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Member since October 31, 2002

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    Jeremy Dixon

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    United States of America

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  1. Review - VLC (VideoLAN) for Linux

    0.8.6g (May 13, 2008)

    It has high computability but it's incredibly unstable and the UI is is among the worst ever. It's my fall back player for when MPlayer (and Zoom Player and Media Player Classic when on Windows) fails me (rare).

  2. Review - RyanVM Integrator

    1.5 Beta 24 (Oct 15, 2007)

    The main point of this program over other integrators seems to be creating stable OEM like install discs using only pure Microsoft software (with a few exceptions) with default settings so they work on multiple machines.

    If you want custom registry hacks, drivers, and more 3rd party software or otherwise more control you need to be using nLite or something like it instead.

    It's true it has a few bugs hence the 4 instead of 5 stars.

  3. Review - 7-Zip (32-bit)

    4.52 Beta (Aug 3, 2007)

    7zip has issues opening RAR files with the .001 .002 .003 and so on numbering sequence when no .rar file exists. It will treat each file in the sequence as a individual archive instead of following the sequence and extracting all of them. It results in a broken incomplete file. This is the only negative issue with 7zip I have and it is otherwise an excellent program.

    I have yet to inform the development team of this issue so I can't hold it against them.

  4. Review - nVIDIA GeForce Drivers for Windows

    81.98 Official WHQL (Dec 21, 2005)

    Refuses to detect my Xtacy GF2 Ti. New drivers have not supported it after 71.89.

  5. Review - Pidgin for Windows

    2.0.0 Beta 1 (Dec 18, 2005)

    Gaim 2.0 looks like ass. The new buddy list layout is crappy. The buttons on it are massive and if you have a lot of accounts the away buttons take up most of the real estate. The new IM window is total crap with the new layout. The way the tab fills the whole width of the window is annoying and the way the text scrolls upwards rather then just popping in is even worse. If this is the direction 2.0 is going to go I'm sticking with 1.5 or will be picking another client. Gaim 2.0 just sucks.

  6. Comment - Comcast gets a theoretical upstream speed boost

    2.0.0 Beta 1 (Jun 12, 2008 - 6:37 PM)

    Depending on the modem you can flash it's firmware and tweak some settings to increase performance. Many cable modems run internal webadmins for configuration just like routers and other networking devices do. The cable company's don't always tell users about that though. Figure out what model you have and look it up on Google.

    If the physical hardware is very old and slow then you wont be able to do much about it outside of getting a new modem from Comcast. My cable provider was good at letting you upgrade your hardware for free. I had to bring the old hardware to the service center and pickup the new hardware myself is all. They wont come out and do it for me. No idea how Comcast does things.

    Unless yer modem is super old you shouldn't have to do anything on yer end to see this speed boost though.

  7. Comment - Comcast gets a theoretical upstream speed boost

    2.0.0 Beta 1 (Jun 12, 2008 - 3:06 PM)

    My internet connection (Buckeye Cable) is 6144/640 with an average speed on my end of 5768/571. While it might not be the best in the world it cost me exactly $0.00 a month as it's free cable company provided WiFi. The router is on a pole in my back yard not 10 feet from my house so the signal is always strong. It's just so awesome.

  8. Comment - US sinks to 15th place worldwide in broadband, says OECD

    2.0.0 Beta 1 (May 21, 2008 - 5:46 PM)

    Land Mass

    Canada 3,854,085 sq mi
    United States 3,794,066 sq mi

    Population

    Canada 33,269,000
    United States 304,124,000

    Most Canadians live along the border making the inhabited population far less spread out then the United States.

  9. Comment - As flat screen prices plummet, Pioneer strikes a deal

    2.0.0 Beta 1 (Apr 24, 2008 - 6:17 PM)

    BetaNews censors Matsus***a...

  10. Comment - Real-time Linux for US Navy weapons systems gets an upgrade

    2.0.0 Beta 1 (Apr 21, 2008 - 12:37 AM)

    We retired 19 (62 built) of the old first generation (1976-1985) Los Angles class subs and currently maintain an active fleet of 74 subs across 4 different classes with 4 additional subs under construction.

    China currently maintains a fleet of 4 submarines and two of those are old U.S. Tench class subs built in 1944. I'll be joining the Pacific fleet June 19th and I have to say I'm not worried one bit.