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   Review - Microsoft .NET Framework (v3.5)

   3.5 Service Pack 1 (Oct 9, 2009)

   ron_marz, this installer does contain 2.0 SP2 through to 3.5 SP1 inclusive. Although DotNet 1.1 is separate and so will 4.0 be when it's released.
   
   TGB72, I've used the full installer perfectly fine on computers with no internet connection (it does attempt to check for updates but doesn't throw an error due to no internet connection). My guess is that you had the DotNet 3.5 installer and when it checked for updates it will have downloaded the SP1 bits.
   
   I do agree that on older computers WPF applications are slow (WinForm apps still seem ok to me), but on newer computers I wouldn't have thought WPF applications were that slow although could still do with some improvement.

2. 
   Review - Microsoft .NET Framework (v4.0)

   4.0 Beta 1 (May 22, 2009)

   Ryusennin, what it means by that is that you can't have dotnet 1.0 and dotnet 4.0 installed at the same time. You will need to uninstall dotnet 1.0 from the control panel before being able to install dotnet 4.0. I gather this restriction should be gone when beta 2 is released.

3. 
   Review - WPanorama

   8.3.4 Build 1342 Beta (Jan 24, 2008)

   This may not look flash, kind of like a Win98 app but it does it's job very well. Allows you to view stitched or panasonic photos in full-screen, and can automatically scroll. I've found this useful and has become one of the standard apps I install on any of my home computers.

4. 
   Review - Microsoft .NET Framework (v3.5)

   June 2007 CTP (Jul 3, 2007)

   The .NET 3 installer does contain version 2 so you can just install v1.1, v3, v3.5.
   
   Rating 5 because of the awesome work gone into LINQ.

5. 
   Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v3)

   3.0 Alpha 3 (Mar 29, 2007)

   Type "about:config" into the location bar and "browser.cache.memory.enable" into the filter field. Set that preference to "false". This will reduce Firefox's memory usage by quite a bit but clicking back on the browser will no longer load the page instantly.

6. Comment - A real beta process at work: Mozilla fires up Firefox 3.6 Beta 2

   3.0 Alpha 3 (Nov 11, 2009 - 4:18 AM)

   Looks like you're right, Safari's onload event does fire too early, thanks for letting me know I'm a web developer and that causes problems for some of the scripts I've created for a number of sites I've deployed. The name of the Firefox event that fires at the same time as Safari's load event is DOMContentLoaded. The specification for the standard load event is here:
   http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM...groupings-htmlevents-h3
   
   To clarify my previous post "onReady event that fires after the page has finished rendering" should say "onReady event that fires after all the document objects (DOM) are loaded and available to javascript", the document of course can only be fully rendered after all content is downloaded.

7. Comment - A real beta process at work: Mozilla fires up Firefox 3.6 Beta 2

   3.0 Alpha 3 (Nov 10, 2009 - 9:37 PM)

   I don't your comment about the document onLoad event "while the remainder of the page is still downloading and being rendered". It's not meant to, it's only meant to fire after everything has finished loaded. I think Mozilla does provide a custom document onReady event that fires after the page has finished rendering but before other elements like images have finished downloading. But that is a non-standard event which orther browsers like IE does not have. There are various workarounds out there for creating a cross browser onready event (since the standard does not define such an event). So if Safari does work the way you suggested then it sounds like a bug and would affect javascript that relies on all elements having been downloaded like getting the height and width of an image file.

8. Comment - Open source project makes ADO.NET data accessible with PHP

   3.0 Alpha 3 (Aug 26, 2009 - 5:02 AM)

   cjackson27, this is talking about ADO.NET Data Services which exposes ADO.NET Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL as a web service that can be called from a separate application. I do agree though keeping ADO.NET in the name is a bit confusing since by itself it does refer to the old technology that you were mentioning.

9. Comment - Has Firefox 3 certificate handling become too 'scary?'

   3.0 Alpha 3 (Aug 19, 2008 - 6:51 PM)

   I agree with the article about SSC, I tried asking for Firefox to treat them like a normal http url with no yellow bar or padlock and no warning messages, the only guide being that encryption is in use is that the url starts with https.

10. Comment - New Features Discovered in Windows XP SP3: Is It Better Than Vista?

    3.0 Alpha 3 (Oct 12, 2007 - 3:16 PM)

    Network - try disabling IP6, that can sometimes cause a slowdown when other computers on the network only supports IP4
    
    DVD juddering - try the dvd on windows media player, I know of a few dvd players out there that suffer from this issue and are waiting to be updated for vista. Look at task manager to see if the cpu is maxing out.
    
    Hang on welcome screen - search the net from what I've read vista times how longs things take to load on startup and warn if any take longer than in the past. That information could indicate what causing the hang.