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  1. Review - CDRWIN

    3.9G (Jun 18, 2004)

    Let me just say that I *was* a registered for quite a long time. Yes, the UI could have been improved, but CDRWin did what it was designed for and left a very small system footprint. My main CDRWin gripes include an ISO image creation engine that has occasional flaws in its handling of large collections of files and directories and its lack of recording support for Panasonic/Matsus***a DVD Multi (LF-D521/SW-95x1/SW-95x2/UJ-81x series) drives. This last deficiency really puzzles me, as these drives (which can all write to CD-R\RW), have been available for several years. Not an encouraging sign from CDRWin's author...

  2. Comment - New McAfee CEO Starts Blogging

    3.9G (Apr 7, 2007 - 11:53 PM)

    Interesting choice for new CEO. Basically, DeWalt was President of the entire EMC Software Group (except VMware, of course) for some time and was *demoted* a short while ago to Executive Vice President and President(how did he retain this title?) of just Customer Operations and Content Management Software at EMC. I wonder why McAfee would select him as their new CEO given his lackluster performance at EMC. They need much more than Dave DeWalt and his blog to turn things around.

  3. Comment - USPTO to Review Microsoft FAT Patent

    3.9G (Jun 18, 2004 - 2:53 PM)

    FAT is Microsoft's own proprietary file system. It is *not* a reimplementation of other existing file systems, as others in this forum have mentioned erroneously. MS should be able to patent FAT. End of discussion. Third-party file system software and appliances should make use of modern, STANDARD file systems for interchange, such as the ISO/ECMA/OSTA UDF file system! All modern operating systems (and DVD/Blu-ray hardware) support a minimum of UDF 1.02. UDF also has the following advantages over FAT: freely-available specification, file system scalability, special provisions for cross-platform interchange, and additional file system robustness (in later versions of UDF). As I see it, Microsoft's exercise of their patent rights in this particular instance only serves to push the multimedia industry towards adopting a modern standard. Is that so bad?