De grote Windows schoonmaak-XP|Jeff Duntemann 904300975X

||boek: De grote Windows schoonmaak - Windows XP|Bespaar jezelf een hoop ellende en laat je pc vlekkeloos werken!|Pearson

||door: Jeff Duntemann, Joli Ballew

||taal: nl
||jaar: 2004
||druk: ?
||pag.: 310p
||opm.: softcover|ex-bibliotheek|zo goed als nieuw|gekaft|zonder CD

||isbn: 90-430-0975-X
||code: 1:002557

--- Over het boek (foto 1): De grote Windows schoonmaak - Windows XP ---

Computer, beeldscherm of printer smerig? In de knoop met losse kabels? Vaak problemen met apparatuur? Tijd voor de grote schoonmaak! Iedere computerbezitter heeft er last van: de troep in en om je computer hoopt zich op. Hierdoor werken randapparaten niet of slecht samen met de computer, struikel je over de vele kabels en snoeren, kun je het beeldscherm en toetsenbord door al het vuil amper nog lezen en werkt de processor zo tergend langzaam dat je tijdens het opstarten genoeg tijd hebt om het grasveld te maaien. Herken je deze problemen? Wil je er vanaf? Dan is dit boek de oplossing - een unieke handleiding waarin wordt uitgelegd hoe je kostbare tijd kunt besparen, honderden euro's aan overbodige reparaties kunt voorkomen en een heleboel ruimte op je bureau kunt winnen. Dit boek is geschikt voor alle computerbezitters en volgt een speciaal schoonmaakproces om de prestaties van je computer te verbeteren. Met behulp van de schoonmaaklijsten voorin het boek kun je in tien minuten, een uur of een halve dag de computer en alle randapparaten schoonmaken en een veilig en efficiënt netwerk instellen.

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Na eerdere boeken over Windows en e-mail is dit het derde deel in de succesvol gebleken 'grote schoonmaak'-serie. Ditmaal wordt de hardware onder handen genomen, te beginnen met het opruimen en stofvrij maken van de werkplek en het schoonmaken van de computer en randapparatuur. Ook wordt uitgelegd hoe ruimte efficiënt benut wordt door het gebruik van een plat beeldscherm met ingebouwde speakers en het opruimen van overbodige randapparaten. Dat het moeilijk is nóg een boek te vullen met schoonmaaktips blijkt uit de tweede helft, waarin de aandacht verschuift naar het opzetten van een thuisnetwerk. Dit begint met de overstap van een internetverbinding via de telefoon naar ADSL of kabel en vervolgt met het aanleggen van een al of niet draadloos netwerk tussen de verschillende computers in huis. Verder is er aandacht voor het maken van backups en het verbeteren van de prestaties door vervanging van onderdelen of aanpassing van software-instellingen. Met illustraties in zwart-wit en uitgebreid register. Hoewel de titel de lading niet geheel dekt, bevat dit boek toch bruikbare tips voor efficiënter gebruik en beter begrip van de pc.

Arnout Cosman [bron: nbd biblion]

Degunking Windows, Second Edition continues on with the mission introduced in the bestselling first edition--help all Windows XP users get the most out of their PC. Since the first edition was published, new software updates, hardware changes, and more aggressive viruses have all contributed to creating more gunk for users.

The new edition is especially designed to help readers clean up Windows and get much more out of their PCs. The focus is on Service Pack 2 and all of the new features that have been added to Windows XP. Degunking Windows, Second Edition features proven techniques to help users quickly get their PCs back to top performance. It shows why PCs get gunked up, and presents the best techniques for degunking including improving security, dealing with spam, getting rid of unused programs, making Internet Explorer more secure, dealing with email programs, getting SP2 working well, cleaning files, optimizing hard drives to free up valuable space, working with Windows Media programs, and fixing the Desktop and Start menus. The new edition presents the easiest ways to back up precious files, clean and optimize the registry, and how to do a clean install.

[source: https--www.amazon.com]

Even I can understand this tech stuff! [2013-03-24]

This book is written in a way that this non-techie can understand and follow directions. Great book to recommend highly.

Susan Greenwalt [source: https--www.amazon.com]

PC Degunking Guide [2008-12-24]

I have had this book for over a year and can truly say that it has been a great asset in helping me keep my computer trouble free. The directions are very clear (however, you must take the time to read and not jump ahead). It's a great little book and I can recommend it without any hesitation based on personal experience.

G. W. OMary [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Good for beginners, but nothing here for the hardcore [2004-07-09]

This might be a good book for my Mom. She needs help with basic things like uninstalling programs, and defragging her hard drive from time to time. Most of her problems are the result of cute cursors and a "free screensaver" fetish, but I digress.

