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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Atom - A new editor is born

« Last post by Tuxman on June 01, 2014, 07:12 AM »

What does it do that Emacs doesn't?

(Except that it looks like an IDE which I don't really like.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: TrueCrypt alternative

« Last post by Tuxman on May 31, 2014, 12:51 PM »

One file for a volume - and TrueCrypt itself. Now what?

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General Software Discussion / Re: TrueCrypt alternative

« Last post by Tuxman on May 31, 2014, 12:42 PM »

How's EncFS not portable?

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General Software Discussion / Re: TrueCrypt alternative

« Last post by Tuxman on May 31, 2014, 11:15 AM »

EncFS isn't portable, because...?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Tuxman on May 31, 2014, 11:15 AM »

As for the programs you mentioned, I've used both extensively, but quite a long time ago so I don't have much experience with the recent versions. They were both solid performers at the time, though. SpeedCommander is very German-centric and Salamander seems to want to nickel and dime you for every plugin.

-Innuendo (May 31, 2014, 10:48 AM)

As a German, the centricism isn't too bad for me. 
But thanks for the "comparison" though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TrueCrypt alternative

« Last post by Tuxman on May 31, 2014, 05:11 AM »

1. I'll stick with TrueCrypt for my container file until it's clear what happens with the audited planned fork.
2. Why use containers anyway? Use EncFS.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Tuxman on May 31, 2014, 04:56 AM »

@panzer: JustManager still lacks SFTP support, right?

Sorry, Jibz, but I really tried. I tried Total Commander several times since its 7.0 days IIRC, playing with its config., talking to some users, trying to make it look like something I might want to look at for a couple of hours a day. No chance. Even the "Ultima Prime" mod looks awfully on all screenshots I've ever stumbled upon. I guess "form follows function", but if I have the choice, I'd choose both. (Not that x² looked too modern either, but still...)
Yesterday I gave it another run - couldn't even find out how to use the SFTP plug-in.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Tuxman on May 30, 2014, 06:37 PM »

As I'm currently flooding several boards with it, I'd like to attach my question also here:

Being a happy XY/x² user, I'm still looking for a good "orthodox" file manager (Norton Commander clone) for certain tasks. Required: SFTP support, no way to disable the second panel (I want to force myself into using it correctly), a decent GUI (no Total Commander stuff pls).

Altap Salamander, SpeedCommander or something very different? Any good reasons?
Tried them both (and FAR) and can't really decide.

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Living Room / Re: TrueCrypt is Now Abandonware?!

« Last post by Tuxman on May 29, 2014, 06:18 AM »

AFAIK the download provided there probably contains a trojan.

(Well, the spirit of Open Source, right? Secure and trustable and everything.)

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Non-Windows Software / Re: LINUX: Linux Lite - viable 1st Linux alternative for XP and Vista users

« Last post by Tuxman on May 28, 2014, 03:39 AM »

Oh, neat, another Linux whose devs misunderstood that Linux is not meant to replace anything.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Atom - A new editor is born

« Last post by Tuxman on May 27, 2014, 03:33 AM »

Atom is a decent browser and still doesn't have a good editor.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Atom - A new editor is born

« Last post by Tuxman on May 26, 2014, 06:26 PM »

Why not Emacs?

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Relatively Minimal Host OS for VirtualBox Use

« Last post by Tuxman on May 24, 2014, 07:32 AM »

http://bash.org/?464385

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Living Room / Re: ImgBurn - full of OpenCandy and other crap

« Last post by Tuxman on May 20, 2014, 03:12 PM »

cdrtools?

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Living Room / Re: ImgBurn - full of OpenCandy and other crap

« Last post by Tuxman on May 20, 2014, 02:20 PM »

I wonder if they come from the ImgBurn forums to advertise here.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Best applications for Android (comparatives, Reviews)

« Last post by Tuxman on May 18, 2014, 06:57 AM »

dxf is not a photo format anyway... 

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Best applications for Android (comparatives, Reviews)

« Last post by Tuxman on May 18, 2014, 06:24 AM »

Hm.

http://www.junauza.c...pps-for-android.html

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Best applications for Android (comparatives, Reviews)

« Last post by Tuxman on May 18, 2014, 06:12 AM »

Comparison of which Android software?

I'd usually take Android boards' polls into consideration.

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Best Text Editor / Re: best text editor was killed by Borland

« Last post by Tuxman on May 14, 2014, 01:22 AM »

Borland killed Sublime Text?
(Not having read the thread.)

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Developer's Corner / Re: TextAdept: Lua-extensible Editor

« Last post by Tuxman on May 13, 2014, 04:42 AM »

Atom is based on a bloated web browser. Might explain things.

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Developer's Corner / Re: You have ruined Javascript... Rob Ashton on AngularJS

« Last post by Tuxman on May 12, 2014, 03:01 AM »

Not that Javascript itself (with its implicitly wrong implicit data types) wasn't broken before.

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Developer's Corner / Re: TextAdept: Lua-extensible Editor

« Last post by Tuxman on May 12, 2014, 02:59 AM »

Maybe we need a text-editors-only sub-forum

-phitsc (May 12, 2014, 01:25 AM)

Yay! Time to rant about Atom!

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Developer's Corner / Re: TextAdept: Lua-extensible Editor

« Last post by Tuxman on May 11, 2014, 09:12 AM »

Textadept is easily on par with Vim, Emacs and ST (to name three popular, powerful editors) in terms of its capabilities.

Where's the mail client?

I guess the "problem with GTK" is a problem with the developer. Other GTK editors work fine.

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Living Room / Re: ImgBurn - full of OpenCandy and other crap

« Last post by Tuxman on April 24, 2014, 12:03 PM »

The "free burning software" market seems to die out slowly.

On Windows, I currently use cdrtools (like InfraRecorder without the GUI clutter) from here (German site). Probably this is one of the very few future-safe options.

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Best E-mail Client / Re: E-mail client recommendations

« Last post by Tuxman on April 22, 2014, 10:20 AM »

With max. 2 accounts? That's not "free" for a typical "power user", I guess. But hey, some *ix clients can only handle one...