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CVS files for big data??

I routinely work with CVS files that are exported from the database. Since CVS files are text files, I can use this DOS command to merge multiple CVS files into a single 70MB+ CVS file.

copy *.cvs everything.cvs

With a single CVS file, I can open it in Excel and do my daily work.

I never went to community college but I'm pretty sure a database is the best place for big data.

Big data wasn't taught when I went to community college over a decade ago. I did take a course in database management for web developers. Most users today don't have direct access to the database and need to use CSV files instead.

I can't even find a text editor that will load a multi gigabit sql file.

Have you tried UltraEdit? It supports editing 4GB+ files from disk with minimum RAM usage.

https://www.ultraedit.com/

Kate isn't bad, but one of the 3 things* I still miss about Windows is UltraEdit.

*Node.JS might take care of one of these, and a port of 3D Space Cadet Pinball would be nice as well. I can't believe in 2015 there are STILL no decent pinball games for Linux.

This list is part of a much longer list that I maintain and sometimes publish.

* 7-ZIP -- Create/Extra ZIP and many other other file compression formats, very powerful. Note can open some installer EXE and MSI files (see Microsoft Orca for more MSI options) (free, open source, Windows, there may be Linux/Mac variants). http://www.7-zip.com/

* CCleaner -- System optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. (free, closed source, Windows) http://www.ccleaner.com/ **Alternate Tool** BleachBit -- Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. (free, open source Linux/Windows) http://bleachbit.sourceforge.n...

* Greenshot -- Good Screen Shot tool with simple annotation options. (free, open source, Windows) http://greenshot.sourceforge.n...

* IrfanView -- Image Program View, convert, crop, optimize, sideshow, batch Processing etc (free noncommercial, closed source, Windows) http://www.irfanview.com/

Instantbird -- Multi Protocol Instant Messaging (IM) Client - AOL, MSM, Yahoo, etc (free, open source, Linux/Mac/Windows) **Alternate Tool** Pidgin - Multi Protocol Instant Messaging (IM) Client - AOL, MSM, Yahoo, etc (free, open source, Linux/Mac/Windows) http://pidgin.im/

* KeePass Password Safe -- Good Quality secure password manager, stores passwords encrypted. (free, open source, Windows Linux/Mac with Mono) http://keepass.info/

* LibreOffice -- Power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production. Excellent replacement for other Office Suites, can open many different and sometimes odd file types -- (free, open source, Linux/Mac/Windows) http://www.libreoffice.org/

* Mozilla.org FireFox -- Web browser for more security then Internet Explore (free, open source, Linux/Mac/Windows) http://www.mozilla.com/ http://www.mozilla.org/

* SpeedCrunch -- fast, high-precision and powerful cross-platform desktop calculator (free, open source, Linux/Mac/Windows) http://www.speedcrunch.org/ & http://speedcrunch.blogspot.co...

* UltraEdit -- Probably the absolute best most powerful text editors around, edit huge files, FTP, column mode, and more (shareware, closed source, Win/Mac/Linux) http://www.ultraedit.com/ **Alternate Tool** Noteppad++ -- Good Text / Source Code Editor replacement for Microsoft Windows Notepad/Wordpad (free, open source) http://notepad-plus.sourceforg...

* VLC Media Player -- One of the best media players out there. Highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. (free, oen source, Linux/Mac/Windows)
http://www.videolan.org/

