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General Software Discussion / Re: How the mighty have fallen: TuneUp Utilities 2010

« on: November 01, 2009, 06:13 PM »

Well, I don't know Brain

-tranglos (November 01, 2009, 06:04 PM)

Brain 1.0 is metaphorical. It means: Don't load your computer with various shit and wonder why it slows down. No waste, no need to clean it, you see?

Autoruns and CCleaner don't cover the whole range of tasks

-tranglos (November 01, 2009, 06:04 PM)

What kind of important task is missing there? Memory optimizing? 

A "rollback" feature is a step into the very wrong direction. If you don't have it, you'll consider twice if you should really perform an action. If you have it, you'll think "oh well let me delete anything and I can still recover it"... which is wrong, because it may be hard to recover something when you can't even log in anymore.

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Living Room / Re: Google vs. the rest: Is it fair?

« on: November 01, 2009, 05:41 PM »

You perfectly got it. Thanks. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: How the mighty have fallen: TuneUp Utilities 2010

« on: November 01, 2009, 05:40 PM »

It was nice to have a complete toolkit under one roof

-tranglos (November 01, 2009, 05:33 PM)

You completely ignored my actual posting. 
What is the need of a "complete toolkit" when two or three single, free applications are more than enough for everything related to "optimizing"?

(A memory optimizer which resides in the memory is ridiculous at best, BTW.)

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Living Room / Re: Google vs. the rest: Is it fair?

« on: November 01, 2009, 04:54 PM »

Other services are also free and don't tend to personalize their ads.

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Living Room / Re: Google vs. the rest: Is it fair?

« on: November 01, 2009, 03:51 PM »

not sharing data without permission

... except for advertising. Oh, yes, advertising is a noble goal.

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Living Room / Re: Google vs. the rest: Is it fair?

« on: November 01, 2009, 03:42 PM »

This is, of course, no reason to support Google.

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Living Room / Re: Google vs. the rest: Is it fair?

« on: November 01, 2009, 03:17 PM »

Do others spy you in every corner of your life?
(Streetview, Google Earth)

Do others store everything related to you just to enable others to get a full profile of you?

BTW, Google assigns my real name to Tuxman.de just because of my nickname. Sorry, but I dislike its way to find connections.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How the mighty have fallen: TuneUp Utilities 2010

« on: November 01, 2009, 03:03 PM »

TuneUp Utilities are made for fixing errors they break themselves.

Seriously, no-one needs that. Autoruns, CCleaner and Brain 1.0 are more than enough. They don't install a bunch of unwanted stuff into your autostart menu, they are tiny, fast and free, and especially Brain 1.0 avoids you from installing weird applications which basically break something you'll need to fix then...

BTW, CCleaner's registry clean-up managed to fix my Windows Explorer once.

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Living Room / Re: Google vs. the rest: Is it fair?

« on: November 01, 2009, 06:42 AM »

Their privacy policy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anybody Here Use SeaMonkey (2.0)?

« on: October 31, 2009, 08:28 PM »

The Nightly Tester Tools are not really necessary for that.

about:config - Boolean extensions.checkCompatibility - set to false. No need to use a separate extension for that.

(Disclaimer: Only tested with Firefox.)

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Living Room / Re: Google vs. the rest: Is it fair?

« on: October 31, 2009, 01:29 PM »

Well:

All it would take is a website which works well, is not complex and overcrowded, and an e-mail service that allows significant amount of storage without ads at the bottom of each e-mail and a clean interface to boot.

There is a bunch of them out there (comfortable free mailers and well-working searching engines), that's why I was asking. Which alternatives did you actually check?

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Living Room / Re: Google vs. the rest: Is it fair?

« on: October 31, 2009, 01:16 PM »

It would take me about .5 seconds to decide to never touch google again, if there were comparable services available elsewhere.

-Kamel (October 31, 2009, 01:03 PM)

What exactly do you miss elsewhere?

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Living Room / Re: Google vs. the rest: Is it fair?

