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WebTrends Firewall Suite - ( v. 4.1b ) - product upgrade licence - 3 firewalls - upgrade from WebTrends Firewall Appliance Analyzer - Tier 2 (pack of 3 )

September 13th, 2008

WebTrends Firewall Suite - ( v. 4.1b ) - product upgrade licence - 3 firewalls - upgrade from WebTrends Firewall Appliance Analyzer - Tier 2 (pack of 3 )

List Price: ?24.99
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Customer Review: Good for xperienced DIY ers
This book is an excellent reference tool for people with a modicum of common sense and a bit of experience. It has enough depth and breadth to cover the majority of things but if you are looking for something that will tell you how to build a block of flats from scratch using only lolly sticks then you will be dissappointed. It kind of gives you the confidence to do what you knew you wanted to do but didn’t know the detail (like using 10mm cable for a shower installation) I’m a miserable wotsit and I bought another copy for my son Buy it. If you save one tradesman coming in to do a job then it’ll have paid for itself.
Customer Review: Useless - the Readers Digest one is much better
This book is fairly useless, for several reasons: 1. It’s impossible to find what you’re looking for, and the index is hopeless. The only way I managed to find anything was by flicking randomly until I found what I was looking for. 2. Sometimes it is hopelessly patronising, but then most of the time it assumes you know much more than you would as an amateur DIYer. For example, we wanted to know how to put in a loft door, and it said ’shore up the size of the hatch to fit the door you’ve bought’. How do you do that? If it was covered elsewhere in the book, it was hopeless trying to find it. This is just one example from six months of frustration with this book. 3. It is rubbish at telling you exactly what you need to ask for when you go to hardware stores. Often B&Q had no idea what the thing was the book said I needed. (OK B&Q are also a bit rubbish) We’ve just bought our first flat, and are fairly competent at DIY, but having lived with this book for six months, we ended up buying the Readers Digest one, which is infinitely better. We’re not even going to bother keeping the Collins for a second opinion, it’s that rubbish.
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