Unfortunately, most of the contents of this book are common sense to the majority of Windows users - delete old files, keep your inbox clean, use the built-in defragger from time to time, dont forget to back up your files - you get the idea. If you are relatively new to Windows, or if the idea of general computer maintenance is something that you are not familiar with, then Degunking Windows will offer you some very basic guidelines to keeping your system relatively clean.

If you already know the basics, you might benefit from the few chapters that cover some intermediate topics such as keeping the registry clean with some shareware tools, some cursory tips on preventing spam and the like. But if you are looking for coverage of topics like removing and preventing spyware, this book's 3 paragraphs on the subject wont help much.

Other chapters in the book seem a bit out of place, such as the security chapter. Dont get me wrong - getting Windows secured is a nightmare at best, and impossible depending on who you ask, but the security tips in the book dont really do anyting towards the title's goal of "degunking."

Beyond the very basic, this title does not provide much in the way of improving speed and performance of your Windows system.

hang10web [source: https--www.amazon.com]

A good reference manual [2013-08-04]

This book is well written to help the persistent trouble chaser stumble through Window's mischievous dirty tricks. It's a good first step in chasing your mahine's problems -- before resorting to paying for tech service.

A beginning birder [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Improve The Efficiency And Performance Of Windows XP [2005-11-10]

For most Windows users, let's see if this story is a familiar one.

Get your new PC home, install Windows XP on it, things are great, things are fast, things are super duper. One week goes by, you've now been surfing the net for awhile, installing applications, just doing the normal everyday stuff that you are used to doing. A few weeks go by and now you are really enjoying your new computer. You've learned the ins and outs of Windows XP and you really enjoy the improvements that you have seen, but you notice that it doesn't seem to be as fast as it was the day you took it out of the box. No matter, it's probably due to the fact that you are actually using the machine and you shrug this away as not a big deal.

Months go by and you now really notice that your computer is not as "virgin pure" as it was on day 1. There's no denying that things are not like they used to be but you have learned to live with it, just accepting it as "wear and tear" on your operating system.

If your story is similar to the one I have laid out here, your computer has been "gunked". Anyone that actually uses their Windows XP based computer will at some point experience the story I have outlined here, and the majority of those individuals will just have to live with it until they buy a new computer.

Don't let this happen to you!!

With Joli Ballew and Jeff Duntemann's "Degunking Windows" in hand, you have a great tool to avoid a similar fate as the one I have discussed. The authors of this book in 18+ chapters explain what exactly has caused your computer to lose performance and efficiency, and they discuss a myriad of tips to degunk your system and return things to their former glory.

Major tips and tweaks covered and discussed:

• Search and remove duplicate files
• Keep your desktop clean and uncluttered
• Sort data in a logical manner
• Identify temporary files and remove unneeded ones
• Remove unnecessary applications and spyware
• Store data in logical places instead of just any location
• Run Disk Defragmenter early and often
• Empty the Recycle Bin often
• Use spam filters to clean up e-mail
• Upgrade the OS often when new patches are released
• Learn to tweak and clean the registry
• Install and set up PowerToys
• Use Anti-Virus software
• Backup, Backup, Backup, Backup, BACKUP!!!

If all else fails...

• Reinstall OS

For all Windows XPs newbies, this is a necessary reference to improve your everyday experience and learn that when the going gets slow you don't have to just live with it. For experienced XP users the ROI from this book goes down, but because of the plethora of tips and tricks it's still a great investment. About the only person I wouldn't recommend this book to is a Windows XP guru who probably already knows these recommendations by heart.

All in all, a solid book on how to keep your copy of Windows running smoothly and happy.

Dan McKinnon [source: https--www.amazon.com]

--- Over (foto 2): Jeff Duntemann ---

Jeff Duntemann (Colorado Springs, CO) is a well-known technical magazine editor, award-winning writer, and best-selling author of numerous computer books including Assembly Language Step By Step, Delphi Programming Explorer, The PowerPC Revolution, Jeff Duntemann's Drive By Wi-Fi Guide and many more. Jeff has been nominated for a Hugo award on several occasions for his popular Science Fiction short stories. He is also a well-known speaker on general technology issues, software development, and specific topics such as wireless computing. He lives with his wife Carol and a garage full of radios and loose electronic parts.

[source: https--www.oreilly.com/pub/au/1337]

I am a writer, editor, technologist and contrarian living in Scottsdale, Arizona. Although I have worked as a programmer, I've been in the publishing industry (both technical magazines and books) since 1985. I co-founded Coriolis Group Books in 1989, and was a partner in technology publisher Paraglyph Press from its founding in 2002 until its closing in 2009. Most of my book-length work has been on computer technology. (See JEFF DUNTEMANN'S WI-FI GUIDE, ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE STEP BY STEP, and DEGUNKING EMAIL, SPAM, AND VIRUSES, as well as many more titles now out of print.)

