This is a repost of stuff I wrote before I knew what blogging was. These are all excellent tools that continue to exist because of their superior quality.
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Nothing like a clean reinstall to make me realize how many useful tools I take for granted!
Apart from the tools mentioned earlier this month, I found an urgent need to install the following software:
Password Safe encrypts database files for storing my passwords. It creates new ones, too.
Neutron is a tiny timesync utility to keep your system clock accurate.
MetaPad is a notepad replacement. You'll never want to touch notepad again!
IrfanView is the graphics and multimedia viewer.
Registrar Lite is a RegEdit replacement. Don't enter the registry without it!
Calypso 3.3 is an email client very similar to OE, but without most of its hassles.
Super Gravity is nice newsreader.
Soon the latter two will probably be replaced by 40tude, but for now it is a little too much of a beta.
Though I didn't have to reinstall this one, it deserves to be specially recommended. Not having to depend on an MS OS to manage booting from my partitions, made my job that much easier.
GAG, is a graphical boot manager that is so small, it lives through the death of an OS...
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Now that I'm on Debian Linux, I'm still using Passwordsafe, should use GAG and keep looking for that perfect email client...
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Sunday, August 28, 2005
09.03.2003, 14:35:54 - So much to try...
This is a repost of stuff I wrote before I knew what blogging was. These are all high quality MS Windows freeware programs.
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My favorite freeware tools are those that I have tested, kept and use daily.
WebMon enables you to find out when some of the other tools or websites that interest you, has changed.
Hamster is a open source local News, Pop3 and Imap server. It's easily scriptable and very solid and mature.
Proxomitron is an immensely powerful local web proxy. It can remove all the cruft from intrusive websites you visit.
K9 is a (solid beta) spam filtering local proxy, using Bayesian-like filtering.
AntiVir Personal Edition is my current favorite free anti-virus tool. I run several, but AntiVir beats AVG and others both in what it detects, and how few false positives it gives.
GUL is a lightweight URL manager. Since it's pulled from the Internet, as far as I can tell, I'm currently recreating it (faithfully!) using Python.
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Proxomitron is no longer developed, but just too good to die.
The free version of AntiVir is now named "AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic". There's a version for Linux / FreeBSD / OpenBSD / Solaris too.
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My favorite freeware tools are those that I have tested, kept and use daily.
WebMon enables you to find out when some of the other tools or websites that interest you, has changed.
Hamster is a open source local News, Pop3 and Imap server. It's easily scriptable and very solid and mature.
Proxomitron is an immensely powerful local web proxy. It can remove all the cruft from intrusive websites you visit.
K9 is a (solid beta) spam filtering local proxy, using Bayesian-like filtering.
AntiVir Personal Edition is my current favorite free anti-virus tool. I run several, but AntiVir beats AVG and others both in what it detects, and how few false positives it gives.
GUL is a lightweight URL manager. Since it's pulled from the Internet, as far as I can tell, I'm currently recreating it (faithfully!) using Python.
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Proxomitron is no longer developed, but just too good to die.
The free version of AntiVir is now named "AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic". There's a version for Linux / FreeBSD / OpenBSD / Solaris too.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
08.03.2003, 04:38:05 - The shrinkage of Nils
This is a repost of stuff I wrote before I knew what blogging was. I'll try The Hacker's Diet again, it did work.
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I've been on The Hacker's Diet for 22 weeks now. Having lost almost 25 kg, I think I can claim it works... I still have 45 kg to go before I'm considered healthy by medical science. That should be about a year from now? Oh well...
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The real problem isn't really what diet you try, almost any diet can work. It's what you do after the diet that's important and hard. More about that later...
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I've been on The Hacker's Diet for 22 weeks now. Having lost almost 25 kg, I think I can claim it works... I still have 45 kg to go before I'm considered healthy by medical science. That should be about a year from now? Oh well...
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The real problem isn't really what diet you try, almost any diet can work. It's what you do after the diet that's important and hard. More about that later...
Friday, August 26, 2005
07.03.2003, 04:58:38 - All travels start with the first stumble.
This is a repost of stuff I wrote before I knew what blogging was. Planarchy still exists it seems, but I don't use it after I moved to Linux.
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I am very curious about how this will look. The Planarchy consept is close to something I have wanted for a long time.
Later I hope that this will just be a small subset of what Chandler can do.
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Planarchy has changed, you'll have to evaluate it for yourself now. (I don't use Microsoft Windows programs any more.)
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I am very curious about how this will look. The Planarchy consept is close to something I have wanted for a long time.
Later I hope that this will just be a small subset of what Chandler can do.
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Planarchy has changed, you'll have to evaluate it for yourself now. (I don't use Microsoft Windows programs any more.)
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