Modeling

For the price, this book is trash. Learning PK parameters with this book is nearly impossible. I have been working in the pharmacy field as a hospital clinician for 18 years and I couldn't understand a thing from this book. Save your money and buy a well-known book. Michael Winter's book is a better deal. This (Borne) author seems to like $50-words that never say anything. This leads to a misunderstanding of terms. My advice to him: Stop taking everything rightly learned in nonsensical garbage.

I agree with the previous reviewer that this book is over-priced, especially when compared to the scant content. It's listed as 139 pages, but, considering the small 6x9 format, the book contains less than 100 pages of material.

The material that is contained within the book is well-presented, and the chapters are logically sequenced, each building on the other. The illustrations and tables are relevent and supplement the text nicely. However, each chapter is but a short, cursory review, there is not enough detail. What Bourne presents here is more like an outline of what he could have written.

This book might be helpful to pharmaceutical scientists who use ADAPT, BOOMER, MULTI, NONMEM, or other programs for modeling pharmacokinetic data. However, there is little here for practicing pk clinicians.

I read the book in full. I believe that the manuals are better then the book. The only detail discussion was regarding Netscape Composer, which I will not use. I recommend not to buy this book

This book is not much more than a rewrite of the hardcopy documentation. It has the same weak points including lack of examples especially in the area of access configuration. It is disappointing when you purchase this book to bring yourself up to speed quickly in the areas that are lacking in the documentation, only to find it is has the same shortcomings

Got to the index, and it is for ver 5.0. Very disappointed

I was very disappointed when I tried to install this book onto my PC and failed many times ! Seems something wrong with this CD-ROM and it can not be recognized by Win-95 ! If anyone out there has any idea how to install it or get a refund on the CD (not the book itself, since I still need it) from Amazon, please let me know. Many thanks in advance !

I am very sorry to see this book still in print and still on the virtual shelves. It is by far the worst book on SNMP I have ever read. The factual errors in this book are too numerous to detail...suffice it to say that where it deals with important aspects of SNMP and applications built on SNMP it is either wrong, misleading, or incomplete far more often than not. I posted a detailed analysis to one of the IETF SNMP lists (after trying unsuccessfully to communicate with the author) when I bought the book when it first came out. I honestly don't remember the specifics...but I am certain that this book would do more harm than good to anyone setting out to write his or her first SNMP application. Fortunately, intervening developments (such as SNMPv3, AgentX, WinSNMP, etc.) have made this book all but totally irrelevant anyway.

I've purchased any number of un-stellar computer books in my time, but this one is truly worthless. Its strongest topic is probably on building MIBs, but even there it won't help you much. If you're looking for material on building management stations or customized monitoring applications, keep looking. In numerous places, the author asserts that common belief is incorrect (e.g. "One factor not clearly understood is that there is an SNMP response to every SNMP command.") but then fails to provide the correct information. A substantial amount of ink at various places in the book is devoted to history and evolution of the standards, without an apparent tie to the subject at hand. Organization of subject matter is apparently largely random, with wild leaps from one topic to the next.

It seems likely that the author has at best a fuzzy grasp of his subject matter, coupled with a some hidden agenda for the evolution of network monitoring.

Apparently basic editorship was considered an unnecessary luxury, as the book is full of grammatical errors.

This book gets your hopes up, then fails to deliver. The concepts are not explained clearly, the technical parts don't go into enough detail, and the grammar is shaky. On the plus side, it contains a lot of pointers to additional sources of information on SNMP.

This book was required study for a graduate seminar course in water quality modeling. After leaving graduate school it was found that there were many more complete and useable models in existence than mentioned in this book which seemed out of date by comparison. I found that the book by Thomann and Mueller was much clearer in explaining the fundamental processes in water quality analysis, and had much more practical information.

The water quality modeling presented in this book is vintage 1983 and based on the EPA WASP-Eutro. It does not include the particulate forms of the nutrient constituents as in present more realistic models. It ignores the important role of zooplankton in recycling nutrients to the particulate pools. It treats almost every waterbody as if it were a two layered system, and ignores realistic waterbody hydrodynamics and real time varying conditions. It does not address state of the art methods of using combined hydrodynamic and transport water quality modeling as emphasized by more experienced modelers such as Hamrick and Seng.

The text does not consider any of the combined three dimensional hydrodynamic and water quality models such as developed by the corps of engineers or like RMA-10 that have come into existence in the past ten years, or their application to important cases. The level of water quality modeling considered is well below the state of the art that existed even at the time of publication.

