Review: $26 BIOSTAR M7VIG400 Motherboard - Updated

Posted by jay on May 26, 2006 under General | Be the First to Comment

*updated - 2006-09-11*
I recently bought a replacment BIOSTAR M7VIG400 Motherboard for $26 at newegg.com. This board normally selles for $46 but I got it for $26 because it was an “Open Box” item. This MB was a replcement for an emachines T2825 that died a few months ago. It was my cousins’ computer so in payment for recoving her files she gave it to me for free. So there I was with a brand new pc case, a 120GB HD, a CD-RW Drive, a DVD Drive, and AMD 2800+ (1.25Ghz) CPU, 512RAM and a dead MB. Great more junk for my office.
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Is all Open Source Software in permanent BETA?

Posted by jay on under Rants | Be the First to Comment

It is very concering that so much OSS is not mature or it may be mature but it’s still in beta. What I find dishearting is when I see a version number like 0.8.2-rc1? This is telling me that this is the first release candidate for a beta version of software. What makes this discouraging to even use is the line in the GPL that reads, “THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED…”. Adding a disclaimer to a beta release is not very conforting. Or how about v0.3 with a no warranty disclaimer? Is something that is v0.3 even worth looking at let alone using?
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