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I like the idea of a dedicated Linux (or Other OS) Discussion area.    Child board?  Probably not.

sorry, I tried Plan9 once, WAAAY to geeky.

I thought we were all about being geeky.

Well, sure... geeky is good; Barely usable is not... 
Trying out the Plan9 LiveCD was about as joy-inspiring as partitioning an OS/2 install 

OS/2 partitioning was EASY.  Had a nice triple boot system running.. OS/2, Win95 and Slackware... ahh memories.

Mouser and Veign this is a great idea.  I hope you get a lot of entries.

 

I vote for EyeCue!  VERY clever

Cheers,
Mary G.

I think that is taken.... by a program that helps you read "up to 1000% faster"

http://www.homestarrunner.com/doesnotexists.fil

Nice collection.  I didn't see OS 9 (AT&T) or OS X (Mac) on your list?  Are you slipping?

Do you mean Plan 9? That was the next one on my list 

I never had any mac hardware so I never got to play with OS X or 9 or 7 or any of that.
If I did, you could probably add Darwin to that list...

Yes, Plan 9. I think I had OS X in my head when I wrote that.

Since Apple is running on Intel now, you can find some DVD ISO's of OS X (10.5 ) that'll run on some generic PC's.  I have an e-machines system that I was able to boot up.  Has a 945G Mobo and chip set.

I haven't looked for a few weeks, there were some folks working on making it go under VMware.

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Operating Systems
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Aargh! My weak spot... (and I thought I was immune to this thread...)
For some reason I just cannot resist when some rebel upstart offers an alternative to the MS experience, just for fun, or when I get a fancy to go back to the "good old days".
Some of the OS's sitting in my bin right now (not counting the Windows NT through XP cd's and the stack of Linux distros and live cd's I tried before finally settling on Xubuntu):

MS-DOS 6.22 (3 floppies)
Windows 3.11 (6 floppies)
OS/2 Warp 4 (3 floppies + 1 CD)
OS/2 Warp 4.52 (2 CD's)
FreeDOS 1.1 (the latest!)
BeOS 5 PE (1 CD)
Syllable OS (2 CD's:1 unmarked, 1 latest ver. 0.6.4)
NetBSD (2 CD's I downloaded in 2002, never got around to installing...)
QNX Demo Disk (Network and Modem versions, 1 floppy each)
MenuetOS (0.76, 0.83 and 0.85, 1 floppy each)
VisopSys 0.69 (1 floppy)
V2OS 0.64 (strangest of the bunch... 1 floppy)

And I fear it's not going to stop there...

Nice collection.  I didn't see OS 9 (AT&T) or OS X (Mac) on your list?  Are you slipping? 

I've been using Total Commander since it was WinCommander!  It has a wealth of plug-ins available that let you SFTP, read ISO files, and just about anything else you'd want.  I keep finding things I like about it. Most recently, I noticed that I can include a description for files.  Total Commander creates and maintains a decsript.ion file to keep track of file comments in each directory.

Pack or Unpack files with a variety of tools:  .zip, .tar, .gzip, .rar, .lha, .arj and more.  Filename search, text search, file compare.....  the list never ends!!!   

  

It's a cartoon and here is the direct link http://www.weebls-stuff.c...oons/A+Walk+In+The+Woods/

Mildly entertaining... potty humor.

Yes.  Call is the answer.

I'm so happy someone still uses .BAT files.   

For something less like what I want, I found this:
TaskSwitchXP - famous alt-tab manager

TaskSwitchXP is an advanced task management utility that picks up where the standard Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off. It provides the same functionality, and adds visual styles to the dialog and also enhances it by displaying thumbnail preview of the application that will be switched to

An interesting feature:

Instances Switcher

TaskSwitchXP allows you quickly to switch between multitudinous tasks of one application (e.g. Internet Explorer, or Microsoft Word). In this mode, TaskSwitchXP automatically filters all instances of the currently foreground application.

I'm going to stick w/ the Skrommel solution as it is what I was looking for.   

  Cool.  Skrommel Strikes Again. 

Keep this up and you'll be a verb:

Boss: "Dude, did you finish that program?"

Prgrmr: "Heck yeah,  I Skrommeled that thing 2 hours ago."

Boss: "Word!"

I looked @ the skrommel page and didn't see anything like this per se.  Of course there's so much stuff there, I could've missed it. 

FireFox
Total Commander
Thunderbird
PuTTY
Boxer Text Editor
Total Launchbar*

Since Browsers and Email are always used, I'll add two more:
Irfanview
UltraISO

Can't live with Process Explorer either....

Always running in back:

AlphaClock
ClockX
Daemon Tools
Ghost
TightVNC
EverNote Lite
Process Tamer
Total LaunchBar*

*It's both.. always running and I use it all the time.

This is something I could use occasionally.  I have 10 windows open, but I need/want to switch back and forth between 2 or 3 of them a lot.
Say I'm testing a PHP script and I have the server in a putty session.  The php manual page in a browser window and I'm testing the script in another browser window.  I'd like to hit a hotkey to tag each of those windows with so I can switch to them quickly.  That way if I get an email or some other app changes focus, I don't have to fight to get by alt-tab order fixed again.

