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del_diablo
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posted September 12, 2008 09:44 PM |
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Software Discussion!
Since search failed me, i think i need to create this topic.
Mainly say what you are using, link it, and tell more about it.
What i am using:
*Opera Web browser + torrent client
*jetAudio Music Player
*X-chat Decent IRC client!
*Paint.Net Image editing program, support for most formats and it communety plugins that makes it even better!
*K-Lite
*SpeedFan Program for checking the heat on your PC and tweaking fan speed and stuff. Can be used to save power, noise reduction, etc.
*Project64 decent N64 emulator
*Nester[cannot find link, you will have to find it yourself] a decent NES emulator
What i going to get:
*Freya(the modeling program, it tok me ages last time to find it)
What i want:
*Amarok(not windows support  , its the best player ever imo)
*Some linux distro installed
*Stuff
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dimis
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posted September 24, 2008 12:20 AM |
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Edited by dimis at 06:04, 26 Sep 2008.
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My preferences
Web browser: safari (mac) or iceweasel (linux). Under windows, I rarely browse the net, so, anything that is available. 
Music Player: totem (linux) or vlc (mac).
Video Player: mplayer (linux) or vlc (mac).
Image Editing: gimp.
Creating Figures: dia (all platforms), xfig (sometimes in linux), jfig (mac)
Writing Documents: LaTeX
Editors for documents: WinEdt (windows), or kile (linux), or Texmaker (mac). Sometimes, when I have hard time with greek under mac though, I use Textwrangler.
"Compiling" latex documents: MiKTeX (win), texlive (linux), MacTeX (mac).
Compilers: Under win, whatever comes along with Visual Studio Express, otherwise gcc (linux, mac)
IDE: My favourite had always been Visual Studio 6 (win); however, the recent Visual Studio Express is also great with some minor experience I had. In other platforms, it really depends on the language. Most of the time though, I want to make minor changes and I use gedit (linux), or emacs. Of course another good idea is KDevelop, but I rarely use it nowadays. Under mac, I uniformly treat everything with Textwrangler apart from C/C++ for which I use xcode.
Math Software: Maple (available for all platforms), or gnuplot (again available for all platforms). The choice depends on the application.
Torrent Client: Transmission (mac), and Azureus (linux, and in the past in mac).
Oh, and I use the terminal a lot! 
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mvassilev
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posted September 24, 2008 10:36 PM |
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Heh, I just use regular Windows stuff + some other stuff.
OS: Windows XP
Browser: Firefox
Image editing: Paint and Photoshop (some things are just faster to do in Paint)
Music/Videos: Winamp
Archives: WinRAR
File management: FAR
Documents: Office.
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Asheera
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posted September 25, 2008 02:08 PM |
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If I'll say what programs I have you'll surely know that I pirated most of them
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TheDeath
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posted September 25, 2008 02:14 PM |
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Edited by TheDeath at 14:15, 25 Sep 2008.
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Well Ash, except for games, I doubt you can beat me in that aspect.
Let's just say, I use: Total Commander for organizing AND viewing files without opening them (it has a "File Viewer" in binary/hexadecimal, REALLY helpful you don't have to be a complete nerd to make sense out of it either  ).
What can I say, I don't think I would be able to enjoy my experience with the computer and all the nicely organized structure without it. I like because:
1) It doesn't have rubbish "stylish" buttons or "aero" stupidity (I need a systematic functionality, not a Las Vegas presentation!)
2) It has two panels, which both can have a variable number of tabs
3) You can look at every file systematically, and move/copy them easily between the two panels, no need for Cut/Paste annoyance
4) Did I mention that it's systematic and clean without stupid "OMG cool graphics" or other ****?
I use Firefox as my browser, with NoScript addon, so nasty sites need me to allow JavaScript or Flash first
Sygate Personal Firewall as my Firewall, it's very good, and it's very light (i.e doesn't eat many resources). It is mostly "manual" (i.e asks you) but I find it better than auto-signatures.
and uhm, a lot others that I won't list them here. My desktop is also very clean currently, because I have everything:
1) Organized in the Start Menu
2) Organized on the Harddisk and easily recognizable with Total Commander
My Current desktop (as you can see, besides the "obvious" Windows stuff, only Total Commander is there )
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JoonasTo
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posted September 25, 2008 02:20 PM |
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And that matters because? 
Windows XP - OS
OpenOffice - Writing, calculations
Paint, Photoshop - Pictures
Firefox - Browser
Thunderbird - E-mail
DosBox - Dos emulator
Project64 - N64 emulator
Snes9x - SNES emulator
Nester - NES emulator
VisualBoyAdvance - GB/GBC/GBA emulator
Fusion - Sega Master System/Game Gear/Genesis emulator
Nero - Burner
Avast - Antivirus
Comodo - Firewall
WinAmp - Audio player
VLC - Video player
CDdisplay - Comic Player
Teamspeak - Speaking to friends, D'uh!
Hamachi - Virtual LAN
WinRAR - File compressor
Knoppix - A live cd linux
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Asheera
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posted September 25, 2008 02:20 PM |
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Edited by Asheera at 14:21, 25 Sep 2008.
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@Death: I love Total Commander and you're right about that Lister, just select a file and press F3 and you immediately see its contents, whether it is binary, text, or something else
For example I've seen people that don't know how to open an .xdb. Well, with this Lister you immediately find out that it's just text so a program like Notepad could open it.
Also Total Commander can enter Zip files just as if they were normal folders, no need to open them with WinRar or something else and extract the files (you can view them directly with the Lister - but not edit them though)
As for my other programs I use:
- ZoneAlarm as a Firewall
- Firefox
- 3ds Max (though I'm not very good at it)
- Photoshop
- Hamachi
- WinRar
- WinAmp
- Nero
- many others I don't want to list
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mvassilev
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posted September 25, 2008 02:24 PM |
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Oh yeah, that reminds me, I use Norton Firewall 2002 as my firewall.
