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Tucows really is the nicest internet company out there today. And there isn't a single /. member who didn't benefit from their download site years ago. Every comment so far has completely missed the part where Tucows is making so much money doing other things it is choosing to provide the download site gratis going forward. I signed up for Ting in 2013 and have been saving $100 mo. on my cell service ever since. As icing on the cake their web site is easy to use, shows me pertinent information and they have actual live people to talk to if you have a problem. Ting was doing Google Fi before Google. They are also doing fiber internet. Google has gotten a lot of good ideas from Tucows. If you are a business in need of creating an internet presence and no clue where to start Tucows is definitely the right place.

" the closest thing Windows ever got to a repository"

Except how you can't trust a site that requires an installer app. The most trusted rep for windows used to be http://www.tucows.com/download...

(this sound like the great shareware days of the 90s - and we moved on for a reason (tucows et al.))

Millions of people still flock to "shareware" sites like Tucows and Downloads.com (Now a part of the c|net family). If you mean by moving on Tucows main business is now an ISP wholesaler to resellers who need a web presence but don't want to hire an entire web team and running a wildly popular MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) Ting as well as domain registration and services to help a business build an online presence then yes they've moved on.

To keep this post on topic how is this different than Bluestacks? I've been using it forever to run Android apps on my PC. I've heard people pan it for being buggy but I've never had any problems with it.

Recently started Ting ( http://www.ting.com/ , from venerable http://www.tucows.com/ ) is an interesting MVNO. Since it is backed by an "old" company, I expect them to stick around as long as it works out for them in the first place.

You pay what you use each month depending on what tier you fall in separately for voice, texts, and data. Each device you have registered is $6 a month, but you have to buy your device from them at pretty much full cost. But frankly, over time that comes out much cheaper (I have been doing this for many years - I tend not to break my phones, though).

Works great if you have variable usage patterns and are not a really heavy user. Their data is a bit expensive, but I have read that they are working it and point their fingers at Spring charging them too much to begin with. Use home/free other Wifi if you can, and it's all good. No iPhone, but Samsung S3.

Yes, I know it's Sprint, which many don't like. But so far (joined right when they started) it has worked great, and I have cut my monthly cell phone expenses (3 lines) to $60-$80, half of what I paid before. We are mid-level users, using home-wifi if we can.

Cellphone addicts are, of course, better served by an all-unlimited plan from the big firms. I just don't see the point of supporting their profit margins that much.

LINK

http://www.tucows.com/preview/610631

I know a good repository.

It worked well enough to allow my copy of DateBk3 to be registered in GVM under my name.

You mean links like these?

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Sy stems/Kernels/MOSIX-7287.shtml
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Sy stems/Kernels/MOSIX-Grid-and-Cluster-Management-23 125.shtml
http://www.mosix.org/txt_cluster.html
http://www.tucows.com/software_detail.html?id=8473
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/530140/MO SIX.html

BTW, that's just a few. I hope they helped out. BTW, my search term in Google were "MOSIX download" without the quotation marks.

http://www.tucows.com/preview/427178
The AVS DVD Player. Freeware. Click the "DVD to PSP" button.

http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html This views almost anything and is free.

So let's say I want to submit my game, which is already listed on Tucows, to this site.

How would it get indexed? I could not find a link to contribute software. After Home of the Underdogs grabbed it without so much as notifying me (but whatever; I'm flattered more than anything else), I would think this would be simple.

ICANN is the organization responsible for all domain registration. They were ordered to remove spamhous.org 's registration, and as the article says, have refused. The registrar that sponsors their domain, Tucows Inc., could still be ordered to cut their registration -- if that happens, watch your inbox for deluges of spam. If the registrar was GoDaddy or someone high profile like that, we'd probably be alright .... Tucows ... we're screwed.

Shareware is a limited or expiring version of an application made available for free with the idea that you should be able to try the software before purchasing it.

That's what the term has come to mean today, but that's really a demo, not Shareware. In the old days, when software was distributed on BBSes, Shareware was fully functional, and included a notice something like "If you find this useful, please send $X to the creator."

