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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best The BAT! version?

« on: November 08, 2010, 06:43 PM »

The Bat! is a solid mailing application. I spend some time with it now and then, and if I wouldn't be a Thunderbird-addict, I would probably use it exclusively. It's just that it came too late. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Return of the Son of the best *free* Windows Text Editor

« on: November 07, 2010, 08:39 AM »

f0dder: Ah, thanks. I thought the engine would make the machine. 
(Haven't tried SciTE for a while either.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Return of the Son of the best *free* Windows Text Editor

« on: November 06, 2010, 04:31 PM »

SciTE is quite the same as Notepad++, right?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Return of the Son of the best *free* Windows Text Editor

« on: November 06, 2010, 12:51 PM »

Vim can.

:%s/\n\{2,}//g or something should do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7-BETA

« on: November 04, 2010, 03:24 PM »

5 minutes of trialling e made me "meh", so it is rather unlikely ... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7-BETA

« on: November 04, 2010, 12:47 PM »

Hm, OK - forgot about the trial.

I'll trial it next week, not really much time right now. Last time I tested it, I was not really convinced anyway. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7-BETA

« on: November 04, 2010, 12:29 PM »

Well, I still use Vim, so the "additional" pricing does not make it a no-brainer to me, so I am just wondering...

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General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7-BETA

« on: November 04, 2010, 12:09 PM »

I saw it and actually thought about if I should buy it.
But e looks not mighty enough to be worth the price...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer Lifetime License 51% discount on BitsDuJour

« on: November 01, 2010, 04:19 PM »

In German, they are pronounced like "xee".  

1960

Living Room / Re: Laptop choice: better CPU or more RAM ?

« on: November 01, 2010, 10:30 AM »

When used inside, some modern laptops won't even allow me to turn on a lamp. 

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Living Room / Re: Laptop choice: better CPU or more RAM ?

« on: October 31, 2010, 04:37 PM »

Finding a good laptop is hard these days. All these "glare-type" displays actually suck. Dell and HP seem to be the only companies who still sell "business" laptops without a lot of disadvantages. A pity, really.

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Living Room / Re: Limewire shutdown, permanently

« on: October 31, 2010, 04:35 PM »

There's still FrostWire. Who cares if the LimeWire software is dead when the Gnutella network is still alive?
Also, eMule will survive it anyway.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer Lifetime License 51% discount on BitsDuJour

« on: October 31, 2010, 04:34 PM »

"Flexyfiles". Geez, what a boring name.

1964

Living Room / Re: Hallow-e'en

« on: October 28, 2010, 12:34 PM »

Halloween? It is, basically, a disgusting way to teach children how to go begging, combined with trying to blackmail them ("give us candy or we'll do a oh-so-funny harm to you").

US-Americans are weird.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera to support extensions in V11

« on: October 22, 2010, 02:09 PM »

Hm, now Opera has another idea that was in every other browser, including IE, for years... yawn...
(Not to mention: the huge amount of security issues and website incompatibilities.)

Crapware.

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General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7-BETA

« on: October 17, 2010, 06:33 PM »

EditPad has always been a great editor, but I think that the JGsoft products are a bit too pricey for us "normal" consumers at all.
(That's why I purged anything related to it years ago.)

Anyway, +1 for the matching regex thingy...

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Living Room / Re: New image format for the web

« on: October 06, 2010, 04:18 PM »

Yawn. Another dead idea by Google. They should start improving the .png format instead if they are all about size.
All known "comparisons" seem blurry. There is not even a real advantage to JPEG yet.

As I stated above:
Yawn.

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Living Room / Re: Best Free and Pay FTP Client

« on: October 02, 2010, 10:07 PM »

i think all these 'direct edits' involve some downloading to a temp folder on the hard-disk and re-uploaded after an edit without the users' intervention..

-lanux128 (October 02, 2010, 09:59 PM)

Confirmed for Vim.

(Does that already count as an "FTP Client"?)

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Living Room / Re: Firefox Stability Issues

« on: October 02, 2010, 08:51 PM »

Fx3 (it's not "FireFox" or even "Fire Fox") is quite clean, too; at least with a fresh profile.
Once you use it long enough, it will be slow again.

Fx stores its data in SQLite files, AFAIK it started with version 3. Could be one reason for all these issues, as these files become bloated over the months...

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Living Room / Re: Firefox Stability Issues

« on: October 02, 2010, 08:12 PM »

Running 3.6.10 (SSE2 build), quite many add-ons, no actual "crashes" whatsoever, only the Flash plug-in I use on some websites tends to give me weird messages ...

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Living Room / Re: Best Free and Pay FTP Client

« on: October 02, 2010, 08:06 PM »

BTW, the Cyberduck folks have released a first beta version for Windows:
http://cyberduck.ch/

I applied as a tester (via mail) and noticed that the current beta 2 won't start when you don't use Aero ... good start. 

Seriously, looks like a really good alternative, including FileZilla import.
Waiting for beta 3 which includes the fix for the error reported by me ...

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: FlatPress blogging platform: flat text file stored, open source, freeware

« on: September 30, 2010, 07:31 PM »

Large code parts are derived from WordPress, am I right here?

-Tuxman (September 30, 2010, 04:20 PM)

Probably not.

-40hz (September 30, 2010, 07:29 PM)

Sorry then. I quickly had a look at it, seemed known to me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outpost <7 being abandoned

« on: September 30, 2010, 05:04 PM »

just use a free AV and Windows firewall behind a NAT router.

-Carol Haynes (September 30, 2010, 04:59 PM)

"Firewall software" is snakeoil. Independent of who developed it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outpost <7 being abandoned

« on: September 30, 2010, 04:45 PM »

What does that have to do with being abandoned?

Microsoft doesn't support older WIndows versions anymore either, but still Windows is not abandoned.

What exactly have I missed?

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General Software Discussion / Re: FlatPress blogging platform: flat text file stored, open source, freeware

« on: September 30, 2010, 04:43 PM »

Because flat-file storage for a blog is ridiculous.
Imagine the search procedure. Imagine the file size. Don't forget the server load.