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1. 
   Review - 4NT

   7.01 Build 361 (Mar 31, 2006)

   I've been using 4DOS/4NT since the 1.0.
   I last bought 4NT v4.00a.
   Since then the list of updates and the very high upgrade price gave me very little reason to pay for an upgrade. (Plus, I rarely use Windows now days, making it less useful to me.)
   
   Good to see that 4NT is alive, though...

2. 
   Review - OpenOffice.org for Windows

   2.0.2 (Mar 8, 2006)

   "STILL doesn't handle multiple languages in the same document."
   
   Huh?
   Since 1.1 I've written numerous multi-language documents (most under Linux, though), in both LTR and RTL.
   Not only OO does a better job at it (compared to Office 2K3 I'm forced to use at work), the spell checker works on all languages out of the box.
   
   Gilboa

3. 
   Review - openSUSE

   10.0 Beta 4 (Sep 1, 2005)

   For the 100,000,000th time.
   Mp3 is patented technology and cannot be distributed freely.
   Read: http://www.mp3licensing.com/
   This is why both Fedora/RedHat and SUSE removed it from their distribution.
   
   If you want to blame anyone, blame the increasingly ridicules software patents... (AKA Patent 77755573: "Using small long organic items [fingers] to tap on keyboard")

4. 
   Review - Mozilla for Windows

   0.9.6 (Nov 21, 2001)

   Getting better and better by each release!
   Forget about your (buggy) IE6, boys and girls... move to Mozilla!

5. Comment - Do more Betanews readers use Linux PCs than Macs?

   0.9.6 (Nov 15, 2010 - 4:37 PM)

   I usually ignore the comments section @Betanews, but your post was so misguided (let alone condescending), that I find myself compelled to waste a couple of minutes posting an answer.
   
   To be blunt, who died and made you king of all things?
   I'm willing to bet -very- good money that I know the internals of each and every Windows OS starting at Windows NT 3.1 -far- better than large percent of all Windows developers, and yet, apart from a couple of Windows VM's (that I use to develop Windows software), I use Linux across the board: firewalls, servers, notebooks, development workstations and HTPC's.
   
   Has it ever occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, for -my- usage case, Linux is better? Could it be that I prefer to have strict control over my OS, a level of control that cannot be gained over Windows OS? Could it be that given the huge amount of time I waste on supporting my friend's and family's Windows PC installations, I simply want an OS that doesn't crap out when a simple firewall upgrade segfaults leaving the OS dead in the water; preferably, one that uses text configuration and not huge-amounts-of-class-ids-in-registry-file-that-cannot-be-fixed-or-cloned?
   Heck, could it be that maybe I actually can save (a-lot-of) time using an OS that can be remotely managed using a simple script running inside an SSH session? (And no, Powershell or rDesktop are for too interactive for my taste)
   
   Case of point, last week Fedora 14 was released, and in the space of 4 hours, I managed to remotely upgrade 7 Fedora 13 machines to Fedora 14, using more or less a single SSH command.
   I guess that when I'll see you achieve the same using Windows, we can start talking about "productivity"...
   
   Maybe you're a better Windows admin than I am (doubt it), but your assumption that I'm somehow less productive than you (...) or far worse, that I'm willing to be less productive than you simply because I hate Microsoft is unbelievably condescending...

6. Comment - New Flash player brings streaming HD video support

   0.9.6 (Dec 6, 2007 - 5:05 AM)

   Sigh. Still no 64bit support...

7. Comment - Windows Vista 'DreamScene' Available

   0.9.6 (Feb 16, 2007 - 9:23 AM)

   Let me see if I get your post correctly.
   A. Vista is immune to viruses (and malware) but Stardocks' DestktopX/Windowblinds (an on-top application) isn't.
   B. Vista has "enhanced performance" (compared to... what exactly?) - unlike Windowblind (which modifies the existing XP WM).
   Just to be sure - are we talking about the same DRM infested Vista that eats ~800MB while idle (re: running the WM) that I'm using? (@work - have to; using it to test my software)
   
   Somehow, the words "clueless" and "You have no idea what you're talking about" lose all meaning when I try find an appropriate response to your post.
   
   Unless that is, you were just trying to be sarcastic...
   
   - Gilboa

8. Comment - AMD Makes its 65nm Move: Will It Be Enough?

   0.9.6 (Dec 6, 2006 - 12:08 PM)

   Four words:
   Caps-lock-less-keyboards.
   
   Thanks.
   - Gilboa

9. Comment - Patent Ruling Against Microsoft Upheld

   0.9.6 (Aug 24, 2006 - 4:26 AM)

   The problem with software patents begin and ends with the lack of guidelines on what could be patented.
   -IF- you allow Microsoft to patents "Use of Icons to notify user when an update is pending" and the "IsNot" operand, you are opening the road to patent wars.
   
   I'm willing to accept that a revolutionary compression algorithm should be defended against theft (By copy write instead of patent), but "Using 'Buy-Now' in auction site" (latest Ebay vs. good-knows-who patent case) -should not- be given any protection as these are simple abstract ideas (as opposed to complex algorithms).
   
   - Gilboa