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Running Mac OS X Tiger, 2nd Edition
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Running Mac OS X Tiger is the ideal resource for power users and system administrators
like you who want to tweak Tiger, the new release of Mac OS X, to run faster,
better, or just differently.
If you areready to dig deep into your Mac, this book expertly guides you to
the core of Mac OS X. It helps you understand the inner workings of the operating
system so you can know how to get the most out of it. And it gives you countless
ideas--and step-by-step instruction--for customizing and revving up Tiger to
your specific needs and your liking.
Completely revised and updated for Mac OS X Tiger, Running Mac OS X Tiger
covers all the new features and functionality of Tiger. You can count on authors
Jason Deraleau and James Duncan Davidson to give what you need--and not bother
with what you don't. They don't spend time on Finder tips and keyboard shortcuts;
they focus on showing you what makes a Mac tick and, more importantly, how you
can make it tick just the way you want it to.
Easy to follow and intuitively organized, Running Mac OS X Tiger is divided
into three parts: "Getting Started" introduces Mac OS X and explains how it's
put together and why it works; "Administration Essentials" gives you the tools
you need to examine how your system is running and adjust all the knobs behind
its operation; and "Networking and Network Services" covers the ways Mac OS
X interfaces with the world around it, including wireless and spontaneous networking.
Developer Tools for Mac OS X, including Xcode, are discussed throughout the
book as appropriate. <
For the growing number of intermediate to advanced users who are ready and eager
to customize Mac OS X, Running Mac OS X Tiger delivers everything you
need to become master of your Mac.
About the Authors
Jason Deraleau has been a computer enthusiast since
the Commodore 64. Having spent time focusing on DOS, Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD,
his newest passion it the Macintosh and Mac OS X. Currently residing in Western
Massachusetts, he works as a systems administrator by day, IT consultant and
technical writer by night. Jason is the co-author of the upcoming Running
Mac OS X Tiger, was a presenter at O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference 2004, and
is a contributing author on the O'Reilly Network.
James
Duncan Davidson is a freelance author, software developer, and consultant
focusing on Mac OS X, Java, XML, and open source technologies. He is the author
of Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (published
by O'Reilly Media, Inc.) and is a frequent contributor to the O'Reilly Network
online website as well as publisher of his own website, x180 (www.x180.net),
where he keeps his popular weblog.
Davidson was the creator of Apache
Tomcat and Apache Ant and was instrumental in their donation to the Apache Software
Foundation by Sun Microsystems . While working at Sun, he authored two versions
of the Java Servlet API specification as well as the Java API for XML Processing.
He regularly presents at conferences all over
the world on topics ranging from open source and collaborative development to
programming Java more effectively. He didn't graduate with a Computer Science
degree, but sees that as a benefit in helping explain how software works. His
educational background is in Architecture (the bricks and mortar kind), the
essence of which he applies to every software problem that finds him.
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