Activity for Yesterday

Review - Mandriva Linux
2008.1 Spring Alpha 2 (Jan 13, 2008)

Mandriva is a great distribution -- 5 stars! I am using the 2008 edition and has worked perfectly well. Even my brother HL-2040 printer works (using the HL-2060 driver).

- My printer was on and all of a sudden I see this message offering me to install the drivers. Using the front end of urpmi Mandriva installed and handled all dependencies automatically.

- Software installation is a breeze using the front end of urpmi. All dependencies are handled well.

- Fonts are looking great. Crisp and sharp, no more bad fonts.

- Plug in a USB key and a dialog pops up just like in Windows offering you choices what you would want to do.

- I plugged in my Powershot A520 Canon camera into the USB and again a dialog pops up offering me choices.

- My creative SBLIve! sound card works great. Using KMix or something like that it increased the bass, the threble, 3D sound etc. I am quite amazed.

- Mandriva came with Nvidia drivers and my CompizFusion works great. Seriously, I am now considering switching from Windows as I am mostly a business application user. Well done Mandriva!

To anyone who hasn't tried Mandriva I strongly advise you to try it but try the 2008 edition for now instead of this Alpha release. All of the above observations were noticed on Mandriva 2008 edition (with non GPL-software). Mandriva made me go WOW, not Vista.
Review - IE7pro
2.0 (Jan 3, 2008)

I am giving this software 4 stars and not 5 for a few reasons. "Open new Tab from Favorites" does not work and it has never worked on my XP SP2. I have been installing every new version just to see if this has been fixed and it hasn't but I am not sure if anyone has reported this. Second, the installer and IE7Pro itself try to access the net. Why??? It is picked up by my firewall and I simply blocked it.
Review - OpenOffice.org for Windows
2.3.1 RC1 (Nov 16, 2007)

5 stars - 1 for slowness and memory hog...otherwise a good office suite
Review - Undead Pixel
2.2 (Aug 4, 2007)

cousinkix1953, Of course it won't work if you haven't installed the .NET framework. Oubeaver is right and take his comments seriously. As for the program itself, it is a great program. At least the developer has tried to provide a possible solution. It doesn't hurt to try. Software can't fix hardware. Face it!
Review - JLC's Internet TV
1.1 Beta 4 (Jul 30, 2007)

Great program. I just hope he doesn't add any banners/ads.
Comment - Google Chrome 4: Yes, it's fast, but is it usable?
1.1 Beta 4 (Nov 7, 2009 - 5:46 AM)

Chrome's bookmarks system suck and because of this very reason I switched to a different browser. Have you noticed when you hover over a bookmark you have no idea where the bookmark is pointing to because there is no status bar? With some other browsers when you hover over a bookmark, on the status bar you get the URL of the bookmark.
Comment - 'What is a browser?' Is this Google's idea of a 'ballot screen?'
1.1 Beta 4 (Oct 7, 2009 - 4:01 AM)

The most important program on your computer is not the web browser but the BIOS followed by the IPL.

Sorry, I would not have said this but this article is aimed at the tech savvy people and when the video started describing what a 'web browser' is, I immediately exited the video and typed this comment. It is just too weird....
Comment - Why I chose Windows 7 over Snow Leopard (and you should, too)
1.1 Beta 4 (Sep 19, 2009 - 3:45 AM)

Yes, I have been using Windows 7 since RC1 continuously and I have never had any problems with it. The operating system flies......fast, sleek, responsive and very good looking. Microsoft must be over the moon with all of these positive reviews about Windows 7. I got an ASUS laptop 2 months ago and the first thing I did is install Windows 7 (dual boot) and now it's only Windows 7, Vista is gone. Windows 7 is what Vista should have been. The "WOW" starts now, not with Windows Vista.

Something off topic: Except for the GUI, I am also quite impressed with Ubuntu. It is something that one should consider.
Comment - Windows 7: Obviously I've struck a nerve
1.1 Beta 4 (Aug 25, 2009 - 5:44 AM)

Look, I truly understand why some people do not feel like there is a need to upgrade to Windows 7 and without a doubt I do not blame you nor I will criticize you. I was one of the people that skipped Vista completely (due to my own ignorance) and I was also going to do the same with W7.

The reason for this was unsupported hardware. Existing hardware that kept on working on XP simply stopped working on Vista because manufactorers could not be bothered to create drivers for Vista (and now W7). But I already I skipped Vista all together and that's like 3 years and more. Now we have Windows 7. I was angry at MS, so angry, I was aiming at skipping W7 as well.

However, I realized after I skipped Windows Vista, I missed at least 3 years of new technology. I knew almost nothing about Vista, where the new settings were etc. So if I continued the same route as Vista, I would have stayed in the past with old technology even more. I could not allow my self to do this sort of damage to my self. So I downloaded Windows 7, and swapped some hardware and I have everything working.

I have been using Windows 7 for about a month and a half now and I can genuinely say I could never go back to Windows XP again. When I used Windows XP, I was in love in its classic business like look and its overall operation however, I have been using Windows 7, I have installed heaps of program and the OS, unlike XP, has not slowed down believe it or not! How is this possible? Install a few programs on Windows XP, and the system start up just slows down. Windows 7 on the other hand is still flying as when it was first installed.
Comment - Windows XP SP3 runs browsers 13% faster than Windows 7 RTM
1.1 Beta 4 (Aug 7, 2009 - 11:28 PM)

Hmm, I seriously can't tell any difference in relation to browser rendering speed on XP or on 7 or between XP & 7. I use Chrome as a default browser on W7 accompanied with Firefox as a fail safe option in case I run into a page that does not render properly.

Something else I'd like to add though, until a month ago, I was one of those loyal XP followers but for the last 4 weeks I have been using 7 as my primary OS and I can never go back to XP. Apps launch faster, it looks good and so far everything works so I think W7 will be the new XP.