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See subject: I had to port forward 113 & open a range for DCC to work over Linksys NAT 'firewall' modem in bridged config (took over ISP cablemodem) per https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthr...

* "There ya go" - the "CURE" for DCC over NAT!

(SO, if you EVER need it? Try that - I recall it working for me (port 113 stuck out bigtime in my mind & it's been a LONG time since I had to do it, as I don't use IRC now (not for ages, since 2001)).

APK

P.S.=> You made me curious about it so I looked into my favs/bookmarks "IRC" folder & "there she was" from LONG ago... apk

I won't because Kahled Mardem-Bey is an arse. his mirc program was full of proprietary extensions to the 'IRC protocol which would only work properly with other mirc users. which was only available for windows.

We did correspond by email over interoperability and his attitude was everyone shoud use Mirc and had no regard for open standards which the internet was built on.

it was mirc which introduced ctrl codes for different colored texts and backgrounds.

so don't feel guilty about that not sending money to that arrogant dick.

http://www.mirc.com/pfaq.html

you can see from his own faq he hasn't changed at all, he is promising a version not in English soon. Mirc was started in 1994 the faq appears to be current in 2011 and 17 years after starting to write Mirc a non - english version will be coming 'soon' .

• EditPlus Programming editor
• IrfanView Image viewer with effects and image manipulation capabilities
• Putty so I can SSH to my Gentoo from winblows
• Ability Spreadsheet as opposed to the spreadsheets in microsoft office, open office, and gnumeric
• Proxomitron Web-filtering proxy
• Flashpaste Copy/Paste on steroids
• WinRAR as opposed to winzip
• uTorrent as opposed to azureus and other java based boulder-weight crap
• mIRC IRC client
• DVD Shrink Rip/decode/encode DVDs, etc.
• Tail for Win32 Wish tail under linux was this good
• RealAlternative as opposed to realplayer
• Virtual Dimension Virtual desktops, as opposed to microsoft's power toys

No one remember poor old mIRC IRC client?
Fast, efficient, scriptable, Windows Only. Poor mIRC. If only there was an OS X client...

IRC is a far more powerful and deeper source for downloading material than all those combined. Including bit torrents. And the best part is that its been under RIAA's radar since day 1.

Get the client here

Find music, software, apps searching here
And here too

IM: Trillian (needs to be replaced with a Jabber client + aim/yahoo transport)
Been done. gAIM for Windows. Why not clutter up our 100% closed source, proprietary monolythic OS with all sorts of inferrior extensible, modulized open source apps? ;)

IRC: Chatzilla
Well, here's another cross-platform solution: XChat. It has a nifty tabbed based chat management system. Of course, if you want the true Windows/IRC experience, get mIRC, load it up with tons of scripts (both self-activating, and manually activated), and go running through the networks of the world. Just watch out for the UNICODE nasties (mIRC doesn't support UNICODE)

Firewall: Sygate (needs to be replaced)
I can't speak for Sygate, but ZoneAlarm is pretty good, in my opinion. (With exception to games) this is the only closed source recomendation I have here, but what Windows experience is complete without some closed-source freeware/shareware?

This fun game: Typing of the Dead
This one is definately worth a try. Quite fun! It's a little old, but worth it. Speaking of old and worth it, see if you can locate a copy of Commander Keen. It's not really Windows (DOS, actually), but I doubt you'd see it on a Mac.

Seems no one is giving serious answers so i guess i will be the only one

Freeware or open source software:
01. Firefox, http://www.getfirefox.com/
02. Winamp, http://www.winamp.com/
03. Miranda, http://www.miranda-im.org/
04. Media Player Classic, http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli
05. ffdshow, http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm
06. CDBurnerXp Pro, http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
07. Daemon-tools, http://www.daemon-tools.cc/
08. uTorrent, http://www.utorrent.com/
09. XnView, http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.htm l
10. ExactAudioCopy, http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
11. Dev-C++, http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
12. 7-zip, http://www.7-zip.org/
13. Real Alternative, http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternati ve.htm
14. QuickTime Alternative, http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alte rnative.htm
15. Process Explorer, http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/processexplo rer.html
16. Uniform Server, http://www.uniformserver.com/
17. nLite, http://www.nliteos.com/ (sp+hotfix+driver slipstreaming and ability to remove almost anything from the windows installation disc, including wmp, ie, drivers, services, etc, you can get your windows install disc down to 180MB with a 70MB RAM footprint after boot).

