Acknowledgments

Jim and Neil would like to thank the following people:

Our families, for putting up with all the late nights and weekends, rooms full of computers and cables, and for changes we made to their PCs when they were asleep or at school.

Our publisher and the fine team at Cisco Press and Pearson Education. We would especially like to thank our editor, Drew Cupp, who we beat like a rented mule. He not only survived, he also managed to make sense out of our garbled English.

Our illustrator, Nathan Clement at Stickman Studios (www.stickman-studio.com/), who makes all this stuff come to life with great illustrations.

Our technical reviewers, Bradley Mitchell and Doug Foster, who both make sure we do our homework and who keep us from making fools of ourselves by catching our mistakes before you ever see them.

And last but not least, the following people who helped us with technical questions along the way: Stuart Hamilton, Steve Ochmanski, Brian Cox, Lou Ronnau, Max Ardica, and Jason Frazier.