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Member since August 18, 2004

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    Bruce Olson

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  1. Review - avast! Home

    4.7.871 (Aug 9, 2006)

    If it's not the very best, it's way up there. The P2P protection has saved me from countless viruses.

    The only really irritating thing for me is that when it automatically checks downloads it seizes the cpu, the computer is essentially frozen while it's running the check. Never found a way to change the task priority for that.

  2. Review - µTorrent for Windows

    1.4.1 Beta Build 412 (Jan 31, 2006)

    Since I began using µTorrent, my teeth are whiter, and the boss asked me if I lost weight! I luv it!

    Ok seriously, µTorrent is for people who like the general design of the Azureus gui and the information it provides, but don't like the ten-ton elephant of java + Azureus code & data slowing down your computer. Plus you don't get all those semi-useless Azureus plugins soaking up yet more ram and acting quirky. You don't need them.

  3. Review - µTorrent for Windows

    1.3.1 Beta Build 376 (Dec 24, 2005)

    µTorrent brushes the furballs out of my cat's hair, and has made me noticably taller. I Luv It!

  4. Review - Kaspersky Internet Security 2010

    6.0.0.241 Beta (Dec 14, 2005)

    Kaspersky is good, but a lot of the competition is equally good, and these days some companies are giving away the good stuff for free. If everything else is equal, I'll take the free, thank you very much. (for example: Avast Antivir Home, MS antispy, SP2 firewall - all free & all very good)

  5. Review - VLC (VideoLAN) for Windows

    0.8.4 (Nov 28, 2005)

    The interface *is* a problem, it always has been.

    I use VLC, I like it, but I still don't use it all the time because of the interface and the configuration menus. At least it's getting a few necessities now like Aspect Ratio on the screen context menu.

  6. Comment - P2P Flooder Overpeer Ceases Operation

    0.8.4 (Dec 11, 2005 - 3:24 PM)

    Some ridiculuous comments are made here about all the money artists supposedly make. A lot people don't seem know what they are talking about. Not only do most artists _not_ make a lot of money on record sales, less-known artists make anywhere from next-to-nothing to actually _being in the hole_ to their record company.

    You have to understand that record companies are mostly sleezebag in nature, and their lawyers are the worst. They don't want to give _any_ money to the artist if they can contract a way not to. And they do that, as they know new artists and lesser-known ones will sign just about anything to have their chance at success.

    Artists, for the most part, make their money on performances. You can make more money on one tour than all you might get from a record company through your career put together. In fact some contracts have the record company getting a piece of that performance revenue too!
    They are greedy sleezebags, they know their artist wants to be a star, and they take complete advantage of it.