August 2003
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
6h 51m
English
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Conventions Used in This Book
This book uses the following abbreviations:
- Hz, kHz, MHz, and GHz
Hertz (cycles per second), KiloHertz (one thousand Hertz), MegaHertz (one million Hertz), and GigaHertz (one billion, or 109 Hertz).
- bps, Kbps, Mbps
Bits per second, kilobits (1024 bits) per second, and megabits (1,048,576 bits) per second.
- KB/s, MB/s
Kilobytes (1024 bytes) per second and megabytes (1,048,576 bytes) per second.
This book uses the following typographic conventions:
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Constant width Constant width is used for listing the output of command-line utilities and for command names.
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Constant width italic Constant width italic is used to show items that need to be replaced in commands.
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Italic Italic is used for emphasis, for first use of a technical term, and for example URLs.
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... Ellipses indicate text that has been omitted for clarity.
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