Epinions Recent Reviews for stenz

From a sys admin perspective

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:20:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - When we brought the Treo 600 into our office a little over a year ago, I wrote a review here on Epinions of the device from the perspective of a sys admin (h
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The 650s are...

Good if you like Russian Roulette

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:55:49 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - On paper the Maxtor OneTouch looks fantastic. It is sleek and sturdy, it connects via USB 2.0 which is a nice speed, has a 7200 RPM, and it has great storage for a great price. Unfortunately the reality is slightly different in that none of that matters...

Wacom Intuos2 4 x 5 (XD45USB) Stylus: Using it on a Powerbook - it still rocks!

Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:58:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I have a 1.25ghz G4 Aluminum Powerbook running 10.3.4 that I carry with me everywhere. I decided I needed the ability to draw directly on the computer so I could more easily work with drawings to put them up on the web. In college I had a large Wacom...

Tiny size, good storage, excellent quality.

Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:51:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - This type of device is a great idea and terribly useful. You can keep it in your pocket and transfer files back and forth between machines easily. The model I have is 128MB which is absolutely perfect for the file sizes that I deal with - usually...

SanDisk 8 IN 1 USB 2.0 READER (SDDR-88-07) Memory Adapter: Extremely easy to use and quite fast too.

Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:09:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I should start by saying that I am not a memory card reader expert. I don't use a wide array of speeds or types. I have two devices (well one in hand and the other on its way) that use Compact Flash cards, so I bought this reader to more quickly and...

This movie is atrocious and a total waste of time/money.

Mon, 1 Mar 2004 22:32:03 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - There are spoilers beyond this point. If you haven't seen the movie, consider yourself lucky. If you haven't read the book, that too isn't that big a deal, but you might be bummed at some things mentioned later. ----Spoliers Eventually----- The...

Best school, but I'm biased.

Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:22:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I graduated from Williams in '99. I was an art major, and I ran XC and indoor/outdoor track. When I was in high school (public school in upstate NY, so I went through the Regents program), I just sort of coasted through and nobody paid me too much...

Fantastic headphones for the price.

Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:28:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I am getting back into playing guitar again. I have been away from it for nearly ten years. When I was first playing, I usually played through amps and occasionally through headphones - the headphones that I had were so bad that I usually preferred the...

Truly fantastic 128MB of storage and easy to use

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:52:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I use this device at work. Our network connection is quite slow, so we try to avoid using it to transfer files if at all possible. So if I need to take work home with me and it is too big for a floppy disk (1.44MB), and too small to burn a CD...

ETRADE: Not necessarily the* best, but much better than most all else.

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:47:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I should start out by stating that I have only used their investing side of things, and within that, only US equity markets (stock markets). ETrade offers more than just that, they have banking (which a friend has told me is quite good), and they have a...

Handspring Treo 600 Handheld: From a sys admin perspective

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:10:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I should this by clearly stating that I don't own this phone, nor use this phone regularly. But I among other duties, I administrate the network at my company. Email, firewall, etc. Two of our users got the Treo 600 and they travel worldwide regularly...

Entertaining, but overall fairly underwhelming.

Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:17:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I am a huge Neal Stevenson fan. He is very accessible, yet entertaining, and can span time periods that reference other eras - frequently in a tongue in cheek manner. I had heard that he was involved with this book, Interface. Some say that it is all...

Tire Rack Online Store: Easy, fast, one of the few sites on the net that has got it right.

Sun, 8 Feb 2004 00:58:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - When I lived in Boston/Cambridge I owned a '00 Saab 9-3SE. I routinely read www.saabnet.com as a resource for learning more about the car. They recommended getting tires from TireRack.com. Over a few years of potholes and rough roads, my alignment...

Gets the job done. Great for the price. Not fancy or perfect, but good.

Sat, 7 Feb 2004 23:47:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - Back in '94-'95 I had a very basic Polar HRM unit that only told me my heart rate and that was it. Simple, basic, but did its job very well. With any HRM, it only takes a short amount of time (a few months) before you get adjusted to knowing what...

iTunes Online Service: The only online music service that I will use, because it is good.

Sat, 7 Feb 2004 21:43:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I went into viewing iTunes with a skeptical mindset. I had heard it was great, but I thought it sure seemed like there had to be some catch. I am no audiophile, but I suspected that the audio quality might be poor. I wasn't sure on the length of the...

The single best pen I've ever used.

Sat, 7 Feb 2004 21:07:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - Who would have thought that a pen would have such an impact on someone. You need to write something, so you just need something that gets the job done. Who cares what it looks like or feels like right? I used to think that, they I got the Uni-ball...

One of the best pens I've ever used.

Sat, 7 Feb 2004 20:51:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - Over the years of high school, college, and then on to various jobs, I have used many different pen types. I would have thought that a pen is a pen and not given it much thought otherwise. But then I used one of these pens and I was very amused with...

Age of Empires II : Gold for Windows: An addictive game, hours can pass quickly and you won't even notice.

Sat, 7 Feb 2004 19:30:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - The gameplay in this one is exactly the same as that in the Windows version, so I won't delve into that too much since it has already been reviewed on here for that version. The key differences for the Mac version are that the install process is...

Hewlett Packard LaserJet 1000w Printer: This thing is a tank. Not fast, but very reliable.

Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:07:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - Of all of the printers in our office, the HP LaserJet 1000 printers that we have (about 3) are the only ones that I never have to worry about. The extent of work that I ever have to do them is the following (perhaps multiple at the same time): 1) unplug...

Dlink D-Link AirPlus DWL-900AP+ Enhanced 2.4GHz 802.11b Wireless Access Point (DWL-900APP) Router: Most certainly not good, but also not awful. Perhaps merely adequate.

Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:20:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I had never even heard of D-Link as a company/product until I moved out of the US. Here in Bermuda, D-Link is one of the few product choices that you have at a reasonable price. I wasn't sure what to expect, but have found that some of their products are...

A lifesaver... or at least an embarrassment saver.

Mon, 2 Feb 2004 01:55:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I go through periods of getting very dry skin on my forehead, near my scalp (technically my scalp too), and the skin at the edges of my nose. I can go years and it is fine, and then I can go a year and it is bad every single day. It is unpleasant to...

The newest version of this is fantastic.

Mon, 2 Feb 2004 01:33:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - Back History I program financial software for a hedge fund administration firm. Being the only technology savvy person there, I also am the IT person for our network. Coming into the position, I inherited well over 8 years of previous work that...

All about the desserts.

Mon, 2 Feb 2004 00:45:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - It has been nearly a year since I last went to Finale. I used to live down the street from the Harvard Square (Cambridge) location and my fiancee and I would go there about once a month during 2002-03. The only reason we don't go anymore is that we don't...

uBid Online Auction: Great for laptops, I have no idea about the rest

Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:12:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I should note that my only experience with uBid.com has been with buying laptops and nothing else. So I can only speak to that experience. I have no idea how anything else on the site is compared to the laptops. I bought two laptops off of uBid. An HP...

Was fantastic, then changed things and is now merely adequate.

Sat, 31 Jan 2004 02:24:28 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author stenz - I used WingSpan for my online bank starting in 1999 and was pleased with it. Then they were bought out by Bank One (or were technically owned by them in the first place) and Bank One for some reason decided to change the great interface of WingSpan to a...