With Shareware becoming Demoware, today that model is sometimes called Donationware, or worse, Freeware. It gets even muddier when apps distributed as Freeware are actually a limited version with a beg notice to buy the "full version".

That is total BS. The original distinction between Shareware and Freeware (before Shareware degenerated into Demoware) was that Freeware had no strings attached, period.

Unfortunately, there is little enforcement of these terms. I've contacted Tucows a couple of times about demos masquerading as freeware, and they have moved them, but how many people do that? How many thousands of crippled demos lurk in the Freeware sections of various download sites?

Oh, I'm sorry, what was the question? (/rambling)

If you all read Tucows ( http://www.tucows.com/article/844 ) you would have seen this last MONTH.

There are some more image viewers that are mentioned on http://www.tucows.com/Linux/DesignTools/Image/Imag eViewers/. Maybe you will find something there.

http://indiegamedev.tucows.com/blog/_archives/2005 /1/14/243722.html Games created with little time and resources, maybe some biz orgs are catching on to it?

http://www.tucows.com/preview/213160. The other one works for me anyway.

Comparing this to this makes me go WOW!!

This is just a ten second selection, if you take your time you will find hundreds if not thousands of apps capable of handling PDF files. Im fairly sure you will find an application that suits your needs if you just lift a couple of rocks. Start by collecting a bunch of PDF files to test the different apps on.

Online:
http://www.sanface.com/webpdfviewer.html
http://view.samurajdata.se/
Windows:
http://www.hsinlin.com/software/pdf.html
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
http://www.cadkas.de/downengpdf5.php
http://www.freewarehome.com/Business_and_Productiv ity/Word_Processing/PDF_t.html
http://www.tucows.com/downloads/Windows/DesignTool s/PDFTools/

Revelation for linux/gnome.

Lots more you can find on http://tucows.com/ or your favourite software download site..

I have close to a hundred logins stored (encrypted) and gave up trying to remember them all a long time ago.. its really not an issue with such a program. Just make sure to keep a backup somewhere or you are screwed when your pc dies.. ;)

I actually work for one, but I wouldn't recommend my company. We're overpriced. I'd say go to Tucows. On their reseller site, they have a "refer me to a reseller" feature at http://referrals.tucows.com/.

I only wanted to know what the resolution of the PSP is, because it looks to me this might be a perfect replacement for a Palm or even a real laptop.

The screen has 480x272 pixels, but the system as sold at retail in September 2005 runs firmware 1.51 or later, which is not compatible with anything except those programs published or otherwise specifically authorized by Sony, so you're not going to be able to take advantage of anything like the Windows, Mac, or Linux freeware scene.

here is a quick pic.

Simple cell-shading done with style. This is what's missing from most games. Real style.

If I wanted photo-realism, I'd get up from my PC and head out the front door. Games such as WoW, Rez, Killer 7 and Ico have shown that a little creativity in the design can go a long way. It can also be easy on the gpu.

Simple trick for this:

Every kind of thing one removes, replace with something clean.
( http://www.tucows.com/windows.html for some alternative things, ferinstance )

If one is removing a weather-app that is actually bogoware, then replace it with something trustworthy.

Removing a search-bar?
Replace it with something trustworthy ( like Firefox's default googlebar thingy )

THEN they are less likely to re-install whatever damn uber-bogon(s) they'd had when they suckered one into fixing, again, their system.

. . .

and for some others, perhaps you hadn't noticed that MS-IE always installs something for Alexa? Every install, every update. I don't know what it ( in the registry, IIRC ) does, but I don't care for Alexa, and don't trust anyone as underhanded as MS has proven to be ( backdoors, breaking of Netscape, stealing Stacker ( corrupting it in the process ) and suing Stac Technologies for having made Stacker in the first-place, endlessly-etc. . ), over the years. . .

True. But unless the open source movement gets completely massacred, the average computer user will be able to download something from the web that will display JPEGs.