In my loose moments I'm an amateur radio operator (callsign K7JPD), amateur astronomer, and SF writer. My first SF novel, THE CUNNING BLOOD, was published in November 2005 (and is now on KDP Select) but I have been selling SF stories to magazines and anthologies for 45 years, and was on the final Hugo Awards ballot in 1981. As time allows I build and fly kites and gadget-hack with Meccano/Erector parts and radio tubes.

In addition to science and technology, I'm interested in history, psychology, theology, and "weirdness," all of which feed the story machine in the back of my head. My wife Carol and I met in high school and have been married for over 40 years. We live in Scottsdale with four Bichon Frise dogs.

There's more about me on my Web sites: contrapositivediary.com (my blog) junkbox.com (tech projects) and duntemann.com, which is a quick index to all that I've published online.

[source: https--www.amazon.com]

My tagline above is a succinct summary of what I do: I write; I edit my own material and that of others; I work in, with, and on technology (with my own hands) of several kinds; and I think about almost everything from as many different perspectives as possible. My contrarianism is conscious and deliberate. Why? If you don't regularly require yourself to think beyond your own habits and suppositions, you end up in a very deep mental rut. I do not always take every contrarian position, but I consider each one I encounter. I may support things, but for the most part I don't join them.

I was born and grew up on the northwest side of Chicago, in a neighborhood called Edison Park. I am a Catholic of Roman Catholic parents, and attended Immaculate Conception parochial school on Talcott Road. The teaching there, both intellectual and moral, was rigorous.

I graduated from Lane Technical High School in Chicago in 1970. At that time, Lane had many shops and labs (fewer now) where I had plenty of opportunity to learn by doing-which, as I have found, is the only way to learn anything well. I learned basic electricity, woodworking, metal machining, and computer programming (FORTRAN IV) while there. The college prep curriculum was primary, and included biology, chemistry, physics, Spanish, and four years of mathematics. I graduated 30th in a class of 1,337.

In the fall of 1970, I attended Illinois Institute of Technology for one semester, and found that engineering was not my calling. Intending to pursue a teaching career, I entered De Paul University in Chicago in the spring of 1971, and graduated with a B.A. in English, summa cum laude, in 1974.

Since graduating from De Paul, I have taken numerous continuing education courses in many things, primarily technology topics, including electronics, database design and programming in several languages, but also including book and magazine editing and management.

I will answer pertinent questions about my work history on request; however, I generally do not do so for publication.

2002-Present: Editor at Large, Paraglyph Press, Scottsdale, Arizona
1989-2002: Vice President/Editorial Director, The Coriolis Group, Scottsdale, Arizona
1988-1989: Independent Contractor, technical writing
1987-1988: Editor in Chief, Turbo Technix Magazine, Borland International, Scotts Valley, California
1985-1987: Senior Technical Editor, PC Tech Journal, Ziff-Davis Publishing, Baltimore, Maryland
1979-1985: Programmer/Analyst, Xerox Corporation, Rochester, New York
1976-1979: Branch Data Analyst, Xerox Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
1974-1976: Technical Representative, Xerox Corporation, Chicago, Illinois

Short Nonfiction Publications and Magazine Work

My books will be listed separately below, under Bibliography. Listing each short item I've published separately would take too much space, so I will summarize:

I have been a published writer since I was an undergraduate at DePaul. Both my first piece of fiction and my first piece of nonfiction appeared in commercial magazines in 1974. In following years, I wrote technical articles for Byte, PC Magazine, Creative Computing, Kilobaud, Computer Graphic, PC Week, 73, and smaller newsletters and specialty anthologies.

I wrote frequently for PC Tech Journal between 1983 and joining the staff in 1985. While on staff I wrote regular reviews and short technical items, and the "Product of the Month" column.

In 1987 I was hired by Borland International to create and edit a magazine for their programming language customers. The magazine was Turbo Technix, and it ran bimonthly for six issues. I wrote both editorials and technical items in almost every issue. The magazine was sent free of charge to all registered language customers (in excess of 200,000) so it was an expensive effort. Borland shuttered the magazine during a corporate downsizing in 1988.

After leaving Borland's staff I wrote material for Borland on contract, including a great deal of the OOP Guide included with the object-oriented release 5.5 of Turbo Pascal, in 1989. (These efforts were not bylined.)

In early 1989 I began writing the "Structured Programming" column in Dr. Dobb's Journal, which appeared under my byline for 43 months, until the pressures of my other work prevented me from continuing. The column emphasized the "non-C" structured languages of the time, primarily Pascal and Modula 2, but touching on others here and there.

