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O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders
December 4, 2003
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-O'Reilly User Group Discount vs. Amazon's Discount
-Put Up an Emerging Technology Conference Banner, Get
a Free Book
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***Review books are available
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send me an email and please include the book order
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certain date.
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***Please send copies of your book reviews
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***Discount information
Don't forget to remind your members about our 20%
discount on
O'Reilly books and conferences. Just use code DSUG.

***Group purchases with better discounts are available
Please let me know if you are interested and I can put
you in
touch with our sales department.

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***O'Reilly User Group Discount vs. Amazon's Discount
Amazon offers a better deal, but you want to support
O'Reilly and the 
UG
program. What do you do? The answer is "Go with the
best deal you can
get!" As long as you are buying O'Reilly books, we're
happy. We don't 
want
to compete with our resellers, but we do want to give
UG members who 
like
to buy directly from us a break--so please don't feel
bad if you shop 
at
your favorite book store instead. Sharing O'Reilly
info with your 
members
and giving us feedback is the most important way you
can show your 
support
for the UG program.

***Put Up an Emerging Technology Conference Banner,
Get a Free Book
We're looking for user groups to display our
conference banners on
their web sites. If you send me the link to your user
group site with
our Emerging Technology Conference banner, I will send
you the
O'Reilly book of your choice.

Emerging Technology Conference Banners and conference
descriptions are
available at:
http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/etech2004/

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O'Reilly News for User Group Members
December 4, 2003
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Book News
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-Dancing Barefoot
-Mac OS X Unwired
-The Best of The Joy of Tech
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Upcoming Events
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-O'Reilly at Macworld Conference & Expo, San
Francisco, CA--January 6-9
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-The Buzz from 2003 Emerging Technology Conference
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-O'Reilly to Handle Distribution for Fellow Computer
Book Publishers
-Wil Wheaton to Write Three Books for O'Reilly
-Free Exhibit Hall Pass for LinuxWorld Conference &
Expo,
New York, NY--January 21-23, 2004
-BIND DoS Attack
-RouteWord: An Interesting Diversion
-Introduction to the Peer-to-Peer Sockets Project
-Java vs. .NET Security, Part 1
-Five XSLT Basics
-Creating Your Own Code Snippets with Whidbey
-Free Exhibit Hall Guest Pass for Macworld Conference
& Expo,
San Francisco, CA--January 6-9
-iPod as Digital Photographer's Best Friend
-Collaborative Editing with Rendezvous
-Animal ASCII Art--Do You Have Some?
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Book News
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Did you know you can request a free book to review for
your
group? Ask your group leader for more information.

For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to:
http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html

Don't forget, you can receive 20% off any O'Reilly
book you
purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG
when
ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938.
http://www.oreilly.com/

***Free ground shipping is available for online orders
of at
least $29.95 that go to a single U.S. address. This
offer
applies to U.S. delivery addresses in the 50 states
and
Puerto Rico.
For more details, go to:
http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html

***Dancing Barefoot
Order Number: 6748
Wil Wheaton--blogger, geek, and Star Trek: The Next
Generation's Wesley
Crusher--gives us five true tales of life, love, and
the absurdities of
Hollywood in "Dancing Barefoot." Far from the usual
celebrity tell-all,
"Dancing Barefoot" is a vivid, personal account of
Wil's search for his
true self. If you've ever fallen in love, attended a
Star Trek 
convention,
or pondered the meaning of life, you'll find a kindred
soul in the 
pages
of "Dancing Barefoot."
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/barefoot/

***Mac OS X Unwired
Order Number: 5083
"Mac OS X Unwired" is a one-stop, wireless information
source for
technically savvy Mac users. The book provides a
complete introduction 
to
all the wireless technologies supported by Mac OS X,
including Wi-Fi,
infrared, Bluetooth, and GPRS. If you're considering
wireless as an
alternative to cable and DSL, or using wireless to
network computers in
your home, office, or on the road, this book will show
you the
full-spectrum view of the wireless capabilities of Mac
OS X, and how to
get the most out of them.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macxunwire/

Chapter 4, "Wi-Fi on the Road," is available online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macxunwire/chapter/index.html

***The Best of The Joy of Tech
Order Number: 5784
Frustrated and frazzled by technology? Or perhaps your
cynicism is
starting to wane? This book is a collection of the
very best from The 
Joy
of Tech online series. It also features several new,
never-before-seen
comics, exclusive notes from the artists about their
work, an appendix 
of
the JoyPolls, a lexicon of JoyWords, and an
introduction by David 
Pogue.
"The Best of The Joy of Tech" is an oasis of top-notch
humor and images
sure to refresh the mind's page and reboot the will to
live.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bestjoytech/

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Upcoming Events
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***For more events, please see:
http://events.oreilly.com/

***O'Reilly at Macworld Conference & Expo, San
Francisco, CA--January 
6-9
In addition to all of our fabulous new Mac titles,
authors David Pogue
("Missing Manual Series," and Derrick Story ("iPhoto
2: The Missing
Manual," "Digital Video Pocket Guide," and "Digital
Photography Pocket
Guide") will grace our booth with presentations during
the show.
We are in booth #2143 this year.
Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA
http://macworldexpo.com/macworldexposf/V40/index.cvn

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Conference News
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***The Buzz from 2003 Emerging Technology Conference
Check out the O'Reilly Network's news coverage and
blogs from the 2003
Emerging Technology Conference to help you decide for
2004.
http://www.oreillynet.com/et2003/

You can also download presentation and multimedia
files from 2003.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/22/presentations.html

The 2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
February 9-12, 2004
Westin Horton Plaza San Diego
San Diego, CA 92101
http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/

User Group members who register before January 9, 2004
get a double
discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and receive
20% off the
"Early Bird" price.