As for the Wordstar file, what if the only remaining copy is electronic and on 5.25" floppy disk?

Well, the first thing you do is fire your records staff for gross negligence. (Preferably, fire them from a cannon.) Then, you make a backup copy. If this pertains to a legal issue, you have the backup made by a firm specializing in older media; this provides both expertise and witnesses. If a key piece of evidence exists only as a file on rewritable media, somebody has majorly screwed up, and it's probably not legally admissible. (IANAL)

From a technical viewpoint, however, Windows 5.25" isn't a major problem. My current 3GHz home desktop has a 5.25" drive, and they're easy to pick up on E-Bay. I've also picked up the means to deal with Orb, Jaz, LS240, Bernouili, and various SyQuest media over the years. Now, if your file is on an eight inch floppy disk, that's a larger challenge. Or if you're trying to get things off of some of even more obscure stuff, like a Mac formatted IOmega Floptical disk.

Courts and lawyers aren't as computer savvy as we are.

Depends on the laywer and on the court. Remember, the sterotypical lawyers are bastards, not morons.

This utility is provided by ZoneEdit.Com, the industry leader in DNS and domain mangement solutions.
Domain Name: MIKEROWESOFT.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.tucows.com/
Name Server: NS3.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS1.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS5.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS2.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS4.MSFT.NET
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 09-jun-2004

To answer your question: Back then, judges decided what didn't meet "community standards" for "decency", based on testimony from "community leaders". The above concepts no longer carry much weight. So I'd expect some state regulatory agency to trot out psychologists and other "experts" who would claim that small kids who see porn will grow up to be rapists and serial killers.

Anyway, I agree with you: this is a job for parents. Who would be better served by tracking and controlling their kids internet usage, instead of leaving it up to some unreliable ISP filter. It's ironic that conservative groups whine about "big government", but never hesitate to call for more intrusive government action when it suits their agenda.

I use Speedfan

Not sure how it will work on a laptop but give it a try

Off topic, but for your information:

Multiple desktops are trivial in any version of Windows. There are lots of free or very inexpensive 3rd party tools to give them to you.

There's of course the official MS powertoy but this is largely a piece of crap.

There's DeskSelect $9.95

There's Cool Desk $24.95

There's a whole section of them at tucows.

There's Multidesktop

There's Virtual Desk

There's Enable virtual desktop

Open Source, there's Virtual Desktop, Virtual Dimensions, VirtuaWin, etc... etc... etc..

Unless your company won't allow you to install any software on your local computer, there's no excuse to be whining about lack of virtual desktops.

Nope, Win3.11 (Workgroups or otherwise) did NOT have a TCP/IP stack.

That is completely wrong. When WfW came out, I was supporting Oracle Database apps, and we were quite happy to be now able to install the client interfaces without needing Trumpet Winsock. For many corps, the TCP/IP was a big selling point.

You might be confused because the TCP/IP driver wasn't included on the install floppies, but was instead a separate download from Microsoft. Regardless, it was definitely a Microsoft product, and not anything 3rd party.

link

Wonder if Tucows / OpenSRS will make a bid -- though I haven't seen anything on their reseller resource center. I'd trust them over MS or Verisign - they listen to their customers and actively support the Linux platform (heck, even their site is PERL and PHP). /me wanders off to call his Tucows rep...

Are links really that difficult?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools /default.mspx
http://www.tucows.com/preview/299014.html

The space in the first link isn't your fault, the /. lameness filter breaks words from being too long; it prevents morons from making the page's layout fubar

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools /default.mspx
http://www.tucows.com/preview/299014.html

Has anyone forgotten the all important drone??

Is microsoft attacking the spammers because the spammers are using their drones?

If in agreement:

Download: http://www.tucows.com/preview/213160.html Sygate Personal Firewall, http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ Adaware free, http://www.mozilla.org/ Mozilla Firefox.

Goto IE
Set a fake proxy server in Tools -> Options -> Connections -> Lan settings
So you never use IE again, even accidentally, or with kids messing around.

