression has grown that the 2003 invasion of Iraq met with little resistance and that, with few exceptions, the Iraqi army simply melted away. As this book clearly shows, nothing could be further from the truth. In its drive to capture Baghdad, the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division was in nearly constant combat for twenty-one days. While Americans were watching Saddam's statue being torn down on TV, a brigade of the 3rd ID was on the verge of being overrun by Iraqi Republican Guard units trying to escape north. Told to hold two bridges in his sector, a brigade commander had to blow up one of them because he did not have the combat power to hold it. The company commander holding the other bridge was so hard pressed that he called on the artillery to fire their final protective fires a command made only when a unit is in mortal danger and one that had not been given since Vietnam. Every one of the division's armored vehicles was hit by rockets some taking more than a dozen hits and the fighting was so fierce at times that entire battalions ran out of ammunition. Nevertheless, when the fighting was finally over, the 3rd ID had destroyed two Iraqi Regular Army divisions and three divisions of the much vaunted Republican Guard. Takedown tells the little-known story of what happened to the 3rd ID during its struggle to win Baghdad, a campaign that some call one of the most vicious in American military history. To offer this firsthand account, Jim Lacey, a former Time magazine reporter embedded with the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, draws on extensive interviews that he conducted with the American soldiers involved as well as access to personal papers and war memoirs. This story is also enriched through his extensive use of interview transcripts of senior Iraqi army officers along with their personal written recollections. From the Kuwaiti border to the streets of Baghdad, these dramatic eyewitness descriptions of what went on give readers an accurate look at the brutal engagements in which the division fought for its life. In making use of such a wealth of primary source material, Lacey has succeeded in writing a fast paced narrative of the conflict, backed up by verifiable facts, that shows how modern wars are really fought.


Mister, You Got Yourself a Horse

Mister, You Got Yourself a Horse

Author: Roger L. Welsch

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1987-02-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780803236028

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Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners—those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the 1930s, these stories cover the span of horse trading: human and equine trickery, orneriness, debility—and generosity.


The 9th Western Novel MEGAPACK®

The 9th Western Novel MEGAPACK®

Author: Grant Taylor

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2017-05-01

Total Pages: 752

ISBN-13: 1479427047

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Wildside Press is pleased to present another great collection of 4 western novels. This time, included are: "WHIP" RYDER'S WAY, by Grant Taylor LOGAN, by Evan Hall STIR UP THE DUST, by William Colt MacDonald THE DESERT TRAIL, by Dane Coolidge If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 280+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!