Commercial/Shareware software.
01. NOD32, http://www.nod32.com/ - simply the best antivirus software out there
02. Cinema4D, http://www.maxoncomputer.com/ Great modelling/rendering program (also available for OS X)
03. mIRC, http://www.mirc.com/ not the best irc client, but it has a tiny memory footprint/feature ratio
04. Directory Opus, http://www.gpsoft.com.au/ replace Explorer with a far better file manager.
05. UltraEdit, http://www.ultraedit.com/ great editor for many textbased formats
06. Visual Studio, http://microsoft.com/
07. Nero Burning ROM. http://www.ahead.de/ my burning program of choice

Frostwire (a free fork of Limewire without the DRMA crap) and mIRC are two programs that I know of that the user doesn't specifically *HAVE* to share files. If one sets up Frostwire correctly, it will neither share downloads, nor anything else. By default, though, FW does share all files downloaded by the user until he/she moves them out of the incoming directory.

With mIRC, the process is rather detailed, and not very n00b friendly. There are several helper programs, (such as OmenServe's Addons (AutoGet specifically. A GUI interface for your mIRC downloading needs.))

I do share over 2,000 files, but they are all 100% legal, public-domain .MP3 files. I have the almost the entire collection from OverClocked Remix that I use to "pad my stats" if you will. Though, I don't know if "padding" is the right term, since that's the only thing that I allow to go out from my system.

There are a lot more applications that work from a USB key that don't advertise that fact. I will share with you what I currently use on my 1gb USB key and the locations you can download them. Most of these are freeware or relatively cheap shareware. Please help the authors continue their work if you use any of these and make a small donation at their sites if available.

Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
This one will run from your key, but it does write to the registry which portable apps should not do. Then again, they don't advertise this as a portable app. Once you use it on a machine and configure it, it will remember your settings on that machine of course. Handy if you are locked down at work from installing software but you need it occasionally.

Bulk Rename Utility - http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/Site/Software/Softwar e_Intro.php
a utility which allows the rapid renaming of files and folders, based upon flexible selection criteria. Download the zip version for portability.

FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/
This project is currently dead, but it works from USB wonderfully.

FoxitReader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/bbs/index.php
A PDF reader that works very quickly (kind of like Adobe used to about 6 years ago).

Miranda - http://www.miranda-im.org/
A powerful and flexible multiprotocol IM client with loads of plugins. Download the zip version for portability.

mIRC - http://www.mirc.com/
Everyones favorite IRC app. Has always been portable.

PortableFileZilla - http://portableapps.com/
Portable FileZilla is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your server list and settings with you.

PortableFirefox - http://portableapps.com/
Portable Firefox is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

PortableNVU - http://portableapps.com/
Portable NVU is the easy-to-use NVU web editor packaged as a portable app, so you can edit your website on the go.

PortableOpenOffice - http://portableapps.com/
Portable OpenOffice.org is the popular OpenOffice.org office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app

PortableSunbird - http://portableapps.com/
Portable Sunbird is the handy Mozilla Sunbird calendar and task manager packaged as a portable app, so you can take your calendar and to do list with you.

PortableThunderbird - http://portableapps.com/
Portable Thunderbird is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you.

Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
Snippy is a small utility that captures an area of your screen to your clipboard to paste into other applications.

AleJenJes Countdown Timer - http://www.gonebowlin.com/freeware.html
It is a simple countdown timer where you enter the starting time in hours, minutes & seconds and it counts down to zero. Not needed often, but handy as can be for those few instances you do need one.

