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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Tuxman on August 01, 2014, 06:20 AM »

userscripts.org seems to just have gone. Well, there are some alternatives.

http://wiki.greasesp.../User_Script_Hosting

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General Software Discussion / Re: Diamond Editor, multi-platform successor to Crimson Editor

« Last post by Tuxman on July 31, 2014, 06:01 AM »

This kind of "evolution" is actively encouraged by distributors though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Diamond Editor, multi-platform successor to Crimson Editor

« Last post by Tuxman on July 31, 2014, 05:42 AM »

Good luck using a Windows style editor when your X won't start and you'll have to fix config files on the terminal when you never dug into vi/Vim or similar editors.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cyberfox Anyone?

« Last post by Tuxman on July 30, 2014, 06:11 AM »

For those who like Firefox forks on Linux, there's a native Pale Moon around.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Diamond Editor, multi-platform successor to Crimson Editor

« Last post by Tuxman on July 30, 2014, 02:10 AM »

I'm talking about a nice graphical text editor with bookmarking, regex search, column edit mode, and some other things I miss from the above-mentioned windows editors.
-Edvard (July 30, 2014, 12:17 AM)

... which is what Vim provides.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / AdGuard: the better Ad Muncher?

« Last post by Tuxman on July 29, 2014, 05:24 PM »

Basic Info

App Name	AdGuard
App URL	http://adguard.com
App Version Reviewed	5.9
Supported OSes	Microsoft Windows up to 8.1 (currently)
Support Methods	They seem to prefer their support ticket system.
Upgrade Policy	Licensing works per year, independently of the version numbers.
Trial Version Available?	Yes, it is. The (unrestricted) trial period lasts only two weeks though.
Pricing Scheme	1 year: 19.95 US-$ 2 years: 29.95 US-$ Unlimited: 49.95 US-$

Intro:

As Ad Muncher 5 (about to be free or something) is heavily discussed all around teh interwebz, people might forget about the alternatives. I'm not talking about Adblock Plus or Adblock Edge, there's more; be it GlimmerBlocker on OS X, be it the free but failing AdFender, be it AdGuard. All of them share one goal: Blocking advertisements and (optionally) other annoying stuff without browser-side restrictions.

Why I think you should use this product

In opposite to ad blocking add-ons for browsers, AdGuard works as a transparent proxy. Browser add-ons usually hog the system, transparent proxies don't. - Also, some of you might use more than one browser (or HTML-capable mail clients), so you'd have to install a pretty decent amount of extra software. Install, fire and forget, never see any ads again. You don't trust Adblock Plus/Edge? Use AdGuard!

(Admittedly, some of them might still come through; you can easily report them though.)

How does it compare to similar apps

Ah, my favorite section in this case:

In comparison to Ad Muncher (at least v4), AdGuard has a better looking multi-language GUI, HTTPS support, a more reliable browser overlay and a larger feature set, including "internet security" (blocks malicious websites).

In comparison to AdFender, AdGuard's built-in filters seem to work much better, AdFender failed to filter the majority of ads for me (regardless of the fact that it's freeware).

In comparison to Adblock Plus/Edge, AdGuard happily ignores which web browser you're using.

Conclusions

AdGuard is a nice ad blocker which definitely needs more attention. If there is one thing to complain, it's its license. No freeware! - Still, let's see how it'll perform compared to Ad Muncher 5 one it's released.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ad Muncher 5 will be free

« Last post by Tuxman on July 29, 2014, 01:17 PM »

AdGuard is nice and its "overlay" is more reliable than that of Ad Muncher IMO. (Also, the UI looks a bit better, but then again, Ad Muncher 5 looked OK on older Windows systems too. AdGuard's tray menu has a blurry font on Win8.1 for me.)

Filtering has some issues yet, such as banners not being detected correctly, but there's a "report banner" function.

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Living Room / Guess how useful virus scanners are?

