Epinions Recent Reviews for vtr

3D-FTP: Truly Excellent

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:00:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - FTP. Those letters used to scare me. But that was back in the day when the only way to ftp was to type "ftp" at the command line. Yuck.

Then graphical ftp clients came around... ahhh... but some just have bad user interfaces (cough,...

WinRoute: Excellent Software

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:33:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - Small. Efficient. Easy to use. Everything you would want in a piece of software. And it works just as well as the best stuff out there.

I have recently had to route internet connectivity on my home network with the installation of a cable...

Midpoint Gateway: Getting close to bloatware

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:27:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - While Midpoint Gateway provides a plethora of useful features; including a proxy server; NAT, port mapping, and so forth, for sharing a home internet connection between multiple users it is rather cumbersome. Overkill, perhaps. The first problem is...

Fast. Reliable. Exactly what you need.

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:16:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - The Mediaone Roadrunner service offers everything a home internet user in need of a faster connection could want. Download speeds range from 100 k/s all the way up to 400 k/s - the limiting factor is almost always the server on the other side. In...

Mandrake Linux: Where are the config files?!!

Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:30:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - I'm a big fan of linux. But this particular distribution just bothers me sometimes. First of all - I HATE the way they organize the /etc directory. Where you generally can find one file containing everything you want for, say, X configuration or booting,...

Crash-free since January 3

Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:08:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - In the past Microsoft products could be guaranteed to do one thing: crash. That's all over. The greatest piece of evidence in Microsoft's favor in their case against the Justice Department is Windows 2000: solid proof that Microsoft should indeed be...

Apple Mac OS 8.6: Time for 9

Thu, 25 Nov 1999 18:17:54 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - The difference between OS 8.5 and OS 8.6? I certainly didn't notice any... it seemed to crash just as frequently and be just as likely to separate me from my data. There was a time when the Mac operating system reigned supreme in the personal computing...

Microsoft Windows 95: Time to Upgrade

Thu, 25 Nov 1999 18:05:40 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - Wow, look how times have changed. A couple years ago, Windows 95 was the hot new operating system offering busloads of changes from the old, slow and cumbersome Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups. The new Windows was more user-friendly, faster, more...

AOL is the DEVIL

Sun, 21 Nov 1999 13:50:04 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - I hate AOL. The line is always busy. The service is always slow. My email is always filled with solicitations for porn sites. ARGH! The AOL browser just makes a slow connection worse; it's a dumbed down version of Internet Explorer that not only takes 5...

Yahoo! Mail: The best out there!

Sun, 21 Nov 1999 05:42:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - I'm cheap. I admit it. As such, I've been looking for free email for a long time. And Yahoo is the only service that offers everything I want.

First of all, it's the only service that offers SMTP & POP3 access to THEIR servers. Don't be...

Excite@home: Slow, Unavailable, and not that Exciting

Sun, 21 Nov 1999 05:32:51 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - What a hassle! Having to go to the Excite website whenever you want to read your mail. When Yahoo lets you have POP3 access to their servers - so never need to see a Yahoo add when at home but still have the ability to retrieve your mail on the road.
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Ugh!

Sun, 21 Nov 1999 05:25:37 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - I love the rest of the Office 2000 suite - but I HATE Outlook. Hard as it is to believe, Outlook Express is actually BETTER. I don't just mean less bloated, I mean BETTER.

Outlook 2000 takes FOREVER to start up. It has a thousand unnecessary...

Cute FTP: Not that cute... but effective

Sun, 21 Nov 1999 05:13:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - My only complaint about this program is that it never explains why on earth it's considered cute. It does have a nice interface. The ability to resume downloads is very appealing. Issuing un*x chmod's is an ability I have yet to see on another product...

WS FTP Pro: Oh MAN does this suck!

Sun, 21 Nov 1999 05:04:18 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - And I thought M$ was bad. These people want to scatter icons all over my desktop, mess with my internet preferences, and do god knows what else to my system. And their product isn't even that good. The "explorer" style FTP client is absolutely...

Microsoft FrontPage 2000: M$ at its WORST

Sun, 21 Nov 1999 04:46:14 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - Bill, bill, WHEN WILL YOU LEARN? People DO NOT WANT M$ specific code in their HTML!!! They want to be able to have people with Netscape visit their pages. Yes, that other browser.

Yes, all the neat frills you can add with Front Page are...

Microsoft Excel: It's <Excel>ent

Sun, 21 Nov 1999 04:34:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - Excel is, far and away, the best in the market. Formatting-wise, it is second to none; you can turn spreadsheets into artsy displays or convincing techy presentations. It offers a great deal of built in tools for calculations - but, of course, M$ cannot...

Microsoft Word: What? A GOOD M$ product?!

Sun, 21 Nov 1999 04:24:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - Word 2000 is an impressive piece of work. All the standard features I've grown to love... drawing tools, table insertion, all the formatting toolbars I could ever wish for, sorting... but on to what makes it distinctive:

Word 2000 comes with a...

Get 2000 NOW

Sun, 21 Nov 1999 04:09:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - Yes, M$ Office '97 was good for it's time. But it has been far surpassed by the newer, better, faster Office 2000. I always had a couple complaints about Office '97 - it never handled imports and exports quite right, especially cross platform, it...

Microsoft MSN Messenger Service: If ONLY steve case wasn't the devil

Sun, 21 Nov 1999 01:39:07 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - Microsoft Messenger (M$M) has a whole lot of VERY nice features. It checks for new hotmail. It saves your buddy lists on the server (as opposed to the AOL instant messenger (AIM) for which I have to make a new buddy list every time I'm away from home and...

Looks Like M$ Turned Over a New Leaf

Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:52:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - Long the standard in office software, M$ office has been slow, bloated, and just plain bad as far back as I can remember. But it looks like M$ has turned over a new leaf with their newest product; Office 2000. Truly software for the next century, this...

Dell Latitude Cpt C400GT: WOW! Kickin' Computer

Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:15:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - Let's get the bad out of the way first: Neomagic - the designers of the graphic and sound card - is the worst company known to man. Their website, www.neomagic.com, is terrible. I hate neomagic. Their graphics card is not compatible with anything. They...

Red Hat Linux: Slackware Forever

Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:38:30 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author vtr - Ok. There's a lot of hype about linux recently - linux users are a very vocal crowd. Really though, there's two important points I have to make here: first of all, linux just isn't as _pretty_ as microsoft's operating systems; even the Enlightenment...