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1. 
   Review - AutoIt

   3.2.3.2 Beta (Apr 11, 2007)

   I have used this app for well over a year now and I have to say it beats many other script languages hands-down.
   
   I have written full-blown applications with it that migrate printers, run entire processes under another user context, full GUI based applications for loads of different tasks and a shed-load more besides.
   
   Every time I see AutoIT mentioned somewhere it simply says that it is a keystroke macro app but essentially it is a full-blown script language as powerfull as vbs if not more so.
   
   When coupled with the freeware SciTe editor for authoring purposes AutoIT3 is awesome.
   
   Best of all your creations can be compiled into self-contained executables (try that one with a vbs file and no 3rd party apps!).

2. 
   Review - BootDisk2BootStick

   0.10 (Apr 4, 2007)

   One question...Why?
   
   I find it hard to understand why someone would spend time and effort in creating such an app when there are far superior apps that do the same which are also free.
   
   I could understand if it was a case of 'My First Application' and the author wanted to show off a bit why waste anyone's time in pretending that the app is any good.
   
   Why limit the memory stick's size to that of a floppy?
   
   HP produce a tool that does exactly the same which is available to download which you just simply run, point to the location of your bootable files (DOS or other) and it then makes your memory stick bootable and and uses the entire space available. You can then modify the files and OS being booted from the device as much as you like.
   
   I don't even think this app warrants being listed on BetaNews!
   
   Update: It needs .net2 ?!?!?!?!?!?!?
   What a complete load of rubbish
   
   If I could give it a negative score I would.

3. 
   Review - Adobe Reader for Windows

   8.0.0 (Dec 6, 2006)

   I hope Adobe is going to carry on patching v7 as there is currently a security floor with no fix and in large coorporate environments who need other languages than English it appears they will have to wait an entire year until versions they can use are available.
   
   When releasing Adobe Reader\Writer products Adobe always screws up as they always;
   
   1. release the writer before the reader so if you want to use any 'new version' only features, you can't as no one will have a reader to work with them;
   
   2. don't release international versions for sometimes months (12 in the case with v8) meaning not all can use the new version at the same time (creates issues for multinationals and their clients);
   
   3. doesn't even bother to release font packs for Asian, CE etc at the same time as the EnglishUS versions so that those who could get away with it could instal that version along with the font packs for suedo mulitlanguage support.
   
   Like so many firms their interest lies in the US and everyone else is an afterthought.
   
   I'm English (UK) in case you wondered.
   
   I also rate the product as a 1 not because of my little anti-Adobe rant above but rather that this version is yet another case of an app that offers little over the previous version and seems to work even slower than than the previous version as well.

4. 
   Review - Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit)

   RC2 Build 5744 (Oct 9, 2006)

   Users with Nero installed may have difficulty in reading the disc image once burned due to it having installed it's own UDF driver.
   
   The disc should still work perfectly however if you want to boot off it and install Vista from it otherwise uninstalling Nero will allow the disc to be readable.

5. 
   Review - PearPC

   0.40 (Dec 21, 2005)

   Not used this app but I have used Basillisk emulator to run OS8 for a long time which If you want an emu that runs well and performs the job of the whole OS check it out (requires HW Rom file and an OS CD).
   
   With regard to PearPC I have to ask 'Why bother?'
   
   With Apple switching to an Intel Processor etc it won't be long before you will be able to run a Mac OS on your PC.

6. Comment - Anonymous posts cops' personal data, puts their lives in danger

   0.40 (Aug 19, 2011 - 1:03 AM)

   "Because it was founded on the principles of free speech, the right to bear arms and protect ourselves from unreasonable government intrusion, the right to free assembly, the separation of church and state and the idea that all people are created equal."
   
   Yeah, and that is working out for you soooo much better than the status quo of other nations (sarcasm implied).

7. Comment - Anonymous posts cops' personal data, puts their lives in danger

   0.40 (Aug 19, 2011 - 12:58 AM)

   The limits of 'Freedom of speech' have already been tested too the limits of what the law will allow such as in the case of the preacher who continuously spoke out by insisting that Muslims be put to death. He didn't do any killing himself but it was deemed that if anyone died as a result he would be party by way of manslaughter.
   
   In the same vein, if a BART officer is killed or hurt as a result of Anonymous's actions then they too should be held to account, either in terms of manslaughter, inciting violence or other such criminal prosecution.

8. Comment - Anonymous posts cops' personal data, puts their lives in danger

   0.40 (Aug 19, 2011 - 12:53 AM)

   We would all have to be on the brink of extinction before I would consider voting for one of the Christian radical groups and even then I'd still lean toward abstaining!

9. Comment - Anonymous posts cops' personal data, puts their lives in danger

   0.40 (Aug 19, 2011 - 12:47 AM)

   Not exactly true.
   
   John Malcolm the HM customs officer in Boston was tarred and feathered for his part in the Royalist taxation process at the harbour and the only reason why he survived the scalding was because he was clothed and the burns where mainly on his head neck and hands.
   
   So the damage done by the 'peaceful demonstration' of the Boston Tea Party wasn't completely economic and could have turned out to have involved a murder!

10. Comment - HP: Oracle's halt for Itanium support is "anti-customer"

    0.40 (Aug 19, 2011 - 12:34 AM)

    I used to work for a very large enterprise firm and their interest in Itanium systems was to serve their high-performance financial data processing needs. For that they used just two multi-core Itanium servers which they rent\leased from HP as the cost of actually owning them outright was simply ridiculous.
    
    When all things where considered though the total cost of ownership of a non-Itanium alternative came in pretty darn close and so the real benefit of the system was lost.
    
    If you can run a 16 server HPC system for cheaper than one Itanium and in that HPC have more reliability (fail-over processing etc) due to the number of systems involved then why 'put all your eggs in one basket' with an Itanium solution.
    
    Sure, very large firms that are solid number-crunching institutions might benefit but they are few and far between and that is what has always kept the Itanium platform from becoming anything more than a very very niche product and so I for one can see why HP would really like to dump support for it like Sun have.