This list is part of a much longer list that I maintain and sometimes publish. There are few others, but some are more as needed special use cases. * 7-ZIP -- Create/Extra ZIP and many other other file compression formats, very powerful. Note can open some installer EXE and MSI files (see Microsoft Orca for more MSI options) (free, open source, Windows, there may be Linux/Mac variants). http://www.7-zip.com/ * CCleaner -- System optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. (free, closed source, Windows) http://www.ccleaner.com/ **Alternate Tool** BleachBit -- Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. (free, open source Linux/Windows) http://bleachbit.sourceforge.n... * Greenshot -- Good Screen Shot tool with simple annotation options. (free, open source, Windows) http://greenshot.sourceforge.n... * IrfanView -- Image Program View, convert, crop, optimize, sideshow, batch Processing etc (free noncommercial, closed source, Windows) http://www.irfanview.com/ Instantbird -- Multi Protocol Instant Messaging (IM) Client - AOL, MSM, Yahoo, etc (free, open source, Linux/Mac/Windows) **Alternate Tool** Pidgin - Multi Protocol Instant Messaging (IM) Client - AOL, MSM, Yahoo, etc (free, open source, Linux/Mac/Windows) http://pidgin.im/ * KeePass Password Safe -- Good Quality secure password manager, stores passwords encrypted. (free, open source, Windows Linux/Mac with Mono) http://keepass.info/ * LibreOffice -- Power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production. Excellent replacement for other Office Suites, can open many different and sometimes odd file types -- (free, open source, Linux/Mac/Windows) http://www.libreoffice.org/ * Mozilla.org FireFox -- Web browser for more security then Internet Explore (free, open source, Linux/Mac/Windows) http://www.mozilla.com/ http://www.mozilla.org/ * SpeedCrunch -- fast, high-precision and powerful cross-platform desktop calculator (free, open source, Linux/Mac/Windows) http://www.speedcrunch.org/ & http://speedcrunch.blogspot.co... * UltraEdit -- Probably the absolute best most powerful text editors around, edit huge files, FTP, column mode, and more (shareware, closed source, Win/Mac/Linux) http://www.ultraedit.com/ **Alternate Tool** Noteppad++ -- Good Text / Source Code Editor replacement for Microsoft Windows Notepad/Wordpad (free, open source) http://notepad-plus.sourceforg... * VLC Media Player -- One of the best media players out there. Highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats ) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. (free, open source, Linux/Mac/Windows) http://www.videolan.org/

How about this? Home page: http://www.ultraedit.com/products/uestudio.html IDE display: http://www.ultraedit.com/products/uestudio/uestudio_feature_map.html Configuration files handle things such as keywords for a ton 'o languages. Windows for several years [1]. Now on Mac and Linux over the previous 2-3 years. They also have UltraCompare[2], which makes for a nice fraternal twin. Oh, and they've got a standalone version of UltraEdit -- you can install on a thumb drive and tote it around. (I don't get compensation for hawking this stuff) ____________________________ [1] At least 11-12. Back when Microsoft expected you to use FrontPage as your IDE (web design, but when you used something such as a language such as VBScript, it was like dropping a frog in a blender - all of the stuff is there, but you'll never rearrange it for something useful. (unless you're into squishy green frog smoothies). Visual InterDev wasn't much better. TextPad was trying to make inroads against UltraEdit and fell flat on its face. Since that time, ... [2] http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultracompare.html

How about this? Home page: http://www.ultraedit.com/products/uestudio.html IDE display: http://www.ultraedit.com/products/uestudio/uestudio_feature_map.html Configuration files handle things such as keywords for a ton 'o languages. Windows for several years [1]. Now on Mac and Linux over the previous 2-3 years. They also have UltraCompare[2], which makes for a nice fraternal twin. Oh, and they've got a standalone version of UltraEdit -- you can install on a thumb drive and tote it around. (I don't get compensation for hawking this stuff) ____________________________ [1] At least 11-12. Back when Microsoft expected you to use FrontPage as your IDE (web design, but when you used something such as a language such as VBScript, it was like dropping a frog in a blender - all of the stuff is there, but you'll never rearrange it for something useful. (unless you're into squishy green frog smoothies). Visual InterDev wasn't much better. TextPad was trying to make inroads against UltraEdit and fell flat on its face. Since that time, ... [2] http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultracompare.html

How about this? Home page: http://www.ultraedit.com/products/uestudio.html IDE display: http://www.ultraedit.com/products/uestudio/uestudio_feature_map.html Configuration files handle things such as keywords for a ton 'o languages. Windows for several years [1]. Now on Mac and Linux over the previous 2-3 years. They also have UltraCompare[2], which makes for a nice fraternal twin. Oh, and they've got a standalone version of UltraEdit -- you can install on a thumb drive and tote it around. (I don't get compensation for hawking this stuff) ____________________________ [1] At least 11-12. Back when Microsoft expected you to use FrontPage as your IDE (web design, but when you used something such as a language such as VBScript, it was like dropping a frog in a blender - all of the stuff is there, but you'll never rearrange it for something useful. (unless you're into squishy green frog smoothies). Visual InterDev wasn't much better. TextPad was trying to make inroads against UltraEdit and fell flat on its face. Since that time, ... [2] http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultracompare.html

Uh, is there a reason you don't just use UltraEdit for Linux?

