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  1. Review - Ubuntu

    7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Release Candidate (Oct 12, 2007)

    "Millions of users don't have the attention span or the will to learn something different."

    "It means a seamless built in capability to run everyone's favorite Windows software for which there is no acceptable Linux replacement."

    I think the OS you guys are looking for is called "Windows".

    I'm a convert to Ubuntu after just a few weeks. My learning curve has levelled off and I'm looking forward to Gutsy next week.

    Maybe I wouldn't have got on so well if I had no attention span or will power, but these are not attributes I'd happily proclaim to all on BetaNews.

    And no I can't run Windows' software on Linux, which is why I'm keeping an XP partition for Half Life (and all my anti-virus, anti-spyware programs.) ;-)

  2. Review - CCleaner

    1.40.520 (May 17, 2007)

    Well said Jegar48!

    Dystopia: the 'pseudo-techs blogs' Mastertech links to are his own blogs.

    BetaNews: Mastertech has already been banned from commenting on articles for abusive attacks on fellow posters- is the review section now going to become a forum for his trolling?

    http://www.betanews.com/...d_in_Firefox/1147893245

  3. Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)

    1.5.0.1 RC1 (Jan 24, 2006)

    Fable (Definition) - A fiction or half-truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology, usually widely believed but possibly just pulled out of one person's butt. While Firefox is a decent Web Browser, there are numerous Fables I spread around the Internet regarding it just so I can debunk them. Hopefully if I advertise this on every technology-related message board on the Internet under a dozen or so different names, enough people will click on my ads to make me filthy rich.

    http://nanobox.chipx86.com/FirefoxFables/

  4. Comment - British hacker will be extradited to US for trial

    1.5.0.1 RC1 (Jul 31, 2009 - 5:02 PM)

    Just the sort of over the top reaction that proves why he shouldn't be extradited- America's hysterical over anything that can possible be seen as terrorism and he'll probably end up with jail time vastly disproportionate to the crime.

    Try him in the UK and jail him for a year or two- assuming he's found guilty.

  5. Comment - Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 goes live

    1.5.0.1 RC1 (Mar 6, 2008 - 11:59 AM)

    "IE6 is not an insecure product, it was very secure in it's age."

    As you mention, IE7 didn't come out till October 2006, by which time, IE6 had exposed even fully-patched users to in-the-wild exploits.

    Therefore IE6 was.not.secure.

    There was no other MS browser available in most of 2006, so IE6 was *not* secure in its age.

    and you may want to brush up on your writing before you insult my reading skills, thanks.

  6. Comment - Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 goes live

    1.5.0.1 RC1 (Mar 6, 2008 - 4:11 AM)

    "IE6 is not an insecure product, it was very secure in it's age."

    In 2006, IE6 was very insecure, making it to the top of SANS list of top 20 Internet Security Attack Targets:

    "In many cases, the vulnerabilities were zero-days i.e. no patch was available at the time the vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed. The VML zero-day vulnerability fixed by Microsoft patch MS06-055 was widely exploited by malicious websites before the patch was available."

    http://www.sans.org/top2...e333b6d993402f982260#w1

  7. Comment - French police bid adieu to Microsoft software

    1.5.0.1 RC1 (Jan 31, 2008 - 9:22 AM)

    "Has U.S. gone so pround of themselves that they joke other nations for the sole reason they are not U.S. ?

    It's not pride, it's called "a sense of humor".

    Get one, ya silly frog.

    (If you get offended that easily? Stay off the net, man.)"

    That's not humour. It's offensive racist language.

  8. Comment - French police bid adieu to Microsoft software

    1.5.0.1 RC1 (Jan 31, 2008 - 7:56 AM)

    "As a French I must admit I am concerned by a few comments here.

    Has U.S. gone so pround of themselves that they joke other nations for the sole reason they are not U.S. ?

    An administration the size of the Gendarmerie Nationale, whatever stupid the French may be, have certainly thought about hiring a few Linux gurus.
    But of course you are free to believe that since they are French, they necessarily forgot to do so. I won't try to argue since my QI is necessraily inferior to yours."

    Well said.