Keith Douglas' Web Page
About me | Find out who I am and what I do. |
My resumé | A copy of my resumé and other documentation about my education and work experience for employers and the curious. |
Reviews, theses, articles, presentations | A collection of papers from my work, categorized and annotated. |
Current research projects | What I am currently working on, including some non-research material. |
Interesting people | People professionally "connected" to me in some way. |
Interesting organizations | Organizations I am "connected" to. (Some rather loosely.) |
Intellectual/professional influences | Influences on my work, including an organization chart. Here you can also buy many good books on philosophy and other subjects via amazon.com. I have included brief reviews of hundreds of books. |
Professional resources | Research sources, amazon.com associates programs, etc. |
What is the philosophy of computing? | A brief introduction to my primary professional interest. |
My intellectual heroes | A partial list of important people. Limited to the dead. |
My educational philosophy | As a sometime teacher I've developed one. Includes book resources. |
Book Influences - Computing: Networks
CCNA 1 and 2 Companion Guide | Chapman | Some of the stuff in here (not so much the networking stuff, but the other computing and physics stuff) is a bit odd. A better editor would have been useful, too. Readers of this and the companion volume (below) should be aware that Cisco changes its curriculum very often; they are likely out of date for study purposes. | |
CCNA 3 and 4 Companion Guide | Bodtcher | Better written than its predecessor. | |
IPv6 Essentials | Hagen | A quick guide to RFCs and the differences between IPv4 and v6. Also a "sales pitch" for this "next generation" (well, sort of, given that IPv6 has been around almost 20 years) networking protocol etc. I wonder what really is holding up application support, which seems to be one root of why we are still IPv4 almost everywhere, at least in North America. | |
Nmap Network Scanning | Lyon | Nmap is a well-regarded port, service, network, etc. scanner. This is the dead-tree edition of its documentation. Comprehensive, clear and full of many things which aren't obvious from the help, this is good reading, though sometimes a little tedious. Particularly good are the descriptions of how nmap actually does some of its things, e.g. a zombie scan. |