Activity for November 10

Review - nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers for Windows Vista/7 (32-bit)
182.08 (Mar 9, 2009)

182.08 fixed a bug for me in Quake 4 where it would go blank screen after 15 minutes gameplay.
Review - KDE
4.2.1 (Mar 8, 2009)

KDE. Proof that there's next to knack all quality control in Linux.
Review - AVG Anti-Virus Free
8.0.233a1415 (Jan 24, 2009)

DO NOT USE THIS. Everyone on tech forums I am on who have infected computers even though they're running AV are using AVG 8. The free version has protection for the most prevalent path of infection, malicious or compromised websites, removed.

If you really must have free, go with Avast.
Review - AVG Internet Security
8.0.233a1415 (Jan 15, 2009)

Protection is absolutley abysmal. On several tech forums I post to, virtually everyone who is getting infected is running AVG 8. AVG have been trading on a reputation they've long since failed to deserve.
Review - Songbird
1.0.0 (Dec 3, 2008)

iTunes, 99MB. Songbird, 253MB. Plugins still letting it down but without them, it's lacking key features now expected in a media player.
Comment - Snow Leopard and Windows 7 still can't crack the netbook problem
1.0.0 (Nov 10, 2009 - 5:56 PM)

"Canonical has a flavour of Ubuntu called Netbook Remix which should work just fine for netbooks"

Indeed they do. Its just a shame that in 9.04 the Intel graphics drivers, which most netbooks use, are borked and in 9.10 a great many mobile broadband dongles now don't work OOTB. And in both cases, power management sux so much that you'll be lucky enough to get 75% of the battery time that you do with XP.
Comment - Ubuntu 9.10 upgraders report frustration
1.0.0 (Nov 10, 2009 - 9:58 AM)

One LTS release was responsible for a major issue in a Windows dominant world. Ubuntu is nothing more than a mess nowadays. Debian stable looks far more dependable but sadly many of the good things I found in Ubuntu are missing from it and other distros and honestly I've got to the point where I just can't be bothered wasting any more time on it. I'll drop back in from time to time with a virtual machine trial but that's about it.
Comment - Ubuntu 9.10 upgraders report frustration
1.0.0 (Nov 10, 2009 - 5:24 AM)

Clean installs because upgrades always caused more trouble than they were worth.

Ubuntu 8.04 broke Windows Network browsing and I put up with it and I worked around the problem.

Ubuntu 8.10 sent my hard drive load cycle count rocketing and I put up with it and worked around the problem.

Ubuntu 9.04 broke my laptop Intel graphics card drivers, giving a 50% performance hit and I put up with it and worked around the problem.

Ubuntu 9.10 removed the support for my 3g mobile broadband dongle. This time, I no longer put up with it, made excuses for it or worked around the problem. I went and bought Windows 7.

Bye bye Ubuntu. I've got fed up of you breaking things because of poor quality control and the "must release every 6 months" mantra.
Comment - Unconvinced by Windows 7? Ubuntu 9.10 debuted today!
1.0.0 (Oct 30, 2009 - 7:56 AM)

Yet another typically rushed out release. YET AGAIN, something which worked previously is now broken. For me, it is my Huawei 169G 3G dongle. It worked in previous versions as PnP and now doesn't at all. Ubuntu 9.04 broke previously perfectly working Intel graphics, Ubuntu 8.04 broke previously working out of the box Windows network browsing.

Talking about windows network browsing, YET AGAIN I'm having to go edit smb.conf to get it to work. COME ON CANONICAL, it has been a bug for EIGHTEEN MONTHS that has had a simple solution posted in the forums.

It is a real shame. I was real excited about it and it looked and worked great otherwise. But I'm sorry that I have to say this'll probably be my last time with Linux. I am sick to g**d***ed death of new distros fixing stuff but breaking others and having bugs (that've been resolved in the forums) which have 10,000's of threads about them, but apparently aren't important in a world with a 90% Windows market share, still being in the release nearly two years later for the simple want of editing one line of a .conf file.
Comment - Jury arrives at $675K fine for student's music downloading, $22,500 per track
1.0.0 (Aug 1, 2009 - 12:30 PM)

Err, as far as I know a court judgement cannot be included in bankruptcy so will still be outstanding until its paid.

Mr. Tenenbaum may want to take a look at bankrupcy law before he makes himself look even more of a fool by bankrupting himself and still ending up with the fine to pay.