It is Packed with lots of Features, more notable ones are it supports DVD RAM media and has a internal cache of 2 MB, with Burn Guarantee and took about 4 minutes to burn 2.6 GB of Data in a 8x Media. Looks Very Good and one advantage is the Fornt Panel is Changable with Black or White depending on you Cabinet Colour. Overall Sony is a Good Deal to bet compared to Lite-on and Benq, and the Performance of Sony DRU 810 A is Flawless compared to the older models released by Sony. The Most Important part is the Drive is Noiseless and no Vibration when accessing / Burning Media also the Tray is very very smooth, simple love when it slides in and out. The only drawback is it has single Colour LED Indicator which glow green all the time even when the drive is Busy / Reading / Burning.

Specifications DRU-820A:

DRIVE TYPE: Internal DVD Multi DVD/CD Recorder
MEDIA & MODES SUPPORTED: DVD-R/-R DL/-RW, DVD+R/DVD+R DL/+RW, DVD-RAM: DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, CD-DA, CD-ROM (XA), CD Extra, Video CD, Photo CD*, CD Text, multi-session

READ/WRITE SPEED
Write (DVD-R) 4X CLV, 8X P-CAV, 16X CAV max.
Write (DVD-R DL) 2X, 4X max.
Write (DVD-RW) 2X, 4X, 6X CLV max.
Write (DVD+R) 2.4X, 4X, 6X CLV, 8X ~ 12X P-CAV max., 16X CAV max.
Write (DVD+R DL) 2.4X, 4X, 6X CLV, 8X Z-CLV max.
Write (DVD+RW) 2.4X, 4X, 6X CLV, 8X Z-CLV max.
Write (DVD-RAM) 5x CLV max
Write (CD-R) 8X ~16X CLV, 32X P-CAV, 40X ~ 48X CAV max
Write (CD-RW) 4X ~ 10X CLV,24X ~ 32X CAV max.
Read (DVD-ROM) 16X max.
Read (CD-ROM) 48X max.

AVERAGE ACCESS TIME: 130 ms (DVD 16X), 135 ms (CD 48X)
BUFFER MEMORY: 2MB

PACKAGE CONTENTS: Internal DRU-820A Double/Dual Layer DVD drive
Ahead NeroVision Express DVD video editing & authoring software
Ahead Nero Burning ROM SE/ExpressCD/DVD mastering software
Ahead InCD drive letter recording software
Ahead Nero Showtime soft DVD player software
Ahead Nero BackitUp backup software
Black front panel replacement kit
ATAPI cable and mounting hardware
User?s Manual

WARRANTY: One Year Limited
Price : Rs.2650/- incl V.A.T.


Cheers,
-VINOD M

Labels: Technology

I has been Long time since I posted so this is to Prove that I am still around.

Cheers,
-VINOD M

My Session on IPv6.

http://dmnvinod.googlepages.com/IPv6.swf

"After years of delays and months of rewriting code the Microsoft Corporation has taken a new direction with Windows Vista. Microsoft will release Vista with a Linux kernel. At the press conference Bill Gates had this to say "We are very excited at the new direction of Windows Vista. With help from Novell and IBM we have leveraged the Linux kernel and have built our GUI as a Window Manager on top of X.org. This brings the friendliness and usability model of our Windows operating system and married it to the stability and rock solid security of Linux.


" When asked why Microsoft took this route Jim Allchin said " For years our competitors and business partners have been telling us they want everything the Linux kernel offers. It was the right thing to do." Allchin also had this to say "With such great work being done in the Open Source community we also will be using OpenOffice.org as the base of our Office 12." When asked how long the delays would be to bring these products to market Gates said "What delays? 90% of the work is done for us and we didnt have to pay, this cuts our development costs and time to market considerably."

Linus Torvalds took the stage and after a heartwarming embrace of Bill Gates Linus had these remarks, "Its so wonderful that Microsoft has taken our work and used it to bring to market this incredible new OS. I am ecstatic of these changes"

It has been confirmed that Linus will start a new job at Microsoft as the President of Platform Strategies. When asked of his new job at Microsoft Linus said "OSDL wasnt doing anything to help Linux along, all they did was siphon money off of our key members. Im very excited at the direction Microsoft plans to take Linux and finally feel Im in the presence of people that care."