« on: October 31, 2009, 08:17 AM »

Google's "open source model", based on spying innocent people who don't even have a computer (Google Earth, Streetview)? No, srsly...

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Living Room / Re: Linux based applications

« on: October 31, 2009, 08:14 AM »

Not really, I don't even know about all DC apps ...  

Does that help?

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Living Room / Re: Linux based applications

« on: October 31, 2009, 08:01 AM »

Tuxman, I don't understand your reply. Could you elaborate?

-zridling (October 30, 2009, 10:03 PM)

Well then:

1) There is no application which is actually "based" on Linux...
Linux is a kernel. It could be hard to even imagine how an application should be based on it.

2) For most apps there already is a great Linux alternative.
Self-explaining.

3) The import command perfectly does everything you can expect from a screenshotting app...
Direct reply to the OP's request (Screenshot Captor). On Linux I take screenshots via import, it allows a wide variety of parameters and is usually a part of your distribution anyway.

 

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Living Room / Re: Linux based applications

« on: October 30, 2009, 04:27 PM »

There is no application which is actually "based" on Linux...

For most apps there already is a great Linux alternative. The import command perfectly does everything you can expect from a screenshotting app...

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: text editor question

« on: October 28, 2009, 06:36 PM »

I presume Vim could also do it ... 

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: October 26, 2009, 06:02 PM »

(and I have this allergy to curly braces that kind of keeps me away from most other languages  )

-app103 (October 26, 2009, 05:35 PM)

What about LISP then?  

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General Software Discussion / Re: wanted: simple, stable bittorrent client for windows

« on: October 26, 2009, 03:31 PM »

There is no "open source community".

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: October 26, 2009, 02:48 PM »

For me, a real programming language is something you'll get an executable file from. Thus, Java is none either. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: October 26, 2009, 12:45 PM »

Ahem. Delphi certainly does have a framework -- that's what BCL is. I think what you mean is that Delphi doesn't have any kind of virtual machine or abstraction layer in which it runs.

-CWuestefeld (October 26, 2009, 12:39 PM)

Ah, yes. Sorry, phrasing FAIL.  

it's worthwhile noting that it was designed by the lead designer of C#, Anders Hejlsberg.

-CWuestefeld (October 26, 2009, 12:39 PM)

So what's wrong with that guy now?

javascript lends itself well to dynamic programming techniques that you might expect to need a Python or Ruby for.

-CWuestefeld (October 26, 2009, 12:39 PM)

None of these are programming languages. There is some structural difference, right?

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: October 26, 2009, 12:09 PM »

What bullshit are you referring to?

-housetier (October 26, 2009, 10:55 AM)

Like answering "Javascript" when you're asked for your favorite programming language. 

I just can't come up with an idea for a worthwhile project to do in Python.

-tranglos (October 26, 2009, 11:41 AM)

AFAIK you can use it for hacking and stuff. But that's not a good reason, is it?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: xplorer², a powerful windows file manager and explorer replacement / alternative

« on: October 26, 2009, 12:05 PM »

A lifetime license will pay off indeed. A few Euros for infinite improvement. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« on: October 26, 2009, 09:48 AM »

I love it when the first postings in topics about a programming language contain bullshit about scripting languages...

But OK, I'll append mine then:

My favorite programming language is C++.
Java and C# are sluggish, resource hogging nonsense to me, while Delphi (which I actually like because it doesn't need a framework of any kind) is not a part of my knowledge...

Shorties:
My favorite description language is HTML with all needed extensions.
My favorite general scripting language is PHP, because I just don't know Perl and Python...
My favorite application scripting language depends. I know a few of them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: wanted: simple, stable bittorrent client for windows

« on: October 26, 2009, 08:47 AM »

You might want to apologize for calling µTorrent bloated.

-f0dder (October 26, 2009, 08:37 AM)

No. 

However, the choice of a P2P client for a certain network is mostly a matter of personal favors. Mine is different. Is that, at least, OK for everyone?