I have only just realised that I have been mentioned twice in the Community Server Daily News. (I’m duckie)
This site runs on Community Server by the way, and I highly recommend it. Version 3 (due Q1 2007) will be even better.
Category: Tech
Blacklist D-Link
This is unbelievable.
My fellow geeks, boycott D-Link products. Actively recommend against them. Spread the word.
Original open letter.
Kerio Carries On
Some hopefully good news. Sunbelt has agreed to acquire Kerio Personal Firewall from Kerio Technologies and will continue to have a free version available for home users.
With Zone Alarm suffering from stability problems, and Sygate getting discontinued, this could be great news.
Very Disappointing, Symantec
Looks like Sygate Personal Firewall will be no more. Knew this was going to happen, after Symantec took over Sygate a few months ago. I was a pretty loyal user of Symantec back in the late 90s but now I avoid their products like avian flu. While Norton Antivirus is just bloated, the Internet Security suite is bloated and under-performing. Killing Sygate PF is not going to increase sales of your Internet Security suite, Symantec.
Sygate PF was probably the best of the free software firewalls available. I’ll probably be taking a look at Jetico.
BEST BT CLIENT EVAR!
Introducing µTorrent. It is a pretty young client, and already it is gaining a groundswell of rabid users. I have been using it for a while and, barring an unfortunate tracker stat incident with an earlier version, am very pleased with it.
Why?
- The size of the executable is under 100 KB
- CPU and memory utilisation are minimal, as in just about insignificant
- Very fast iterations for bug fixes/new features (though this means users are all essentially beta testers)
- Enough features for most users
The only negative I can think of is that it is not open source, but probably a moot point given the amazing work done so far.