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RAK
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The title of this topic was originally going to be "Which text editor do you use?", because I felt somewhat left out in the process of starting flame-wars and I wanted to start the old Emacs vs. vi war again. Then, after realising that it was absurd to do such a thing (for one thing, who would answer? Me, Hasta and JD-sama - hardly enough people for a flame-war), I decided to make it the more inclusive "What software do you use most often?"
So, for me:
Operating Systems: Windows XP Professional on my desktop. Debian Linux on my laptop. I have Linux on my desktop, of course. but it's not regularly booted up.
Web Browser: Firefox. IE sucks, Opera is non-free and has strange key arrangements.
Text Editor: Emacs, on both Windows and Linux. I can use vi, but I find Emacs performs better for me. Strangely, I can use ed (an amazingly old and obscure text editor, included as standard with UNIX and its derivative systems) better than vi.
Office Suite: OpenOffice.org. The open-source connection again, but the major draw of this suite is its lack of cost.
Graphics Editor: The GIMP. Again, open-source. I admit that it isn't perfect - bad interface and lack of vector graphics functions as standard, but again, the lack of cost draws me in.
Music Player: iTunes in Windows, Amarok in Linux. My iPod is the major reason that I use both of these - I could use Winamp for Windows for the same things, but it's usually easier to use iTunes.
Compilers: GCC, G++ in Linux, Dev-C++ in Windows.
Compression/Disc Image Software: WinRAR and PowerISO in Windows (with occasional use of some others for MESS/Bochs/QEMU), whatever I can find built into Linux.
Emulators/Simulators: DOSBox, MESS, Wine, Bochs, and recently QEMU.
Miscellaneous: Folding@Home, too many games to mention.
Occasional Use: Audacity, SpeedFan (a temperature/processor use gauge for Windows), whatever utilities I need for my Palm T|X.
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Teimuraz Sakirovadze
Minister of Peace
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Posted: Sun 2008-01-27 14:52
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For me:
OS: It's XP. I last used Linux in '05.
Web browser: Firefox, what a coincidence. Never used Opera. Probably runs like one...!
Text editor(s): Nonexistent => Notepad.
Graphics editor: Something IO recommended to me, PhotoSuite 9. Found a loophole so it doesn't ask me for registration. 
Music: Windows Media Player 11, with OGG codecs installed. :]
Miscellaneous: Pidgin, WLM 8.1, something for my ancient webcam, SI-English unit converter, Coagula, Audacity (because some things deserve recording), subnet calculator and IP scanner, Ventrilo, Skype and the Gmail notifier. 
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Roderic
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Posted: Sun 2008-01-27 16:55
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There are six programs I use often:
My text editor eVim for LaTeX documents, PHP editing, and Web Design,
My image editor Macromedia Fireworks for photoshopping and Web Design,
My web browser SeaMonkey,
My FTP program FileZilla,
My compression utility 7-Zip.
My music player Winamp.
Occasionally I'll use OpenWatcom, FreeBASIC, MAME, PowerISO, Audacity, and GoatTracker.
All of this I use typically on Windows XP Media Center Edition, although I do use Kubuntu Linux occasionally. It's the only blend of Linux that has had any luck in getting all of my hardware working correctly. I wish I used FreeBSD, though.
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orwelliantherye
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Posted: Sun 2008-01-27 17:05
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OS: Windows 95.
Browser: Mozilla. Just Standard Mozilla.
Office Suite: Microsoft Office home and student
Graphics: Irfanview 3.98
Media Player: Windows Media Player (for music), and DivX player for videos.
Media reception: Emule.
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OS:Vista, but I want to try Linux
Browser: Firefox and IE
Office Suite: MS Office and I've used Openoffice.org
Music: Winamp and Windows Media Player
Other: Skype, Ventrilo, Google Talk, and Google Earth (fun to mess with), many games that I won't mention
I use Photoshop
I also have been messing with 7-Zip and WinRAR
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ChemistofTroy
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Posted: Sun 2008-01-27 22:54
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Operating Systems: Windows XP Professional on my desktop. Windows Vista (I know, it sucks) on my laptop. I've never had the time to check out Linux, although my dad is turning one of my old machines into a Linux box for a server, so we'll se where that goes.
Web Browser: IE
Text Editor: Word. I don't do much with text outside of school essays and reports.
