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1. 
   Review - DD-WRT

   v24 RC6.2 (Jan 17, 2008)

   mattep, I have to agree with Diam0nd. This is the place where something like this should be!
   
   Anyhow, I have been using DD-WRT since back in the 1.x days and love it. The amount of features that you can wrangle out of some old Linksys wireless and wired routers. I currently run this beta on 2 WRT54GL routers and have had nothing but ease of use with both builds.
   
   The only knock I have against DD-WRT is the IPV6 implementation. It was a nightmare to setup and still continues to be that way. Aside from that, 5 stars!

2. 
   Review - X-Ray Mail Assistant

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Jul 18, 2006)

   The program execution is fine... I had no problems running it or using it. Which is why I gave it a 4.
   
   My concern lies in the fact that it can mangle outgoing headers. In today's soceity, anything that we can do to help spammers do their craft really needs to be limited or stopped altogether. This tool allows almost anyone to become a spammer with little more than a legitimate mail client and a little bit of imagination.
   
   Outbound email headers should , IMHO, be read-only for this very reason. Not that someone wouldn't find a way around it, obviously, but at least it's a little bit of deterent for the less experienced, would-be spammers out there.

3. Comment - Early sales figures for Windows 7 nicely high, but do we know why?

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Nov 6, 2009 - 11:20 PM)

   "Are there *really* very many "average consumers" out there anymore that only use a computer to surf the web and read e-mail?"
   
   Yes, my girlfriend... When I bought this machine with Win7 on it on 10/22, she looked at it for about 2 minutes before saying "Hey, did the computer change?". Mind you, we had a Dell Inspirion 1305 running XP... "did the computer change?"... still makes me laugh thinking about it. lol
   
   She does 3 things on here... email, web, and Big Fish Games... so, yes, those types still exist.

4. Comment - The new face of Android: No face

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Nov 5, 2009 - 9:29 AM)

   "Android upgrades are flawed in the aspect that if you go from say, 1.6 to 2.0 then you bet your butt some, if not all your installed apps may break."
   
   You're absolutely correct there... I saw it going from 1.0 to 1.5 and 1.5 to 1.6. A lot of apps broke and devs took way too long to correct them.
   
   But, what's the solution. I understand what you are saying about the iPhone and it's monopolistic interface, but in order for there to be a mobile operating system that is truly up to the user to create and/or modify, then that type of approach just doesn't work. You are 100% spot on about freedom coming with a price (and the iPhone's deep rooted issues... ;-) )

5. Comment - Apple's App Store hits 100K apps: News or rhetoric?

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Nov 5, 2009 - 9:21 AM)

   Agreed... My point was that compilation speed has nothing to do with execution speed.

6. Comment - Is there any sense to Microsoft's 800 layoffs?

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Nov 5, 2009 - 9:16 AM)

   LOL... I mentioned the bailout in another thread, but yeah... exactly!

7. Comment - Is there any sense to Microsoft's 800 layoffs?

   1.5.0.148 Beta (Nov 4, 2009 - 6:37 PM)

   Let's think about this, shall we? Without Microsoft, Apple would have very little competition from other companies in terms of the Micorosft v Apple battle. Essentially, Apple would no longer have to innovate in order to compete and they would essentially become stale and could literally drive prices as high as they would like. So, in theory, Apple would become the next big monopoly. Wait a tic, isn't that exactly what the Apple fanbois bash Microsoft about?! Wow, amazing how a little thing like logic and prediction works, huh?
   
   So, all your bantering and complaining and wishing would actually be a bane upon your beloved Apple. I personally hope Apple gets more of the market share simply so that Microsoft and Linux continue to innovate.
   
   So, go ahead, keep wishing...
   
   I swear, the lack of fanboi intelligence just baffles me.