Backup
by Jim Butcher
Amazon Price: $13.60

Windows Vista: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue
Amazon Price: $23.09
Customer Review: My review is simply a 5 star rating. It more than did the job. thanks Richard A G.

The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers (O'Reilly Digital St...
by Peter Krogh
Amazon Price: $23.07
Customer Review: Overall, this is a good book that thoroughly covers all the essentials of putting together a system and practices to organize and preserve your photo collection.

On the hardware side, he shows excessively expensive harddrive setups, when 2TB Western Digital MyBooks are dropping under $500. (Such statements are always relative to the date they're made -- 18 months from now that might ...

Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual (2nd Edition)
by David Pogue
Amazon Price: $16.47
Customer Review: I recommend this book.

It is well organized, and informative, without being too informative. The author strikes a good balance between skipping important stuff, and getting the reader stuck in excessive detail. After reading the book, I felt comfortable in the new OS.

Another thing I liked about this book was its style. Manuals such as this can be so dull your eyes glaze ...

Windows Vista for Starters: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue
Amazon Price: $13.59
Customer Review: 'Windows Vista for Starters: The Missing Manual' by David Pogue is the first Missing Manual book that I have to lean towards giving a thumbs down. Where the Missing Manual line of books continues to be some of the best things out on the market today in terms of content, layout, writing and style, this edition fails to achieve the lofty results of other books in the series. The simple reason why ...

Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue, Craig Zacker, L.J. Zacker
Amazon Price: $19.77
Customer Review: I got a new computer with Vista. What a mess, never could get anything done with it. Went back to XP and got the book "Windows XP Pro The Missing Manual" This is definately one great book. If you want to learn and know all about Windows XP this is the book. Like the title says it should have been in the box. Maybe some day Microsoft will get with it and include good manuals in there products.

Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference
by Darl Kuhn, Scott Schulze
Amazon Price: $9.95
Customer Review: This book by no means replaces the (online) documentation that oracle provides, or a more complete RMAN book.

But it shines when you want the syntax without carrying around a boat anchor of a book.

You need a working knowlege of RMAN for this book to be useful. If you purchase this to learn RMAN, you will be disappointed. If you know, or are learning to use RMAN, it is helpful.

I like it bec...

Oracle9i DBA Handbook
by Kevin Loney, Marlene Theriault
Amazon Price: $38.60
Customer Review: First off, I purchased this book as I am taking a course in Relational Database Design using Oracle 9i. I had labs to do that involved setting up user accounts, giving/revoking permissions to tables, etc. THe "Complete Reference" didn't have the necessary information--some but not all. This book--the DBA Handbook--had more complete information that quickly gave me me the information that I needed ...

Linux in a Windows World (Linux)
by Roderick Smith
Amazon Price: $32.81
Customer Review: This book did not favor any one Linux OS over another (good). Most Linux configuration was via commandline (which most will advocate in a Unix environment) and direct editing of conf files. Each chapter has a great balance of common practices, breaking down the common config parameters, then implementing. Overall, a great reference.

Maximum PC Microsoft Windows Vista Exposed: An Insider's Guide to Superchargi...
by Mark Edward Soper
Amazon Price: $22.79
Customer Review: I have just finished this book, and was very impressed with how it opened my eyes to Vista. I have been very discouraged since I purchased my new computer with Vista on it-to the point of considering returning to XP. This book really helped me understand the basics of Vista and how it differs from XP. I have mainly had a hard time adjusting to the new network system that Vista uses, and this bo...