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filkertomI can has new XP install.
I did indeed have access to the drive before I nuked it, so I backed up pretty much everything of any importance before the fresh format. Got the mobo drivers, video drivers, internet, Firefox beta 4b, a bunch of essential free goodies, I'm downloading SP3 now, and I'll have BIAB and Acid Pro 7 and Reaper back on this puppy within the hour and I am good to go.
Except for the stack of games to my right. ;)
What free software can't you do without? Notepad++, VLC Player, Winamp, Picasa, CCleaner, MS Security Essentials, Foxit Reader, and AnVir make my life much easier. RocketDock is way cool. And I really can't choose between Firefox and Chrome, so I have 'em both. :)
I did indeed have access to the drive before I nuked it, so I backed up pretty much everything of any importance before the fresh format. Got the mobo drivers, video drivers, internet, Firefox beta 4b, a bunch of essential free goodies, I'm downloading SP3 now, and I'll have BIAB and Acid Pro 7 and Reaper back on this puppy within the hour and I am good to go.
Except for the stack of games to my right. ;)
What free software can't you do without? Notepad++, VLC Player, Winamp, Picasa, CCleaner, MS Security Essentials, Foxit Reader, and AnVir make my life much easier. RocketDock is way cool. And I really can't choose between Firefox and Chrome, so I have 'em both. :)
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Date: 2010-09-25 02:32 am (UTC)In the tool department there's bash, perl, GNU make, LaTeX, and apache.
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Date: 2010-09-25 03:54 pm (UTC)Plus GIMP. Ruby, Python, Wine, jack (the sound server), Darkice and Amarok (v1.4.4).
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Date: 2010-09-25 02:32 am (UTC)When I use Windows, I use Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, CCleaner, and Cygwin. And a few others I can't remember right now.
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Date: 2010-09-25 02:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-09-25 03:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-25 03:27 am (UTC)Preferably, on software? Linux, Firefox, Pidgin, Emacs, and Mutt; if I'm stuck on Windows, Firefox, Pidgin, Emacs, and puTTY (by which I access Mutt :). On the backend, Apache and MySQL, on which I stack PHP and WordPress; Postfix, Dovecot, and Squid. Oh, and sshd. Can't *possibly* do without that.
Oh, and VLC (which runs on both), and Amarok for tunez on Linux. Haven't done anything with tunez on Windoze for a while.
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Date: 2010-09-26 02:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-25 02:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-25 03:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-25 08:31 am (UTC)The only time I turn it off at night is if I'm editing photos or watching an older, darker video. Even on a lot of newer stuff, I don't even notice it anymore. Right now it's on and I wouldn't think about it except that we're talking about it, my eyes adjusted so well to it.
The first few days it seemed pink... for about an hour. I recommend using a slow shift, not a fast one.
If it makes things too dark, you can adjust the bottom color temp up a few degrees.
I hate bright lighting (evil daystar included!) and F.lux is really a blessing.
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Date: 2010-09-25 10:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-26 05:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-09-25 03:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-25 03:12 am (UTC)Truecrypt, PasswordSafe, Gimp, MyDefrag, ImgBurn, Audacity, Virtual CloneDrive, Calibre (ebook software), VLC, ConTEXT editor, Microsoft Security Essentials for antivirus, Oracle VirtualBox, CDex, Handbrake, VirtualDub, OpenOffice, FoxIt, PDF Creator (the good one from SourceForge, not the commercial/shareware one), Personal Ancestry File (genealogy software, as good as paid stuff for my uses)
SMARTMonTools - Monitors hard drives and usually is able to give you a warning before a drive fails. This is what I use - it's not terribly user friendly but it's very powerful. There are other SMART monitors, some free, some not. I highly recommend running a SMART monitor even if you have to pay $20 for it - all it has to do is to save your bacon one time on a failing drive to be worth many times the price.
Stellarium - incredibly fun astronomy software. Zoom around the universe while sitting on your butt. Fun for anyone that likes the sky, astronomer or not. Friggin' amazing that it's free.
Firefox with NoScript, ForecastFox, Download Statusbar, BetterPrivacy, Adblock Plus, TamperData, HTTPS Everywhere (from EFF, you have to Google for it, it's not in the normal AddOn repository)
Stuff that is nice to have around, doesn't need to be installed:
PING - (Ping Is Not Ghost) - self-booting disc for making full system backups that can restore a bootable system in case of system crash. Open source replacement for Ghost. Not terribly user friendly but it WORKS, very well.
GPartEd - Gnome Partition Editor - self-booting partition manager, Open source replacement for Partition Magic and the like, very user friendly and works BETTER than the commercial equivalent. It's never failed me, commercial products have.
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Date: 2010-09-25 03:22 am (UTC)Visual Studio Express
Paint.NET
MagicISO
CutePDF print driver
COMODO suite
Audacity
WinHTTrack
FileZilla
ConceptDraw 7 - there was a free promo code a while back, not sure if they're still giving it away.
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Date: 2010-09-25 03:25 am (UTC)There's a whole lot of stuff installed, but that I rarely if ever get to, most shamefully Audacity and Inkscape.
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Date: 2010-09-25 03:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-25 04:14 am (UTC)I like running Safari on Windows because seriously, who targets that combination? And yet, since it's the same toy as on OSX with different compile options (and no doubt a lot of #ifdef), so it actually gets tested!
CutePDF print driver on Windows is an old and dear friend.
Pixen on OSX is fun for pixel editing.
TinyFugue. I compile my own, but you don't have to. ^_^
On iDevices: QRreader, TouchTerm (ssh), Stanza, JustLight. Also, Livejournal released a new version of their mobile app and it's much better, but does not show up as an automatic free upgrade. You have to search for it and install it separately. (Just delete the old 0.5.4 version.) This is version 0.6 and it's actually kinda useful. (I know, I'm scared too.)
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Date: 2010-09-25 05:17 am (UTC)Now I just need a program to make my newCD/DVD burner/player region-free. My old program doesn't work on this new computer (Windows 7 64-bit), although I've I've gotten most of the bugs fixed or ironed out.
*smacking forehead after reading other comments* Forgot CutePDF, CoreFTP Lite, Open Office.
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Date: 2010-09-25 08:00 am (UTC)If you've been following "Something Positive" lately, why would I not be at all surprised if you were already conducting "The Ballad of Slipleg the Pirate"?
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Date: 2010-09-25 08:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-25 07:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-26 01:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-26 01:07 am (UTC)Avast
Comodo Firewall (recent winner of the Matousec Proactive Security Challenge)
Chrome
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Date: 2010-09-26 07:27 pm (UTC)xplorer2
Firefox
Chrome (used to be Opera)
LastPass
NoteTab (but am experimenting with Notepad++
VLC
CCleaner
MalwareBytes
Audacity
Comodo
Paint.net
CDex
Foxit Reader
7Zip
Open Office
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Date: 2010-09-26 09:33 pm (UTC)Trillian (OK - technically the nifty bits are not free, but still).
Puzzle Pirates :)
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Date: 2010-09-27 06:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-28 02:19 am (UTC)