I had the good luck to check it out of the library (i.e. did not spend any money) when I was researching the SMTP setup. On page 220 the author acknowledges the existence of SMTP service.

I am embarrassed that I did not look at this book long enough to recognize that the author knew nothing about NT and IIS before she started writing and almost nothing after she was finished. The publisher should be ashamed of releasing this book to the public. It is an example of greed. It was available to hit the shelves before nearly anything else on IIS 4.0 so those of us who needed to master the newest version of Information Server had little else to choose from when I bought it in April, 1998. Now I would say that absolutely every other book available is a better choice. I wonder what it feels like to offer something this bad to the public. I hope I never find out.

It is IIS3 for NT4. There is one chapter in the back regarding IIS4.0. Mostly it is an NT book writen from a lab perspective on a weak machine by authors who really don't know the subject as us professionals do. Waste of $ I took it back

There have been quite a few changes of the specifications since this book has been printed.
You will get something completely outdated if you buy this book.

This book is useless. The online documents are so much easier to download and read on a laptop as well as search with your fav editor (emacs?). Anyway, why having bother to publish such a dull book without any added value is beyond me (and the rest of the review gang apparently.)

Do yourself a big favor and make this book a big pass. If curious about XML metadata, get Inside XML instead.

We are missing a ZERO star rating on Amazon. Too bad, because this book deserves it.

As the alleged author of this book I'd just like todistancemyself from this cheesy piece of shovelware. Spend the moneyon a printer instead. Or a better monitor. Or some cheese and ashovel. While W3C specs are available under a liberal license, this"book" is pushing at the limits of polite behaviour. I foundout I was named on the cover via Amazon. If I ever get around towriting a book, it won't have been this one...

Though the basic ideas given in this book are quite relevant to using OPNET, the GUI and other interfaces being used in the current version of OPNET are radically different. The only plus point of the book are the projects that the user can utilize. I have been working with OPNET for a year now and I think that the online help that comes with the software is a much better way of learning OPNET than to spend on this book!!!!

Although the book provides insightful examples of how OPNET can be used as an effective network simulation tool, the tutorials are written based on an old version of OPNET and the examples bear no resemblance to the tool as it is shipped today.

NOT A GOOD WAY TO LEARN OPNET VERSIONS > 3.5

If you are trying to learn OPNET 5.1, then look for another book. Even though the publishing date of this book is listed as December of 1999, it is NOT written for the current version of OPNET (OPNET 5.1, which was released last year).

The book does provide an e-mail address for comments regarding the book. However my queries to that address regarding this problem have gone unanswered.

Profoundly disappointing.

I've just gone through 4 chapters, I'm 25% through the book and I'm two chapters away from installing the software.. Come on... The authors take a long time to get to actually using the software and I'm losing confidence they really ever worked on it at all. The book reads like one made for Exchange in general, questions were bolted to the end of the chapters then glossed as an MCSE book with a CD to the back for good measure. Chapter section headings and layout in general could be a lot better, and they are so verbose. God, I think I've read the same ROI / TCO sentence a thousand times. It's taking a lot of time to go back through the chapters and find specific points because the book is organized so badly, Chapter 4 in particular. I passed the Exchange 5.5 test a while back and this one just doesn't seem to have the technical focus of the books I used for that test (Teach Yourself MSX 5.5 and the 5.5 Exam Cram book).

I'll probably buy another book to do 70-224. I can't afford the time to spend reading a book that is likely to waste the $125 testing fee, and my time. It's too bad because I relied on the same series for SQL Server 7 and it was excellent.

I'm a big fan of Amazon's customer peer review comments and don't like to see poor reviews that unfairly trash a book, unfortunately I have to agree with the previous poster. Don't buy this book for 70-224.

I just passed the 70-224 test today and it was not because of this book. The first half of this book is all about the history of email, exchange business practices, and every acronym you can imagine (most were not even real acronyms). None of this pertains to the actual test and it will do nothing but fill your head with useless information. There are hardly any diagrams or references, and the practice exam program that came with the book asked me questions on customizing MMC consoles :( I have been a steady fan of Syngress study guides and so far I have used them to pass my CCNA, CCDA, the 4 core MCSE tests and now the 70-224. Btw ... the publisher of Exam Cram and Exam Prep books is now out of business ... I'm sure you can figure out why :)

This e-book isn't real material. Please anybody buy this e-book.