Activity for October 16

Review - Panda Antivirus Pro
2010 (Jun 24, 2009)

WOw, doesn't use nearly as much memory. Very nice. Big difference from before, but still not my personal favorite (avira)
Review - WirelessKeyView
1.27 (Jun 24, 2009)

NirSoft makes some of the best, and most usefull programs when your job is to migrate people from different machines and they don't know any of their password that are saved.

@Stevefarrell
I think you missunderstand how the program works. It doesn't pick they key out of the air, it displays the stored key on the computer. This is usefull if someone gets a new laptop you can simply pull the key from the old laptop. How many peopl edo you know that remember their WEP or WPA key? ;)
Review - CA Internet Security Suite Plus
2010 Beta (Jun 23, 2009)

So far so good.
Review - Microsoft Bing Maps 3D
4.0 (Jun 3, 2009)

Good software but I HATE the name. Not that I have anything against Microsoft's choice of Bing as it's new search engine, but saing "Microsoft Bing Maps 3D" makes me sound like i have a speech impediment, or an odd form of turrets syndrome. c'est la vi...
Review - Yahoo! SiteBuilder
2.5 (Feb 18, 2009)

for the record they are at version 2.6 as shown here http://help.yahoo.com/l/...webhosting/sitebuilder2/

and will likely never make it to 3 since they are in the beta testing phase of their web based version. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/s...der/webstart/index.html
Comment - Mozilla designer suggests Windows 'browser ballot' is preferential to Apple
2.5 (Oct 16, 2009 - 1:13 PM)

Good god people. "this soup's too hot, this ones too cold, this one is still just slightly warm, ...on second thought i don't want any soup, what else do you have?"

every browser maker is going ot b**** and moan if there is even the slightest chance that their competitors have an "advantage." well here is the solution for you morons NO BALLOT SCREEN! If you want your browser included in the windows install talk to the OEM's and strike a deal! It makes me sick that thye just expect something for free, this isn't the IE vs Netscape days. uggg, i could write a really long rant like i have so many itmes before about this but i am burned out.

your Broswers shouldn't even be there in the first place, just be glad you got anyhting and shut the hell up.
Comment - No, Windows 7 isn't slower than Vista, even at booting up
2.5 (Oct 12, 2009 - 5:59 PM)

did anyone really believe it when it was posted? this is a company that makes tune up and speed up utilities trying to stay relivant. Since the newer operating system is, in general, more efficient in virtually every way it makes it harder for a company who addressed teh short commings of it's predicesors to prove that you still need their product.

in other news, wheel chairs deemed inefficient. click here to buy foot pedals to attack to it to use as a bike for more efficient movement. ....
Comment - Why I chose Windows 7 over Snow Leopard (and you should, too)
2.5 (Sep 16, 2009 - 6:28 PM)

"Consistently, I get about 30 percent to 40 percent more work done using Windows 7 than either Leopard or Snow Leopard."

Just. Wow. How do you even begin to qualify that statement?"

@ mjm01010101: lets pretend he has 10 papers he must complete in a single day. Using his Mac he completes 6 or 7 per day, while using his PC he finishes all 10. See, really simple mathmatic word ploblems solve peoples Made up magic numbers and percentages.

in other news, 82% of all statistics are made up on the spot... more at 11.
Comment - Earth to Europe: You won. Microsoft complied. Live with it.
2.5 (Jun 15, 2009 - 5:18 PM)

I am taking an existing post I made elsewhere about this issue, in responce to someone who supported it, and posting it here for those who find it relivent:

"So Microsoft will only do 'the right thing' when forced to. Why IE in the rest of the world?"

I am all for choice (posting this from Opera) but how is this, “the right thing?"

This was never about right or wrong, it was about competing companies wanting to take the easy path, complain to a government board that already had issues with MS, and get a lot of publicity and their browsers included in the system as a default, or as an option.

Now again don't get me wrong, I think it will be a GOOD thing to have an additional browser possibly preloaded into Windows if you would like(firefox would be best since it is the second most supported browser by plugins and software vendors). I am just completely against the way this was accomplished.

There was nothing stopping these companies from going to the major (and minor) OEM's and working out a deal for inclusion of their software. And if you have noticed, there hasn't been any report, (and they would have for sure had this happened), of any browser company being turned down for inclusion by the OEM's. THAT would have been justification for possible government intervention, but that’s not what happened.

In the end, this choice affects only a select few. The amount of new computers for home end users purchased online is much less than the amount (on average over the last 5 years) that were purchased in stores (in the USA). But since this doesn't affect the US, and I don't know the sales figures for other countries, perhaps this really will help alternative browser growth as a whole.

What will ultimately happen is that most systems will have "recommended specs" and will include IE (at the OEM's discression) due to the mass amounts of people that could potentially become confused with something different. Confused people potentially equal returns, and returns are never in the OEM’s best interest (in a world where education and knowledge are more accessible than ever before it baffles me that people become dumber and dumber, as a mass entity. …actually it doesn’t baffle me, society encourages the masses not to think for themselves, and ignorance breeds stupidity and false entitlement, /end rant).

Conclusion: While many OSS “evangelists” will herald this as a wonderful achievement, in the end it has accomplished nothing. Microsoft has not learned their lesson on standards compliance (even though IE8 was a huge step in the right direction); the vast majority of OEM’s will still have IE as the default browser to please the masses; and fighting your own battles and doing business the way it should be done (you make a product, you market your product, you reach a deal with a distributer to include your product), has been discouraged in exchange for running to mommy and throwing a temper tantrum until you get your way (see previous rant).

Will this ultimately benefit the end users? Hard to say, but it certainly isn’t being done to give them “choice”, it is being done because the companies doing it stand to make a profit by having their browser be the default (weather it be by market share, brand name recognition, etc…). The idea that this is being done to be “fair” is a fair tale, that’s just the way it is.

(first poundsmack post to use spell check. …also some words still misspelled).
Comment - StrongWebmail apparently hacked after issuing $10K challenge
2.5 (Jun 5, 2009 - 4:27 PM)

this reminds me of something....something something unsinkable something something.... I think it was a boat. lets see, faild to live up to it's claim...! oh right (Titanic).

Sarcasm aside, the moment you declare something unbreakable you soon after see it get broken. History shows us this over and over again. Good idea though, I do hope the service fixes said problem and does succeed.