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 - Live report: Will Google Chrome OS change Linux?
1.1 Beta 4 (Nov 20, 2009 - 3:39 PM)

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Comment - Live report: Will Google Chrome OS change Linux?
1.1 Beta 4 (Nov 20, 2009 - 3:39 AM)

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"They can give you..quite easily..a free OS while FORCING YOU to use Bing and Office Online as defaults, and possibly showing you Microsoft ads EVEN IF YOU'RE USING GOOGLE SERVICES, a-la proxifying your connection. And they CAN get away with it. Why? Cuz you paid NOTHING for the OS..."
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Agreed + I don't have a problem with that even though Google is my default search engine.

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"In no way at all can Google win this battle, EVEN for the tiniest of niche markets. Microsoft will eat them alive IN NO TIME."
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So true, Chrome OS is already absolute....Google must be on something if they think they can win this and take over the desktop with this so called "OS". Steve Ballmer is probably having the best laugh ever and he probably is still giggling. This is going to be a complete failure....(and I personally hope so). I have always backed Google up for every project (mostly Android) but this Chrome OS is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. Seriously, think about all the techies our there. I would feel completely restrained/confined with this.

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Android will fail as well. Windows Mobile 8 or 9 with PERFECT integration with the desktop OS products and billions of software and hardware combinations will completely annihilate all other mobile OSs.
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I have to disagree with you on that one. I personally believe Android will succeed in the very near future.
Comment - Microsoft damage control after marketer claims Win7 inspired by Mac
1.1 Beta 4 (Nov 15, 2009 - 2:27 PM)

Ok I see what you are saying but did the original Mac OS back in 1984 had a dock? This is mainly about the dock. I am not sure whether NeXT Step is related and how much (if related) is.
Comment - Microsoft damage control after marketer claims Win7 inspired by Mac
1.1 Beta 4 (Nov 15, 2009 - 4:34 AM)

Windows 1.01 (1985) :) Look at the about box.
Comment - Microsoft damage control after marketer claims Win7 inspired by Mac
1.1 Beta 4 (Nov 14, 2009 - 1:58 AM)

Ok *listen* everyone. Microsoft did *not* copy Mac OS X dock period! The taskbar you now see is based on Windows 1.0's taskbar and you can check this for yourself! Why isn't anyone saying anything about this: http://msdn.microsoft.co.../magazine/dd942846.aspx

Read!

"The Windows 7 taskbar is the latest in a series of evolutionary taskbar designs that started with Windows 1.0. It represents a design and architectural change with regard to user experience, and offers significant improvements in user productivity. Figure 1 shows the Windows 1.0 taskbar. (Note that the 1.0 taskbar bears more resemblance to the Windows 7 taskbar than to the Windows Vista taskbar.)"

Look at the screenshots and stop blaming MS. Microsoft did *not* copy the dock.

http://msdn.microsoft.co.../magazine/dd942846.aspx