(UltraEdit used to be my favorite editor as well, but I finally got around to learning to use vim properly and now I'm no longer able to stand "normal" editors.)

In the Windows world, ConTEXT offers block selection, and it's free. It's not the be-all and end-all of programming editors, but it's not bad. UltraEdit also does block selection and is otherwise pretty good on features, but it's not free.

Ultraedit has really good regex support

I'm guessing the point of having change tracking is so that the Overlord can review and approve the changes. In that case, maybe UltraCompare(http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultracompare.html) is what you're looking for?

Just looked this up, it appears to support CVS/SVN servers, but it doesn't include one built in.

UE Studio Tour: CVS/SVN

Jonah HEX

Ultraedit seems to be very much alive. More than likely due to its excellent feature set and very reasonable pricing.

Open source is not killing commercial software, open source is killing over-priced commercial software.

What tools would you use to do the same job?

OOh, that's cool. Thanks for the info.

Of course I don't see Ultra Edit on the list yet, but it can't be ~that~ far between a U3 version and a PortableApps version.

• Ultra-Edit for text editing. Tons of features but still starts & runs fast. 10MB download, ~10MB ram.
• ACDSee for image viewing. I run an ancient version, so I don't know if the new ones are more bloated.
• Jungle Disk for storage and backup, 1.5MB Win download (4.5MB mac), ~12MB ram. Mozy uses about 30MB.

I could not agree more. I do .Net development -- My editor is UltraEdit, and I build with NAnt, from the command line. NUnit provides the test framework. It's so much better than that bloated IDE. I find myself much more aware of what is happening in the build process. Do-everything-for-you IDE's hide so much of what is actually going on, it's scary.

In the Bible Jesus said "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth", and I think He was right.

Applying this to process scheduling, processes that have not run for a long time should be given a priority boost.

Jesus also said "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven"

I think in scheduler terms this means that processes which are taking an unfair amount of CPU time should have their priority lowered.

So you see the Holy Bible has lots of inspiration for the writers of OS kernels, not just for people who write text editors.

And now a reading from The Book Of Mead, Chapter 80 Verse x86.

Eek. I'd say avoid Dreamweaver at all costs. It causes exactly these kinds of problems. And, if not configured correctly, it can even put out malformed code itself.

Debugging HTML/PHP/etc files: UltraEdit-32. $40 for the single best Swiss Army Editor I've ever found. In cominbation with Tidy (which it has 100% integrated in the interface), it can handle every file-related problem mentioned except for the names themselves. Out of the box, it can do everything from line ending conversion to your standard syntax highlighting (though it doesn't have as many languages out of the box as Scintilla) to assisting you with actually correcting the HTML errors.

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

I recommend these programs to all my co-workers, friends and family.
BlueFrog - Fight spam with the Blue Community
DefilerPak - Video/Audio Codec Pak
FireFox - IE replacement
Foobar2000 - Audio Player
MyUninstaller - ADD/Remove Programs alternative
Nero - CD/DVD burning software
NOD32 - Very fast and accurate Virus Scanner
Thunderbird - Outlook Express Replacement
Treewalk DNS - Local caching DNS
Trillian - Many IM Clients in One
UltraEdit32 - Best Windows Text Editor (check out column mode)
UltraMon - If you multiple monitors this program is great
Zoomplayer - DVD/Media player

Get UltraEdit-32. Best text editor I've ever used on Windows.

Are there other editors that can put comments in a different font?

UltraEdit lets you put comments in italics (as well as choice of color, etc-- all the usual syntax highlighting). Not sure if that is what you mean though. It is a text editor, so the actual font can't be controlled from within the file.

Still, anyone who's thinking about checking out Notepad++ should think about taking a look at UltraEdit. It's got a nice set of tools and is reasonably extensible (macros and templates). I began using it about 10 years ago, and have done quite a bit of web development and a few Perl based projects with it.

