Comments on: IE7, Longhorn, and RSS

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:12:02 +0000

Yeah, a beta version should be feature complete more or less, I think they should have released as an Alpha version. But I think now days all these terms, Alpha, Beta, etc. have kinda gotten blurred and the actual meaning has been lost.

Actually, I used to try and read your blog every once in a while, then I stopped for a while but now I’ve added your RSS feed into Firefox along with all the other blogs I read. The reason I came back to it recently is that I was bored and searching Google for myself and I found an old link that brought me here. Ya know on my site I added a while ago an account management page for when your logged in and you can put your URL in there so whenever you comment on my stuff it makes your name a link back to your URL, always good for the ol’ Google ranking. So you might want to do that next time you’re on it.

By: Grant Palin

Grant Palin — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:37:22 +0000

There does seem to be quite a tendency for new software to get cracked or exploited pretty quickly these days…I remember that Windows XP’s anti-piracy measures were circumvented almost as soon as the OS was released - if not before! It’s just crazy.

I subscribe to quite a few blogs, and so was doing a fair bit of reading the initial reviews of both Longhorn and IE7, and that both were disappointing for beta-level releases (apparently beta releases are supposed to be more or less feature-complete, and are just being distributed to fix bugs).

My impression especially with Longhorn is that there’s not much in there that hasn’t been done already, and a lot of the “original”, “new”, and “innovative” features are being released seperately…Crazy, really. So far, I’m not impressed either, especially with the higher hardware requirements - you’d think they’d learn to do more with less! I imagine I’ll be sticking with Windows XP for several years to come.

As for this site, thanks for the compliment. I’ve got a local copy of WordPress running on my own computer, and am tinkering with it, and learning about all the functionality that WP provides out-of-the-box for you. Quite nice. I’m actually beginning work on a new design for the site, so I might be able to participate in the CSS Reboot in November.

By the way, how did you happen to come to the site? I’m guessing through the link in my signature at CodingForums - is that it?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:45:41 +0000

Yeah, if there are any security holes in their RSS implementation, someone is going to find it.

I’ve actually gotten the chance to see/use Longhorn a little bit and I’m not impressed. It appears to be a lot of useless eye candy, granted the version out now is lacking “lots of end user features” but even so.

BTW, I like the new look of your site/blog.