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General Software Discussion / Re: The Five Distros That Changed Linux

« on: December 23, 2009, 08:11 PM »

What's wrong? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs

« on: December 23, 2009, 08:11 PM »

Applications I couldn't live without:

Web browser: Mozilla Firefox
File sharing: eMule AnalyZZUL
Instant Messaging: Miranda IM
IRC client: Gamers.IRC (well, I'm in the team, so I actually should use it, too)
Audio player: Winamp
Image viewer: IrfanView

All the other stuff I use, including my mail client and my chosen text editors, are not an actual "must-have" for me, I could easily go with alternatives...

 

Well, just for completion, these are my beloved other ones:

Text editors: Notepad++, Vim  
E-Mail: Mozilla Thunderbird (unless I manage to know The Bat! better)
Video player: Media Player Classic Home Cinema
Writing documents and stuff: OpenOffice.org
Controlling Windows: ac'tivAid
Task manager: Process Explorer
Version control: TortoiseSVN, CommitMonitor

Not much platform-independent stuff, I know... but this is not a criterion for me.  

I use a real bunch of other applications not fitting into any of the categories above. I just think "must-have" is not "I always had it and it is quite useless for my typical PC usage but I love it".

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone still using WordPerfect?

« on: December 23, 2009, 08:35 AM »

Who needs a mouse when he has a keyboard?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to Daemon Tools?

« on: December 22, 2009, 07:27 PM »

+1 vote for Alcohol 52%. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone still using WordPerfect?

« on: December 22, 2009, 07:26 PM »

We could as well start a new topic, as a similar discussion ("what is a programming language?") was quite successful recently. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone still using WordPerfect?

« on: December 22, 2009, 06:56 PM »

I would when it's being used to 'process' words.

-40hz (December 22, 2009, 06:54 PM)

Editing text is processing words.

Same goes for EMACS.

-40hz (December 22, 2009, 06:54 PM)

Pah, Emacs.

(We're starting to get seriously off topic here BTW! )

-40hz (December 22, 2009, 06:54 PM)

You started by proposing a text editor.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone still using WordPerfect?

« on: December 22, 2009, 06:29 PM »

I didn't know it wasn't made for writing letters though.

-40hz (December 22, 2009, 06:25 PM)

From the WriteMonkey website:
Zenware for full screen distraction free creative writing.

Made for writing contests AFAIK. Of course you can edit every kind of text in it...

Would you say Vim is a word processor then, too?

Wikipedia:
Word processing typically implies the presence of text manipulation functions that extend beyond a basic ability to enter and change text (...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone still using WordPerfect?

« on: December 22, 2009, 06:13 PM »

WriteMonkey is a text editor. Made for editing texts, not for writing letters. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone still using WordPerfect?

« on: December 22, 2009, 03:22 PM »

WriteMonkey is not a word processor.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Forum suggestion

« on: December 22, 2009, 01:56 PM »

Stay away from phpBB, it's had too many exploits.

-f0dder (December 22, 2009, 09:25 AM)

phpBB 3 doesn't have too many of them. milw0rm.com lists a few for SMF, too, so what?

I like phpBB.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone still using WordPerfect?

« on: December 22, 2009, 01:52 PM »

Oh well, MS Office is not cheap either, and it has a, uhm ..., not too well designed GUI.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Five Distros That Changed Linux

« on: December 22, 2009, 08:31 AM »

Ubuntu is not "Linux for everyone", SuSE is ... Ubuntu is more like "Debian for hype machinists"...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora 8.0b7

« on: December 17, 2009, 11:17 AM »

Thank you for the hint. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora 8.0b7

« on: December 16, 2009, 10:37 PM »

The Bat! displays unread folders & messages in bold by default.

-Innuendo (December 16, 2009, 10:32 PM)

Hm, you are obviously right. Weird that I missed this. 
Thanks.

And for those who want to buy The Bat!...don't forget the discount link here in the forum will save you approx. 50%.

-Innuendo (December 16, 2009, 10:32 PM)

Yet another thanks. I'll wait for the end of the trial period and make a decision then ... 

(Getting a bit off-topic here, sorry for that.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora 8.0b7

« on: December 16, 2009, 06:20 PM »

The Bat! is, at least, more resource-friendly than Thunderbird. However I haven't managed to find out yet how (if?) to display unread folders in bold... the only thing that keeps me away from replacing Thunderbird 3 as my default mail client.
(Thunderbird 3 rocks, anyway. So probably does Eudora... but who needs another Postbox?)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora 8.0b7

« on: December 16, 2009, 05:55 PM »

I am currently trying some mail clients (currently being stuck between Thunderbird 3, The Bat! and re-alpine), but Eudora was never my client of choice. Don't know why... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora 8.0b7

« on: December 16, 2009, 05:32 PM »

I wonder if it actually makes sense to further develop this one. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google creates a URL shortener, but it's limited

« on: December 15, 2009, 07:30 AM »

Now who needs that?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: A powerful free video & audio converter

« on: December 14, 2009, 02:37 AM »

Ah, OK. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need Advice on Forum Software

« on: December 13, 2009, 10:25 AM »

In fact, most forum software can be turned into a social network. bbPress for Wordpress is another one...

From this thread I'd prefer elgg.

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Living Room / Re: Notepad Fun

« on: December 13, 2009, 10:24 AM »

Does that depend on the chosen font? For me there's nothing special.

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Living Room / Re: How's *that* for a false positive? And is it? (Avira AV)

« on: December 10, 2009, 05:39 AM »

Avira has always been bad about false positives. It's always been good about detecting the bad stuff, but I have never in good conscience been able to recommend it due to the false positives.

-Innuendo (December 09, 2009, 05:32 PM)

Confirmed.

Maybe this one is of any interest here. "Many false alarms" is a no-go for a virus scanner IMO.

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Living Room / Re: 32Bit or 64Bit? How long will they last as the most used? Take your best guess

« on: December 09, 2009, 06:14 PM »

Most people I know with an eminent amount of RAM don't use it for doing more productive stuff, they just fill it with useless gimmicks "because it's there".

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Living Room / Re: 32Bit or 64Bit? How long will they last as the most used? Take your best guess

« on: December 09, 2009, 04:25 PM »

Ah, yes, 8 GB RAM. 6 of those will never be used anyway, but who cares ... 

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Living Room / Re: 32Bit or 64Bit? How long will they last as the most used? Take your best guess

« on: December 09, 2009, 04:22 PM »

End users don't need 64 bit yet. Never seen a home user having to work with files of that size.
(So most things he does is whinging in boards "why does my application not start in 64 bit mode?" ...)