Another one that I've been looking at lately is Programmer's Notepad. It is not as strong as UE in some ways (more limited in regular expression replacements, for instance), but it is FOSS, which would be more compatible with a teaching project I'm thinking about. (The Portland FOSSL: a Free and Open Source Software Laboratory. Intent is to start developing an office workforce that is competent in OOo, Firebird, Tbird, etc... and also provide local businesses with an opportunity to explore the feasibility of going to FOSS products.)

UltraEdit
Programmer's Notepad
Notepad++

Oh please. That's a load of crap. Whoever convinced you that a program couldn't be both powerful and easy to use was just covering for lack of design.

UltraEdit has almost all of the advanced features that you would ever want in a programmer's editor. And yet, it is a standard windows program - hey look, ^C copies! ^V pastes! Select with the mouse! Move with the arrow keys! No inane modal shit. Easy to use and extremely powerful at the same time.

EditPlus is nice, but it's still a far cry from UltraEdit.

I just wish there were an open source editor (for Windows or *nix) that came close to its functionality and ease of use. I've come to depend on load/save directly to FTP/SFTP, great column editing, etc. Kate comes close, but not quite close enough...

It's not Free software (they do have a trial version though) but check out UltraEdit. It has just about everything you could possibly want in a text editor.

and no, the UltraCompare site shows no evidence that it can "[run] through every process of the application binary"

I think its PHB speak for 'checks every byte of the application.'

The feature list seems to indicate that it just checks byte-for-byte of the binary, with some allowance for blocks being shifted.

From the page:

• Byte-for-byte binary comparison
• Command Line invocation Binary comparison allowing for shifted data

Looks like "UltraCompare" has no more ability to check if binaries are from the same code than a decent implimentation of cmp or diff.

UltraEdit is hands-down my favorite editor. It carries a $40 price tag, but It is well worth it IMO. I also use Beyond Compare for visual diffs; its a great tool with lots of filtering options.

• Correcting the system clock (if they had a timeserver I wouldn't need this);
  
• Adding the appplications they never get right:
  • UltraEdit
  • Filezilla
  • Mozilla/Firefox
  • Cygwin
  • Quicktime
  • Acrobat Reader
  • PowerDesk
  • ActiveState Perl
  • Folding at Home
  • MySQL & MySQL admin
  
  
• Evaluating New software;
  
• Running Apache on my own box - starting and stopping the service;
  
• With several of my admittedly small C# .NET programs, adding them as a service, starting, and stopping them;

Doug:

As I mentioned above in a reply to that post, the varying depth of tabs can really get you in trouble.

My editor (http://ultraedit.com/, when I hit the tab key, insert 4 spaces. Thus the ease of tabbing over to column 20 is indeed 4 keypresses. However, if my coworker does the same thing with his tab settings at 8, he hits tab twice and then puts in 4 spaces to align it. Ug. Or, hits tab 10 times if he's using a tabsize of 2. Yuck again.

Emperically, you want a study that says that mixed use wastes time vs. just paying attention. I think that's a good idea for a study at CMU, but I already have experinced the massive sucking sound of my time being wasted cleaning up and aligning code so it looks clean and straight (yah, being a little anal retentive, but it actaully saves time in the long run).

I believe this to be a RELIGIOUS issue and thus we'll never convert each other. I apologize if I've offended your God; I recognize he exists but chose not to worship him, I've got my own.

-- Kevin

Not sure what "fuzzy" S&R is, but UltraEdit supports regular expression S&R, which should do anything you need. It is shareware, yes, but you can download a 30-day free trial on the web site (here). Personally, I think it's worth buying. It's a little sloppy as software goes, but it has, like, every feature you could ever want in an editor.

The Bat! - An Email client

ZoomPlayer - A video player

FlashFXP - an FTP client.

UltraEdit - A text editor

PuTTY - A Telnet/SSH client

Yahoo Messenger - An IM program

Kazaa Lite - To get even more stuff

BitTorrent - A BT Client

Google Toolbar - A toolbar for IE to use google easily and quickly

ACDSee - An image viewer

Also of note is that I install Windows Media Player 9 because there is no way to uninstall WMP 8, but there is an undocumented way to uninstall WMP 9.