In 1989, fellow writer Keith Weiskamp and I created The Coriolis Group in Scottsdale, Arizona, for the purposes of publishing a magazine for programmers in the spirit of the popular Turbo Technix. The first issue of PC Techniques appeared in March, 1990. As with Turbo Technix, I contributed both editorials and technical pieces throughout the publication's ten-year run. In 1994 I wrote an idea piece, "The All-Volunteer Virtual Encyclopedia of Absolutely Everything," that anticipated today's Wikipedia. (I was wrong about its distributed nature-hard disk storage was much more expensive back in 1994.)

In 1996, we redesigned PC Techniques and renamed it Visual Developer Magazine, reflecting the industry's shift to programming tools like Visual Basic and Delphi. PCT/VDM ran for ten years, until we were forced to shutter it for financial reasons in 2000. A longer, less formal description of my experiences in magazine publishing (along with some of my editorials and idea pieces) can be found here.

Nearly all of my short-item writing since the folding of Visual Developer in 2000 has been for the Web.

Book Publishing and Bibliography

The Coriolis Group was founded to publish a technical magazine, but in the early 1990s we decided to create a parallel effort to publish technical books. Our first book appeared in January 1994. Technical book publishing was strong in the 1990s, and by 1997 Coriolis Group Books (as that part of the business was called) had become the largest book publisher in Arizona, employing 107 people at its peak and publishing over 130 titles per year.

The bursting of the Internet bubble took much of the profitability out of technical publishing by late 2000, and shortly afterward spun publishing in general into a recession that worsened post 9-11. Even after reorganization and several rounds of layoffs, The Coriolis Group could not regain its footing, and closed in March of 2002.

In the summer of 2002, Keith Weiskamp, Steve Sayre, Cynthia Caldwell, and myself (all former Coriolis staffers) created Paraglyph Press, again in Scottsdale, Arizona. The corporation was designed from its outset to be fully virtual: There is no central office, and we conduct our business via the Internet and phone. This allowed me to move to Colorado in 2003 and still continue my work with Paraglyph. We are too small to be specialists (yet), and my role there is what circumstances demand at any given time: I acquire books, develop concepts for books, promote our titles with the media, research publishing technology, and actually write a few of our books themselves when time allows.

My first book, however, was published long before Coriolis was founded, and I published books regularly with several large NY houses between 1985 and 1995.

Books Published as Sole Author

• Complete Turbo Pascal: Scott, Foresman, 1985
• Complete Turbo Pascal, 2E: Scott, Foresman, 1986
• Turbo Pascal Solutions: Scott, Foresman, 1987
• Complete Turbo Pascal, 3E: Scott, Foresman,1989
• Assembly Language from Square One: Scott, Foresman, 1989
• Assembly Language Step By Step: John Wiley & Sons, 1992
• Borland Pascal from Square One: Bantam,1993
• Assembly Language Step By Step, 2E: John Wiley & Sons, 2000
• Jeff Duntemann's Drive-By Wi-Fi Guide: Paraglyph Press, 2002
• Jeff Duntemann's Wi-Fi Guide, 2E: Paraglyph Press, 2003
• Degunking Your Email, Spam, and Viruses: Paraglyph Press, 2004

Books Published With Other Authors

• Windows Programming Power with Custom Controls (with Paul Cilwa): Coriolis, 1994
• Inside the PowerPC Revolution (with Ron Pronk): Coriolis, 1994
• Mosaic & Web Explorer (with Urban Lejeune): Coriolis, 1994
• Mosaic Explorer Pocket Companion (with Ron Pronk and Pat Vincent): Coriolis, 1994
• Web Explorer Pocket Companion (with Ron Pronk and Pat Vincent): Coriolis, 1995
• Netscape & HTML Explorer (with Urban Lejeune): Coriolis, 1995
• Delphi Programming Explorer (with Jim Mischel and Don Taylor): Coriolis, 1995
• Delphi 2 Programming Explorer (with Jim Mischel and Don Taylor): Coriolis, 1996
• C++Builder Programming Explorer (with Jim Mischel): Coriolis, 1997
• Degunking Windows (with Joli Ballew): Paraglyph, 2004
• Degunking Your PC (with Joli Ballew): Paraglyph, 2005

My books have appeared in translation in many languages, including German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Croatian, Polish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.

ContraPositive Diary

I have been a blogger since long before that awful word came into being. In June of 1998 I began posting daily or near-daily observations on the Coriolis Web site, at the encouragement of my ad sales rep for Visual Developer. As she put it, the advertisers liked my writing, and given our limited page count, it was an opportunity to work in a lot more product mentions. I'm not sure it ever sold us any ads, but VDM Diary gathered a following, and morphed into ContraPositive Diary after Visual Developer folded in the spring of 2000.

