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67 reviews
Colin Moock

O'Reilly, 2001

Superb
Finally, an actionscript guide that is superb in its production! My hat is off to Colin and Gary for this detail-oriented volume that has cleared the smoke out of my head and has made a programmer out of an artist. Bravo!!!

PC Annoyances

40 reviews
Steve Bass

O'Reilly, 2003

Concise, excellent, usable tips
I've read many computer books, and I have to say this is one of the most informative. More important, Steve provides hundreds of tips to overcome the small (and large) problems of Windows. It's nice to konw that even a well-known computer columnist experiences the same frustrations we ordinary users do. Happily, he willing to share the solutions he's found. In my first reading, I discovered the ...

PC Hardware in a Nutshell (Nutshell Handbook)

33 reviews
Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson

O'Reilly, 2000

Power to the People!
Let me start out with a huge thanks to O'Reilly. I'm not a big fan of large corporations or publishers - but I have come to trust O'Reilly implicitly wherever technical issues are concerned. Although I'm certain that they are not the "perfect" publisher, nor in the business for wholly (ha!) altruistic reasons, I AM amazed by the remarkable originality, diversity, range, quality, accuracy, and ...

Windows Server Cookbook for Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000

18 reviews
Robbie Allen

O'Reilly Media, 2005

Very helpful to admins / IT support
We're a software engineering company, and I maintain our internal servers (6-7 servers) as well as provide customer support on our products. A lot of that involves asking for information from the customer - and this book helps in putting together scripts that I can send out that will send back information to us that avoids us asking to exchange 5 emails to get the same result. Anything that saves ...