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Listed below are comments made by theoriginaldus between Thursday, 11th December 2008 and Friday, 13th November 2009.

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Vaz v Watson - Modern Warfare 2 1:50pm on 13 Nov 2009 Does it never end?

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24 hours with Ubuntu 2:11pm on 27 Oct 2009 I can understand that people still have trouble envisaging what linux as an os actually is these days, but the reality is, every distribution now is extremely user friendly and if you are not confident with the command line then there is no need to use it. Visually it looks great, its a very mature OS despite some comments, and there are applications available and easily installed to do everything you can do in windows and more. Oh yes, and its all free. To be honest, what reason is there not to try it?

It's just a shame this article was written by someone who seems to have little real experience of Ubuntu - for instance, Audacity is freely available to install, without hassle, via the package manager which is an absolutely fundamental feature of the OS and yet not even mentioned here...
Kosmix - searching for optimism 3:00pm on 11 Dec 2008 Sorry, but I really didn't like this search engine. For a start without having read this article I wouldn't have even known that the page was a search engine by default, a small search box at the top with what is basically their homepage below makes it less than obvious what the function of the page actually is (I have never liked this about Yahoo either). For an as yet small and unknown search engine, this just doesn't work.

To my eye the results are cluttered, unclear and far too many assumptions are made about what the user might or might not want to see. Also far too few results are shown, both in terms of numbers of results and the range of results shown (entire sections of the results page query only a single site).

As it stands I can't see this making any headway what so ever into the search market.
Kosmix - searching for optimism 2:23pm on 11 Dec 2008 Sorry, but I really didn't like the way this search engine worked. For a start if I just stumbled across this

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