Giganews Binary Newsreader 5
Uwe Keller
Version: 5.0.0
Released: 05/20/2006
Filesize: 1100 KB
Homepage: www.giganews-binary-newsreader.com
Here are main features:
- Download from multiple news servers as they are one big server.
- Complex account management can handle more than just one account per
server.
- Integrated browser plays or displays all common files and even movies.
- Quick setup with the configuration wizard in just 4 easy steps.
- Write and publish you own articles with the posting utility.
- Multimedia file manager with special commands like Join, Split, Backup or
folder synchronization.
- Each name of downloaded files is stored in a database so duplicate
articles will be tagged with a special icon
- Download with up to 8 threads and 16 connections at the same time.
- Rules processor allows to manage incomming articles, e.g. you can
automatically put articles to the download queue if they match a criteria.
- Decoder and encoder for BASE64, UU, Quoted-Printable, yEnc, BinHex and
Bommanews (B-News).
- Global search thru all subscribed newsgroups.
- Completeness check for a series of files belonging together.
- Prioritized download queue processing.
- NZB and SFV file support.
Giganews Binary Newsreader is based on the newest technology and requires
the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0.
Best regards,
Uwe Keller
Henrik Goldman
> Giganews Binary Newsreader is based on the newest technology and requires
> the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0.
>
I personally think this is a bad selling point. Imagine a rocket vendor said
the same thing to NASA. "Brand new technology ... totally new and virtually
untested". They would probably reply something like "screw you... come back
when you can show that your stuff is bugfree".
By saying you use the newest things it says something about the security and
bug-level in your software. I understand that your software is not likely
something that is very important and people can forgive you if it crashes
and think "ok well it's only shareware anyway".
Personally my own software compiles with 8 year old tools. I'd like to step
up to a more recent version but it's a requirement from the customers. My
selling point would then be "Built on reliable technology. Very robust and
not likely to fail since similar things has been deployed million of times
already".
-- Henrik
fuzz...@gmail.com
Henrik Goldman wrote:
> >
> > Giganews Binary Newsreader is based on the newest technology and requires
> > the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0.
> >
>
> I personally think this is a bad selling point. Imagine a rocket vendor said
> the same thing to NASA. "Brand new technology ... totally new and virtually
> untested". They would probably reply something like "screw you... come back
> when you can show that your stuff is bugfree".
Hmmm.... I think space travel uses (and create) more cutting edge
technology than any other industry.
.NET 2.0 has been out of beta for a long time. Certainly the Windows
Forms API is stable and great to program with.
Using older technology usually introduces *more* compatibility problems
with modern operating systems. It's not as if the new compilers have no
heritage.
Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/shareware.shtml
Henrik Goldman
> Hmmm.... I think space travel uses (and create) more cutting edge
> technology than any other industry.
It really depends. I know several people in the veapon industry and they say
that they also use .NET. However those systems are only used for low-tech
not-so-important simulations. For anything that is put into production they
use _really_ old hardware since it's mission critical that things work.
The reason I've heard many times is that they KNOW it won't fail. It's been
out there so long that it's virtually bugfree.
> .NET 2.0 has been out of beta for a long time. Certainly the Windows
> Forms API is stable and great to program with.
You're being narrow minded. GUI is just one part of the framework. I've
worked with newest Visual Studio as well and in the late beta phase more of
Microsofts program managers thanked me for the bugs I discovered. Most of
these are still not fixed (at least not in public releases). For some
workarounds has been found but not absolute fixes.
> Using older technology usually introduces *more* compatibility problems
> with modern operating systems. It's not as if the new compilers have no
> heritage.
Thats wrong. I'm not talking about technology from when earth was created.
However there is quite a few companies who havn't even update their Visual
Studio to the latest and greatest. For all earlier versions bugfixes has
been done and it's known to be stable.
-- Henrik
mayayana
> >
> > Giganews Binary Newsreader is based on the newest technology and
requires
> > the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0.
> >
>
> I personally think this is a bad selling point.
I think it's more annoying than it needs to be
because it's cagey and defensive. It could have been
written as -
"Requirements: Windows98+ and .Net Runtime v. 2"
Instead the OP is trying to whitewash a shortcoming
and present it as a desirable feature.
On the other hand, Microsoft's latest IE and Media
Player versions require XP SP2. MS is deliberately
creating a situation where people will have to buy
all of Microsoft's stuff if they want to use any of it.
We may end up with a multi-tier shareware market,
with one large group following Microsoft's lead and
only really addressing customers who are using
new computers.