ContraPositive is not themed as many blogs are. It's not "about" computing, or Wi-Fi, or religion, or politics. It's a record of my life as an emergent process, done in the hope that others can use or at least enjoy some of the things I've learned and seen and done. It's something like a public "day book," as writers call it: The place to keep those strange ideas and vivid impressions that occur to one on a walk in the mountains, so that they can be put to use in later writing. It's also good writing discipline. ContraPositive is now almost 2,000 items long, with many photos and individual entries as long as 1000 words.

ContraPositive has also been a technology testbed for me: It's how I learned HTML and numerous other Internet technologies since 1998. I'm currently working on a PHP and MySQL-based server-side content manager to host ContraPositive and allow people to select subsets of the full body of entries by keyword or category path; for example, what I have posted on computing or what I have posted on religion. Assuming that the mechanism works out, I hope to release it as an open source project someday.

I'm sure that ContraPositive is neither the oldest nor the longest-running blog on the Web, but it's right up there, and I claim (with Lisa Marie Hafeli, God love her) independent invention of the concept.

Computer Programming

I have programmed in quite a few computer languages, beginning with FORTRAN on an IBM 360 mainframe in high school. My primary experience, however, has been with APL, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, Modula 2, and x86 assembly. (I wrote code for a few in-house languages at Xerox that are best left forgotten.) That said, most of what I have done has been in Turbo Pascal and its visual descendent, Delphi. Post-Xerox, the bulk of my programming has been to support writing and hobby projects, but I fielded a little mortgage calculator program with SofSource, a "$6.99" discount software publisher, in 1992. The program, albeit for DOS in text mode, was hugely popular with real estate agents and sold over 35,000 copies until the company ceased operations in 1996.

I still program in Delphi and occasionally x86 assembly, mostly to support other research and stay current.
Professional Affiliations and Awards

I received the Award of Distinguished Technical Communication and Best of Show for my book Assembly Language Step By Step, presented by the Phoenix Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication in 1993.

The Coriolis Group and several of our books (some of which I co-authored) won or placed in the Glyph Awards, conducted by the Arizona Book Publishing Association.

While in Arizona, I was a member of the Arizona Book Publishing Association between 1992 and 2003. I served as President of the association for two years, 1999-2000.

Science Fiction

I was a published SF writer before (if by only a few months) a published technical writer. Shortly after attending the Clarion East SF writing workshop at Michigan State University in 1973, I sold a short SF story to Harry Harrison's hardcover anthology Nova 4. The book appeared in mid-1974. Since then I have had thirteen or fourteen professional publications in the SF world, depending on what you consider "professional." All were short fiction. I did well in the 1970s, and in 1981 I placed two short stories on the final ballot of SF's Hugo award. After I began writing for the computer technical press, my SF output fell off sharply. More details of my SF work can be found here.

At this writing (September 2005) I have placed my SF novel The Cunning Blood with ISFiC Press outside of Chicago. Publication will be mid-November, 2005.

My Life and Other Passions

As I've told many people, I'm interested in almost everything except sports and opera. However, most of my spare-time energy has gone into technology projects of one kind or another. I built a simple but large reflecting telescope when I was 14, which is still in use today, though like the Dutchman's Hammer there's not much left of the original but the primary mirror. When I was 15 I ground and figured a 10" Newtonian telescope mirror at Chicago's Adler Planetarium for an even larger telescope, which is also still in use. I observe with both telescopes regularly

I have been interested in electronics since I was 10, and throughout my teen years I was constantly assembling radios and other gadgets from parts pulled out of broken TVs and radios I picked up off the curb on Garbage Day. I won my 8th grade science fair with a simple robot the size of a cigar box that could follow a white line on the floor, or home in on a flashlight beam. I took a correspondence course in electronics while I was in college (hedging my bets against finding an acceptable teaching position) and while I was at it, obtained an Amateur Radio license in 1973. I have been a licensed amateur ever since then, and currently hold callsign K7JPD. My very first transmitter was homemade (again using tubes and parts yanked out of junk TVs) and I have always had a radio project or two on the bench somewhere since then.

My enthusiasm for electronics led me to wire-wrap a primitive home computer in 1976, from an article published in Popular Electronics. I was never without a computer (or five or six) after that time. I built two separate computers into an elaborate radio-controlled robot named Cosmo Klein in 1978, and appeared with Cosmo on an early Chicago cable TV show that no one saw. For several years Cosmo and I appeared at malls and computer shows, and had a fair amount of press exposure that culminated in a co-appearance (with several other homemade robots) in a 1980 issue of Look Magazine.

I have been building and flying homemade kites since I was seven or eight, and still build them on occasion, and used to fly frequently at kite gatherings in Chicago's Grant park. I have a popular Web article (originally published in Kite Lines) on the seminal Hi-Flier Kite Company, which manufactured the paper kites that I and my friends flew in the early-mid 1960s.

