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Try ncftpd.

ncftp - best FTP client EVAR.

wget - awesome HTTP/HTTPS/FTP download tool (need to mirror a site? wget's got you covered).

lftp - best sftp client EVAR.

zip and unzip - so very useful (and I used to maintain several of the OS ports).

I was going to include bash, but it hasn't actually been updated since 2002.

Cygwin isn't really an application per-se, but it's always the second or third thing (after Firefox) that I install on a new Windows box... having a real shell and tools on Windows is a real sanity-saver.

1. Dev Todo is a wonderful outliner and task manager. Today I ported it to win32 using mingw to use at work (it pisses me off that windows dropped ANSI color support in their crappy CMD! I knew it was bad, but I still use it more than msys or cygwin because it is quicker on my slow box). Dev Todo stores everything in beautiful XML. I intend to make a filter for XSLT for my biweekly progress reports. My boss wants me to list things I've gotten done & what I plan to do & this great app can store all of that.
2. Pine-I don't care if RMS doesn't consider it free. It is the best IMAP client. I do like Mulberry as well, though.
3. GNU Screen-I mostly just detach/reattach. I'd like to learn to use it more.
4. VIM-My editor. Again, need to learn it better.
5. Lynx on windows and ELinks on Linux for browsing.
6. I have aliased "fuck" to use cowsay to tell me to calm down. Great stress relief.
7. GPG
8. LaTeX. I hesitated to include this, but I use it on both linux and windows & it is technically interactive. I have started using it more than standard word processors (WordPerfect>OpenOffice>MS Word) and I want to use it instead of impress/powerpoint/whatever.
9. OpenSSH because my box is so much better than the one I use at work
10. NcFTP best ftp client I found, though I have been having much less need to use it.

Spelling nazi sez:

Ephemeral, not empherial.

Whats wrong with the Win32 ncftp client?

Can't print to PS and then use ps2pdf from Ghostscript for Win32?

It seems that a lot of people simply assume that if they're on Windows, then no OSS software is available to them. Then they jump through hoops to use the Linux version, when in fact they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble if they'd spent all of 60 seconds with Google.

Go figure.

Who needs web-based email?

Toolkit for doing things that you aren't supposed to do at work:

• ssh
• screen
• lynx
• mutt
• epic
• ncftp

SSH to Linux box at home and "screen -r -d".

The best thing is it's all text, so it's indistinguishable from actual work to most people. And it's all encrypted.

not at all. In fact IE is a horrible example. You get IE whether you want it or not. Remember it is a part of the M$ Windows OS. Since it is part of the OS, you are paying for it. Its part of the product.

Take for example ncftpd. Gleason can not say "hey, when you buy my product all your buying is the "IO logging facility", the rest of it is free. And OBTW, the only way you can get the rest of the program for free is to buy the logging facility. Therefore I am not liable for anything bad that may happen to the rest of it since it is free.

On the otherhand, this law might change M$'s mind on how they package up there OS. Outlook and IE might turn to be "Free" packages available to be installed but not need. (gawd .. wtf am I smoking these days)

And in other news, following their glowing success in their suits against MP3 dot Com and Napstar dot Com RIAA has decided to "let it ride!", filling suits against Washington University, Necmer Soft, Inc.,The Apache Group, Netscape, and Microsoft. Only Microsoft was available for comment saying, "... this is no different than STAC...", making reference to the buyout and dissolution of STAC by Microsoft a number of years ago.

Gez. Fuck it! Let's sue the whole damned country. (*whisper*) Oh, Metallica is already doing that...

[And people say Communism and Socialism are Evil (tm).]

NcFTP Software makes alot of great claims about the loads that their server can handle but I have yet to run into a heavily hit server that is running one. It would make a much cooler selling point if they could say it survives being a mirror of stable Linux kernel updates.