Creating a DVD, using iMovie to iDVD EVEN on a PowerMac G5 Quad (superfast, supergreat!) is a 4-5 hour process. A 10-15% FAILURE rate, due to POOR media quality is UNACCEPTABLE! The 'quality control' at MEMOREX sucks!It is NOT so much the cost of the bad DVDs, but, there are superficial scratches on the recording surface of 5-8 out of every 50 I have used, causing a failure to burn, after a VERY lengthy set up process.I will be using VERBATIM blank media . .FROM NOW ON!

I found this book to be disappointing - it didn't live up to the hype of the other three reviews. The chapters about summer camps, the Hockaday private school, sororities, and Junior League were interesting but the rest was disappointing. I guess maybe you need to be from Texas to appreciate the rest, but as a northerner I was looking for more along the lines of the four chapters I mentioned above.

This book is better than the Sybex book by Ben Ezzell, and it is better than the Syngress Media book, but it still bears little resemblence to the actual exam.This is probably more Microsoft's fault, since this book does cover the exam objectives from Microsoft's web site.Microsoft should have made this the MCDBA Core exam instead of the MCSD Core exam. The exam is about 75% DBA related.The best prep for this exam is the new Transcender Solution Cert 3.0 Beta, which they just released this week.I managed to pass the exam this morning with a score of 879, but not because of this book.

It was my 2nd tool during the preparation (the 1st one was Exam Cram Architectures) and it was a really good supplement. The variety of sample questions and case studies helped me become pretty confident. And finally, on the real exam I didn't meet anything unexpected.

70-100 is not a multiple choice question exam. It use case study and mostly database design. This book with true/false question will not prepare you with the actual exam.

Rita took a good idea and proceeded to botch it royally in this novel. I found it difficult to follow her train of thought in explaining why a 175 year old murder had any relevance at all to the person who kills the archeologist in charge of the digs at Monticello. That person must have been exceedingly appalled at finding out their family tree is the result of Miscegenation -- and that with a slave of Thomas Jefferson. Next, I suppose, Rita will be trying to justify a forced apology by Whites to Blacks for slavery (something which none of us living today have any control over what-so-ever 136 years after it ended in this country). There are some points in the dialogue throughout the novel in which Rita was simply lecturing the reader.