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2001

General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7-BETA

« Last post by Tuxman 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...

2002

General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7-BETA

« Last post by Tuxman 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...

2003

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

« Last post by Tuxman on November 01, 2010, 04:19 PM »

In German, they are pronounced like "xee".  

2004

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

« Last post by Tuxman on November 01, 2010, 10:30 AM »

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

2005

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

2006

Living Room / Re: Limewire shutdown, permanently

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

2007

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

« Last post by Tuxman on October 31, 2010, 04:34 PM »

"Flexyfiles". Geez, what a boring name.

2008

Living Room / Re: Hallow-e'en

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

2009

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

2010

General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7-BETA

« Last post by Tuxman 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...

2011

Living Room / Re: New image format for the web

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

2012

Living Room / Re: Best Free and Pay FTP Client

« Last post by Tuxman 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"?)

2013

Living Room / Re: Firefox Stability Issues

« Last post by Tuxman 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...

2014

Living Room / Re: Firefox Stability Issues

« Last post by Tuxman 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 ...

2015

Living Room / Re: Best Free and Pay FTP Client

« Last post by Tuxman 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 ...

 

2016

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

2017

General Software Discussion / Re: Outpost <7 being abandoned

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

2018

General Software Discussion / Re: Outpost <7 being abandoned

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

2019

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

2020

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

« Last post by Tuxman on September 30, 2010, 04:20 PM »

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

2021

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

« Last post by Tuxman on September 30, 2010, 03:55 PM »

(Oh, and have fun searching for certain strings there.)

2022

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

« Last post by Tuxman on September 30, 2010, 03:53 PM »

People who can't afford hosting with a DB are granted free access to WordPress.com, so what?

2023

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

« Last post by Tuxman on September 29, 2010, 04:39 PM »

Storing a (probably) high amount of postings, comments and trackbacks (?) in text files?
Poor server...

2024

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

« Last post by Tuxman on September 26, 2010, 08:27 AM »

Still waiting for freeCommander 2010 BTW... looks promising.

2025

The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: How do you use Categories in your task or calendar management?

« Last post by Tuxman on September 25, 2010, 05:09 PM »

I use MiniTask as my task management, so "categories" are not really available, it is more like "headlines".

Tasks related to a (yet to finish) application I have been developing are put under the name of the application, I also have some "work", some "blog" and similar headlines. Well enough for me, currently having 23 tasks in there.