Office Suite: Just Word on the desktop, Microsoft Office on the laptop in case a professor goes batshit and copies everything in Powerpoint.
Graphics Editor: Adobe Photoshop/Premiere Elements.
Music Player: iTunes and Windows Media Player. I use both of them intermittedly.
Compilers: Anybody want to get me started on learning how to program? It's something I've wanted to do for a while now, but have never found the right (free) tools, nor the tutorials to use them.
Miscellaneous: Games, especially WC3:TFT.
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SweetButterfly
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Posted: Sun 2008-01-27 23:06
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| ChemistofTroy wrote: |
Operating Systems: Windows XP Professional on my desktop. Windows Vista (I know, it sucks) on my laptop. I've never had the time to check out Linux, although my dad is turning one of my old machines into a Linux box for a server, so we'll se where that goes.
Web Browser: IE
Text Editor: Word. I don't do much with text outside of school essays and reports.
Office Suite: Just Word on the desktop, Microsoft Office on the laptop in case a professor goes batshit and copies everything in Powerpoint.
Graphics Editor: Adobe Photoshop/Premiere Elements.
Music Player: iTunes and Windows Media Player. I use both of them intermittedly.
Compilers: Anybody want to get me started on learning how to program? It's something I've wanted to do for a while now, but have never found the right (free) tools, nor the tutorials to use them.
Miscellaneous: Games, especially WC3:TFT. |
I just got WC3:TFT.  Do you like Dota? |
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Posted: Sun 2008-01-27 23:28
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| ChemistofTroy wrote: |
Operating Systems: Windows XP Professional on my desktop. Windows Vista (I know, it sucks) on my laptop. I've never had the time to check out Linux, although my dad is turning one of my old machines into a Linux box for a server, so we'll se where that goes.
Web Browser: IE
Text Editor: Word. I don't do much with text outside of school essays and reports.
Office Suite: Just Word on the desktop, Microsoft Office on the laptop in case a professor goes batshit and copies everything in Powerpoint.
Graphics Editor: Adobe Photoshop/Premiere Elements.
Music Player: iTunes and Windows Media Player. I use both of them intermittedly.
Compilers: Anybody want to get me started on learning how to program? It's something I've wanted to do for a while now, but have never found the right (free) tools, nor the tutorials to use them.
Miscellaneous: Games, especially WC3:TFT. |
I just got WC3:TFT. Do you like Dota? |
haha, I posted that game on purpose to see if someone else would bring that up. I do indeed like DotA.
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Mephistopheles
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Posted: Sun 2008-01-27 23:29
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Operating Systems: Windows Vista. I know some of you will be like... Meph uses vista??!?!?! OMGZZZZ but I'm okay with it. In fact it works pretty well considering I've heard so much bitching about it that I was worried it'd crash soon after I bought it, but that's fortunately not the case for me.
Web Browser: IE. I don't see why it sucks...
Text Editor: I use notepad for basic stuff, WordPad for more moderate stuff, like writing a long post, or editing posts, but mostly Windows Office 2005 or something, I think.
Office Suite: What's an office suite?
Graphics Editor: I have GIMP but I don't know how to use it. I mostly use Windows Paint. 
Music Player: Haha RAK made a typo, what a loser dude from Ireland. I use Windows Media player for stuff that isn't iTunes, and i use iTunes for the rest. iTunes is pretty stupid though.
Compilers: What is a compiler?.
Miscellaneous: Okay for games, the great and powerful Mephistopheles uses the following:
- StarCraft: Brood War - I don't use it anymore because my router mysteriously crashes everytime I play it online... makes no sense anymore and I can't figure out the problem (it's not a firewall problem).
- Birth of the Federation - a Star Trek game I threaded in Literary Suggestions.
- Civilization 3 - An excellent game I threaded, too, in Literary Suggestions.
- Alpha Centauri - Good game. A little basic when compared to more modern games, though. Even kindof basic compared to Brood War, but Alpha Centauri has a lot of ease and coolness factors.
- Homeworld 2 - I threaded this, too.
- Age of Empires 3 - Kindof disappointing. Not as much coolness as Age of Empires 2.
I think that's it for games.
