| Description |
xiv, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Who're you calling a dummy? -- 2. Tangled in the Web -- 3. Keep me safe -- 4. Who the heck are you? -- 5. Who're you looking at? -- 6. Ten thousand geeks, crazed on Jolt Cola -- 7. Who are these crazy bastards anyway? -- 8. Microsoft : can't live with 'em and can't live without 'em -- 9. Doing something about it |
| Summary |
"Today's software sucks. There's no other good way to say it. It's unsafe, allowing criminal programs to creep through the Internet wires into our very bedrooms. It's unreliable, crashing when we need it most, wiping out hours or days of work with no way to get it back. And it's hard to use, requiring large amounts of head-banging to figure out the simplest operations." |
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"It's no secret that software sucks. You know that from personal experience, whether you use computers for work or personal tasks. In this book, programming insider David Platt explains why that's the case and, more importantly, why it doesn't have to be that way. And he explains it in plain, jargon-free English that's a joy to read, using real-world examples with which you're already familiar. In the end, he suggests what you, as a typical user, without a technical background, can do about this sad state of our software - how you, as an informed consumer, don't have to take the abuse that bad software dishes out."--BOOK JACKET |
| Subject |
Computer software -- Development.
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Internet unsers -- Protection
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Internet -- Security measures -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Computer software -- Quality control.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| LC no. |
2006022500 |
| ISBN |
0321466756 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780321466754 paperback alkaline paper |
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