Just put in fake as the address and 8080 (or whatever) as the port, simple.

Install Adaware, Run adaware but don't commence searching, kill explorer.exe from the task manager, keep taskmanager open and now commence searching with Adaware.

Goto the Applications tab and click on New Task, enter into the box *Shudder* "explorer.exe".

Install Sygate's free firewall, Sygate Personal Firewall, Most secure there is out there, no bloated crap that Norton pushes.

Install Firefox and Thunderbird.

None of this software asks you for ANYTHING...

Don't forget to eventually BUY a subscription virus tool though.

In the alternative that you're a cheap ass you can use http://www.free-av.com/.

It isn't perfect software but virus protection is a must, no matter what you do or how weak it is.

There, and not one penny spent, nearly complete protection.

The main reason why I'm doing this is because one person whom does this means one thousand less potential spam emails out there..my own little spam attack..

Come on guy's!! Mod me up!

Err, Wash, rinse and repeat =)

Download: http://www.tucows.com/preview/213160.html Sygate Personal Firewall, http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ Adaware free, http://www.mozilla.org/ Mozilla Firefox.

Goto IE
Set a fake proxy server in Tools -> Options -> Connections -> Lan settings
So you never use IE again, even accidentally, or with kids messing around.

Just put in fake as the address and 8080 (or whatever) as the port, simple.

Install Adaware, Run adaware but don't commence searching, kill explorer.exe from the task manager, keep taskmanager open and now commence searching with Adaware.

Goto the Applications tab and click on New Task, enter into the box *Shudder* "explorer.exe".

Install Sygate's free firewall, Sygate Personal Firewall, Most secure there is out there, no bloated crap that Norton pushes.

Install Firefox and Thunderbird.

Err, Wash, rinse and repeat =)

the problem I see isn't searching compressed or tarballed files- where the text inside is still largely in plaintext. It's just a different file format- but it's still bytes and I've seen supergrep programs in the past for both Linux and Windows that do this (try Tucows or SourceForge before posting on slashdot in search of freeware and shareware.) The problem I see is searching *encrypted* files, esepcially ones with different keys. Now that would be *hard*.

Given that one of the keywords in most assembly languages is ORG, stating the origin point where the assembly begins, yes you can if you're compiling it with an assembler called Orgasm or another assembler called Orgasm.

Robots is part of the popular BSD Games collection, which you can find or in your favorite distro's package repository.

Use Joystick 2 Mouse, assuming that it works as a standard joystick.

I SysAdmin a significantly sized heterogeneous network and to my dismay, I often have to set up new Windows machines and/or reinstall Windows machines.

As an aside, in sysadmin-land, the general rule is to reinstall a machine after someone leaves and/or every two-three years max. Any longer than that and the machine's OS & registry gets too clogged up with crap (among other things) that the machine goes so slow and a complete & clean reinstall is the only way to really regain that lost productivity.

Anyhow, the first 10 or so programs I install on these (primarily w2k) machines are as follows:

• Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (if you don't install this from a cd before you put the machine on the network, you will get a virus).
• Windows Critical & OS Updates
• Netscape
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Sophos AV (served over the network via EMLibrary)
• Office 2002/XP including all service packs
• PuTTY
• WinSCP
• Winzip or PowerArchiver
• Shockwave (since I don't allow user admin rights on most clients)
• Google Toolbar (just a convenience)
• Real Player
• ABC Image Browser

Now I can Internet-up my cow herd.
isn't that how tucows started?