Unit Conversion Utility - http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/Site/Software/UCU_Int ro.html
Unit Conversion U

Geez, all this whining about proprietary half-assed IM networks. Show people how to use irc! They can use it with GAIM or any other various GUI client. (Or text if they prefer.) It's been around for decades, anyone can run a server, there are a multitude of clients on every platform, and it's entirely open. You can transfer files, and even have stupid graphical smileys and sounds if you want (or filter them if you don't).

Seriously, if people want an "open IM network", fire up an irc server, give everyone GAIM or Google Messanger, and be done with the AOL angst.

IN THE BEGINNING

Trolls ruled the Internet in teh beginning. They had small cliques, but were largely unorganized. Instead of being a unified Rome, they were the barbarians that littered the countryside, attacking those who passed by and causing only moderate damage. Unification of trolling power was not a priority, and although cliques were formed, there was no major alliances formed.

IN THE END

The International Trolling League is the solution to the problem. We start where the GNAA stopped (and failed). We organize splendid trolls on all mediums, from IRC to Usenet, from Slashdot to Kuro5hin. WE UNIFY THE GREAT RULING FORCES OF THE TROLLS INTO ONE SYNTHETIC AND AWESOME POWER. We are the Intarweb's worst nightmare! Lol.

DO YOU LIKE TO TROLL?
DO YOU LIKE TO FUCK WITH FAT OBESE LINUX NERDS?
DO YOU GET A HARDON WHEN YOU DDoS SERVERS?

IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE QUESTIONS, THE INTERNATIONAL TROLLING LEAGUE IS FOR YOU! STOP BY OUR IRC CHANNEL TODAY AND JOIN! (FIRST POST CLAIMED FOR ITL)

IN THE BEGINNING

Trolls ruled the Internet in teh beginning. They had small cliques, but were largely unorganized. Instead of being a unified Rome, they were the barbarians that littered the countryside, attacking those who passed by and causing only moderate damage. Unification of trolling power was not a priority, and although cliques were formed, there was no major alliances formed.

IN THE END

The International Trolling League is the solution to the problem. We start where the GNAA stopped (and failed). We organize splendid trolls on all mediums, from IRC to Usenet, from Slashdot to Kuro5hin. WE UNIFY THE GREAT RULING FORCES OF THE TROLLS INTO ONE SYNTHETIC AND AWESOME POWER. We are the Intarweb's worst nightmare! Lol.

DO YOU LIKE TO TROLL?
DO YOU LIKE TO FUCK WITH FAT OBESE LINUX NERDS?
DO YOU GET A HARDON WHEN YOU DDoS SERVERS?

IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE QUESTIONS, THE INTERNATIONAL TROLLING LEAGUE IS FOR YOU! STOP BY OUR IRC CHANNEL TODAY AND JOIN!

Winmodems became common around 1996-1997. If I remember right, Windows 95 was required run the Winmodems (Not Win 3.1). That's when I started in tech support at an ISP :P

There were several popular IRC clients for Windows well before that time. I was using mIRC on my Windows 3.0 machine in 1995, and I remember there were others.

However, in the early days of IRC most people telneted into a Unix server and used the IRC client there. The Unix servers usually had a more powerful client. Plus-- it was hard to run mIRC & Netscape at the same time on a 386/16Mhz/8 machine :)

A good way to get a teenager interested in and learning programming concepts is to help them with a scripting language. I got some programming basics from the IRC program mIRC's scripting system. Set them up connected to a computer and let them build some bots while chatting with new found friends. Just make sure they don't test bots in real channels, let them make their own.

But either way, it gives people even more reason to use mIRC - a closed source shareware app that's fast, efficient and doesn't expire even after 30 days. And, whatsmore, it's much, much better than Xchat - I've used it for 8 years now and I'm as happy as ever.

Wrong! It is disabled after 30 days, and you have to pay $20 to keep using it. What? You're using an old version? Oh, that doesn't have the expiry date? Good idea! Just like using any other old program, you're vulnerable to tons of exploits, like one that I've seen, where you end up flooding the server with gibberish until someone /kills you.