To register for the conference, go to:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/28/register.html

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News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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General News
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***O'Reilly to Handle Distribution for Fellow Computer
Book Publishers
We will be providing distribution, sales, and
fulfillment services for
three other leading independent publishers--No Starch
Press, Paraglyph
Press, and Syngress Publishing--starting January 1,
2004. We'll be 
sending
UGs information and review copies for our new
partners.
For more information check out our press release:
http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1124

Here's a recent article from our local newspaper, "The
Press Democrat":
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/news/03oreilly_e1.html

***Wil Wheaton to Write Three Books for O'Reilly
Any honest computer geek will admit that his obsessive
coding is, at
heart, a futile attempt to create a world as cool as
those depicted in
science fiction. New evidence of the symbiotic
relationship between Sci 
Fi
and geekdom surfaced, as O'Reilly, the geek
publisher-of-record, 
announced
plans to publish three books by Wil Wheaton, blogger,
geek, and the 
actor
who portrayed Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next
Generation. Wil's
first two books, "Dancing Barefoot" and "Just a Geek,"
are almost
unbearably honest tales of life, love, and the rigors
of being an 
ensign
on the Starship Enterprise.

Take a look at Wil's December 2 blog announcement:
http://wilwheaton.net/

And you can read our press release:
http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1125

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Open Source
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***Free Exhibit Hall Pass for LinuxWorld Conference &
Expo,
New York, NY--January 21-23, 2004
Register online with Priority Code PC0260 by December
19, 2004
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com

***BIND DoS Attack
Noel Davis looks at a denial-of-service attack against
BIND and 
problems
in KDE, GnuPG, screen, Ethereal, FreeRadius, mod_gzip,
Pan, detecttr,
OpenCA, EPIC, and libnids.
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/12/01/insecurities.html

***RouteWord: An Interesting Diversion
Graphs--loosely connected, unordered collections of
nodes--are highly
important to computer science. Visualizing graphs is
even more 
important:
think of maps, routes, webs, and any other
interconnected 
relationships.
O'Reilly author Andrew Odewahn explains how he
accidentally created a 
new
type of word puzzle while playing around with graph
visualization.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/11/26/routewords.html

Throughout the month of December, we're running daily
RouteWord puzzles
from Andrew Odewahn. Here's today's puzzle:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/12/routeword/index.html
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Java
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***Introduction to the Peer-to-Peer Sockets Project
The Peer-to-Peer Sockets project reimplements Java's
standard Socket,
ServerSocket, and InetAddress classes to work on the
JXTA peer-to-peer
network rather than on the standard TCP/IP network.
Brad Neuberg shows 
how
to configure and set up the P2P Socket libraries to
run on your system,
how to create and run P2P server and client sockets,
and how to work 
with
the P2P InetAddress class, and discusses security
issues and 
limitations
in the framework.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/12/03/p2psockets.html

***Java vs. .NET Security, Part 1
Java and .NET address similar code security issues,
but which one 
offers
the best security implementation? Denis Piliptchouk's
series starts 
with a
side-by-side look at how each performs configuration,
code 
verification,
and memory isolation.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/26/javavsdotnet.html
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XML
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***Five XSLT Basics
This article by Michael Fitzgerald introduces newbies
to the five 
basics
of XSLT 1.0, from what it is to how to get it to
work--information 
you'll
also find in the first chapter of Michael's book,
"Learning XSLT."
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/11/26/learnXSLT.html

Learning XSLT
Order Number: 3277
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnxslt/index.html
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.NET
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***Creating Your Own Code Snippets with Whidbey
One of the new features found in Visual Studio .NET
Whidbey is Insert
Snippets. The Insert Snippets feature allows you to
insert 
commonly-used
code blocks into your project, thereby improving the
efficiency of your
development process. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to add
your own 
snippets
to Whidbey.
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/12/01/whidbeysnippets.html
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Mac
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***Free Exhibit Hall Guest Pass for Macworld
Conference & Expo,
San Francisco, CA--January 6-9
Register online by December 8 with Priority code
PC0211
http://www.macworldexpo.com

***iPod as Digital Photographer's Best Friend
Yes, the iPod can store thousands of songs. But now
you can use it to
upload thousands of pictures too, directly from the
memory card. And
thanks to Panther, that's only the beginning of what
is sure to become 
an
indispensable tool for many digital photographers.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/12/02/photo_ipod.html

***Collaborative Editing with Rendezvous
Apple's adoption of Zeroconf networking (branded as
"Rendezvous") has
opened the door to new ways of sharing information on
local networks. 
In
this article, Wei Meng Lee shows you how to use two
collaborative 
editing
tools: SubEthaEdit and iStorm.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/12/02/rendezvous.html

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Fun
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***Animal ASCII Art--Do You Have Some?
If you are an artist with you keyboard, please let me
know. I am 
looking
for ASCII versions of our famous O'Reilly animals.
Please send an email
to marsee at oreilly.com with your original rendition.

Until next time--

Marsee

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