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orwelliantherye
Filthy Animal
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Posted: Sun 2008-01-27 23:32
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| Teimuraz Sakirovadze wrote: |
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OS: Windows 95.
Browser: Mozilla. Just Standard Mozilla.
Office Suite: Microsoft Office home and student
Graphics: Irfanview 3.98
Media Player: Windows Media Player (for music), and DivX player for videos.
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Windows 95? ... You know how easy that is to crash, don't you? |
It's worked for me. When it does crash, I usually just restart it and everything gets back to normal.
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| I was upset when I met a man with no shoes.....But then I met a man with no penis |
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Current Situation: Not Good.
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Acebrock
Minster of Plenty
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Posted: Sun 2008-01-27 23:38
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Operating Systems: Windows XP
Web Browser: IE (with add ons disabled), because, interestingly, Firefox runs SLOWER than IE for me
Text Editor: Microsoft word 2003
Office Suite: MS Office 2003
Graphics Editor: why?
Music Player: iTunes
Compilers: no need for me
Miscellaneous: Mainly just a game called critical mass, though I do sometimes play Sim City 4. There's just something about creating a giant city and starting a volcanic eruption right in the middle of it that appeals to me. 
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RAK
Minster of Plenty
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Posted: Sun 2008-01-27 23:57
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| Haha RAK made a typo, what a loser dude from Ireland. |
I will have you note that I, in fact, was editing this on a TV screen with crappy resolution (had to use my main screen for installing some extra computers that I have lying around, one with Win2k for my sister, one with Debian with FVWM to play with myself, in fact, the one I'm posting on right now).
Interestingly, there are no less than five computers currently in my room: my desktop, my laptop, the two boxes I was working on earlier and an ancient 486SX laptop, running MS-DOS 6.0/Win3.1, but currently not fully operational. There is also my Palm T|X PDA, which can connect to the Internet and work on documents, with programmability through the C, BASIC and Lisp languages (among others, although I only use BASIC at the moment), a graphing calculator, an image editor capable of editing JPEGs, etc. Along with that are my games consoles: A Wii, a PlayStation 2, two PlayStations, a GameCube, a Sega MegaDrive, two Game Boy Colours, a Game Boy Advance and a Nintendo DS. I think I'm packing a decent amount of raw computing power.
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Windows Vista isn't an unstable operating system by any account. My problem with it is that it does nothing particularly better than XP and needs a lot more hardware to run successfully. I'm pretty acid-tongued about the situation at the moment - when I see a laptop running Vista and somebody's not complaining about it, I can usually tell that they're not very experienced with running a computer at the edge of its limitations (I run my desktop at 75% load all the time thanks to Folding@Home).
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Roderic
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Posted: Mon 2008-01-28 00:47
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Operating Systems: Windows XP
Web Browser: IE (with add ons disabled), because, interestingly, Firefox runs SLOWER than IE for me
Text Editor: Microsoft word 2003
Office Suite: MS Office 2003
Graphics Editor: why?
Music Player: iTunes
Compilers: no need for me
Miscellaneous: Mainly just a game called critical mass, though I do sometimes play Sim City 4. There's just something about creating a giant city and starting a volcanic eruption right in the middle of it that appeals to me. |
Firefox isn't known for being exactly fast, or even very efficient or stable. It's known for giving extensions and features for security and giving web developers a great enviornment to develop for (It's the only set of browsers that supports a fair amount of nice CSS 3 features and it renders web pages well and to standards).
If you want a browser that gives you speed, you should try Opera. Safari is supposed to be lightning fast as well.
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Mephistopheles
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Posted: Mon 2008-01-28 01:27
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| I will have you note that I, in fact, was editing this on a TV screen with crappy resolution (had to use my main screen for installing some extra computers that I have lying around, one with Win2k for my sister, one with Debian with FVWM to play with myself, in fact, the one I'm posting on right now). |
No excuse. Typos are evil, and you have no right making them, RAK, considering you're so computer efficient. I therefore move to nominate you for a banning, albeit temporary. Any seconds?
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Becca
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Operating System: Windows XP on my comp and Windows Vista on my Laptop.
Web Browser: Firefox and IE ...
Text Editor: BﾖH I'm a girl. lol
Office Suite: Yeah , uhm...
Graphics Editor: lol ..
