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    Simon Taylor

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  1. Review - SpeedFan

    4.17 (Oct 19, 2004)

    Well some people have problems with every software, I have never had a problem with this one. Still the very best free beer hardware monitoring tool, which shines through simple functionality. If you want überslick go MBM but if all you need is the information reliably and accurately then this is your monitoring software.

  2. Review - Free Download Manager

    0.9 Beta (Jul 31, 2004)

    This is a first impression review, I can't yet say how stable this downloader is longterm.
    Featurewise it is very impressive, seems to have all the best features of its "big" shareware cousins blended right in there.. and its free!

  3. Review - FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder

    20040718 (Jul 19, 2004)

    Thanks to Milan Cutka for picking up the ball and continuing to work on ffdshow after it had seemingly slowed down a little. Still the Swiss army knife of video playback decoders. MUST HAVE SOFTWARE.

  4. Review - Spybot - Search & Destroy Detection Updates

    2003-09-03 (Sep 5, 2003)

    Yes jcgamer, you're right, I tested both on my AthlonXP 1700+ here and SSD takes 92 seconds where Ad-Aware takes a mere 29 seconds. Thats a breathtaking Difference of 62 seconds and as you are probably a very important person, whos minutes are worth 1000s, you are more than justified in giving that 1 star rating and making it look like a bad piece of software for the casual viewer here....

  5. Review - WinUHA

    2.0 Alpha Build 2003.06.09 (Sep 5, 2003)

    Sorry to rain on anyones parade but after just doing a quick test on 440 MB of mixed Data (a game directory) I found it still can't get past 7-Zip atm. WinUHA was set @ ALZ best and 7-zip at maximum. WinUHA managed to squeeze it down to 187.4 MB, 7-Zip went the extra inch and got it down to 184.5 MB. Speedwise 7-zip is also better (by about 25% in this case).

    Apart from that, a very promising beta, still very basic (most of the menus don't work) but it could get there. For those who NEED UHA (I have been told its the best ratiowise in certain scenarios) it certainly could be an option.

  6. Comment - VeriSign Redirects Unused Domains

    2.0 Alpha Build 2003.06.09 (Sep 16, 2003 - 10:36 AM)

    Sorry I think you've got the way email servers handle mail confused with the way DNS servers handle DNS requests.

    When you send mail, the SMTP Server you are sending from typically contacts a DNS Server to try and find the destination. Previously it will have received an error message and bounced the mail right back. Now it *may* find a Mailserver (in this case verisigns) at the other end. But before it goes ahead and passes the mail on, it asks the responding mailserver if the address you are trying to send to is among the known adresses it administers. If it gets a yes back it sends the actual mail, if it receives a no, it bounces your mail back quoting "user not found". This is as much in your interest (privacy) as it is in Verisigns, the flood of mail it would receive with misspellt addresses would surely overwhelm their mailserver.

    Still bad, bad news for privacy, reading their Privacy Policy is enough to send shivers down my spine:

    "We use third-party companies to serve paid and unpaid search results and other content to our Site Finder. In the course of serving these results, these companies may place or recognize a cookie on your browser, and may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other web sites in order to serve content to our site..."

    And don't even think about USING sitefinder or you will (at least Verisign will have you believe so) enter into a binding legal agreement with Verisign.

    Anyway, for those who are concerned there is an elegant yet simple solution: Use a DIFFERENT DNS Service such as Opennic (http://www.opennic.unrated.net). Either ask your ISP to switch their DNS querying mechanism to Opennic or if they refuse, just do it yourself. Instructions how can be found at the Site.