I also tune the services on the computer to only what is needed... This includes disabling the System Restore service. The only time I've found that the restore service would have been useful is when the computer fails to boot into windows. Unfortunately MS didn't have the foresight to allow restore points to be used from the install cd so the feature is useless.

I hate Windows, so I'm still waiting for a port of UltraEdit to Linux.

Oh yeah, and my fourth program is Quake II, which I like to play at night sometimes. I don't know how to set up games on my real computers.

Try Textpad

Forget Textpad. If you have to use Windows, and you don't want to learn vi or emacs (both of which have perfectly good Windows ports), you could at least make it UltraEdit - it does everything Textpad can do, and more.

Kerio Personal Firewall - great software firewall, a must on any Windows box
F-Prot AntiVirus - another must have, antivirus software
Tray Wizard - extentions to 2K system tray
DAEMON Tools - mount ISO images off your harddrive to virtual CD drives
FlashFXP - FTP Client with loads of nice features
UltraEdit - must have text editor, nice features such as syntax highlighting
IrfranView - multi-format image viewer
Media Player Classic - replacement for WMP that blows it out of the water
WinRAR - multi-format archive app
PuTTY

After installing all the appropriate device drivers, the first ten items on my list would be -

1. Symantec Drive Image 2. OpenOffice.org 3. Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 4. NOD32 Anti-Virus 5. PestPatrol 6. iolo System Mechanic 7. WinRAR 8. Mozilla Firefox 9. UltraEdit 10. Nero Burning ROM

Personally I've never seen a use for a Perl IDE (maybe it's just that I haven't seen a good one) - I use UltraEdit day in and day out for Perl development and it's absolutely beautiful.

Try ultraedit32 - best text editor around!



-t

Totally offtopic, but just for the record the good ones do.

These are some of the free (speech or beer) software I'd install on a family, non-gaming machine:

• Web Browser: Mozilla or Mozilla Firebird
• E-mail: Mozilla (cross-platform), Mozilla Thunderbird (cross-platform), Evolution (Gnome), or KMail (KDE)
• Office Suite: OpenOffice.org
• Media Player: QuickTime (Windows), Zinf (cross-platform), RealPlayer (cross-platform), WinAmp (Windows), MPlayer (Windows), XMMS (Linux)
• Image Viewer: IrfanView (Windows)
• Instant Messaging: Gaim (cross-platform)
• Personal Information Management: Palm Desktop Software (great PIM suite even if you don't own a Palm)
• Other: Acrobat Reader (although I'm weary of their DRM), Java 2 Runtime Environment, Macromedia Flash and Shockwave players, Ad-Aware (spyware remover for Windows), ZoneAlarm, Sygate Personal Firewall (firewall, alternative to ZoneAlarm), Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus, FileZilla, WinRAR (not free, shareware with nag window), Ofoto desktop software (basic photo album and touch-ups, even if you don't use Ofoto's online services)

Some other software I'd install on my own desktop (dev), in decreasing order of importance:

• Cygwin, bascially all packages
• UltraEdit32 (45-day trial shareware)
• TightVNC
• Ghostscript and GSView
• Java 2 SDK
• Eclipse
• Borland JBuilder Personal
• ActiveState Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk (yes, even though they are in Cygwin), Jython
• GIMP
• POV-Ray
• At least one of Apache, Tomcat, or Plone (Zope)
• HTTrack (a website copier)

I use Thunderbird for mail. The best mail client out there, great multi-account handling, and color quoting in the compose window. Available for both Windows and Mandrake.

There are a number of great editors. Ultraedit is relatively cheap and so advanced it's hard to believe. JEdit is pretty good, but has poor file dialogue handling on Windows. gEdit on Mandrake is nice.

If you want to keep a journal on the Windows side, I recommend The Journal. Sweet software.

Get a download manager like GetRight for Windows, master "wget" on Mandrake for big file downloads.

Of course Notepad is crap. That's why you should use UltraEdit. Best $30 I ever spent in my life!

not just "a hex editor"
That's ultraedit they are showing.
I love it :)

UltraEdit for Windows is my personal editor of choice. I don't believe it supports every feature you want, but it does support many. I use it for all of my web development/programming needs.

