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1. 
   Review - nnCron

   1.89 RC5 (Feb 20, 2004)

   3 rating because it does what it says and seems to work fine, but I must admit i'm confused as to why I should use this and pay money for it when vbscript and windows scheduled tasks will do the same thing.

2. 
   Review - PMCLEAN

   0.2 (Feb 12, 2004)

   but...what IS it?

3. 
   Review - SQLyog for Windows

   3.52 (Sep 25, 2003)

   well its NOT freeware its SHAREWARE / DEMO...however... it is also an excellent program and most likely worth the money if your looking for a GUI windows program to manage your MySQL Servers.

4. 
   Review - foobar2000

   0.7 RC14 (Sep 12, 2003)

   WTF??? 14 Release Candidates??? just call a beta a BETA, nobody will think less of you, calling it an RC gives the impression its just about ready to go, which obviously this isn't if you need 14 freakin release candidates....

5. 
   Review - OpenOffice.org for Windows

   Developer Build 644 m1 (Feb 22, 2003)

   no doubt the best open source office application going. i dont even bother with ms office anymore, openoffice does everything the average person needs.

6. Comment - iTunes to Make Windows Debut October 16

   Developer Build 644 m1 (Oct 12, 2003 - 12:17 PM)

   --"If you're gonna run a business, make $$$"--
   
   what a totally assanine statement, of course a business is going to make money...thats why its in business. How does doing whats good for his business mean he's sold out or lost his scruples? what a dumba** comment.

7. Comment - AOL Looking to Acquire Red Hat

   Developer Build 644 m1 (Jan 21, 2002 - 3:53 PM)

   EXACTLY! they can't "own" Linux any more then they can "kill" it, so all these folks who think this is a bad thing need to read more on what GNU/Linux really is. You could go to Linus Torvaldis and offer him a billion dollars and it wouldnt do you any good because even he doesnt "own" Linux and he would have the biggest claim to it if anyone did. All this will do is sink $$$ into promoting GNU/Linux and, possibly, harm one of the biggest distributions going...which is fine since there are plenty more to choose from. mandrake, suse, debian...hell you can get away from Linux all together and go freebsd :)
   
   Aol...you suck..., but thanks :)

8. Comment - AOL Looking to Acquire Red Hat

   Developer Build 644 m1 (Jan 21, 2002 - 12:24 PM)

   all you folks out there that are pissed cause AOL is trying to grab up RedHat needs to chill a little. Is it disturbing that a company that produces crappy software is buying the top distribution for GNU/Linux? Sure it is, BUT think of all free marketing that GNU/Linux are gonna get out of this. RedHat isnt the only distribution just currently one of the largest, even if AOL gets RedHat they will have NO control over any of the other dists'. They arent/cant "buy" Linux and even if they found some legal loop hole to do so all they would own is the kernal nothing more since all the rest of the software that comes with Redhat is the GNU stuff. There are other kernals out there that can be used instead. Anything AOL puts into Redhat can be removed with a quick "rpm --erase" or if its really bad, a kernal recompile (not as bad as it sounds). In the meantime they will be pouring $$$ into marketing AOLinux and most likely dummying down the x-windows interface and install process which is what GNU/Linux really needs to get it onto the average users desktop.
   
   I don't like AOL any more then the rest of you, but with the publicity this will give to open source software and the possibility of mainstreaming the GNU/Linux OS... this is a good thing to anyone who wants GNU/Linux to succeed.

9. Comment - Appeals Court Tells Napster To Stop the Music

   Developer Build 644 m1 (Feb 12, 2001 - 2:56 PM)

   Napster HAS NOT been shut down. Read the articals at CNN and ZDNET. Why can't BetaNews get it's facts straight before posting this kind of s***?
   
   http://www.zdnet.com/zdn...0.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
   
   http://www.cnn.com/2001/...ter.decision/index.html

10. Comment - Juno To Sell Off Your Excess Processing Power

    Developer Build 644 m1 (Feb 2, 2001 - 12:18 PM)

    umm, well I guess you have to understand the process to get it. Have you ever used Seti@Home? It only runs during the idle ticks on your computer, a time slot usually consumed by the System Idle Process, which if you check your task list accounts for well over 90% of your computers time. It doesnt effect anything you are currently running or slow down your computer at all since the resources are not being used when the computers is being used by another process.
    
    As far as the transmission of results go, its usually only a couple hundred K (about a minute on a 56K modem, and your computer will only transmit this when it finished the current data packet. Data packets usually take many hours of idle time to complete, even on a fast machine.
    
    In terms of privacy, it is possible that Juno could access data on your hard drive, but outside companies could not. Juno would be the one controlling the data packets sent and recieved, so If you trust Juno your fine, if you dont trust Juno and your that paranoid about someone accessing your harddrive out of the millions of computers out there, then you probably shouldnt bother being on the net anyway.
    
    Even low end PC's are helpful when combined with all of the others in the network. One of the most powerful super computers in the world is made up of a few hundred 486 processors running linux beowulf. so imagine a few thousand 486 computers on a distributed network...thats alot of power! and your harddrive isnt spinning all the time, its your processor that is doing all of the work, the harddrive only gets accessed at infrequesnt times.
    
    My question is, what the heck do you get in return for allowing Juno to use your processing power? If its free internet, are they going to lose the ads or will the user still be forced to see those as well as use up their idle process time?