Epinions Recent Reviews for avinnik

Netscape 7.0: Why bother to install it?

Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:20:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author avinnik - After complete fiasco of Netscape 6.0 I decided to try version 7.01 to give Netscape another chance.

Installation was smooth and robust. Unfortunately it screwed up my Java installation installing some strange version of Java -- be careful. In...

Average service,high fees

Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:04:25 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author avinnik - I have chosen Comerica bank, because their branch was the closest to my office (Novi, MI) and recommended by the office manager.

From the very beginning service was not bad, but in case of every even small problem the bank personnel was...

Internet nightmare

Wed, 8 Dec 1999 12:46:56 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author avinnik - My Internet provide (MCI) was bought by "Cable and Wireless", which sold it Internet business to Prodigy. I was getting form MCI pretty service: connection from the first try, very well qualified and friendly technical support.

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NetZero: Too many bugs

Wed, 8 Dec 1999 12:13:21 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author avinnik - My internet provide (MCI) was bought by "Cable and Wireless", which sold it Internet business to Prodigy. I was getting pretty bad service form Prodigy (sometimes it was taking an hour to connect) and decided to switch to a cable connection...

Could not even beat Allstate

Tue, 7 Dec 1999 22:59:55 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author avinnik - We bought a new car (Mercury Villager) and decided to shop around in order to get a better price on my car insurance. After 20 minutes of conversation with GEICO agent he told me that he could not beat a quote I received from the Allstate( which is not...

SoftSeek StarOffice: Good integrated environment

Mon, 6 Dec 1999 18:53:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author avinnik - I have different computers in my office (PC and Unix workstations). Before Star office I had to use PC to read MS Word, Excel and other documents. It created some inconveniences, when I was working on Unix workstation. A month ago I downloaded Star...

Better than other products

Thu, 2 Dec 1999 15:59:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author avinnik - I I bought the package about ago only because of the antivirus (on online auction for $15).

I had some negative experience with McAfee installation. Norton installation was easy. System updates simple and straightforward.

Crash guard.
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McAfee Office 2000 (PC): Not easy to use

Thu, 2 Dec 1999 12:30:15 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author avinnik - I bought the product in order to fix Y2K and some other problems problems on my old PC. It was practically free $50 and $50 mail-in rebate.

The product consist of different components. I did not have much disk space on C: drive and...

Royal daVinci Organizer: Not bad for the money

Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:51:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author avinnik - I bought daVinci as replacement of my old Sharp, which has planner, phone book, expense report, memo. I bought daVinci on sale for $80 including cradle and keyboard; 4 years ago I paid the same amount for my Sharp with 64K memory. I think it was not a...

Memorex CD-ROM drives: Memorex CD_ROM drives

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:51:46 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author avinnik - Try to avoid Memorex products,

I bought 36x Memorex CD_ROM drive and replaced my good old Mitsumi. On the second day after the installation it stopped working. Memorex customer service people were qualified and friendly. I brought it back to the...

Archived Computer Hardware Reviews: Memorex CD-R 74

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:40:34 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author avinnik - I bought 3 10-packs of Memorex CD-R 74.

9 from 10 CD's in on of the packs had unrecoverable errors during writing. 1 of the CD's in other 2 packs was also bad. I tried them on 3 different CD recorders ("Philips Omniwriter", Mitsumi and...