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 bird on the cover of Windows NT Workstation Configuration and Maintenance is a wandering albatross (family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes). This large marine bird has, along with the royal albatross, the largest wing-span of all seabirds, measuring up to 12 feet. Adult wandering albatrosses have primarily white plumage and white beaks, with black-tipped wings. The young have brown plumage and white faces. They live mainly in the southern oceans. Like most albatrosses, the wandering albatross spends much of its life at sea and travels great distances. They glide effortlessly on the updrafts of air coming off the ocean waves. When the wind is low, they often preserve energy by floating on the water, which is also how they sleep. The only time wandering albatrosses live on land is during breeding season. Unlike most albatrosses, the wandering variety breeds in solitary pairs, not in colonies. A single egg is laid, which the male and the female alternate incubating for two to three months. Both parents also share the duties of caring for the young, who does not take its first flight for approximately nine months. Spending most of their lives at sea as they do, wandering albatrosses are able to drink sea water. They eliminate the salt from this wather through their nasal glands. Squid are their preferred food. They also consume fish, crabs, some plants, and smaller seabirds. They are considered to be scavengers because of their habit of following ships and feeding on any food that is thrown overboard. Albatrosses developed a bad name and became synonymous with nagging burdens as a result of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In fact, in that poem the albatross is a symbol of hope and good omen. The ancient mariner's troubles began because he killed the good bird, when he should have been grateful to it. Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary was the production editor and Norma Emory was the copyeditor for Windows NT Workstation Configuration and Maintenance . Nancy Wolfe Kotary was the production manager. Melanie Wang provided quality control. Mike Sierra provided FrameMaker technical support. Brenda Miller wrote the index. Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with QuarXPress 3.32 using the ITC Garamond font. 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. The inside layout was designed by Nancy Priest and implemented in FrameMaker 5.5 by Mike Sierra. 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 Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.