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1. 
   Review - Eudora for Windows

   8.0.0 Beta 6 (Jul 28, 2009)

   No. Just... no.
   
   I'm a long-time user of both Eudora and Thunderbird, on more than one system. I'd rather use both of them proper, not someone attempting to disguise Thunderbird as Eudora. Why Qualcomm couldn't have allowed someone - a group/third party - to take the Eudora source and maintain and fix the issues with it, I don't know.

2. 
   Review - VLC (VideoLAN) for Windows

   1.0.0 RC1 (May 24, 2009)

   Anomoly - sounds like you've got ffdshow installed, with the 'OSD' option enabled (that'll overlay information about the video on the display). Open the "Video decoder configuration" option in ffdshow's Start menu folder, and make sure the OSD checkbox in the left-hand pane is cleared.
   
   VLC's an okay player, which uses its own codecs and not those of the system it's installed on, but I've had a few issues with it... and yes, it can require a bit of tweaking for it to work well enough for you.

3. 
   Review - Notepad++

   5.2 (Feb 9, 2009)

   Preinterpost: Don's already maintaining a Win9X-compatible version, and it doesn't take THAT much time/processing to generate an installer.
   
   That said, I use NPP on all my Windows systems (Vista, XP and an old Win9X, which is still running just fine for a 'dead' system), and have no real problem unzipping the ANSI version for it. But I'm sure there's still Win9X users out there (analphatester, maybe?) that wouldn't mind having an installer for it, as well.

4. 
   Review - Process Explorer

   11.32 (Jan 13, 2009)

   If Process Explorer no longer runs properly on Win98, what was the last version that did run properly?
   (Yes, I have and use Process Explorer on our Vista and XP systems, among others; I just have a Win98 tower around that I had Process Explorer running on, and would like to be able to do it again.)

5. 
   Review - Notepad++

   5.1.4 (Jan 13, 2009)

   Works fine under Win98. The only issue, though, is that the *installer* quits if it's run under 9X/ME. If you want to install it on 9X/ME, you have to go to http://sourceforge.net/p...7&package_id=102072 , download the zipped version (currently npp.5.1.4.bin.zip), and extract the contents of the 'ANSI' directory to wherever you want it to be installed. (C'mon, Don - if the normal installer can't be modified to install the ANSI version on a 9X/ME setup, why not make a separate 9X/ME installer?)
   
   As for the crashes/exceptions: are you installing over a previous version? I'm not sure if it still holds true, but one of the common causes of crashes used to be conflicts with older plugins. Try going into the program's directory, rename the plugins directory to something else, then restart NPP and see if the problem's still there.

6. Comment - Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrades: Difficult, but not impossible

   5.1.4 (Feb 24, 2009 - 8:06 AM)

   God Dammit: Actually, yes, there's an OS X version of World of Warcraft. I think it's included in the WoW packages (both Windows and Mac versions all in one box). One of my friends regularly (bleah) is on WoW all the time, using two different Macs (he wants to be able to take it on the road, too...).
   
   Don't know about Guild Wars, but apparently people are running it under things like Parallels or Crossover, from the quick websearch I just did.

7. Comment - Beloved toy takes on inexplicable electronic aspect

   5.1.4 (Feb 11, 2009 - 7:02 PM)

   Bah. It's no fun unless you can peel off the stickers and rearrange them. :P

8. Comment - New legislation could postpone February DTV transition

   5.1.4 (Oct 16, 2008 - 10:19 PM)

   Sure, but you have to keep in mind most of the viewing public, with their 13" TVs, isn't necessarily going to see much of a difference. :D

9. Comment - New legislation could postpone February DTV transition

   5.1.4 (Oct 16, 2008 - 10:16 PM)

   Actually, something else to keep in mind is that a number of the stations aren't transmitting DTV signals at full power, yet (probably primarily due to the fact that they're still also running the analog transmitters/broadcasting an analog signal). So, a number of these stations aren't going to be broadcasting full-power signals until at least the changeover - which means I'll just have to live with the occasional blockiness and drop-outs.
   
   Sites like antennaweb.org can help you determine the signal strengths in your area (at least, if you're in the US... I can't remember if it covers any other areas), and perhaps explain a few other things.