Ethernet: The Definitive Guide

By Charles E. Spurgeon
Book Price: $44.95 USD
£31.95 GBP
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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 Ethernet: The Definitive Guide is an octopus. The octopus is a member of the class Cephalopoda, which also includes squid, cuttlefish, and nautili. However, unlike other cephalopods, the octopus's shell is entirely absent. Species of octopus vary in size from under an inch (the Californian Octopus micropyrsus) to thirty feet in length (the North Pacific Octopus dofleini). Like their squid cousins, the octopus can release a noxious ink when disturbed. Octopi vary in color from pinkish to brown, but are able to change their pigment when threatened using special pigment cells called chromatophores.

Octopi catch their prey - primarily crabs, lobsters, and other smaller sea creaturesi - with their suckered tentacles. Many species are aided by a poison these sucker cups secrete; one Australian species' venom is so potent that it can be deadly to humans.

Octopi are considered to be the most intelligent invertebrate species. They have both short- and long-term memory, and have shown trial-and-error learning skills, retaining the problem-solving gained through experience. Their sucker cups are very sensitive; a sightless octopus can differentiate between various shapes and sizes of objects as well as a sighted one. David Futato was the production editor and copyeditor for Ethernet: The Definitive Guide. Melanie Wang provided quality control; Anna Snow aided with production. Ellen Troutman-Zaig wrote the index.

Hanna Dyer 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. Kathleen Wilson produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 3.32 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

Alicia Cech designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Mike Sierra implemented the design in FrameMaker 5.5.6. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Rhon Porter using Macromedia FreeHand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5. This colophon was written by David Futato.

Whenever possible, our books use RepKover™, a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover™'s limit, perfect binding is used.

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