Epinions Recent Reviews for arky

Flower Power!

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:19:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arky - I'm not sure I would classify this show as a "Kids and Family" show, but I really like this one. The characters are great and the story line is interesting and funny. And the clothes! Gotta love those clothes :)

The show is centered...

Heat.net: Heat.net should be Lag.net :(

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 02:31:27 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author arky - I haven't had a lot of experience with Heat.net as I've been a member of Mplayer for almost two years. A week or so ago Mplayer did some upgrades to their servers, so their service was down for a whole day. While I was impatiently waiting for them to...

Mplayer.com: #1 Gaming site without question!!

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 02:23:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Mplayer.com must be my favorite thing to do online when I have free time. I mainly play QuakeII and now QuakeIII there, but they have a very HUGE selection of different games.

It's a totally free service, but some of the games you have to buy...

Prizecentral.com: Another fun time waster

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 02:14:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Prizecentral.com is my second favorite game site (Gamesville.com is my favorite). It's a lot of fun, they have some good games and you can redeem your points for some decent prizes, but it takes a LOT of points to get anything good.

I like...

Gamesville.com: Fun place to waste time

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 02:07:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Gamesville.com is a fun place to waste away an evening, but don't plan on winning anything. I've never actually won any money, but I do know one person who has, so it's not impossible and they do actually pay their winners so that's a plus.

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Quake addicts dream :)

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:57:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arky - I recently purchased a TNT2 Ultra card primarily because I wanted to play the QuakeIII demo and it required a 3D accelerator card to run :) I was upgrading from a Number Nine 16MB AGP card and wasn't sure which of the many 3D cards to try. I asked...

Cute FTP: CuteFTP is just so Cute :)

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:38:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arky - I've been using CuteFTP for several years now and it's by far my favorite FTP program. I've tried several others and none have the ease of use and functionality that I find in CuteFTP.

It's small, fast and I can't remember it ever crashing or...

Sixdegrees: Sixdegrees of Irritation

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:19:48 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author arky - I admit when I first heard of this Six Degrees website I thought it was a very cool concept and all in all I guess it is. So I signed up and several of my friends signed up and we got a bunch of our friends to sign up who in turn got their friends to...

Archived Computers & Internet Reviews: FreeBSD Rocks! Nuff said :)

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 20:41:14 GMT

rating: 0/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Anyone who has ever used FreeBSD as a server in a production environment knows how wonderful this OS really is. I've used FreeBSD exclusively for over 3 years on several fairly busy production servers for my ISP and it's never let me down! It's...

Team Squid: Squid, it's what's for dinner

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 20:04:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Squid is an excellent, free proxy server for unix (don't know of any Windows versions available). I use Squid in an ISP environment. The main function Squid accomplishes for us is it caches (saves) websites and files that are viewed by our customers...

Archived Computers & Internet Reviews: Apache is simply the best

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:30:56 GMT

rating: 0/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Apache is the #1 web server and for good reason. It's very fast, stable, efficient and easy to configure/install (with a little unix knowledge at least). While I haven't tried the Windows version myself, I've heard from several people I trust that it...

Did MS finally win the browser war?

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:12:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arky - I've been a Netscape user since version 1.x, but I must say that since Internet Explorer 4.0 came out it's been a very worth competitor and 5.0 seems to be even better.

Although they kinda cheated by having their browser installed on almost...

Opera: Smallest browser on earth!

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:55:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Opera may not have every little feature that Netscape or Internet Explorer have, but it's a wonderful browser! It has all the truly necessary features and a lot of extras. It does web browsing, email and news. But the best part of all is it's only...

This site best viewed with a browser

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:29:04 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Everyone has an opinion on which is best, Netscape or Internet Explorer, very strong opinions at that usually. I've used Netscape since version 1.x and for many years it was the browser of choice without any real exceptions. Then along came Internet...

Fast and Fabulous!

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 03:22:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arky - I've had my Lean Mean Grilling Machine for almost a year now and I really can't recommend it enough. My only regret is that I got the medium sized one instead of the biggest one. But now they have that really cool bread warmer on the top, so I think...

Millenia is a great luxury car at a good price

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:43:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arky - I love my Mazda Millenia! It's a 1995 model, but the body style hasn't changed (unless they've changed it in 2000). It's plush leather seats make it an excellent car for long or short trips. Mine has a sun roof which I really like because it opens two...

PC Magazine reviews are worthless

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:10:33 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Not unlike the majority of computer magazines around today, PC Magazine's reviews are almost always partial to their biggest advertisers. Their reviews read like Microsoft marketing drivel ... hmm their reviews *are* Microsoft marketing drivel ;)
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Adaptec Easy CD Creator: 4.0 is a nice improvement on an alredy good program!

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 01:23:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arky - I've used several different CD writing programs and most of them are pretty good, but for ease of use I prefer Adaptec Easy CD Creator. I've been using the 3.0 version ever since I got my CD writer and I've never had any problems with it.

The...

Norton Antivirus is my favorite!

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 01:10:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arky - I own a small computer store and Norton is my anti-virus software of choice to install on new computers or sell to people looking for anti-virus software. It's easy to install and operate, but is still a full featured anti-virus software program.
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Qualcomm Eudora: I've been using Eudora over 3 years and still love it!

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:07:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Eudora has always been my favorite email program. Even the Light version is better than most other free email programs available, with the only exception being Outlook Express 5.0 ... it has most any feature a person could ask for in a free email...

Homesite is the best!

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:37:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Homesite is the best all around HTML editor I've ever used. It has features for the beginner and the pro alike.

If you want to edit all your HTML by hand, Homesite will let you do that easily and even has colorcoded HTML tags to help you keep...

Stay Connected! (PC): Puhleeze!

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:24:46 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author arky - If you're downloading something that means your modem is active and the inactivity timer on your ISPs end will not disconnect you automatically so therefore this software does nothing to prevent disconnects during downloads.

Any ISP with a 20...

Net Nanny: Get a real filter

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:07:14 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author arky - Net Nanny and other similar software programs that are installed on the end users computer are basically worthless. Kids will learn how to get around these programs from friends at school or online and be able to view anything they want.

If...

Quake III Arena ... well, it's a game

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:48:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arky - I've played QuakeII for a very long time and really enjoy it. I got QuakeIII Arena as soon as it came out and was less than pleased with it at first. I'm sure part of my dislike of it is simply because it's something different and you have to relearn...