Windows 2000 Performance Guide Help for Administrators and Application Developers

By Mark Friedman, Odysseas Pentakalos
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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of Windows 2000 Performance Guide is a stickleback fish. Sticklebacks are small, elongated fish that reach a maximum length of about six inches and are characterized by a row of spines on the back and a soft-rayed dorsal fin. They have no scales, but are instead protected by hard armor plates on the sides of their bodies. An extremely common fish, sticklebacks live in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. They can live in either fresh or salt water, and some species inhabit both. During the springtime breeding season, the male stickleback becomes bright red in color. Using mucus secretions from his own kidneys as glue, he builds a nest of plants and coaxes a female (or females) to lay her eggs there, following behind her to fertilize them. When the nest is full, the male becomes the sole guardian of the eggs and young, defending the nest from any intruders.

There are about 12 species of stickleback fish. One of the most common is the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), which inhabits both fresh and salt water almost everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere. The sea (or 15-spined) stickleback (Spinachia spinachia) is found off the coasts of Europe. Other species include the four-spined, nine-spined, and brook sticklebacks. Emily Quill was the production editor and copyeditor for Windows 2000 Performance Guide. Sue Willing, Colleen Gorman, Matt Hutchinson, and Mary Anne Mayo provided quality control. Tom Dinse wrote the index. Derek DiMatteo and Philip Dangler provided production assistance.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with Quark™XPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout. Neil Walls converted the files from Microsoft Word to FrameMaker 5.5.6 using tools created by Mike Sierra. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Emily Quill.

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