The new OS will be available under Microsoft's Shared Source License

"After years of delays and months of rewriting code the Microsoft Corporation has taken a new direction with Windows Vista. Microsoft will release Vista with a Linux kernel. At the press conference Bill Gates had this to say "We are very excited at the new direction of Windows Vista. With help from Novell and IBM we have leveraged the Linux kernel and have built our GUI as a Window Manager on top of X.org. This brings the friendliness and usability model of our Windows operating system and married it to the stability and rock solid security of Linux.


" When asked why Microsoft took this route Jim Allchin said " For years our competitors and business partners have been telling us they want everything the Linux kernel offers. It was the right thing to do." Allchin also had this to say "With such great work being done in the Open Source community we also will be using OpenOffice.org as the base of our Office 12." When asked how long the delays would be to bring these products to market Gates said "What delays? 90% of the work is done for us and we didnt have to pay, this cuts our development costs and time to market considerably."

Linus Torvalds took the stage and after a heartwarming embrace of Bill Gates Linus had these remarks, "Its so wonderful that Microsoft has taken our work and used it to bring to market this incredible new OS. I am ecstatic of these changes"

It has been confirmed that Linus will start a new job at Microsoft as the President of Platform Strategies. When asked of his new job at Microsoft Linus said "OSDL wasnt doing anything to help Linux along, all they did was siphon money off of our key members. Im very excited at the direction Microsoft plans to take Linux and finally feel Im in the presence of people that care."

The new OS will be available under Microsoft's Shared Source License

April 1 2005, 12:12 PM, the Screen Splashed with the Message
Congratulation ! and my score was 950 / 1000.

A big sigh of Relief, I cannot express in words, I thanked god and called the Test Administrator, he handed over my CCNA Examination Score report.

I called my Parents & Friends and told them the good news. I feel confident and relieved after my 12 week hardcore prep and late night oil burning.

After the initial formalities like verifying the Photo IDs, Signing the Log sheet, even my Thumb Impression was taken, I don't know why they would need my Thumb Impression ?

I was a little nervous this morning, there were about 2 guys for SCP (Sun Certified Programmer - Java) and 2 guys for Win XP Exam 70-270 and 1 guy for AIX, I Was the only guy there for CCNA, I had no company :( . The guy next me was giving his AIX exam and he failed.

About the Exam.

I had got exactly 56 questions, with 2 simulation & 4 drag and drop. Majority of questions were from VLAN, WAN, hardly 2 or 3 subnetting questions, mostly swiching and Distance Vector Routing (RIP 1 & 2), no IGRP at all.

Simulation

1
VLAN Simlet - (Very Tough) 5 Question. Took 22 Minutes to solve, got stuck.

2
OSPF Simuation, Piece of Cake, The issue was with the OSPF Area, re configured and ping, worked like charm !

Drag and Drop
1 telnet config,
2 Cisco Router Boot Process,
3 ISDN &
4 VLSM.


Resources Used.

Books:
CISCO Press Self Study (Wendell Odom)
CCNA Guide by Todd Lammle.

Labs:
Done Hand on Labs for all the Topics for about 2 times.

Simulators:
Worked on Boson Network Simulator 5.31 (Awesome Stuff and Must have for CCNA)
Transcender CCNA 1,2,3 & 4.
Cisco INTRO & ICND Exam Bank.

General Reference :
CISCO NETWORK ACADEMY (Sem I,II,III & IV)
Data Communication and Networking (Behrouz A. Forouzan)
Data and Computer Communication (William Stallings)

Web:
www.firewall.cx (Strongly Recommend)
www.sadhikhov.com (Strongly Recommend)
www.techexams.net
http://www.thebrightsparkshome.com/CCNAExamStack.aspx (Celtic Rover CCNA Gateway)
http://rgxpro.com.ar/simonline/ccna.htm (Online Router Simulation)
http://ciscomaniac.blogspot.com/ (CISCO Maniac)
http://forums.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/PrepCenter?page=main (CISCO CCNA Prep Center)

Also
Testking V90 (Reviewed All Question once)

I Thank, Mr.Ajay Pandey (Topgun Technologies) my CCNA Faculty and
Pratap (My Lab Instructor), I strongly recommend Topgun Technologies for CISCO Certifications.

I am Grateful to my Friends(Especially Manjunath and Rajan) for their Guidance and help. Prism, spacyfreak & j91 from www.sadhikhov.com, lastly my parents for having faith in me.

This only a Begining, still there is a long and tough journey ahead, some day I will be CCIE and the day is not far.


Will Start BSCI (CCNP) from Next week, hope to finish it by May first week.

Regards,
-VINOD M