« Last post by Tuxman on July 29, 2014, 10:11 AM »

The never-ending story...
http://www.syscan360...ware_JoxeanKoret.pdf

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Pipelight has a new website - plus new version available

« Last post by Tuxman on July 29, 2014, 09:43 AM »

So... pundantic?

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Pipelight has a new website - plus new version available

« Last post by Tuxman on July 29, 2014, 09:36 AM »

It's pedantic, you native American-English human!

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Pipelight has a new website - plus new version available

« Last post by Tuxman on July 29, 2014, 09:32 AM »

I'm not that old!

I'm not even angered. I'd assume "pedantic" fits better here indeed.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Pipelight has a new website - plus new version available

« Last post by Tuxman on July 29, 2014, 09:14 AM »

I think you might possibly lack sufficient familiarity with colloquial American-English usage and vocabulary such that you tend to misinterpret
-40hz (July 29, 2014, 09:02 AM)

My familiarity with the slang of American-English native speakers reduces to discussions on mailing lists and online boards. Probably this is a good excuse.

and occasionally read far more into what is being said
-40hz (July 29, 2014, 09:02 AM)

Being pedantic is mostly intended, not restricted to certain languages. Of course it's not my intention to actively discourage you to tell us about software though.

I doubt it's a causing concern or confusion to many (if any) of the other readers. And while I now understand what you're saying (with thanks for elaborating) and can now see the point you're trying to make, in the context of the post itself, it's somewhat hair-splitting and slightly OT.
-40hz (July 29, 2014, 09:02 AM)

Well, probably, yes. I wasn't talking about the board but about the thread title in the first place. When it comes to software compatibility, being precise would even help here: Given that Pipelight is "Wine software" instead of "*NIX software", it's rather likely that it will even run on OpenBSD and other platforms which aren't actively announced on its website.
I might give it a try later.

I hope this helps you better understand where I'm coming from, and why I don't feel the need to either change the original post or drop *NIX from its title.
-40hz (July 29, 2014, 09:02 AM)

Agreed. My pedantry might sometimes be misinterpreted as trolling or flaming, but in this very case it wasn't meant to. Thanks for listening.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Pipelight has a new website - plus new version available

« Last post by Tuxman on July 29, 2014, 08:22 AM »

So, given that you really want to keep a misleading thread title, let me get into the contents then:

How is it "good news" that a Windows binary (Pipelight) which can access Windows plug-ins can run on Wine "now"?

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Pipelight has a new website - plus new version available

« Last post by Tuxman on July 29, 2014, 08:14 AM »

My point would be that my initial point that "*NIX" is a lie here still persists.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ad Muncher 5 will be free

« Last post by Tuxman on July 29, 2014, 07:47 AM »

Well... I bought AdGuard for now. HTTPS support seems to be mandatory these days.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Pipelight has a new website - plus new version available

« Last post by Tuxman on July 29, 2014, 07:32 AM »

Just an FYI: "*NIX" stands for any variant OS that is Unix-based or Unix-like.
-40hz (July 29, 2014, 07:22 AM)

Pipelight is a wrapper for using Windows plugins in Linux browsers and therefore giving you the possibility to access services which are otherwise not available for Linux users. Typical examples of such services are Netflix and Amazon Instant, which both use the proprietary browser plugin Silverlight. These services cannot normally be used on Linux since this plugin is only available for Windows, and the only open source alternative (Moonlight) is lacking support for DRM.

Pipelight helps you access these services by using the original Silverlight plugin directly in your browser, all while giving you a better hardware acceleration and performance than a virtual machine. Besides Silverlight, you can also use a variety of other plugins that are supported by Pipelight. Take a look at the installation page for a complete list.

Pipelight uses a patched wine version to provide a windows environment to the plugins, but you do not need to worry about this as Pipelight will take care of installing, configuring and updating all supported plugins. From the perspective of the browser these plugins will behave just like any other normal Linux plugin after you have enabled them.

-- Ironically, the *BSD (well, only two of them?!) support - as well as the Linux "support" - works via Wine - thus, via an additional Windows simulation layer.