And Total Commander seems a lot like FAR, except FAR doesn't have tabs. They're all Norton Commander clones anyway.
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TheDeath
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posted September 25, 2008 02:25 PM |
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- 3ds Max (though I'm not very good at it)
- Photoshop
I'm good at both and I have a LOT more than that (even Zbrush) and not only in 3D/image, but a lot on sound (some excellent ones are free as well).
I also have 7Zip as an archiver...
because I'm too lazy to list them, let's just say that clicking "Properties" shows 821 shortcuts in the Start Menu (I know some programs have more than 1 shortcut btw!)
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Asheera
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posted September 25, 2008 03:18 PM |
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Here comes Death again with his quantity bragging, even though he can't even get a sample to work
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TheDeath
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posted September 25, 2008 03:26 PM |
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I know you're not serious but can you drop that? I mean seriously, it's not even funny. I doubt you can get even close to the amount of work I've done on it, and you talk as if "it's nothing". At least if you don't find it useful then at least don't act like you would know better. No seriously, don't tell me to chill out, I've had enough of that remarks already, and it's not like you wouldn't know since it would be the first time.
What I said above is that I have too many to list. That's all.
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william
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posted September 25, 2008 03:33 PM |
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Mvass, use some real software and not just poor programs like Norton things.
Well I use A LOT of programs. I will edit this post when I list them all.
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Darkshadow
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posted September 25, 2008 04:11 PM |
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Firefox
Avast Antivirus
Spyware doctor
Limewire
Winamp
Notepad++
Photoshop
3ds Max
Winrar
Hamachi
Gimp
Xfire
MSN
Map editor
Google Earth
World Time Chart
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Powerpoint
Google Sketchup
Blender
Vixy
Utorrent
Netscape
Terrain builder
Just my laptop stuff, wait until I get to my gaming computer
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Asheera
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posted September 25, 2008 04:15 PM |
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can you drop that? I mean seriously, it's not even funny.
Do you think you're funny with your "bragging" and such? Can you drop that?
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friendofgunnar
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posted September 25, 2008 04:25 PM |
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@Death: I love Total Commander and you're right about that Lister, just select a file and press F3 and you immediately see its contents, whether it is binary, text, or something else
I'm kind of embarrassed. I've been using TC for years and I didn't know that ;P
some other things TC is good for:
-You can see every every file within a folder. You can even do this to the entire computer, although I wouldn't recommend it.
-Shortcuts for everything, for example you can make Ctrl-Z the shortcut for opening the desktop
-I use the multi-rename tool pretty often 
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Asheera
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posted September 25, 2008 04:44 PM |
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I'm kind of embarrassed. I've been using TC for years and I didn't know that ;P
There's also a quick shortcut to open a file with Notepad: just press F4
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TheDeath
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posted September 25, 2008 05:05 PM |
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Edited by TheDeath at 17:06, 25 Sep 2008.
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@Ash:Quote:
Do you think you're funny with your "bragging" and such? Can you drop that?
You know what's funny? The fact that I didn't even wanted it to be funny, I only meant that I have a lot of them so there's too many to list. It's not my fault you interpret it the wrong way you know...
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There's also a quick shortcut to open a file with Notepad: just press F4
You know you can change the default editor too, I use a different one (it came with another package, an assembler, MASM).
@FOG:Quote:
-You can see every every file within a folder. You can even do this to the entire computer, although I wouldn't recommend it.
-Shortcuts for everything, for example you can make Ctrl-Z the shortcut for opening the desktop
-I use the multi-rename tool pretty often
also I use eMule for finding stuff that i can't find on rapidshare or other sites otherwise. Even though it's incredibly sloooow (because it puts you on a "queue" and you have to wait for others to download from the same guy, since he has a limit on his upload after all).
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Asheera
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posted September 25, 2008 05:11 PM |
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You know what's funny? The fact that I didn't even wanted it to be funny, I only meant that I have a lot of them so there's too many to list. It's not my fault you interpret it the wrong way you know...
Clearly this is not brag, is it? (especially with the "" smiley at the end)Quote:
let's just say that clicking "Properties" shows 821 shortcuts in the Start Menu (I know some programs have more than 1 shortcut btw!)
But I don't want to continue this...
And about Total Commander, there are other interesting shortcuts, such as:
F5 - Copy a file (the default path is displayed as in the other panel)
F6 - Move a file (same path as above)
F7 - Create Directory in the current path in the current panel
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TheDeath
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posted September 25, 2008 05:14 PM |
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Edited by TheDeath at 17:16, 25 Sep 2008.
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Quote:
Quote:
You know what's funny? The fact that I didn't even wanted it to be funny, I only meant that I have a lot of them so there's too many to list. It's not my fault you interpret it the wrong way you know...
Clearly this is not brag, is it? (especially with the "" smiley at the end)Quote:
let's just say that clicking "Properties" shows 821 shortcuts in the Start Menu (I know some programs have more than 1 shortcut btw!)
But I don't want to continue this...
If you don't want to continue then why did you make this useless post? I think you should by now my addiction to that smiley, but it's not like you wouldn't know.
EDIT: Oh and for chatting, I use Pidgin, an open source messenger that supports a LOT of protocols at the same time, even though it lacks some features in some of them, at least it does not have very fancy GUI (good) and thus it's performance is good
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Corribus
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posted September 25, 2008 06:57 PM |
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EDIT: Oh and for chatting, I use Pidgin, an open source messenger that supports a LOT of protocols at the same time, even though it lacks some features in some of them, at least it does not have very fancy GUI (good) and thus it's performance is good
Dude, why do you have to brag so much?
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