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1. 
   Review - 4NT

   7.01 Build 361 (Mar 31, 2006)

   I've been using 4DOS/4NT since the 1.0.
   I last bought 4NT v4.00a.
   Since then the list of updates and the very high upgrade price gave me very little reason to pay for an upgrade. (Plus, I rarely use Windows now days, making it less useful to me.)
   
   Good to see that 4NT is alive, though...

2. 
   Review - OpenOffice.org for Windows

   2.0.2 (Mar 8, 2006)

   "STILL doesn't handle multiple languages in the same document."
   
   Huh?
   Since 1.1 I've written numerous multi-language documents (most under Linux, though), in both LTR and RTL.
   Not only OO does a better job at it (compared to Office 2K3 I'm forced to use at work), the spell checker works on all languages out of the box.
   
   Gilboa

3. 
   Review - openSUSE

   10.0 Beta 4 (Sep 1, 2005)

   For the 100,000,000th time.
   Mp3 is patented technology and cannot be distributed freely.
   Read: http://www.mp3licensing.com/
   This is why both Fedora/RedHat and SUSE removed it from their distribution.
   
   If you want to blame anyone, blame the increasingly ridicules software patents... (AKA Patent 77755573: "Using small long organic items [fingers] to tap on keyboard")

4. 
   Review - Mozilla for Windows

   0.9.6 (Nov 21, 2001)

   Getting better and better by each release!
   Forget about your (buggy) IE6, boys and girls... move to Mozilla!

5. Comment - New Flash player brings streaming HD video support

   0.9.6 (Dec 6, 2007 - 5:05 AM)

   Sigh. Still no 64bit support...

6. Comment - Windows Vista 'DreamScene' Available

   0.9.6 (Feb 16, 2007 - 9:23 AM)

   Let me see if I get your post correctly.
   A. Vista is immune to viruses (and malware) but Stardocks' DestktopX/Windowblinds (an on-top application) isn't.
   B. Vista has "enhanced performance" (compared to... what exactly?) - unlike Windowblind (which modifies the existing XP WM).
   Just to be sure - are we talking about the same DRM infested Vista that eats ~800MB while idle (re: running the WM) that I'm using? (@work - have to; using it to test my software)
   
   Somehow, the words "clueless" and "You have no idea what you're talking about" lose all meaning when I try find an appropriate response to your post.
   
   Unless that is, you were just trying to be sarcastic...
   
   - Gilboa

7. Comment - AMD Makes its 65nm Move: Will It Be Enough?

   0.9.6 (Dec 6, 2006 - 12:08 PM)

   Four words:
   Caps-lock-less-keyboards.
   
   Thanks.
   - Gilboa

8. Comment - Patent Ruling Against Microsoft Upheld

   0.9.6 (Aug 24, 2006 - 4:26 AM)

   The problem with software patents begin and ends with the lack of guidelines on what could be patented.
   -IF- you allow Microsoft to patents "Use of Icons to notify user when an update is pending" and the "IsNot" operand, you are opening the road to patent wars.
   
   I'm willing to accept that a revolutionary compression algorithm should be defended against theft (By copy write instead of patent), but "Using 'Buy-Now' in auction site" (latest Ebay vs. good-knows-who patent case) -should not- be given any protection as these are simple abstract ideas (as opposed to complex algorithms).
   
   - Gilboa

9. Comment - RIAA Pressures Russia Over Piracy

   0.9.6 (Dec 28, 2005 - 9:16 AM)

   "We must not enter into political arrangements with countries ill-prepared to adequately protect our greatest economic assets," Bainwol added.
   
   If I was an American, I'd be personally offended if Micheal Jackson's latest Album would have been called "America's greatest asset".
   Hopefully the 'lovely' people who build nukes in Iran didn't open Betanews today.