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Member since April 25, 2001

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    Fred Smith

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  1. Review - Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

    1.0 (Apr 10, 2002)

    Good start, now if they can get it to check and provide suggestions for other microsoft server products like exchange and isa instead of just sql server then it would be a whole lot more useful!

  2. Review - Sonique 2

    Alpha 2 (Mar 21, 2002)

    kept crashing on me far too often to really try much of it. Doesnt sound as good as winamp2 or anywhere near as good as winamp3 either.

  3. Review - Morpheus Basic

    Preview Edition 1.3.3.1 (Mar 4, 2002)

    hmm well... it works i suppose. No where near as useful as morpheus was though. I used to like the searching of the old morpheus - the way you had specific options about the type of file you were searching for but all that is missing from this version.

    At least it does the distributed download thing which a lot of Gnutella clients dont.

    The interface has potential I suppose.

    Also, I suppose the one good thing that should be said about this is that they arent giving up. It would have been easy for them to do a napster and just give up and start charging for songs but they havent. Oh and it seems to be totally anon now unlike the old morpheus.

  4. Review - Creative PC-DVD Encore Dxr3 Drivers for Windows 2000/XP

    Beta (Dec 17, 2001)

    lol this is bizare, when w2k came out they said DXR3 would no longer be supported. creatives product support (esp the drivers) is so crappy.

  5. Review - nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers for Windows 9x/Me

    21.85 (Oct 16, 2001)

    Clide Frog, considering all versions of ICQ have either been alpha or beta, your statement isnt very accurate.

    Why are they still messing with 2000b though?!

  6. Comment - Nullsoft Considers Charging for Advanced Player

    21.85 (Apr 5, 2002 - 3:34 AM)

    nope! :) but it does answer your "When was the last time a car had a life threatening problem and it was just shrugged off?" question.

  7. Comment - Nullsoft Considers Charging for Advanced Player

    21.85 (Apr 4, 2002 - 9:20 AM)

    By bloated I (maybe wrongly) mean extra generally unwanted code that slows the app down and generally makes it sluggish. Yes winamp3 is only beta, but it currently already takes 8 seconds to load on my pc where was winamp2 only takes 2 seconds to load. Even MSword only takes 5 seconds. I doubt they will shave over 6 seconds no matter how much beta code is in there and optimisation left to do.

    I want a simple little program which is just there when I want it and is very responsive - which I dont think the pay for version of winamp3 will be especially compared to winamp2.

  8. Comment - Nullsoft Considers Charging for Advanced Player

    21.85 (Apr 4, 2002 - 9:05 AM)

    wasnt the ford (explorer?) tyre problem "shugged off" for a long time?

  9. Comment - Nullsoft Considers Charging for Advanced Player

    21.85 (Apr 3, 2002 - 7:21 AM)

    there are media library, crossfade and other plugins that make winamp2 just as usable (and all free). I have um well several thousand mp3s and am quite happy using winamp2 to find them quickly and listen to them.

  10. Comment - Nullsoft Considers Charging for Advanced Player

    21.85 (Apr 2, 2002 - 3:22 AM)

    people will stick with winamp2 for a long time because of the huge support it already has. It does what people want, it will continue to advance with developers still developing new plugins for it. It will probably be smaller, faster, lower footprint than the free version of winamp3 (and even more so a bloated pay for version of winamp3).

    It comes down to the quite common question of convergence again, would you rather have separate products that are close to perfect at what they were designed for (and in this case free!) or would you rather have one product that does all, but has major disadvantages against the separate products? The disadvantages in this case are having to pay for it, as it does more it will require more memory if you leave it open all the time and probably just not as good as separate products.