I am an unapologetic religionist, and I adhere to non-Papal Western Catholicism, a broad and uneven category that includes the Anglicans (who in the US are mostly the Episcopalians) and the Old Catholics. My religious position does not fit neatly along the liberal-conservative axis; I am conservative in some areas (like liturgy and Christology) and quite liberal on others (primarily the admission of women to the priesthood, and soteriology.) I've done a great deal of research on the history of the Papacy and most Popes since 1800, and collect missals and prayerbooks from the Catholic tradition. I've also read a great deal about Marian apparitions (one took place in my mother's home town) and ecstatic religious experience of many types.

My wife Carol Ostruska Duntemann and I met when we were juniors in high school, and she only two weeks past her sixteenth birthday. Without quite realizing what we were doing, we transformed one another in subsequent years: She drew me out of my eccentricity, and I drew her out of her shyness. We married in 1976, and I will stand beside her as long as I can stand at all.

We have kept bichon frise dogs most of our adult lives. The most famous of them, the regal Mr. Byte, appeared in all of my magazines and figured in most of my books. After seven years off, we adopted one again in mid-2005, the hyperdynamic QBit (for "quantum bit"). We now reside in Colorado Springs, about seventy miles south of Denver.

Well, that's what I've done, and most people feel that what you are is (mostly) what you do. If pressed to describe what I am, I simply claim to be an optimist. I used to say "contrarian optimist" until I realized that optimism itself is contrarian in these cynical times. (I don't speak of "free gifts" either.) Call it gonzo optimism, then. It stems from an insight I didn't have until my forties: Life is neither comic nor tragic, because there is no "life"-there are only lives, each of which is subject to forces and freedoms that none truly understand. No one knows how-or even if-it ends, so how in all honesty can anyone prescribe a path other than radical hope?

Last updated: 9/16/2005

[source: http--duntemann.com/whoiam.htm]

PERSONAL: Born June, 1952, in Chicago, IL; married; wife's name Carol.
ADDRESSES: ...
CAREER:

Programmer, writer, and editor. Xerox Corporation, programmer; PC Tech Journal, senior technical editor; Borland, creator of programming magazine Turbo Technix; Coriolis Group, Scottsdale, AZ, cofounder and editorial director of book publishing division, 1989-2002; Paraglyph Press, Scottsdale, cofounder, 2002-.

WRITINGS:

• Complete Turbo Pascal, Scott, Foresman (Glenview, IL), 1986, revised and enlarged edition, 1989.
• Turbo Pascal Solutions, Scott, Foresman (Glenview, IL), 1988.
• Assembly Language from Square One: For the PC AT and Compatibles ("Assembly Language Programming" series), Scott, Foresman (Glenview, IL), 1990.
• Assembly Language: Step-by-Step, John Wiley & Sons (New York, NY), 1992, revised and published as Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with DOS and Linux, 2000.
• (With Keith Weiskamp) PC Techniques C/C++ Power Tools: HAX, Techniques, and Hidden Knowledge (includes disk), Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1992.
• (Editor) Paul S. Cilwa, Borland Pascal 7 Insider ("Wily Insider" series), John Wiley & Sons (New York, NY), 1993.
• (Editor) Jim Mischel, Macro Magic with Turbo Assembler (includes disk), John Wiley & Sons (New York, NY), 1993.
• (With Ron Pronk) Inside the PowerPC Revolution, Coriolis Group (Scottsdale, AZ), 1994.
• (With Paul S. Cilway) Windows Programming Power with Custom Controls (includes disk), Coriolis Group (Scottsdale, AZ), 1994.
• (Editor) Scott Jarol, Visual Basic Multimedia Adventure Set, Coriolis Group (Scottsdale, AZ), 1994.
• (Editor) Jim Mischel, The Developer's Guide to WinHelp.Exe: Harnessing the Windows Help Engine (includes disk), John Wiley & Sons (New York, NY), 1994.
• (With Urban A. LeJeune) Mosaic and Web Explorer (includes laser optical disk), Coriolis Group (Scottsdale, AZ), 1995.
• (With Urban A. LeJeune) Netscape and HTML Explorer, Coriolis Group (Scottsdale, AZ), 1995, revised and published as The New Netscape and HTML Explorer (includes laser optical disk), Coriolis Group (Scottsdale, AZ), 1996.
• (With Ron Pronk and Patrick Vincent) Web Explorer Pocket Companion, Coriolis Group (Scottsdale, AZ), 1995.
• (With Ron Pronk and Patrick Vincent) Mosaic Explorer Pocket Companion, Coriolis Group (Scottsdale, AZ), 1995.
• All-in-One Web Surfing and Publishing Kit (includes CD-ROM), Coriolis Group (Scottsdale, AZ), 1995.
• (With Jim Mischel and Don Taylor) Delphi Programming Explorer (includes one disk), Coriolis Group (Scottsdale, AZ), 1995, published with CD-ROM as Delphi Starter Kit, 1995, revised and published as The New Delphi 2 Programming Explorer, 1996.
• (With Jim Mischel) Borland C++Builder Programming Explorer (includes laser optical disk), Coriolis Group (Scottsdale, AZ), 1997.
• Jeff Duntemann's Drive-by Wi-Fi Guide, Paraglyph Press (Scottsdale, AZ), 2003.

Columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal, 1989-93. Contributor of articles to periodicals, including PC, BYTE, PC Tech Journal, Computer Graphic, Micro/Systems Journal, Kilobaud, Creative Computing, and 73. Contributor of short fiction to science-fiction anthologies and periodicals, including Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction and Omni.

SIDELIGHTS:

Jeff Duntemann is the author and/or editor of dozens of books and articles about software technologies. His works began appearing in the mid-1980s, making him one of the first to cover the ever-changing world of computers. Duntemann is also cofounder, with Keith Weiskamp, Steven Sayre, and Cynthia Caldwell, of Coriolis Group, a publisher of computer books and such magazines as PC Techniques and Visual Developer. The company was acquired by Haights Cross in 1999, following which the new owner sold off its assets and shut it down in 2002. The former owners, including Duntemann, acquired many of the Coriolis titles and began Paraglyph, a new publishing company.

Duntemann was explaining Microsoft Windows to readers of PC magazine back in 1986, the same year his first book, Complete Turbo Pascal, was published. Reviewer Charles Petzold wrote in PC that the volume "is obviously a labor of love by an author who combines his admiration for Pascal structure with extensive use of the Turbo Pascal language enhancements."

Inside the PowerPC Revolution, which Duntemann wrote with Ron Pronk, is an explanation of CPU design, an indictment of Intel's Pentium chip, a history of why IBM, Motorola, and Apple chose RISC over CISC, and a prediction of what clones might be developed by others, including AMD.

Duntemann wrote Delphi Programming Explorer in 1995 with Jim Mischel and Don Taylor, and it was updated the following year. Robert E. Swart, reviewed the first edition for Dr. Bob's Programming Clinic Web site, calling it "truly unique. It is written by three great authors in a way that is perfect for Delphi: first do it, and then find out why (or how) it works."

Swart also reviewed Borland C++Builder Programming Explorer, written by Duntemann and Mischel, finding it to be "a good book to learn how to work with C++Builder. It teaches C++ Builder the RAD way (first do something, ask questions later)." Swart noted that the first eighteen chapters are the same as those in the Delphi edition.

The revised edition of Duntemann's Assembly Language: Step-by-Step, which builds upon his earlier Assembly Language from Square One: For the PC AT and Compatibles, was published with the subtitle Programming with DOS and Linux. The CD included contains the free assembler NASM and a DOS text-mode development environment, including text editor, from which to work. NASM-IDE replaces the JED environment Duntemann describes in the first edition. Duntemann explains on his Web site that "for Linux work, you can use any of the many Linux console editors/environments like vi or EMACS. I describe EMACS, as it's my personal favorite, but it's your choice. Because DOS no longer comes with a linker, I also provide a free linker, ALINK." Duntemann also notes that this is freeware that can be downloaded from links accessed on his Web site.

Wi-Fi-short for wireless fidelity-is the popular term for a high-frequency wireless local area network or WLAN that connects computers, printers, video cameras, and game consoles into a fast Ethernet via microwaves. The Wi-Fi technology is rapidly gaining acceptance in many companies as an alternative to a wired LAN. It can also be installed for a home network. In Jeff Duntemann's Drive-by Wi-Fi Guide, he explains how to set up such a network for under $200, including how to test it, troubleshoot it, and protect it from would-be hackers.

Another of Duntemann's passions is writing science fiction. He sold his first story when he was twenty-one and completed two full-length novels before finishing high school. In 1973, he attended a writers' workshop at Michigan State University, and his work, now more polished, began appearing in magazines and anthologies of original work.

On his Web site, he talked about "Borovsky's Hollow Woman," a novelette he wrote with Nancy Kress, a Hugo-and Nebula-award winner. When it was sold to Omni in 1983, it became one of his last published science-fiction pieces. In the process of writing this novelette, he hit a roadblock. Kress helped out "with some vigorous coaching and some significant additional copy, and taught me a great deal about the writing process itself. In return, I demonstrated to her the power of writing directly to a word processor screen. (Remember, this was 1983.) We both came out of it changed writers."

