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Office "suites" of software have lost a level of integration that they had ten or fifteen years ago. The same can be said of books on these suites. Part one is a general introduction to the package as a whole. Chapter one is supposed to get you started, but first spends a few pages giving a not terribly detailed description of the four different Office 97 packages. Moving into invocation of the programs, we are rather uselessly informed that the programs can be found under the Programs item of the Start button menu (with no explanation of what might be included). The Office taskbar is also mentioned without pointing out the cryptic nature of the buttons showing. Some general interface features are catalogued in chapter two. Much of ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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TACT (Text-Analysis Computing Tools) is a suite of programs used to produce data about literature for criticism and interpretation in humanities studies. This book is a manual for the programs, which were developed by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at the University of Toronto, and appear to be distributed as freeware. The tools are based on the activity of concordancing, or finding all occurrences of a term in a given piece of text. The standard UNIX tools of grep, sed, and awk will do the same thing. How TACT differs is very difficult to say. The manual is not very forthcoming, seeming to imply, by its lack of explanation, that if you don't know what the tools do, you don't deserve to know. Computer specific terms are d... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Many parts of this book fail to provide a thorough understanding of the use of Windows NT Server, falling back on the easier task of supplying a sequence of screen shots and dialogue boxes in a reproduction of program documentation. It also feels "preachy" at times. That the book is biased towards Microsoft products can be accepted. However, the bias tends to be more chauvinistic than informed. Part one concentrates on networking. Chapter one is an introduction to what's new in Windows NT Server 4.0. Unfortunately, it doesn't really provide the stated overview of NT 4.0: you need to be familiar with previous versions to NT to get the most out of the contents. Development of a network implementation plan is the objective of chapter t... Rest of this review on the detail page
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If you are looking for information on virtual reality, you will probably be mildly disappointed by this book. The coverage is fairly broad, touching on issues of simulation, training, interface design, telepresence, visualization, input devices, multimedia, and so forth. The material has almost no depth, however, and has nothing to say beyond any number of current works. Aside from brief descriptions of some past and present projects, there is no discussion of implementation or other details. If you are looking for practical applications in business and industry, you will probably be quite disappointed. The authors' definition of "virtual reality" seems to be quite broad when it comes to business uses, and includes such arcane techn... Rest of this review on the detail page
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When reviewing books, you very quickly learn that you really cannot judge a book by its cover. So, when presented with a jacket blurb that asks, "Wouldn't it be nice to have a book about Word 6 that's *written* the way you *think*?" (emphasis theirs), the automatic response is, "Yeah, right!", a curled lip, and all defenses up. When the author starts out by boasting about how poorly most letterhead is done, and how much better it is after he has set up some templates, I'm pretty much ready to pan the book on that basis alone. [I will now digress. My wife, in one job, was noted for the amazing stuff she could turn out on a typewriter. As her machine was successively upgraded, there was much fighting over which of the other office sta... Rest of this review on the detail page
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