Chicago, IL - The GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) announces their forcible entry into the Soulseek filesharing network. This action was tasked to faggot tar baby Lysol, who created the GNAA's first slsk chatroom.

This development is expected to make thousands of gay nigger converts as nigger-seed-virus laced mp3s and FLACs are injected into rooms Underground Hip-Hop and Jazz (Full CDs), among others.

GNAA member Lysol commented, "With our new slsk chatroom GNAA we will be able to spread our holy nigger seed to copyright violating music pirates the world over!". He then proceeded to fuck Jazz (Full CDs) founder Lamig with his massive nigger dong, making her the third human female (after the Olsen twins) to be impregnated with the holy gay nigger seed.

Already, signs of niggerdom are spreading. Last Measure is being distributed on the network by persons not directly known to the ghey darkies.

GNAA software development branch have created trollseek, which is a Microsoft Windows-only proxy server, which connects to SoulSeek network, and translates SoulSeek protocol into RFC1459. This allows connecting to SoulSeek network using an irc client such as mIRC. Development of this software greatly improved GNAA's ability to troll Soulseek chatrooms.

About SoulSeek :
Soulseek is a free p2p tool, available for the Windows and LUNIX operating systems.
The majority of Soulseek users are in the United States and Brazil, with many users on the European continent.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowl

Chicago, IL - The GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) announces their forcible entry into the Soulseek filesharing network. This action was tasked to faggot tar baby Lysol, who created the GNAA's first slsk chatroom.

This development is expected to make thousands of gay nigger converts as nigger-seed-virus laced mp3s and FLACs are injected into rooms Underground Hip-Hop and Jazz (Full CDs), among others.

GNAA member Lysol commented, "With our new slsk chatroom GNAA we will be able to spread our holy nigger seed to copyright violating music pirates the world over!". He then proceeded to fuck Jazz (Full CDs) founder Lamig with his massive nigger dong, making her the third human female (after the Olsen twins) to be impregnated with the holy gay nigger seed.

Already, signs of niggerdom are spreading. Last Measure is being distributed on the network by persons not directly known to the ghey darkies.

GNAA software development branch have created trollseek, which is a Microsoft Windows-only proxy server, which connects to SoulSeek network, and translates SoulSeek protocol into RFC1459. This allows connecting to SoulSeek network using an irc client such as mIRC. Development of this software greatly improved GNAA's ability to troll Soulseek chatrooms.

About SoulSeek :
Soulseek is a free p2p tool, available for the Windows and LUNIX operating systems.
The majority of Soulseek users are in the United States and Brazil, with many users on the European continent.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowl

Chicago, IL - The GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) announces their forcible entry into the Soulseek filesharing network. This action was tasked to faggot tar baby Lysol, who created the GNAA's first slsk chatroom.

This development is expected to make thousands of gay nigger converts as nigger-seed-virus laced mp3s and FLACs are injected into rooms Underground Hip-Hop and Jazz (Full CDs), among others.

GNAA member Lysol commented, "With our new slsk chatroom GNAA we will be able to spread our holy nigger seed to copyright violating music pirates the world over!". He then proceeded to fuck Jazz (Full CDs) founder Lamig with his massive nigger dong, making her the third human female (after the Olsen twins) to be impregnated with the holy gay nigger seed.

Already, signs of niggerdom are spreading. Last Measure is being distributed on the network by persons not directly known to the ghey darkies.

GNAA software development branch have created trollseek, which is a Microsoft Windows-only proxy server, which connects to SoulSeek network, and translates SoulSeek protocol into RFC1459. This allows connecting to SoulSeek network using an irc client such as mIRC. Development of this software greatly improved GNAA's ability to troll Soulseek chatrooms.

About SoulSeek :
Soulseek is a free p2p tool, available for the Windows and LUNIX operating systems.
The majority of Soulseek users are in the United States and Brazil, with many users on the European continent.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE

The difficult/annoying part in pirating xbox games is getting a modded xbox. I, for one, just find it too much of a hassle to mod, and until I do it would be impossible for me to get free xbox games (not that I would :P).

