Tape Resources - Frequently Asked Questions. At last a pretty good source for what is a good miniDV tape. The answer seems to be the Panasonic Master MQ which is 1db better than PQ. Then there is Sony EX which is 2db better than their PR. Seems like using professional tapes is the ticket.
March 2002 Archives
Blank Mini DV Tapes at Discount Prices. Wow, a site that specializes in media. Good prices on minidv tapes.
FAQ: DV Format Technology. Strange details about what is really going on in digital video
Game Z, Inc. - BatteryMegasource - Product Catalog. Another third party source of batteries at lower prices, but not clear how reliable they are.
battery, batteries ,Canon BP-511, bp-522, BP-535 canon camcorder battery,lithium ion battery. Cheap batteries for the Canon Optura MC. This is the BP-522 or equivalents.
cameraworld.com. Thisplace usually has the best prices and biggest selection. NOt sure how it compares with b&h or adorama in terms of quality though.
Current Digital Video News - consumerDVreviews.com. Antoher great site for digital video reviews, etc.
Using the Sony TRV900. This is probably the most popular prosumer camcorder. Has 3 CCDs but is in a small form factor.
dvspot review: Canon Optura 100MC. Another good review of the 100M. Less gushing. He didn't like the small form factor much.
Pro-Am SPS - Traffic Safety : Safety Vests. Didn't get these, but here is a good site if I think I need even more visibility stuff.
OEM Computer Gear. They seem to have every IDE Raid card in the sun. I finally got a Promise.
Home Cinema Choice Online Reviews. Lookes at this in reviews to see what to get Dad. Finally got him an Outlaw
Progressive Scan & Progressive Shutter Video. A good piece explaining how current camcorders are at 60 frames interlaced, but some can do 30 frames progressive.
Canon Optura 100MC Camcorder Review. They sure seemed to like this camcorder. It competes with the Sony DCR-PC100 and seems like a good choice plus it has progressive scan.
Electronics Reviews - CNET.com. The best place to see reviews, but it looks like they've stopped doing reviews since August 2001.
A complete guide to digital cameras, digital photography, and digital video. A good education site digital cameras.
Sony DCR-TRV900 Camcorder Review. This camera seems like the top end, sine it has 3 CCDs and is therefore professional. About to be replaces by the DCR-TRV950 apparently.
Camcorderinfo.com - camcorder reviews, digital video, video production. Top of the list for Camcorder reviews.
Mud Sweat & Gears - Accessories - Pumps $29 Silca Black from Mud Sweat and Gears
Silca Pista Foot Pump. Need to get a floor pump for work
PBS Kids: Arthur: The World's Most Famous Aardvark. The most favorite online games for the kids.
Interactive, educational activities for children 5 -14.. A site for grace
CRpuzzles Picture Scramble Puzzles Index. MOre fun PUzzles. Makes a great way to create a priize
Directory: On this site : Games. Alex loves Harry Potter and so does Calvin. Here are some online games
Brain Teasers. A greatplace for math puzzles.
The Home Theater SPot!: Dish or DirecTV A good update on the Dish vs. DirecTV HD wars. The net is that nothing much has changed. With Dish, get a 6000 and you see HD HBO and SHO. With DirecTV get a Zenith and you see HD HBO and this new HDNet. Personally I think I'd get HDNet and go with DirecTV, but I'll see.
The Home Theater SPot!: D-VHS in 1080i reviewed at widescreen review For those Mits owners out there.
Your Mitsubishi HDTV is upgradable with the Promise Module. The Promise Module will add an internal HDTV OTA turner, IEEE1394(i.Link, DTVLink) ports and digital audio output. The release data for the Promise Module will be made during Mits new line dealer show ocurring the first two weeks of April.
Any Mits HDTV set with the Promise Module can connect to the firewire ports of the JVC and Mits D-VHS VCRs. You can count on the Mits being totally compatible with the Promise Module. Currently I have no data on the compatablity of the JVC with the Promise Module.
So if there any Mits Intergrated HDTV ouwners out there, one of you could do us all a favor and test the compatablity of the Mits Firewire with the JVC.
The Home Theater SPot!: HD DirecTV OTA HD = can this be done? Zenith DTV1080 seems like the best choice plus you need a three LNB antenna. THey say $1000 should take care of it. So, this looks like what I'll be getting. NOw if only I can find that phased array antenna :-)
HDNet Home Page. Another new site.
HDNut. Wow a whole site for high definition power users
AltaVista - World / Translate. Babelfish seems like the best translator around. Great for reading those Italian bicycle sites!
Quantex Zone - Vortex Control Panel XP. Someone who is writing drivers for a dead sound card. I love him!