So Putty is my focused window, I type Ctrl-T, 1 and tag it.  Php Manual Browser is focus I hit Ctrl-T, 2.  Testing Browser Ctrl-T, 3.  So when I want to switch to putty, I just hit Ctrl-1.  Ctrl-3 to test again.  Ctrl-1 to look at my php.log.  Ctrl-2, back to the manual.

Ctrl-Shift-1, ctrl-alt-1 or whatever makes it easy to avoid other hot key combos.

Any takers?  Is this useful?

As seen in the article here: PC Mag LINK
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  Skrommel 

Gee, weren't they blaming Intel last month?

Microsoft execs saw problems with early Vista

Microsoft and PC makers used "Windows Vista Capable" stickers in an attempt to maintain sales of Windows XP machines during the 2006 holiday shopping season, after Windows Vista's retail release was delayed to early 2007. The internal e-mails reveal an extensive debate inside Microsoft over the hardware specifications needed to qualify.

One message points to chip maker Intel Corp., a key Microsoft partner, to explain the decision to lower the requirements a piece of hardware needed to qualify for the "Windows Vista Capable" designation.

Maybe they should follow Apple's lead and use their own hardware. 

But boy, there sure is something in the way that Gibson writes about his stuff that really sets some people off.

Yes, the way he writes... the way he sometimes claim to have invented new stuff... his self-importance... and the way the whole choir of believers just swallow the whole load without questioning.

I suppose so.  I think some of that is how you read it.  It is advertising ya know. 

I just went and looked at the SpinRite 6 FAQ's.  They seem to be fairly up front.  Works with SMART, won't low-level format.  30-Day NQA $ back.  *shurg*

[Hirudin:]

Hirudin: please don't bring spinrite into this, it's snake-oil , and mr. Gibson only has buzzwords and "it's super secret advanced tech!" to say, nothing quantitative.

Slightly off Topic.  Just wanted to call BS on your snake-oil comment.  Spinerite actually does work in some cases.  I have used it to recover 1 or 2 drives.  See the article here:PC World Mag

Fortunately, SpinRite 6 is less ambiguous when it encounters a distressed drive. I put the app to work on four magnetically damaged floppy disks, and it lit up the screen with flashing graphics as it worked to recover my data. It saved three of the four.

SpinRite 6 is no substitute for regular backups. Still, having the software around for maintenance--and knowing it's there in an emergency--makes it worth the price.

heh.. no I didn't write the article.  Look, I never claimed Spinrite is the world's greatest software.   I am familiar with SMART and I know that new drives should be able to deal with things much better than my old ESDI & MFM drives did.  And I never suggested Spinrite in lieu of backups; that'd be freakin' nuts.

I'm just saying that it has saved a few "near death" drives that I know of and I seriously doubt it's total BS.  You may think $89 is too much for what it does (or doens't) do, but that's a different issue.

In a perfect world, we'd all near instant backups of all our data and a dead drive would be a trivial issue;  Replace drive, restore data, resume work.

[more than two]

1) How long is considered to be too long for a thread?

when it's one post longer than your own personal interest in it. 

Funny, but true.  Depending on the goal of the forum*, as long as more than two people are participating and enjoying the thread, carry on.  Two people can do the same thing in email without taking up our internet space, if only 1 person is talking it's called a blog.   

*If the goal is to build a knowledge base, anything over 5 pages is too long.  Very few people will venture into something over 100 posts, so the information will be unusable.

[Hirudin:]

Hirudin: please don't bring spinrite into this, it's snake-oil , and mr. Gibson only has buzzwords and "it's super secret advanced tech!" to say, nothing quantitative.

Slightly off Topic.  Just wanted to call BS on your snake-oil comment.  Spinerite actually does work in some cases.  I have used it to recover 1 or 2 drives.  See the article here:PC World Mag

Fortunately, SpinRite 6 is less ambiguous when it encounters a distressed drive. I put the app to work on four magnetically damaged floppy disks, and it lit up the screen with flashing graphics as it worked to recover my data. It saved three of the four.

SpinRite 6 is no substitute for regular backups. Still, having the software around for maintenance--and knowing it's there in an emergency--makes it worth the price.

[Cody:]

Cody: ... and then I was talking Alan and he said. ... blah blah blah..
Mouser: One of these days bird... POW! right in the kisser.

mouser at 'em.

Don't let 'em get to you suberboyac.       

Interesting that Pascal went from #21 to #16 in this year's language rankings:  Programming Community Index

I'm a pascal fan and I'm shocked....

Interesting article re: learning languages is An Introduction to Programming Languages

re: new languages for the school, what about:   D - The Programming Language

D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. Special attention is given to the needs of quality assurance, documentation, management, portability and reliability.

and/or  Scala

If you have to choose only one new language for the time being then my recommendation is Scala. Scala is very accessible to programmers from different backgrounds. Scala provides access to type inference and advanced techniques used in languages like Haskell, but still supports common Java idioms and dynamic programming.

-- Source: Dr. Dobbs Code Talk