And how often to the 'end users' need to actually crack the software? No-cd cracks, keygens, and all the other stuff are available and as easy to get as the pirated software itself. GameCopyWorld, Packetnews, Suprnova, and a couple of clients are all you need, my friend.

These are not in the right order, just threw em up there as i thought of them.

APserver
Winamp
Mirc
FlashFXP
Powertoys
DivX
Ethereal
Photoshop
Nero
ATI MMC

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

I'm a huge fan of the iTunes music store.. So huge, in fact, that I'm actually PURCHASING music through this outstanding service and bought myself a 20 gig ipod. My inclination is hardly to convince the world to pay for their music vs. downloading them ilegally; rather it's because I happen to like paying only $10 for an album. I'm a bargain hunter.

It was bad enough that the RIAA shunned legal digital downloads long enough for the pirates to take over the industry. Add to that their decision to continually fight a customer-driven demand for a more flexible (and cheaper) medium of distribution.. Now just when something out there is working, they want to jack the price up to a level that will send all of those wouldbe legal customers back to the P2P world using anonymousnetworks.

The RIAA needs to wake up and recognize their issues here.. Their customers want a more flexible delivery mechanism, they want to pay less, and need the flexibility they currently have with a CD. Apple accomplished much of this with their product, which the RIAA will subsequently destroy with their greedy price increases.

Let's face it - in business customers drive the industry. When Americans stopped buying domestics, the industry responded with better products that met customer needs. When New Coke flopped, Coca Cola wisely switched back to the old formula.

The RIAA and its member companies had an opportunity in 1997 when illegal MP3's first surfaced to nip this problem. The early adopters were trading heavily on the IRC network, which led the rise of Napster and later Kazaa. These networks suceeded because it was just so darn tough for file traders to find the songs they were looking for. Had the RIAA member companies set up a site at any point between 1997 and 2000 (even without digital rights management), they could have easily circumvented the rise of these illegal networks. CD's themselves were insecure enough to create this massive proliferation in the first place!!

Fight them. Write to them and tell them what a stupid decision this is.

I've always been curious about installers. I don't understand why they have to be complicated or why uninstalling should be such a problem. Providing the user doesn't move things around after the install, why can't the install app or script work in reverse to cleanly remove an app? Some Windows apps such as the newsreader Forte Agent, and the IRC client called mIRC use a simple installer to basically unpack files into a directory of the user's choosing. Later if I want to run multiple instances of these apps, or just relocate them to another partition or directory structure, I can simply drag them. I needn't worry about DLLs getting lost or registy/ini settings getting screwed up. I wish all Windows apps could be like this. But it seems like the larger and more complex a Windows app is the more likely it will have a complicated installer - or am I confused by what an installer actually is?

Besides, Mac-style drag-and-drop installs have their own problems: they don't get updated properly and they don't verify or deal with dependencies on install; they just dump the mess into the user's lap.
It probably leads to having multiple or redundant versions of the same library installed in several isolated locations needlessly sucking up space. Is there an app that Mac users use to deal with this, like some sort of library utility that scans a drive and pulls up a list of every library installed, including version information?

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

There's a good article by John Todd at o'Reilly here.

Here's a Guide to Asterisk.

There's also a Wiki

Total Commander
Personally, I can't tolerate the pathetic excuse for a file manager that is Windows Explorer.

And while we're at it, Cygwin is a handy thing to have.

As for the rest, everyone has their own preferences for image viewer, text editor, universal IM client, IRC client, etc etc etc.

