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    The DataRat

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  1. Review - Opera for Windows

    7.21 (Oct 14, 2003)

    If you gotta have Linux, you're at least better off
    without Java ! __________The DataRat

  2. Review - Opera for Linux

    7.21 (Oct 14, 2003)

    Opera is great !

    Linux ...well, it's an obscure second-rate OS.

    But -if you're stuck with Linux- you can't do
    better than Opera !

    The DataRat

  3. Review - V

    7.0 RC3 (Oct 9, 2003)

    Before spending your money on shareware Microsoft Explorer replacements, the Computer Rodent recommends checking out one of the myriad of FREEWARE Microsoft Explorer replacements ! __________The DataRat

  4. Review - Everest Dictionary

    2.1 Beta (Oct 7, 2003)

    A wonderful dictionary. Almost impossible to get into their server located somewhere in Outer Bulgaria. Best to download the moduls as a collection from a U.S. server. Well worth the d/l trouble for this terrific dictionary ! _____The DataRat

  5. Review - Opera for Windows

    7.21 Preview 1 (Oct 3, 2003)

    Forget about Java. It's totally crash prone, and a wet dream
    of Computer Communists !
    In Opera, press F12 and disable Java. Your Internet
    experience will only improve. 90% of Web crashes and
    browser lock-up's are the result of trying to run Java.
    Opera is the premier Web Browser. But nothing can make
    Java run right on a real computer.
    _________The DataRat

  6. Comment - 'Panther' Set for October 24 Launch

    7.21 Preview 1 (Oct 16, 2003 - 8:53 AM)

    You know, just a couple years ago this feature
    would've been ~swarming~ with Apple fanatics
    insisting that their fav computer was on the
    verge of leaping from it's pathetically tiny
    market share to overtake Microsoft and turn Bill
    Gates into a pauper !

    Now you guys are like Hitler in his Berlin bunker
    during 1945 ...waiting for the inevitable end.

    This is all reminiscent of "Team OS/2" (anybody
    remember THEM?).

    Apple has been dying the SLOW DEATH, and their
    only hope of survival is iTunes !

    Coming out with an equivalent to Windows 95 in
    the year 2000 never bode well for Apple.

    Apple couldn't -and never can- destroy Microsoft.
    So, WHO will slay the giant ?

    Microsoft shall be defeated by ...Microsoft !

    Yes, they're fatally infected with 'IBM Disease'.
    Major symptoms include tens of thousands of
    employees accomplishing almost NOTHING in the
    way of products.

    While it ~won't~ be Apple (or Linux) replacing
    Microsoft Windows, it will be SOMEBODY.

    Just thought you'd want to know.

    Your Buddy,

    The DataRat

  7. Comment - 'Panther' Set for October 24 Launch

    7.21 Preview 1 (Oct 15, 2003 - 5:19 PM)

    "And Microsoft still cares"

    Microsoft is Apples' biggest booster.

    Why ? Not because Apples' infinitesimal
    market share means ~that~ many sales
    for Microsoft software products like
    MS Office.

    No. Microsoft cares because Apple (and
    Linux) are the only things standing between
    Microsoft and antitrust violations.

    Apples' real rationale for existence is as
    a token competitor so -in court- Microsoft
    can point to 'em and say: "We're NOT a
    monopoly. Look, Apple competes against us !".

    Everybody knows that Apple isn't real
    competition. Yet, if Apple didn't exist,
    Microsoft would have to invent them.

    This explains why Microsoft makes applications
    to run on Mac's. NOT to sell software to Apples'
    puny 2.9% market share ...but for strategic
    legal purposes !

    Your Friend,

    The DataRat

  8. Comment - 'Panther' Set for October 24 Launch

    7.21 Preview 1 (Oct 15, 2003 - 12:50 AM)

    And, oh, by the way: IDC forecasts that Linux
    (currently with a 2.3% market share) will overtake
    Apple soon.

    So, how it looks is the Apple OS shriveling away
    to nothing. ( And Linux leaping into Apple's
    former pathetic very distant second-place ! )

    But iTunes is doing good ! Your favorite rodent
    predicts that -in a few years- Apple will be a
    Internet music company instead of a computer
    company.

    When that happens, remember to tell everybody
    El Raton foresaw it occurring !

    El Raton de los Datos

  9. Comment - 'Panther' Set for October 24 Launch

    7.21 Preview 1 (Oct 15, 2003 - 12:40 AM)

    The Computer Rodent wishes apologize to all the
    Mac fans offended by El Raton saying that Apple
    has "less than a 4% market share".

    THAT data is in error.

    According to market research firm IDC, Apple has
    a 2.9% share of the desktop OS market.

    So -from now on- your favorite rodent won't say
    that Apple has only under 4% market share ...he'll
    say they have less than a 3% market share !

    The DataRat

  10. Comment - 'Panther' Set for October 24 Launch

    7.21 Preview 1 (Oct 14, 2003 - 9:05 AM)

    "Uhh You mean Adobe"

    Hey, if Apple can take credit for GUI from PARC,
    it can certainly claim to have invented variable
    fonts from Adobe.

    In the convoluted, delusional world of "All Things
    Mac", Steve Jobs (and Al Gore) invented EVERYTHING
    from the Internet to fonts !

    Who are you to dispute that Apple didn't invent the
    air we breathe ?

    Reality for Apple Zombies is what Steve Jobs says it
    is. Don't get confused by the Truth.

    Just click your heals together like Dorothy and say:
    "There's no place like Apple, there's no place like Apple,
    there's no place like Apple !".

    The DataRat