Scott Mueller has gone where no computer book author has gone before right past all the warranty stickers, the hidden screws, and the fear factor to produce a real owner's manual that every laptop owner should have on his desk. Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, Second Edition shows the upgrades users can perform, the ones that are better left to the manufacturer, and how to use add-on peripherals to make the most of a laptop.

Upgrading and Repairing PCs is the runaway best-selling PC hardware book of all time and one of the best-selling computer books ever! This 15th Edition is loaded with the most up-to-date hardware information anywhere. World-renowned PC hardware expert Scott Mueller has taught thousands in his weeklong seminars and millions through his books, videos and articles. This edition contains hundreds of pages of new material, including the latest in processor and motherboard technologies.

Beyond cutting edge, Scott Mueller goes where no computer book author has gone before right past all the warranty stickers, the hidden screws, and the fear factor to produce a real owner's manual that every laptop owner should have on his desk. This book shows the upgrades users can perform, the ones that are better left to the manufacturer, and how to use add-on peripherals to make the most of a laptop. The CD contains one of a kind video showing just what's inside a portable PC. For readers who have ever wondered what goes on inside their portable PC, how to upgrade/repair the portable PC or how to live on the road with it, this is the one must-have book of the year!

This in-depth programming guide explains how and where COM and COM+ fit into the new .NET world, demonstrates the new technologies that are available in .NET, and shows how to interoperate between COM/COM+ and .NET.

This guide leads you through the differences in Studio in the .NET framework that didn't appear in older versions of Visual Studio, helps you understand the new rules for .NET security, and helps you fix problems created by holes in the .NET security.

Written for experienced developers, team leaders, and project managers who need a structured way of creating enterprise solutions, this step-by-step guide demonstrates how to deploy your project, analyze it, and model it using VEA.

"Handbook of Classical Mythology" offers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths. Written by a foremost mythologist, the book begins by exploring the sources and landscapes from which the myths emerged. It then provides a richly detailed timeline of mythic episodes from the creation of the cosmos to the end of the Heroic Age--"plus" an illustrated mythological dictionary listing every significant character, place, event, and object. Whether exploring the world that gave rise to ancient mythology or researching a specific piece of the whole, the handbook is the best introduction available to the extraordinary cast of these tales (gods, nymphs, satyrs, monsters, heroes) and the natural and supernatural stages upon which their fates are played out.

The Ancient Greeks - who believed that war is the most important thing humans do--bequeathed to the West an incomparable military legacy that still influences the structure of armies and doctrine. Understand the reasons why their unique approach to fighting was so successful and so relentless, its role at the heart of classical culture, the rise of the city state, agrarian duels, the emergence of Athenian and Spartan power, the development of war as a specialized science, and the collapse of Greek warfare after Alexander the Great.

Valerius Maximus was an indefatigable collector of historical anecdotes illustrating vice and virtue. His Memorable Deeds and Sayings are unparalleled as a source for the opinions of Romans in the early empire on a vast range of subjects. Mueller focuses on what Valerius can tell us about contemporary Roman attitudes to religion, attacking several orthodoxies along the way. He argues that Roman religion could be deeply emotional. That it was possible to believe passionately in the divinity of the emperor - even when, like Tiberius, he was still alive - and that Rome's gods and religious rituals had an important role in fostering conventional morality. The study further explores elements of ancient rhetoric, Roman historiography, and Tiberian Rome. The fact that Valerius was a contemporary of Jesus means his work is also valuable in reflecting the attitudes and beliefs of the ruling class to which Christ and his followers were politically subject, and which formed the background to the growth and persecution of Christianity.

Harold Wheeler, in his classic 1947 papers (Wheeler, 1947a, 1947b), created the field of electrically small antennas (ESA), although, as shown in the history (Appendix A), the early antennas were all electrically small. This field has long been important for frequencies below roughly 1 GHz, where a half-wavelength is about 6 in. These electrically small antennas have characteristics in common that limit performance: low radiation resistance, high reactance, low efficiency, narrow bandwidth, and increased loss in the matching network. Most of these limitations are shared by two other classes of antennas: superdirective antennas and superconducting antennas. The original intent was to update Electrically Small, Superdirective, and Superconducting Antennas with a second edition. Sufficient material became available to broaden the scope of that book; the result is this book with a new title. This book provides mathematical foundations for important topics including ENG shells, ESA with m or « cores, including lossy cores, and focused/subwavelength imaging. Chapter 1 contains detailed electromagnetic derivations of Chu and Thal Q formulations, formulas for Q when m or « cores are used, and effects of loss on Q. Finally, work on fundamental limitations using spheroids instead of the radian sphere is covered. Chapter 2 is a treatise on bandwidth and matching, and Foster’s reactance theorem. Precise data are given for Fano’s matching limitations and bandwidth improvement. The effects of loss in matching circuits and cables on VSWR are shown. The relatively new field of non-Foster matching is next discussed. Finally, performance of a short monopole that is matched is compared with that of monopole with high-impedance preamp. Chapter 3 provides updated coverage on canonical antennas: dipoles, loops, self-resonant ESA, PIFA, and dielectric resonator antennas. A comparison is made of Q of various antennas with the Chu–Thal fundamental limitation. In Chapter 4 are presented six ideas that are clever but with performance numbers that are poor. Eighteen nutty antenna ideas are detailed in Chapter 5; the list keeps growing! Chapter 6 on superdirective antennas has been updated with recent data on the use of self-resonant elements. These allow modest supergain but bandwidth and tolerance limitations remain. Also included is new material on maximum directivity of arrays. The last chapter, on superconducting antennas, has been updated with new delay line data. The earlier conclusion that superconductors should be considered for the matching network, but not the antenna, still holds. Aworld history of ESA is presented in Appendix A. Antenna terms important to ESA are defined in Appendix B. Appendix C contains a paper by Karawas and Collin (2008) on NIM shells enclosing an ESA dipole. The analytical errors associated with perfect lenses and subwavelength focusing are treated in detail by Collin (2010) in Appendix D. Each chapter includes extensive references. An overall subject index and an author index are provided at the end of the book. We antenna engineers have done what is possible by rearranging the wires; future significant advances will come through the use of new low-loss magnetic materials and through the use of circuits to compensate for impedance deficiencies.