I suppose tastes are individual in all things, languages and editors alike...

I know after years of not having any money, and using shareware for free, I LOVE that I can afford to pay people who make shareware, and support independent software.

Recent shareware fees paid:

• 10 licenses of the Opera web browser
• A ton of Chank's fonts
• Limewire
• UltraEdit

Whenever I need a program/tool, the first places I look are TinyApps (very small software for Windows), and Tucows.

I sure HOPE it's not just me that's out there doing what I can to support the independent shareware programmers!

TextWrangler is a tweener that's not all that practical. The problem boils down to the fact that BBEdit Lite is free, BBEdit is worth the money if you need an UltraEdit equivalent on the Mac, and the in-between niches are already fairly well taken up by other free alternatives. Luckily for BareBones, I think they just have to pick out some bits of BBEdit and they can "release" TextWrangler more or less for free. It's not like they're really out anything for releasing this, and it brings the flagship a little more exposure (and highlights some of its lesser known features).

Most of the features (which can be found listed in comparison to BBEdit Lite here) aren't things you'll need in a true text editor. I mean come on, how much code do you hack that's in Unicode? Rather, of the people that do hack code, how many of *them* need Unicode? And if you're hacking Unicode and need spellcheck (ie, not coding at all), well, you're better off (if only b/c you saved $50) just using TextEdit (Apple's free text/rtf editor) anyway.

The feature of TextWrangler I like the most is "Optional Emacs keybinding support". Heh. If you want Emacs keybinding, I think I can find something that'll do that in an even more Emacs-like fashion.

If you need a powerful text editor that's Mac friendly, shell out for BBEdit. I just can't see there being much middle ground. But again, from BareBones point of view, they're out next to nothing and get to have all the coverage of a "brand new text editor".

1. Open Gutenberg file in UltraEdit (shareware)

2. Run this macro
InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
UnixReOf f
Find "^p^p"
Replace All "QQQQ"
Find "^p"
Replace All " "
Find "QQQQ"
Replace All "^p "

3. Save file.

4. Run MakeDocW (free) on the file.

5. Hotsync to the Palm/Visor.

6. Read and bookmark in CSpotRun (free but you can send a donation). Annotate in something else.

The only thing that'll cost you is the PDA itself and I bet a used 2-meg one isn't that much.

For a little background information: I am a paid user of Opera's browser since version 3, when there were no ads but it only gave you 30 days to try it out as shareware. At the time, I was completely disenchanted with Netscape's offering, Mozilla was in its first stages of development, and Internet Explorer was made by Microsoft, so no way was I going to use that.

A year before, I had begun a migration to a combination of Linux, BeOS and FreeBSD, and used Windows for a steadly decreasing number of purposes. I was definitely on the market for alternative software and I somehow found Opera.

Opera indeed worked MUCH faster than Netscape, as was especially evident on my slowcomotion dial-up connection of the time. Just the mere fact that it started a download while you could choose where to save it made it fully worth the purchase price, and Opera offered SO MUCH MORE. With each new version, I paid full price rather than opting for upgrade pricing, in order to support Opera to the fullest extent that I could. And I advertised Opera to everybody I knew. When the ads appeared and the browser could be used for free, I personally installed it on the computers of my friends and co-workers. Every computer in the office has the free version of Opera, and my co-workers use it almost exclusively.

Today, I started checking some websites for some of the programs I use, like my favorite editor UltraEdit (the only software worth keeping Windows for), and I found a news item on Opera Software's page describing the aforementioned "malfunction" of Opera in relation to the MSN page. It pissed me off so much that I spent something like $640.00 to buy 16 full versions of the browser: 3 for myself and 13 for all the computers at work.

I wanted to send Microsoft an email to tell them that their actions are getting them the OPPOSITE of what they want, but why should I say anything to those evil people that could potentially help them?

CONCLUSION: I firmly believe that Opera's web browser is the best commercial browser on the market. It kicks Mozilla's fat, bloated ass. It kicks Internet Explorer's buggy ass. It certainly kicks the asses of those "built-in" web browsers on free desktop environments, though some of them are pretty good. I have found it to be worth every penny I spent on it. Now, I am especially happy because it works on FreeBSD, my operating system of choice.