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Computers as Components, 3rd Edition

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Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design, 3e , presents essential knowledge on embedded systems technology and techniques. Updated for today's embedded systems design methods, this edition features new examples including digital signal processing, multimedia, and cyber-physical systems. Author Marilyn Wolf covers the latest processors from Texas Instruments, ARM, and Microchip Technology plus software, operating systems, networks, consumer devices, and more.

Ah, my bad.

You said it was nearly that for specs

@alexntg You're sure you've got that right? The video card itself he has there is worth significantly more than that.

Head First JavaScript Programming

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This brain-friendly guide teaches you everything from JavaScript language fundamentals to advanced topics, including objects, functions, and the browser’s document object model. You won’t just be reading—you’ll be playing games, solving puzzles, pondering mysteries, and interacting with JavaScript in ways you never imagined. And you’ll write real code, lots of it, so you can start building your own web applications. Prepare to open your mind as you learn (and nail) key topics including:
•The inner details of JavaScript
•How JavaScript works with the browser
•The secrets of JavaScript types
•Using arrays
•The power of functions
•How to work with objects
•Making use of prototypes
•Understanding closures
•Writing and testing applications

Microsoft Virtualization Secrets

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Insider Tips - Expert advice to help you optimize performance

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Valuable Insights - Eye-opening descriptions of poorly documented or undocumented features and procedures

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Unbeatable Advice - Real-world workarounds and little-known tips and techniques

When you open this book, you'll feel as though you're sitting down with an expert who is disclosing rare information about Microsoft virtualization. 11-time Microsoft MVP John Savill shares knowledge garnered from his years of experience so that you can benefit from his tactics, strategies, and secrets for implementing the right Microsoft virtualization solutions for your company. Covering all aspects of the various technologies in an easy-to-follow format, this book reveals helpful and advanced insight on machine virtualization, application and user virtualization, private cloud implementations, VDI integrations, and much more.

EVGA has some of the best lifespan for their GPU's, so far as I've seen. Corsair Cases, Keyboards, and Cooling Solutions are the best. AMD actually has their own series of RAM products now, ranging anywhere from the slower 1300 modules wih no shielding all the way up to the mighty 3000 range with 100% purity all Aluminum heat shields, and I'm quite impressed with it, it preforms quite well. Asus or MSI for motherboards, and as CPU's are far above and beyond what is needed from them, anything made within the past 3 years over a dual core should be fine. RaidMax, ThermalTake, and InWin also have some great chassis solutions. And that's a sweet card you got there, @seth-cooper

I'd recommend pfSense. I'm only an intern level tech person, and I find it fairly easy to work with.

Windows Azure Programming Patterns for Start-ups

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Leverage different Windows Azure components together with your existing Microsoft .NET skills to fully take advantage of the power of Windows Azure. Use this book to start small and end big by creating and using storage, cloud services, sql databases, networking, caching and other innovative technology to realize your first top-class Windows Azure service!

March Top 10 Ebooks and Videos

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Do you know what other people found irresistible last month? We do! Here are the top ten bestselling ebooks and videos on shop.oreilly.com. Don't miss out on what's hot and trending—and possibly important to your career—so we're bringing them to your attention now. Stock up today and save 50% on March's top ten.

Ask, Measure, Learn: Using Social Media Analytics to Understand and Influence Customer Behavior

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You can measure practically anything in the age of social media, but if you don’t know what you’re looking for, collecting mountains of data won’t yield a grain of insight. This non-technical guide shows you how to extract significant business value from big data with Ask-Measure-Learn, a system that helps you ask the right questions, measure the right data, and then learn from the results.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Administration

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SQL Server expert Tom Carpenter teaches you skills to help you excel in your job as a SQL Server 2012 database administrator. From designing and implementing database solutions with SQL Server 2012 to querying, repairing data, maintaining high availability, and managing always-on technology, he explores the real-world tasks and scenarios you'll face as a SQL Server database administrator and shows you how to handle them. This book also serves as an ideal resource for those preparing for their MCSA: SQL Server 2012 certification.

Hone Your Soft Skills for Success

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Your career success relies on a number of elements, not just the fact that you write incredible code and have best practices nailed down. You also need to communicate well, motivate others, negotiate differences, and persuade. If you're feeling rusty on any of these points—or others—don't despair.

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I did as of yesterday, and it worked.

Microsoft Lync 2013 Unified Communications: From Telephony to Real-Time Communication in the Digital Age

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Unified Communications brings all relevant types of communication technology and modalities together: telephony, chat, availability information, video, sharing, and the integration into line of business software.

"Microsoft Lync 2013 Unified Communications: From Telephony to Real Time Communication in the Digital Age" is a business and technology book combined into one about Unified Communications and it shares everything you need to know: how to evaluate and integrate a Unified Communications project in your own company and how you plan, design, and implement the technology itself. Additionally you get to know current innovations and available technologies for social networking, collaboration, cloud services, contact centers, and also enhanced collaboration for mobile devices. This book also offers a real business case of a transformational project from traditional telecommunications to Unified Communications and what business case you can realize for all business sizes.

Agile Data Science

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Mining big data requires a deep investment in people and time. How can you be sure you’re building the right models? With this hands-on book, you’ll learn a flexible toolset and methodology for building effective analytics applications with Hadoop.

Python: The Not-So-Secret Tool for Productivity

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If you could have just one tool in your programming arsenal, odds are it would be Python. With a gentle learning curve, Python is readable, writeable, and endlessly powerful. From data analysis to web development, penetration testing, and much more, Python can handle the job. Whether you're a Python pro or just starting out, get what you need to fortify your Python skills at shop.oreilly.com.

Did that as well, as mentioned above.

Yes. I tried to force a burn using the options on the "Files Waiting To Be Burned To Disc" page as well, and it does absolutely nothing.

Greek to me, but it is doing something.