"When I want to get down and make progress on a novel," said Duntemann, "I pull down a similar work from my shelf of favorites, sit down for an hour, and just wallow. Then when I move over to the keyboard, I'm thinking in all the right patterns, and the images and situations are emerging from my subconscious. It's like a spring: you push on it, and when you let go it pushes back. When I pour SF into my ears for a while and then stop, SF starts pouring out of my fingers." Duntemann was looking for a publisher for his completed novel The Cunning Blood, which he describes as being "hard SF in the grand tradition: starships, diabolical plots, nanomachines, zero-point energy, mastodons, and human society utterly unlike our own. It's not literature. But it's a lot of fun. After I get that one into print, well, I have a list of concepts as long as my arm.... If I can get The Cunning Blood into print, I'm back home forever."

PERIODICALS

• PC, January 14, 1986, Charles Petzold, review of Complete Turbo Pascal, p. 301; October 27, 1987, Catherine D. Miller, review of Turbo Pascal Solutions, p. 48; April 13, 1993, Rick Ayre, review of Assembly Language: Step-by-Step, p. 71; December 7, 1993, Richard Hale Shaw, review of PC Techniques C/C++ Power Tools: HAX, Techniques, and Hidden Knowledge, p. 71; December 20, 1994, Sally Wiener Grotta, review of Inside the PowerPC Revolution, p. 73.
• PC Week, July 4, 1994, Sara Humphrey, review of Inside the PowerPC Revolution, p. N14.

ONLINE

• Borland Developer Network Web site,http--community.borland.com/ (May, 2003), Clay Shannon, interview with Duntemann.
• Dr. Bob's Programming Clinic Web site,http--www.drbob42.com/ (July 1, 2003), Robert E. Swart, reviews of Delphi Programming Explorer and Borland C++Builder Programming Explorer.
• Jeff Duntemann Home Page,http--www.duntemann.com/ (July 1, 2003).
• Paraglyph Press Web site,http--www.paraglyphpress.com/ (July 1, 2003).*

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Joli Ballew
Writer

Education

• University of Texas

Expertise

• Microsoft Applications
• Mac OS
• Network Security
• Computer Hardware
• Consumer Technology

Introduction

• Microsoft MVP.
• Lynda.com trainer.
• Microsoft Press author.
• Professor at Brookhaven, Collin, and Eastfield Community Colleges.

Experience

Joli Ballew is a former freelance contributor for Lifewire. She has contributed nearly 60 articles to the site on topics that range from home networking and security to getting the most from handheld devices.

As an expert on Microsoft applications, network security, Mac OS, and all manner of hardware and software, she has authored nearly 60 books in more than a dozen languages. She has been creating and presenting courses at Lynda.com since 2015 and teaches courses at Brookhaven, Collin, and Eastfield Community Colleges. She was a trainer and curriculum writer with InTechDev and a secondary algebra teacher. She runs a popular YouTube channel with more than 1 million views.

Education

Joli holds a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics with a minor in English literature from the University of Texas. Her Microsoft certifications include MCSE, MCDST, MCTS, and MCT.

Awards and Publications

• Windows 10 Manage and Maintain; Windows 10 Implementation courses on Lynda.com
• Setting up a New PC and Networking Basics, Lynda.com
• "Windows to Go (Windows 10)," Apress 2016
• "Windows 8 and 8.1 Step By Step," Microsoft Press, 2012, 2013
• "Windows 8.1 Plain & Simple," Microsoft Press, 2013
• "Degunking Windows 7," McGraw-Hill, 2011
• "Operating Systems Demystified," McGraw-Hill, 2011
• "How to Do Everything iPad," McGraw-Hill Education, 2010

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I am a full time writer, digital enthusiast, and Windows fanatic among other things. I'm a Microsoft MVP, and hold several Microsoft certifications including MCSE, MCTS, MCDST, and others. I've written 50+ books on topics ranging from Windows to Photoshop, to Phones to iPads, and even on to making your Windows PCs run better and faster. Beyond writing, I teach classes at several local community colleges and am the IT Academy Coordinator and a Professor at Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch, Texas.

When I'm not writing or teaching, I teach and take yoga, participate in various blogs, beta programs, newsgroups, and online communities. I also make a daily trek the LifeTime Fitness, where I spend an hour a day on the elliptical, bike, treadmill, or free weights.

Please visit my Web site at http--www.joliballew.com and feel free to contact me anytime at joli_ballew@hotmail.com.

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Joli Ballew (Garland, TX) is a professional writer, technology trainer, and network consultant in the Dallas area. She is also a Microsoft Windows Expert Zone Columnist and Microsoft blogger. Some of her previous jobs include technical writing, education content consulting, PC technician, network administrator, high school algebra teacher, and MCSE instructor. She earned her MCSE, MCT, and A+ certifications in less than 14 months. She is the coauthor of Degunking Windows, and the author of Degunking Your Mac, Degunking Your PC, and Windows XP Professional: The Ultimate User's Guide, Second Edition, all published by Paraglyph Press.

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