Explains Blu-ray production and authoring processes. This book reflects the challenges and changes that have occurred in the development and usage of this high-definition optical disc format. It explains the basic technology, and how the standard and high definition DVD specifications dovetail and/or clash with related digital media standards.

Describes the strengths, weaknesses, and common traps for new developers. This book provides you with an outline of the technology of HD DVD. It makes sense of the battling video, audio, and data formats and also covers content protection.

This book will serve to make the process of inkjet printing easier and more productive through step-by-step examples, techniques and general tips.

Illustrated in colour and containing time saving hints and tips, this book takes a real-world approach and shows how to build the right system to suit your needs. It includes chapters on recording, editing and mixing, which blend essential knowledge with tutorials and practical examples from actual recordings.

This book approaches the topic in a step by step fashion, comprehensively explaining how to create a broad range of digital art.

This is a thorough and non-intimidating guide to using the Zire device. A chapter dedicated to troubleshooting and problem solving has been included.

A comprehensive, hands-on guide to storage networking technologies including SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, file systems, virtualisation, database storage, snapshots, and emerging technology standards including iSCSI, InfiniBand, and storage provisioning.

Suitable for intermediate and advanced users.

Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system specifically designed for small and large computing environments that demand the highest level of data availability. This book takes an in-depth look at Xsan 2 components, requirements, topologies, and installation challenges. System administrators and other IT professionals will learn about storage and network terminology; about the deployment options offered

Two way radios open up a world of possibilities literally. This guide tells you about the equipment you need, offers you radio etiquette, shows you how to stay legal, and gives you ideas for family friendly radio activities.

Seeks to demystify the sound enigma and serves as a foundation for learning about the techniques of sound design production in the interactive arts. This book covers basic acoustics; digital audio theory; and creating, mixing, and implementing sound and music into interactive spaces such as Web sites, games, and virtual worlds.

Enables IT professionals, students, faculty to achieve a comprehensive understanding of various segments of information storage technology. This book covers information growth and challenges, defines a storage system and its environment, reviews the evolution of storage technology, and introduces intelligent storage systems.

Presents an overview of smart card technology. This handbook describes the advantages and disadvantages of smart cards when compared with other systems, such as optical cards and magnetic stripe cards and explains the basic technologies to the reader. It also considers the actual status of appropriate European and international standards.

Shows in detail how to build enterprise-level secure, redundant, and highly scalable services from scratch on top of the open source Linux operating system, suitable for small companies as well as big universities. This book presents the core architecture, based on Kerberos, LDAP, AFS, and Samba.

Presents a comprehensive introduction to the significant research achievements on high-density data storage from the aspects of recording mechanisms, materials and fabrication technologies. The book is useful for the development of optimized materials, technologies and device structures for information storage.

The way information is stored, retrieved and displayed is changing. Simple bibliographic databases are giving way to unregulated and unorganized multimedia data repositories, which can give the user great difficulty when searching for information. A methodology is needed to keep all of this information in its various forms retrievable.

This report from the World Transputer Congress contains more than 120 articles that reflect the state-of-the-art in transputer applications. Topics covered include: real time control; graphic tools; systems programming; algorithms; image processing; and operating systems.

Presenting the state of the art in ferro-electric RAM design, this volume features application-orientated reviews by leading experts.

This book exposes the characteristics of performance-optimal single and multi-level cache hierarchies by approaching the cache design process through the novel perspective of minimizing execution times.

Algorithms that have to process large data sets have to take into account that the cost of memory access depends on where the data is stored. Traditional algorithm design is based on the von Neumann model where accesses to memory have uniform cost. Actual machines increasingly deviate from this model: while waiting for memory access, nowadays, microprocessors can in principle execute 1000 ...