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Member since January 19, 2000

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    Chris Marts

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  1. Review - Mozilla for Windows

    0.9.2 (Jun 29, 2001)

    optimizations come later... ha ha... it *is* later - it's been half a decade - time to finish this disaster of a browser up already - granted it's making progress but *come on* already!

  2. Review - E-Quill

    1.0 (Jul 1, 2000)

    Great little utility. Makes sending webpages to people a lot easier plus you don't have to write about the page in an e-mail trying to explain where on the page the content is you're referring to. You can just circle it and put a note on the page!

  3. Review - Synama Web Browser

    Beta 2 (Jun 13, 2000)

    qwaszx: yes, but considering that Windows manages memory as a much larger entity than actually fits in physical memory, some of that data sits on disk. This might suggest that organizing that data in the most optimal way might speed up paging operations, but the reason I think these programs are useless is that (a) you'd think MS would be doing a pretty good job of managing memory already and (b) the memory this program takes up plus the CPU time used to actually organize/degragment the memory can't possibly be worth it. Just my two cents. I can't really say because I haven't tried it nor do I really want to.

  4. Comment - Office 11 Unveiled at TechXNY

    Beta 2 (Jun 30, 2002 - 2:04 PM)

    What? That's insane. Academic versions exist to allow people in academia to use and learn the software without intent of commercial use.

  5. Comment - Office 11 Unveiled at TechXNY

    Beta 2 (Jun 30, 2002 - 2:03 PM)

    That's completely illegal for 2 reasons - 1) the academic price must be *used* by a student, not just purchased by one and 2) the academic vesion cannot be used for commercial purposes by anyone.

  6. Comment - Be Files Suit Against Microsoft for Destroying Business

    Beta 2 (Feb 21, 2002 - 3:17 PM)

    Why UPnP? So features like voice/video/file-transfers work through firewalls that support it (XP's firewall, Linksys firewalls and other manufacturers as they add support) without having to do port mapping and restricting these features to one client behind the router.

  7. Comment - Be Files Suit Against Microsoft for Destroying Business

    Beta 2 (Feb 21, 2002 - 12:20 AM)

    Maybe not technical reasons per se, but really that's not the issue:

    -> They refuse to interoperate with other clients. This is inevitble. It should work like e-mail where the client application is largely unimportant. In fact, they are not integrating other features (video, for example), because due to stipulations on the merger, when they do that, they have to interoperate.

    -> Away messages - why does it *still* have that stupid window showing all the time.

    -> Why does it install no less than 7 icons for their stupid online service every time I upgrade it. That's absolutely infuriating.

    -> Let's get some UPnP support in there, please.

  8. Comment - Be Files Suit Against Microsoft for Destroying Business

    Beta 2 (Feb 21, 2002 - 12:17 AM)

    And the implication is that this is Microsoft's fault? I'm confused... Company X can't build a better product. Must be Microsoft's fault. No wait... they could build a better product so, um... okay, they can't market it. *That* must be Microsoft's fault. No wait... they could build a better product and they could market it... hrm... well, they can't support it! That's it! That's Microsoft's fault! Wait... this is ridiculous.