Here's a good list of the more common apps I have in there:

AbiWord, AstroGrep, Audacity, BitTorrent, CDex, Cygwin, Enzip, Filezilla, Gaim, Gimp, GSview, LAME, mIRC, Mozilla, Mplayer, Nero 5.5, QuickTime, TweakUI, WinAmp, winLAME

I suspect you are pulling my leg about not knowing what IRC is ,but i will respond anyway.
IRC = Internet Relay Chat.
RFC here
And an explantion here

For some reason, this seems world news. I don't agree. MSN chat has always been a GUI for IRC and IRC is not dead. At least, not yet. Undernet, Efnet, IRCnet, DALnet and a lot of smaller networks still exist and will do so for a long time.

If lusers are smart enough to browse, they are likely to be smart enough to surf to the mIRC website and download mIRC. Connect to your favorite network and the Chat Goes On!. However, MS has a point. (never thought I'd ever say that). IRC and chatting in general has become more and more dangerous for our children. Pedophiles know exactly how to present themselves to innocent children and it is partly the responsability of their parents to educate them. Partly, because in my opinion the ISP's could be more response on abuse complaints and so can law enforcement agencies.

In The Netherlands, a pedophile was captured by a tv-journalist on national TV while he tried to force a young boy to come to his house and do "some things". The pedophile works on a school. The school did not fire him, and the court gave him 240 hours of force community-work as a punishment. Unacceptable.

In these ages of continious improvement in communication possibilities, the judicial system (yes, for once that includes ISP's) should be aware of their important tasks in order to protect our children from pedophiles. Shutting down chat-rooms will simply not help as there are numerous of other possibilities to contact youn children.

Next person to say something like "They made very sure that Office has these features that nobody else has" without specifying a single damn feature is getting slapped upside the head with a wet trout.

Also that link will work with a proper installed version mIRC for all those Windows users :)

mIRC is written by a terrorist (Khaled Mardam-Bey) for other terrorists. The m is for MUSLIM! Do you want to use a terrorist irc client? I know I don't.

mIRC is written by a terrorist (Khaled Mardam-Bey) for other terrorists. The m is for MUSLIM! Do you want to use a terrorist irc client? I know I don't.

2. Use of a fish of some sort to perform the spanking.

Maybe a large trout? :)

It's a very interesting debate. In my eyes it comes down to lazyness versus saving a 'buck or two'.

Personally, I like the lazyness route. If I can order something and it comes to me, I think it's worth the extra wait. On the flip side, many would prefer going to the store to buy what they want (though paying a few pence extra) so that they can get it now. How much do you enjoy instant gratification?

Another issue how might this affect small companies, like the guy that makes and sells mIRC. Taxes are complicated, and it might make it difficult for people such as him to sell his product w/o having to spend a lot of time and money creating an e-commerce engine (or partnering with someone that does) that customizes the amount of taxes per-state.

/me looks for the smirk wink

According to the mIRC home page, their message boards and mailing lists were destroyed in the fire as well. It appears to have affected a large number of people.

First, grab a copy of mIRC. After installing that, download a copy of AutoGet. AutoGet is a set of scripts that facilitates finding and downloading files from IRC channels. As users advertise their MP3 list triggers, AutoGet downloads them. You can then search or browse all the lists you've collected and add songs from them to a download manager. AutoGet handles requesting and downloading the songs.

If you are patient, you will get just about everything you put in your queue. Trust me.

And don't forget to share what you download! The author of AutoGet also has a serving system called OmenServe that works very well.

I'm not sure if similar systems exist for clients other than mIRC. If anyone knows of any, I'd love to hear about them.

The best Gnutella front-end I know of is Bearshare.

As for IRC, I tend to like MIRC as a front-end.

For Usenet, I've used News Binary Extractor.

The beauty of Instant Messangers is that people can send you messages when you're not there, and they're remembered for you when you go online again. This doesn't naturally happen on IRC. With IRC you have to be online 24/7 to be able to receive messages 24/7. (Or you could set up a note system on a bot (eggdrop has this functionality), but then people have to know what bot to leave notes to you on.)

Now I'm making IMs sound exactly like e-mail. But e-mail does not have features such as presence detection or seemless group interaction. IMs bring these nice features together with the good aspects of e-mail to produce something that IMHO will revolutionize electronic communications.