Freeware

Soluto: Like Flaming Hot
I have been using Soluto for about three months. The first time it corralled all my applications,it took about1.5 minutes to start everyone up Now,under the draconian regime of Soluto,its a real boot camp for my poor apps. Now they are down to0.5 minutes and getting faster as you read this. Soluto – Anti-Frus... 9 Aug 2010 00:20

Safari 5 is today's best HTML5-capable browser, tests show
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 23:30:40 +0100, Mark Warnerbee - Leader of the Resistance wrote: Apart from insanely unstable, alpha builds, that is http://www.9to5mac.com/safari_html5_performance_leads Even the Windows version gets a cool 207 + 7 brownie points, and it's not butt ugly like chrome. -- zakAT(a)po... 8 Aug 2010 18:54

HTML5 Browser tests
BB wrote: I tested (out of 300 points) Chrome (latest): 197 and 7 bonus points Fx (latest): 139 and 4 bonus points IE8 (latest): 27 and no bonus points http://www.html5test.com/ Unsurprisingly, the latest Palemoon build of FF achieved the same score. I wonder what za kAT's Opera v9.80 scores! lo... 13 Aug 2010 21:12

What to do with these?
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 20:36:24 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote: MSSQL.SchemaDiff: http://www.wintestgear.com/products/MSSQLSchemaDiff/MSSQLSchemaDiff.html MSSQL.DataMask: http://www.wintestgear.com/products/MSSQLDataMask/MSSQLDataMask.html FileTouch: http://www.wintestgear.com/products/FileTo... 10 Aug 2010 02:36

Kubuntu
After running Kubuntu live for a while on a Sony Vaio laptop I decided to install,big mistake.Wireless wouldn't work on the installed version but the worst part is it won't work on the live boot either anymore.Short of hardware failure I can't imagine how this would happen.Anybody got any ideas?BTW it's really no ... 8 Aug 2010 15:35

Ultilex Live CD
" ULTILEX stands for "Ultimate Linux Experience". This is a live Linux CD compilation which in turn contains several live Linux distributions. You can boot ULTILEX from CD/DVD and USB flash devices. The current version of ULTILEX is 10.8 (August 2010) and it contains the following live Linux distributions: ... 8 Aug 2010 12:17

alt.comp.freeware links at Sun Aug 8 21:20:02 2010
On 8/8/2010 19:20, Mark Carter wrote: Here are the latest links on alt.comp.freeware Thanks -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.35 ^ ^ 20:19:01 up 2 days 3:47 0 users load average: 1... 8 Aug 2010 09:03

Redo Backup & Restore v.0.9.5
I have now tested Redo Backup & Recovery and the claim is right, the new version is much faster then before. It did the backup in around 880 Mb/sec and the size of the backup was 10.4 Gb large (11 files). I then tested the new build of Clonezilla (1.2.5-38). It did the backup (beginner mode) in around 1250 M... 8 Aug 2010 21:06

[Update] Redo Backup & Restore v.0.9.5
Redo Backup & Restore http://www.redobackup.org/ Easy GUI rescue CD for full system backup and recovery from bare metal. Point-and-click cloning of hard disk images to local or network drives. Based on partclone (same as Clonezilla). User-friendly interface similar to Norton Ghost. Live CD or USB. -... 8 Aug 2010 05:50

Calibre v0.7.13
Le Loup wrote: calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: * Library Management * E-book conversion * Syncing to e-book reader devi... 9 Aug 2010 17:53