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General Software Discussion / Re: Make Firefox startup faster.

« Last post by Tuxman on December 30, 2009, 07:53 AM »

Thank you, Tuxman and CleverCat; Yes, SpeedyFox works!!

-Curt (December 30, 2009, 02:19 AM)

Great to know that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make Firefox startup faster.

« Last post by Tuxman on December 29, 2009, 12:52 PM »

Firefox starts incredibly fast if you don't install hundreds of add-ons and purge your databases sometimes.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: TeraCopy Pro only $11 (50% off at BDJ)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 28, 2009, 10:34 PM »

Indeed, superboyac, and I am one of those willing to pay for some really good software - when there is a good reason to do that. So the payware should have something really outstanding (for me).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs

« Last post by Tuxman on December 28, 2009, 07:36 PM »

I run Fences from Stardock.

-tinjaw (December 28, 2009, 06:54 PM)

Wow, great. Thanks for the hint (although I'm not Curt). 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: TeraCopy Pro only $11 (50% off at BDJ)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 28, 2009, 05:16 PM »

I wonder what makes this application worth more money than the free CopyHandler (which I use)...

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: Crush MCP (Master Control Program)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 28, 2009, 08:38 AM »

A media company should not send a correspondent to any country if they can not communicate in that country's native language.

-bcpaladin (December 27, 2009, 10:33 PM)

Now this leaves not much room for "standards" in any way.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stop Windows from calling home

« Last post by Tuxman on December 26, 2009, 02:51 PM »

ZOMG paranoia...

BTW, Skype is insecure and has known backdoors every few versions. Not a good thing, is it?

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: Crush MCP (Master Control Program)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 26, 2009, 12:23 AM »

If the education system in Germany failed to teach you why English has become dominant, I'm certainly not going to try to do so.

-bcpaladin (December 26, 2009, 12:06 AM)

The education system in Germany currently tries to teach young children British English. While I thought that B.E. is not so popular at all, the main problem is that not everybody will work for an IT company in his forthcoming life, so basically he should be taught to speak good German when talking to other Germans.

Standards are alright, but the language I communicate in is not standardized, it is chosen individually. The new German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, forced a scandal when a British journalist wanted to ask him in English during a German press conference and he just said "we're in Germany here". Now try to imagine the other way: A German journalist trying to talk German to an English politician in England (or, let's say, the States). What would you say?

I just can't stand my fellow men talking Denglish all day. It is, surely, a culture loss.
The lowest floor of a shopping center in Brunswick is called the "basement" (yep, basement, not "Keller", "Untergeschoss" or whatever). Car manufacturers add "engine start/stop" labels to the control panel while they, interesting!, add French labels for French cars. I wonder why everyone accepts that in France they speak French but they expect us to talk English instead of German.

Still talking about arrogance? Oh, come on!

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: Crush MCP (Master Control Program)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 09:53 PM »

Yeh.. thought so. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good google toolbar (for Firefox) alternative?

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 05:10 PM »

I can say that I want some of its features; especially the word search & highlighting buttons.

-Curt (December 25, 2009, 04:44 PM)

On the current page?
http://www.codedawn.com/find-all.php

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Living Room / Re: Google's Eric Schmidt has a stupid moment on privacy

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 03:41 PM »

Up to now I can easily withstand the several temptations to register anywhere.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: Crush MCP (Master Control Program)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 11:40 AM »

I wonder why it actually is said to be English. A German invented the computer, a Swiss invented the WWW. Time for a change, Obama would say.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: Crush MCP (Master Control Program)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 10:11 AM »

It is not a positive sign that most people prefer speaking a language without any grammar.

I am fluent in both languages and I like learning new languages, so am I not a globalized man now? 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: Crush MCP (Master Control Program)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 09:56 AM »

It is also arrogant to expect everyone to speak English. In Europe you'll reach a wider audience with German. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: Crush MCP (Master Control Program)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 09:49 AM »

Of course English is ugly. It doesn't even have grammar. "Add an s, and you'll have the plural", lol, [flame] now we all know why the Presidents of the United States are a bit... illiterate.  [/flame]

English is not the global language, Chinese is. When I take non-primary languages into account, there are also some countries in Africa for German... so you'd better accept that not every software in this bloody world has to be in English.

 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: Crush MCP (Master Control Program)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 09:20 AM »

In Europe, German is still the primary language of many countries (Germany, Austria, parts of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, even in the Netherlands they speak German). English is not.
I wonder why these US-American weirdos think that their broken English accent is the one and only global language. Sort of arrogance, I guess.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for list of read-only editors

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 09:01 AM »

Ah, alright then. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for list of read-only editors

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 08:51 AM »

You can also open a file in a viewer without actually viewing. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for list of read-only editors

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 08:35 AM »

When you have a repository notes mode ala WriteMonkey, is that viewing or editing?

-Paul Keith (December 25, 2009, 12:45 AM)

An editor is always a viewer, but not the other way.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: Crush MCP (Master Control Program)

« Last post by Tuxman on December 25, 2009, 08:31 AM »

German text?

-f0dder (December 25, 2009, 06:49 AM)

I can perfectly live with that. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for list of read-only editors

« Last post by Tuxman on December 24, 2009, 07:17 PM »

Read-only plain text reading.
(BTW, what is a "readonly editor"?)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for list of read-only editors

« Last post by Tuxman on December 24, 2009, 06:58 PM »

What about less?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs

« Last post by Tuxman on December 24, 2009, 10:24 AM »

Interesting list. It might be informative if we all indicate what version of Windows we're running and whether or not it's 64 bit or 32 bit.

-Darwin (December 24, 2009, 10:23 AM)

Vista and XP, both 32 bit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs

« Last post by Tuxman on December 24, 2009, 08:51 AM »

I see. Not bad. Running both now. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs

« Last post by Tuxman on December 24, 2009, 08:10 AM »

Instead of vanilla PuTTy I use PuTTY tray

-f0dder (December 24, 2009, 08:06 AM)

Tried KiTTy?  
(PuTTy tray looks fine, too. I think I'll give it a try myself.)