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Member since March 21, 2002

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    Derek Petersen

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

    40.72 (Nov 10, 2002)

    Is it just me, or do they claim "Up to 25% preformance increase" in *every* release? Hell if that's true by now the cards are 10-20 faster then they were when they were first released, just due to the drivers.

  2. Review - Wasabi

    3.0 Alpha Build #490 (Oct 31, 2002)

    I don't think it will replace Winamp2 as my default player until it gets a *LOT* less bloated and doesn't eat up so much CPU power.

  3. Review - Mozilla Firefox for Linux (v2)

    0.3 (Oct 15, 2002)

    It needs Freetype 2 support before I will even consider using it.

  4. Review - OpenOffice.org for Windows

    Developer Build 643 (Oct 14, 2002)

    The actual program itself is quite nice, but I still can't help but say that this /is/ the ugliest program I ever did see.

  5. Review - CuteFTP Professional

    3.0 Beta (Oct 9, 2002)

    It's a nice app. The only reason I use this over other FTP apps such as FlashFXP is due to the fact that this is one of the only FTP clients I've been able to find for Windows that supports SSH. You need to connect via SSH to upload files to a sourceforge hosted site.

  6. Comment - AOL Buddies Up with ICQ

    3.0 Beta (Oct 29, 2002 - 7:55 PM)

    "...AIM is years behind them (not ICQ however)"

    lol, they use the *exact* same protocol (OSCAR) and the exact same servers. I actually don't think MSN is any more ahead of AIM/ICQ, I just think that MSN Instant Messenger is prettier, and gaining so many users only due to the fact that it is build into the OS.

  7. Comment - OS X Receives New AOL with Gecko

    3.0 Beta (Aug 20, 2002 - 2:06 AM)

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    then why wont it work on more pages? and wouldnt IE have to be losing to catch up? 96% is a far cry from that. I am no advocate for MS, but you have to know when you're wrong. rattling your sabre over a standards issue that admittedly no one complies to is wrong.
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    It wont work in more pages because a lot of web designers are lazy, and write IE only code using non-standard markup, and cut corners to save time. THe end result is a page that, while may be nice looking, has sloppy, non-standard, IE only code. IE only code means it was developed by Microsoft for Internet Explorer. Other browsers obviously would be lacking support for such code. THe thing is that 99% of IE only code can be accomplished the same using standards, you just might have to do a little more then clicking around in FrontPage or MSWord.

    *THAT* Is why more pages work on IE in general. It has nothing to do with IE's standard compliance. IE's standard compliance is *EXTREMELY* inconsistant across platforms (for example, IE for the Mac has full CSS1 support, IE for Windows doesn't. IE for the Mac has full PNG support, IE for Windows doesn't. The list goes on). Mozilla supports more standards, has better support for those standards, and is 100% consitant across different platforms in the standards is does support (Something supported in the Windows version is supported in the Linux version, something supported in the Mac version is supported in the Linux version, etc....).

    Also what he means by IE needs to catch up, is they need to catch up on standards support and consistancy, not market share. Microsoft throws IE on 97% of the home computers in the world, and what a shock, 90% of the world uses it. *gasp* It has nothing to do with quality, it has to do with the fact that most Mozilla/Netscape/Opera bashers are people who loaded up their PC with IE, learned to love it, and haven't tried any other browser in years (if at all).

    This can be seen clearly when Netscape bashers complain about Netscape 4.x's CSS support and such. You might as well compare Mozilla 1.1beta to IE 2.0, or MacOSX with Windows 3.0.

  8. Comment - OS X Receives New AOL with Gecko

    3.0 Beta (Aug 19, 2002 - 10:29 PM)

    You /are/ lazy and/or stupid. You are either too lazy to make your code compliant, or lacking the intelligence to know how to, or both. As you said, you are relying on a monopolized market, so you are being lazy due to the fact that you don't care about the other 5-10% of your visitors. There is nothing "wrong" by doing this per say, after all it is your website, and you're free to do as you must. But when your code is sloppy and unstandard, and just good enough to work in Internet Explorer, don't start bringing your ignorant comments around here blaiming the browser for having issues with reading that code.

  9. Comment - OS X Receives New AOL with Gecko

    3.0 Beta (Aug 19, 2002 - 10:25 PM)

    You /are/ lazy and/or stupid. You are either too lazy to make your code compliant, or lacking the intelligence to know how to, or both. As you said, you are relying on a monopolized market, so you are being lazy due to the fact that you don't care about the other 5-10% of your visitors. There is nothing "wrong" by doing this per say, after all it is your website, and you're free to do as you must. But when your code is sloppy and unstandard, and just good enough to work in Internet Explorer, don't start bringing your ignorant comments around here blaiming the browser for having issues with reading that code.

  10. Comment - OS X Receives New AOL with Gecko

    3.0 Beta (Aug 19, 2002 - 4:28 AM)

    "As a web designer who programs some pretty kick a** stuff I know 96% of my audience uses IE. The code I wrote for things like my chat that requires no downloads or plugins works fine in most IE 5+ browsers. Keep it on the apple and I'm straight but move it to the windows version and I have to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars retooling a system that already works. If their browser actually worked with all the javascript IE worked with it would be ok, but it doesn't. I hate javascript, and I hate these stupid web browsers."

    All ya gotta do is be standards compliant =) Just use standard code, and it will work in IE, Netscape 6.x, Mozilla 1.x, (Mostly) in Opera, etc... You make your chat just fine with standard code, you just gotta stop being so lazy and spend your time making your code standards compliant instead of spending it b****ing =)

    http://tinyurl.com/btw

    As for your frontpage: http://gamersdot.org/junk/whatthedilly.jpg