Vortex of Sound. When Aureal went bankrupt, there was no place to get drivers, or so I thought. Here is a place!
Rage Underground -=- ATI Graphics Drivers and Support, from Rage 128 to Radeon. My server has an old Rage 128 GL card. Amazing that there is actually an entire website just on that chipset!
ASUS Software | Motherboard Sofeware download menu. For downloading the latest ASUS motherboard BIOS
FastTrak100 TX2 Downloads. Been having trouble losing stuff on my mirrored system. Upgrading now to the latest BIOS to see if this helps.
Sputnik, Inc.. Wow a cool starutp building software for WLANs that turns every client into a router.
Sale Clothing List. Good place to look for bike clothes. I'm on a screaming yellow high-visibility kick.
ITPRC - Wireless. wireless specific information also includes a good set of links on WLAN security. told me about netstumbler which is free unlike airopeek or nai sniffer
NetStumbler - Proudly Stumbling a Street Near You - EtherealA cool site that talks about how to have wireless LAN card specific sniffer. airopeek is one.
Windows Packet Capture LibraryA Packet Capture tools lives under it all.
Index of /distribution/win32 This is a packet sniffer. It is pretty clear, you need intrusion detection which is a rules based thing. Ethereal is just a sniffer without rules. Then there is LANguard which looks at your machines.
.:[packet storm]:. - http://packetstormsecurity.org/. Another site with an even great name for security. Also checkout "White hats":http://www.whitehats.com
SecurityFocus Corporate Site. Another great site. Has tools as well.
Snort - The Open Source Network IDS : News. From seattlewireless.com, they recommend this tool for intrusion detection. Will try it now.
Disable Windows NT/W2K/XP Hidden Administrative Shares. It is amazing that NT/W2K and XP ship with these administrative shares. Fortunately, this page tells you how to close it off
AirPort Base Station Configurator. When you have WEP enabled on the Airport, for some reason the Freebase tool can't see the access point via wired or unwired connection. However, this tool can see it for some reason and then you can reset the WEP off and everything works fine. Next problem I face is that now I'm transmitting my home LAN over wireless. I really need a firewall of some sort!
Windows XP Shutdown Troubleshooter A great list of why XP won't power down correctly.
Apple AirPort Base Station HardwareOK I screwed up when I put a WEP key on, so this shows where the reset button is on the AirPort. Amazingly the manual doesn't appear to cover that.
FreeBase - Free Windows software to configure the Apple AirPort Base Station. Hey a VB applications to configure the AirPort
KarlNet Incorporated : Bridges, Routers, BRouters, Wireless LANs/WANs. An interesting company for Steve Bush. This company does the firmware for Orinoco and Apple Airport. They have a 486 processor in them.
Using Apple's Airport Base Station with Windows. Got one from the Airwave guys and now am setting this up on aWindows network.
Nessus. Supposedly one of thge best port scanners. I just love Languard and how easy it is to use. Particularly for SMB vulnerabilities.
GIAC: Global Information Assurance Certification - Home Page Seems to be a good site to look at for how certification works on security.
eEye Digital Security. Best scanning tool is now on Windows
Sysinternals Freeware - Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000. A very nice set of utilities for Windows
Security Tools : ScannerAn easy place to fine the scanner stuff. Watch out for viruses in them though!
NetworkEval.COM Home PageAnother site with something that identifies all shares
SC Magazine. Of course there is a security trade publication!
Nmap -- Free Stealth Port Scanner For Network Exploration & Security Audits. Runs on Linux/Windows/UNIX/Solaris/FreeBSD/OpenBSD. This appears to be the port scanner of choice.
Auditing Inside the Enterprise via Port Scanning & Related Tools. Here is a good list of software tools to get to do intranet scanning
Netcat – The TCP/IP Swiss Army Knife. Starting to go through Internet security tools. Here's a good place to start. Referred to it in the latest issue of www.pcmag.com on hacking.
Windows File Protection and Windows. After I deleted ATM 3.0 from an old Adobe Photo Deluxe 3.1 install (BTW, XP should probably prevent installs of old stuff like this). I got a file protection problem and then my CD-ROM disappeared. Fortunately, google found the windows utility called SFC for system file checker that will save me.
Gateway Keyboard Driver Prevents Suspend. thanks to Google, I found the problem. There was an old Adobe type Manager that attaches to the keyboard driver and this caused the suspend not to work. It hooks the driver.
Wayne's Windows XP User Tips. A great tip page. I'm trying to figure out why the keyboard driver is preventing standby and this is one place to look. Seems like it might be the Music Locker program.
Upcomingmovies.com:. One of my favorite sites to figure out what is coming up next at the movies. Check it out!