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General Software Discussion / Re: NexusFile has been updated!

« Last post by Tuxman on November 03, 2009, 04:01 PM »

A pity that development seems to have stalled, it looks quite promising... however, there are several things still missing (like a one-panel view  )...

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

« Last post by Tuxman on November 02, 2009, 10:19 AM »

Seamonkey does feel a bit archaic but, hey! who doesn't like the retro look sometimes?!

-dantheman (November 02, 2009, 10:15 AM)

A browser is something I see all the time. I don't want to have a retro look on my still quite modern notebook. 
(I don't actually need any look while browsing, but I added a dozen of buttons which are useful in some cases...)

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

« Last post by Tuxman on November 02, 2009, 09:48 AM »

Firefox 3.6 beta 1 seems to take less resources (subjectively).. however, Seamonkey was never my choice. I don't like its "look and feel".

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

« Last post by Tuxman on November 02, 2009, 07:34 AM »

including the content of your emails

-zridling (November 02, 2009, 06:59 AM)

So emails are "just such a virtual thing" and in no way comparable to actual letters to you?

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Living Room / Re: Best Free and Pay FTP Client

« Last post by Tuxman on November 02, 2009, 07:32 AM »

FileZilla ftw. Now it even supports tabs. 

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

« Last post by Tuxman on November 02, 2009, 01:16 AM »

Google is the one who delivers the best results in search

-Shades (November 01, 2009, 08:27 PM)

Google is the one who delivers the most Google-products results and who cares a lot about fake meta tags.

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

« Last post by Tuxman 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

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

« Last post by Tuxman 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

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

« Last post by Tuxman on November 01, 2009, 06:42 AM »

Their privacy policy.

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

« Last post by Tuxman 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

« Last post by Tuxman 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

« Last post by Tuxman 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

« Last post by Tuxman 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

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

« Last post by Tuxman 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

« Last post by Tuxman on October 26, 2009, 03:31 PM »

There is no "open source community".