Here are some other 3D file system visualizers:

- FSV is modelled after FSN, but runs on Linux. FSV lays out files and directories in 3D, geometrically representing the file system hierarchy to allow visual overview and analysis.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Linux)

- Xcruiser lets you fly through a filesystem in 3D as if it were interplanetary space. Directories are represented as galaxies, files are represented as planets (whose mass is determined by the file size), and symbolic links are represented as wormholes.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Linux)

- TDFSB is a 3D filesystem browser for Linux. Take a walk through your filesystem!
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Linux)

- 3Dtop is an extension for Windows that represents desktop icons in 3D, letting you to fly around your desktop. You can create coloured spotlights, background and floor textures, "paintings" (bitmaps), clocks, and "flags" that represent shortcuts.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Windows)

- ROOMS turns a Windows desktop into a 3D world. You can see the world either through a first person perspective or with a map view, and you can populate the world with sounds, animated images, and 3D icons.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Windows)

- CubicEye organizes windows into a navigable cube. Cubes can be arranged by thematic or functional subject matter, and can be explored either individually or collectively as part of a more comprehensive structure of multiple cubes representing various areas of interest.
[Screenshot] | [Download] (Windows)

One of those universe/solar system simulations - I forget the name.
Possibly because there's more than one name to forget... (=

Let's see, for general touring around the Solar system and neighborhood, there's nothing quite like Celestia. Hours of fun, and very pretty to look at.
Noctis is also similar, but set in a fictional universe.
For more pretty pictures, but less interactivity, see The Solar Journey homepage or the Solar System Simulator. Also The Nine Planets for Kids.
Naturally, kids aren't that interested in just flying around. Well, Orbit lets them blow each other up in space, but with realistic physics and visuals. Once that gets boring, you can let them fly a space shuttle to the ISS with Orbiter. Beware, though. Orbiter is no simple game - you actually need to know how space flight works. There's also the Microsoft Space Simulator, which Orbiter has more or less superseded.

If you're not looking to get that far off the ground, FlightGear's an excellent flight simulator in which you can fly everything from the original Wright Brothers' craft right up to concept superplanes.

More links, mainly astronomy related, here, here, here, here, and here.

Finally, you might wish to try browsing the Tucows Games site and Freshmeat's game section (you'll need to login to make full use of Freshmeat).

Good luck, have fun searching.

Virtual Gameboy version 2.1!! was released in 1999.

Eg.
http://linux.tucows.com/preview/8776.html
Look date "Aug 30, 1999"

Patent filed November 28, 2000.

There was no confusion to the public at the website in question.
Trademarks and copyrights are there to protect consumers, not companies.

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This concludes the shameless link to domain for sale! Cheap!!

the one thing on my list of needed software is a SIMPLE photo editor

Well, a quick search on Freshmeat (bookmark it, you'll find it very useful) suggests the following:
If you're not after actual re-touching capability, VIPS might be what you want. (Oh, you are. Oops.)
Well, for the princely sum of US$25, JPhotoBrush Pro looks good (there's a trial version available for download).
For very basic manipulation, IV might do. And if you want something really basic...
If you're willing to play with something considerably less mainstream, PyWiew caught my interest for being pure Python. Does sound a bit esoteric, though.

Finally, you could see for yourself what else is out there. There's more than freshmeat, of course. Like the Linux section of Tucows.

Incidentally, if you have the time to learn it, Gimp can be very useful. Best way (like all *NIX at home learning) is to find someone who knows what they're doing and get them to teach you.

P.S. - If you like Linux, try FreeBSD sometime. Not as popular or well covered, but has advantages too.

HTH, etc.

Since 98 is going to be abandoned, I suspect some people will be installing Windows ME on that old hardware. Does anyone know of ways to srip ME down so it's somewhere near as efficient as 98?

I had a lot of problems with ME on this one machine; despite boosting its RAM to 512 megabytes, after running for a matter of minutes it consistently slowed to a crawl. Running RAM Idle helped things considerably, letting me leave the machine running and only needing to reboot occasionally. Still, this was on a machine with a 700 MHz processor, and I shudder to think how ME would perform on a poor little 200 MHz with 64M.

There's a market for a program that will give people choices on what to rip out of ME to reduce its profile. Anyone game?

If you want to create SWF (Flash) animations, there are much cheaper alternatives to buying Flash from Macromedia. SWF is an open format, and there are other manufacturers of creation tools. Swish is one I've heard a fair bit about. Others are available for Tucows. You can even create SWF files from within PHP with the MING libraries. In short, I don't think SVG will replace SWF simply because of cost.