Activity for September 18

Review - Microsoft .NET Framework (v4.5)
Developer Preview (Sep 18, 2011)

@war593122: that's just the web framework

as usual, da best geek on the planet has spoken:
http://www.hanselman.com...viewWithCommentary.aspx

.NET is probably the best thing that ever happened for MS
Review - Sumatra PDF Optimized Builds
1.4.2728 Pre-Release (Feb 7, 2011)

I wrote a review in "normal not-optimized" official build, but I've tried this one x64 optimized. Crashes when I'll go to "change language" in menu.

Appart from that, it is _very_ basic PDF reader. Sooo many features are lacking that it is not even funny.
Review - Sumatra PDF
1.3 (Feb 7, 2011)

well, a nice project for very basic PDF manipulation...

example? find feature is a complety joke compared to Adobe Reader, try reading technical book with complex terms, indexing, code snippets, chapters and more, how much more convenient it is in reader (and how fast you can find what you're looking for) and how stupidly basic it is in this 5 star application.

I appreciate the project, it is nice to have something like this on a mobile device, but not on a working machine. Sometimes speed is not everything, not to mention Adobe Reader flies on my rig.
Review - Total Uninstall
5.5.1 (Feb 19, 2010)

- for those new to Windows world, or new to "uninstaller world", this is the best tool avaiable bar none. Nothing comes even close!

- it's like Foobar or Total Commander in its own category, well, if we haven't had Speedcommander in the latter case :)

- the only "missing part" for me personaly, is the ease of use. When uninstalling application it is confusing for new user (or even experienced one), as he doesn't understand what is really going on. Mainly with registry settings... - e.g. is it going to recreate deleted keys? or return values to those that changed with installation? what if other application already modified them and it will screw those? what if I changed my keys myself and snapshot is 3 months old reflecting just the first change? the uninstall will just do more harm...

But it's great for filesystem, where application have usually their own personall folders (unlike registry which is common in most parts)

Still, other that running a virtual machine with sysinternal's proces monitor, this is the only way to see what application is doing and where it installs its garbage ;)

P.S. don't forget to run application before stopping monitoring, as additional registry keys/folders will be created

4.5 stars
Review - BurnAware Free
2.4.3 (Jan 10, 2010)

too simplistic:
1. doesn't burn multisession discs, either CDs or DVDs (will load session but any burn attempt will end up with meaningless error)

2. formating/writing to DVD-RW takes ages, cancel not possible

3. does not remember settings, need to set filesystem (ISO/UDF) or characters depth all the time and again and again

after so many patches, I expected something more robust... (installed it for not-so-knowledgable users), Nero is still the king (until imgburn updates its horrible multi-zillion-tab interface)
Comment - 10 things about Microsoft's PDC 2009: The good, the bad and the ugly
2.4.3 (Nov 21, 2009 - 6:55 AM)

That was one kick-ass article Joe, too bad I'm reading betanews as:
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox

wish all "posters" had your writing quality / insight

as a developer, one thing to note, Azure is more advanced (and worth looking) than Amazon services in one thing, databases... amazon isn't offering anything on this front (and no, simpleDB isn't real DB at all ;-)
Comment - Cat-and-mouse game begins: Microsoft blacklists leaked Windows 7 key
2.4.3 (Aug 2, 2009 - 6:40 AM)

the only thing that amaze me from your comments dude is, how did you manage to get score -2 on all your comments (sometimes surprisingly only -1).

by now it should be around minus one billion, well, at least..

btw Mr. high IQ, in OEM activation there's no internet involved...wow
Comment - Finally, a pricing structure for Windows Azure services
2.4.3 (Jul 15, 2009 - 6:59 AM)

along with another $0.10 per 10,000 transactions, over and above the bandwidth charge.

an error, it is $0.01 per 10k, according to sources (so dollar per one million), at least this is bearable...
Comment - Finally, a pricing structure for Windows Azure services
2.4.3 (Jul 15, 2009 - 5:08 AM)

Microsoft will charge $0.15 per gigabyte of storage per billing period

haha what a sick prices! Now we know where Microsoft will find its GOLDRUSH era!

with HDDs now being sold almost for free (I bough myself 4TB RAID for few bucks) Microsoft will charge you, say, for 4TB of data storage (which is nothing in cloud computing) 600 dollars!!!!!

imagine billing period is 1 month, it means you just payed your 4TB HDDs monthly, and again, and again, and again...

they can't be serious, I don't care they will argue with backups, NFS or anything, the pricing per storage is ridiculous high, Rapidshare or Youtube would be dead already being apps in the cloud...

so what is the point of cloud apps then? 6 thousand dollars for average 40TB of storage? YOU, MICROSOFT, MUST BE SICK !!!!
Comment - Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 1: How private is private browsing?
2.4.3 (Jun 30, 2009 - 8:23 AM)

try better privacy:
https://addons.mozilla.org/sk/firefox/addon/6623

to the article, you can't really compare an unstable browser (Chrome) to a stable PLATFORM (Firefox 3.5).
it is like comparing your small yacht with a USS Enterprise ship, both sail, that's about it...

and trusting Google in privacy, what a joke, google lives from advertisement...