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Member since February 20, 2005

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    Helge Fossmo

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    Sweden

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  1. Review - Website-Watcher

    4.35 Beta 3 (Nov 14, 2007)

    I used this on daily basis for a long time now, even though i switched over to Linux i still run this through Wine. It works perfectly and it is one of the few software I use daily that I paid for (the other is UltraEdit). And No, I do not use pirated software.

    I bought a licence of this software because there is simply no open source or freeware alternative that is this good. It saves me alot of time and enables me to keep track of 60 or so different web projects. I often use it to keep track on a ChangeLog from a cvs/svn repository's web interface which is brilliant.
    Also wiki-style worklogs/changelogs such as the one the Ogre3d team is using is a breeze to keep track on using this software. Once I got used to it, I cant live without it!

  2. Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)

    2.0.0.9 (Nov 2, 2007)

    sturgess & GrantTLC: where is this IE8 you speak of?

    it's funny how you compare this browser with one that is expected to be released in 2009.

  3. Review - MediaCoder

    0.6.0.3875 (Sep 20, 2007)

    I think the word "transcoding" is used with little tought here.

    When you "transcode" something, that usually means you are converting from one input format to one output format on the fly. This may be the task of a streaming video server (ffserver, darwin, helix etc).

    I would rather use the word "re-encoding" or "recoding" to describe what this software does.

  4. Review - FileZilla v3 for Windows

    3.0.1 RC1 (Sep 18, 2007)

    Excellent work by the developers!
    Finally Filezilla are available both for Linux & MacOS X

  5. Review - µTorrent for Windows

    1.7 Build 3265 RC5 (Jul 10, 2007)

    veeoh: yes the program is free. but why not bash on it?

    utorrent 1.6 is really good, i agree. but the 1.7 beta series has been a catastrope and still is. suddenly the program started leaking tons of RAM (run it for a few days and it has consumed 2GB of ram).

    Do you know why?

    Because uTorrent was sold to bittorrent.com people and the orginal developer Ludvig is no longer working on it. Instead they have other programmers and they are seriously damaging what was once a very very good program. I dont think they do it on purpose. I think they do it because they are s***ty programmers.

    But that is the current situation and it's the truth. I am happy for Ludvig cos he probably made some good money out of it, but dont expect uTorrent to continue to be such a good program as it used to be, because the skill obviously left the house.

  6. Comment - Microsoft Patches 7 Critical Vulnerabilities

    1.7 Build 3265 RC5 (Jul 13, 2007 - 3:24 AM)

    Microsoft are continuing to bulls***ing their "Vista is secure" propaganda by downgrading serious security bugs to moderate.

  7. Comment - New Windows Server, Visual Studio, SQL Server to Launch in February

    1.7 Build 3265 RC5 (Jul 10, 2007 - 7:10 PM)

    I didnt claim that Microsoft is going bancrupt.

    I am simply stating that many companies that are offered to upgrade are looking at the competition.

  8. Comment - New Windows Server, Visual Studio, SQL Server to Launch in February

    1.7 Build 3265 RC5 (Jul 10, 2007 - 5:50 PM)

    Hahaha. Microsoft really has no innovation left.

    quote: “Everyone in our industry is rethinking the relationship between software and services,” said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

    How this is going to compete with equivalent open source software that has existed for years I really dont understand.

    And it's no wonder why MS-SQL 2005 didnt have a large impact. I have heard more than one developer telling me their company either stuck with MS-SQL 2000 or completely dropped it in favor for MySQL or PG-SQL while they had the chance to upgrade.

    Only enterprise tie-wearing s***heads make such lousy desicions as to keep a Microsoft licence because they can't see the benefits of open source software. And those people should be fired because they are incompetent if they cannot see how they can save money for their companies (in the short run because of licence fees, in the long run for a living community that actually supports the products).

  9. Comment - iPhone and the Death of the Mobile Web

    1.7 Build 3265 RC5 (Jul 10, 2007 - 4:07 PM)

    I agree that Apple's cellphone implementation of Safari is cool but really the whole iPhone hype is pathetic.

    It lacks 3G. It lacks a video camera.

    And considering how hyped up it is, we will now see another generation of dumb consumers buying outdated technology.

    Because of Apple ignoring modern requirements for the next generation of mobile applications to be possible, the consumers have been pushed back another few years from taking advantage of advanced mobile capabilities such as video links between cellphone and the internet.

    If you claim that iPhone is one step forward then you dont know what you are talking about.

  10. Comment - Microsoft Patches Windows Cursor Flaw

    1.7 Build 3265 RC5 (Apr 4, 2007 - 1:31 PM)

    They claim they worked around the clock since DECEMBER to fix one single bug? lol are microsoft only hiring crap coders or what?