June 2004 - Posts
This is what I needed to do to get around having to login twice when viewing a webpart page which is accessing an exchange public folder in Sharepoint 2003.
http://blogs.slashstar.com/alex/articles/SharePointandOWA.aspx
Alex
Nikon has announced that they are will eventually get out of the film market. They are also due to increase the production of the digital SLR cameras. Can you say $500 SLR?
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0406/04061601nikonexitfilm.asp
Alex
If you get a prescription for a particular drug from your doctor, you must have him/her sign “Dispense as Written” on the prescription. This is due to the Generic Drug act amendment in 1990.
http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/pei/know/generic.cfm
It is interesting that the law allows the Pharmacist to substitute the prescribed drug on your prescription with a Generic brand without consulting you first. However, you as a consumer cannot chose to substitute your prescribed drug with a Generic brand.
On a positive side, you can contest the Generic substitute as long as you are willing to accept the differences in cost. As usual, you are your own advocate.
Alex
Looks like my pioneer 225 is going back to Best Buy!
A great review of the new Lite-On DVR Recorder. It does DVD+R/W DVD-R/W DVD-Video SVCD, VCD and it has a iLink connector, wow!
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Specific.asp?ArticleHeadline=LiteOn+LVW-5005&Series=0
Alex
Last Updated 6/15/2004 6:20:00 PM
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http://blogs.slashstar.com/alex/articles/665.aspx
Alex
I was in the market for a DVD Recorder for the home entertainment system. The primary reason was to save some of the shows I have recorded off my TIVO SAT-60 hard drive recorder. The secondary reason was to make copies of my 2 year old's VHS so they can be viewed everywhere, i.e. portable DVD.
Currently only Best Buy has this model. I believe this model is the same as the DVDR-220. http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/product/detail/0,,2076_4139_98124082,00.html.
The big brother to this model, the 320 adds a iLink connector. I don't think the 320 model is out yet. This is definitely a plus if you are interested in archiving video w/o a computer.
For the most part I am pretty satisfied with the unit. Here are things that I like about the recorder:
- It incorporates a 4x DVDR drive which allows initialization/finalization to occur in a few minutes.
- The editing features are very simple. You can add scenes, delete scenes, title and add menus with the remote.
- The quality of the video is very good with 8Mb being the data rate of the best recording mode. For the novice there are 4 presets (SP, LP etc...) which vary the bitrate to encode more video. Otherwise you can manually configure these settings to your liking. The 4 hour mode is ok for most purposes like cable movies. I would recommend the one hour mode for anything you need in high quality.
- Very easy to use! Select your record mode and go.
- The unit has a very slim profile.
- Great JPG view mode. However I wish it supported DVDs with JPGs. (I might try anyway to see if it works, but the manual only mentions CDs).
- Supports MP3s and WMA on CDs.
There are a few negatives but for the most part they are minor:
- The on screen display doesn't overlay using the coaxial output. I am not sure if this is due to my Tivo but this is a little annoyance.
- The on screen display seems to flicker. (I am sure this will go away when I get a TV that supports progressive scan).
- All of the recording modes (VR/Video Mode) do not produce a dvd which you can view on other players until you FINALIZE. This is not a big deal for the DVD-RW but it is just an exercise you need to remember when you are about to send the disk to a friend.
- DVD-R and DVD-RW recording support only. (Why aren't people getting on the +R/RW band wagon?)
Alex