Open Word

I yesterday stumbled upon pdfreaders.org where they are offering some nice banners as alternative to Adobe’s “Get ADOBE® READER®” you see all over the Internet. Here’s an example:

The site seems to be a campaign of Free Software Foundation Europe.

Well I’ve never heard before about Sumatra PDF, but as it’s listed on the website I thought I would give it a try. After using it for a while I can confirm it’s fast. In fact it’s like a rocket compared to Adobe® Reader®. I highly recommend everyone on Windows to give it a try!

Plug-ins for Firefox and Internet Explorer are currently missing, but Sumatra can be set as the default PDF viewer and instructions to prevent Adobe® Reader® from stealing PDFs inside browser are available.

I took part in a digital design course at the university where we had to use Mentor Graphics® HDL Designer™ for exercises. After a long hassle we students were able to install the software to our personal computers. I probably can’t say anything about HDL Designer because of the EULA/NDA, but maybe it’s better for Mentor’s sake

The course exam was held this week so now it’s time to nuke the software; something that I’ve waited from the day I installed it. It’s great that I don’t have to use it on any remaining courses. Hopefully I don’t have to touch it never again, not even with a gross-feet pole! I really hope it will uninstall nicely through Add or Remove Programs so that I don’t have to nuke the whole Windows installation while I’m at it.

edit: Breaking News!

The only thing the Mentor’s god damn custom Uninstaller was able to remove was it self.  Now my machine has a pile of steaming uninstallable crap! perkele!!