Music Player:AH! Windows Media Player. Too lazy to get anything else and it never bothered me plus it shows what I'm listening to on MSN Messenger... how cool is that?
Compilers: Whatever that is...
Last comment: It's all good if it does what I want.
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Ingsoc Officer
Minister of Truth
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Sindark Nave
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Operating Systems: Windows XP Professional (had Vista. but I upgraded)
Web Browser: Firefox
Text Editor: Notepad
Office Suite: OpenOffice.org
Graphics Editor: Photoshop 7
Music Player: Winamp
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RAK
Minster of Plenty
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Made some additions about utils that I didn't think of when I posted originally.
Also, a suggestion to those who wish to try out Linux - the best way to learn how to use Linux would be to download a LiveCD of one of the most popular distributions; I suggest downloading a live disk image of Ubuntu Linux, which has the reputation of one of the easiest Linux versions to use.
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RAK
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Of course, if you want the ultimate in speed from a browser, you go the Lynx route. So what if you can't see any graphics at all? It's FAST!
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I just installed Opera on my OLPC.
The browser that came built in wouldn't download.
Opera works much better too.
Does anybody know anything about Python? I'm trying to make a program that will display a file in a window. so I found some code that claims to do it but it needs something called GtkGlade so I download and try to install that and it gives an error saying it needs something else. So I try to install that something else not I get demands for ExtUtils::Depends and ExtUtils::PkgConfig.
A lot of times I think this Open Source is an Open Snow Job. It makes no sense that a lot of this stuff is so complicated and the documentation does nothing but dish out more gobble dee gook.
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The title of this topic was originally going to be "Which text editor do you use?", because I felt somewhat left out in the process of starting flame-wars and I wanted to start the old Emacs vs. vi war again. Then, after realising that it was absurd to do such a thing (for one thing, who would answer? Me, Hasta and JD-sama - hardly enough people for a flame-war), I decided to make it the more inclusive "What software do you use most often?"
So, for me:
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agh yes, a passionate Gaelic Engineer wanted a furious technowar (totally cool shit with weaponzied technolingo) with the rest of the warrior-engineers caste here, you know something every war has Unintended consequences, I derived lotsa of interesting stuff while waging the flamewar. Very educational Rak.
You wish people had more fire in the belly and get more kicks from it.
Your garden variety Checkov Slav doesn' have the needed "Scottie" in him to fight with passion, to fight to the death. ")
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RAK
Minster of Plenty
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Posted: Thu 2008-02-14 10:27
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| Politics: Democratic Socialist |
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| A lot of times I think this Open Source is an Open Snow Job. It makes no sense that a lot of this stuff is so complicated and the documentation does nothing but dish out more gobble dee gook. |
I think the problem goes back to the days of proprietary Unix. Unix, along with many of the rest of the open source operating systems, was designed for computer programmers to get computer programming done, rather than the later computing trend towards using the PC as a productivity-increasing device in other fields, such as business, home word processing and spreadsheeting, image rectification, et cetera (a set of tasks which the PC has performed with varying quality).
As such, the developers don't provide great documentation, as noted. It's also considered a matter of pride in some circles to have Unix or Unix-like operating systems with such obscure and complicated commands. It's a bit of a Catch-22, in that nobody will make proper documentation until more people hop on board the open-source bandwagon, but people won't embrace open-source (in general) until proper documentation and less obscure commands have been devised.
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Posted: Thu 2008-02-14 15:01
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Well, before my computer died I used the following:
Word Processing:
Microsoft Word 97 (I'm a cheap bastard).
Internet:
Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox (I switch between the two).
For anti-spyware:
Spybot Search and Destroy
For anti-virus:
Unlimited subscription to McAfee anti-virus (The only good thing that ever came out of a subscription to AOL)
For file sharing:
μTorrent
Shareaza
Kazaa Lite Resurrection
For picture manipulation:
Paint Shop Pro 7
For media playing:
Winamp
For gaming:
Xfire
Teamspeak
For games (in no particular order):
Warrock
Call of Duty 4 (stupid thing didn't work)
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. Extraction Point
Half Life 2
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 3
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Counterstrike: Source
Hidden: Source
Zombie Master
Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat
Red Alert: A Path Beyond
Rise of Nations
Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War
Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Star Wars: Battlefront
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
GunZ: The Duel
Soldier of Fortune II
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