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1. 
   Review - CDRWIN

   4.0A (Jul 18, 2005)

   I agree with Orbiting234 ... at one time it was THE cd burning software. Before the days of overburning and buffer overrun protection it was flawless ... never a coaster. I use it to this day for any and all bin/cue burning. I'll admit, $39 a year for just a cd burning util is asking a lot, and not adding DVD ripping/burning is unexcuseable. I gave it a 5 because it does what its coded to do flawlessly. Can't say that about very many pieces of software these days ... especially the OS's we run.

2. 
   Review - Vuze for Windows

   2.3.0.1 Beta 8 (May 24, 2005)

   looks like they solved the memory leak.
   once again its tops on my list of torrent apps.

3. 
   Review - Vuze for Windows

   2.3.0.1 Beta 1 (May 6, 2005)

   new features are nice except for the massive memory leak .... javaw.exe runs up well over 200MB !!! Good thing I kept an older jar file ... beta 60 rests comfortably at 50MB.
   
   How quickly the mighty have fallen. This used to be my favorite torrent program ... memory leaks make it the worst.

4. Comment - Software 'Robin Hoods' Get Prison Time

   2.3.0.1 Beta 1 (May 6, 2005 - 3:37 PM)

   Microsoft has $46 billion in "liquidity" ... Adobe bought Syntrillium and immediately upped the retail price for CoolEdit Pro from $129 to $299 even though they changed nothing in the software itself ... and they still had enough cash to buy Macromedia !!! Corel paid a pretty penny for Jasc just because Paint Shop Pro was that much better than Corel Paint ??
   
   The cost of software has gone the way of Medical care here in the US. You pay top dollar for stuff thats still full of security holes, bugs and conflicts. I sure hope Nvidia doesn't include the cost of writing drivers in the cost of their $500 top end vid card, because if they do it would be a major embarrassment.
   
   If software pirates can be put in jail for "stealing software" then why can't software company execs. be thrown in jail for writing buggy software ? I lost count how many times a poorly written program forced me to format my hard drive and start from scratch. That's criminal as well.
   
   Yes the software writers deserve to make a buck too, but when it gets to the point where they are huge corporations being traded on the NASDAQ and have a few billion in spare cash then you know its gone too far.
   
   One day software writers will realize that if you charge $1 for their software and 10 million people buy it, your going to be rich.

5. Comment - Microsoft to Squash Malware with 'A1'

   2.3.0.1 Beta 1 (Jan 5, 2005 - 5:04 AM)

   Long gone are the win3.1 days where you could edit a simple .ini file to change just about anything in the OS. Now we find WinXP bloated with ugly resource hungry skins, a CD burner licensed from Roxio that took them 7 months after the OS went gold to fix ... even then I don't know anyone that uses it [smart people use Nero]. A firewall that blocks incoming only [leave it to MS to do things half-assed] ... and so on and so on. Someone needs to remind Gates of the "K.I.S.S." rule ... Keep It Simple Stupid !!! Code the OS properly and you won't need any anti-virus or anti-spyware software. Strip WinXP down and whats left is Win2K with a few extra Admin Tools. I've had the displeasure of "testing" a number of Longhorn builds and all I can say is thank god for Solaris and the many flavors of Linux. Get a clue Billy boy ... strip the OS down to the basics and close up the holes BEFORE you layer on all the other useless crap !! I do NOT own any Microsoft stock, and I've advised many to sell what they have because I don't like the direction MS is headed. If they can't code it themselves then they buy it ... and then try and bundle it all into one obnoxiously priced package. The one remaining bright spot is Office, which is available in many different configurations, as well as individual components. You'd think they'd do the same thing with their OS as well.