The best Black Friday deals
Black Friday rule number one: do your homework -- but this year, I did it for you. I scoured the Web and put together this list of some of the best deals I could find. After this year's sluggish economy, many electronics retailers are offering steep Black Friday discounts on popular tech items to fill their stores and get their cash registers ringing -- saving you a bundle in the process.
Psystar beats Apple to Blu-ray on OS X computer
Shrugging off its ongoing legal dispute with Apple, unauthorized Mac clone maker Psystar this week trounced Apple, introducing OS X-compatible PCs with Blu-ray drives and the Nvidia 9800GT graphics card. Apple offers neither peripheral on a Mac.
Apple and Blu-ray - painful, slow, needed?
Apple has no immediate plans to deploy Blu-ray in its Macs, citing the cost of licensing as cause.
Sharp has first TVs with built-in Blu-ray Disc recorders
Sharp will start selling next month in Japan the first LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions with built-in Blu-ray Disc recorders, it said Wednesday. The sets should be on sale in the U.S. before the end of this year and launch in Europe in 2009.
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Windows PowerShell 2.0 Unleashed
By Tyson Kopczynski, Pete Handley, Marco Shaw; Published by Sams
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Ubuntu Server Administration
By Michael Jang; Published by McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Realize a dynamic, stable, and secure Ubuntu Server environment with expert guidance, tips, and techniques from a Linux professional. Ubuntu Server Administration covers every facet of system management -- from users and file systems to performance tuning and troubleshooting. Enter now!








