I agree with the other negative reviews.

The index is really very bad - I hardly ever find anything I'm looking for.

I can only describe it as a curious mix of sometimes very arcane information which may be useful for usenet gurus and absence of information for a novice user

Having never specified hardware for or managed a Usenet news server I was looking for high-quality technical guidance. Within minutes of buying this book I knew I wouldn't find it in these pages. The content is simplistic and slow paced. Each time it seems you will get to some meaty discussion the section ends leaving you still feeling hungry and not even providing an interesting taste. Many pages are wasted on instructions for installing Solaris and an overview of the topology of the Internet. The included CD might be useful for signaling passing aircraft but lacks anything more useful. You will be sorry you bought this book. Luckily this isn't the only choice. Take a look at "Managing Usenet". It is the book this one could have been.

As a neophyte to Usenet servers etc. I found this book very helpful and would recommened it. I wasn't looking for a Ph.D. on the subject from one reading--that takes hands-on experience in anything.

This title is billed as the Sixth Edition, and reflects the coming and going of co-authors. It is too bad that the editor had so little influence. Sections of this book that stick to their cartographic knitting are excellent. Historical information is very intersting. Basic explanations, such as the evolution of ellipsoids is very well done. Some of the writing is so bad it could have been extracted from a sophmore term paper, sprinkled with such inept phrases as "such as", "similarly", "however" and "in fact". The most glaring deficiency is in the area of computer technology. Either this material has not been updated since some earlier edition, or the author(s) are very uncomfortable with the subject matter. As examples: "Most common procedures used by cartographers have been translated into software programs written in special computer languages such as FORTRAN and C." "Today's well-rounded cartographer is routinely involved with these 'canned' (prewritten) mapping programs..." "The professionsal cartographer should, therefor, have a working knowledge of at least one computer language." We are regaled with three pages of detailed obselescent material on computer structure, but only 23 lines of overview on current instrument technology. There is a whole chapter on fonts and lettering, but no algorithm for conversion from Lat-Long to UTM. The central meridians for the UTM zones are not provided, nor is the DoD lettering scheme. One of the responsibilities of a text book is to arrange the subject matter in a structure where it can be easily referenced. This book reads like a series of articles of varying quality published under one cover, with overlap resolution left as an exercise for the reader.

The book doesn't deliver on presenting a computer application system for evaluating performance. It takes the CCRC's accredition questions and just expands on them. From the information that was presented I not sure if the authors know what an application system is. In any event the book lacks any hard technical information, or performance standards, that can be used for evaluating and designing a project. It's presentation is more like a general business plan from a recent MBA graduate.

I can not believe the things people do in this world.How dare the author of this book write about a little girl and what happen to her.I am that little girl's big sister (Jodee) and have alot more than 1000 words to say about this.I feel that it is no one's business on what happen to Nichole. This was a hell of a year for the family and to take it and just write a book about it does not let her family put it to rest.I don't think that the author O'neil, had any right to write this book. All he is doing is making money off of my sister and her brutal murder. The people who did this act is and was sick in the head.This book just goes to show the world had sick even book writer's can be.

I give this book a Black Hole rating and here's why. Even a single star emits light; with this work, O'Neil De Noux bends time, space and reality as we know it such that the reader is left groping in the dark praying for a quick end. Specific Intent is an attempt to tell the tragic but true story of a young girl's murder and the subsequent arrest and prosecution of a couple from Louisiana. Newspapers and television, in and around New Orleans, covered this story extensively during the Summer and Fall of 1985 and it is infamous in that area. Unfortunately, the book does nothing to examine the many conflicting reports that swirled around the suspects at the time but instead weaves a tangled web of lurid details and bizarre theories such that the reader is left ensnared and depleated. De Noux makes much of his inside sources and police connections. He attempts to shore up his rickety construction but, by the end of the book, one is painfully aware that the author is but a shill for the broken system which he celebrates.

Maybe this book was okay when it came out but all the recipes are so cliche now.

There is very little to like about this cookbook. Anything from Martha Stewart is far better and more imaginative.