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QuickPar on Windows is long-obsolete. MultiPar is the more modern variant.

Try again, but this time with subdirectories

PAR2 with subs: Multipar and alternate

I've been using it for well over a year, it works great. Was using this for a while -- it's OK, but Multipar is much better.

Or just continue to use PAR on single directories with subs placed in some type of archive (zip, 7z, tar) file.

None of these holds a candle to ZFS as a live file system, but these all work great when archiving files to DVD/BD.

Heck, I'm currently copying multiple dirs to BD and using Multipar as "only" a checksumming and renaming repair tool -- not even bothering with the file content recovery option. For that matter, I've even created a (single) disc with 300% recovery -- if I lose all of the primary files and over half of the recovery content bits, I can STILL recover the contents. (I've tested this by manually damaging the file contents. I have multiple copies in different places, too -- there are just a few static files that I do *NOT* want to lose.)

Multipar has superseded Quickpar. It allows multiple directories to be handled and is actually still being developed unlike most of the other old par programs.

http://multipar.eu/
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA021385/

You may jest, but you can do a lot more, more easily, from a command line than a GUI on any platform. Even Windows. Try to

ren antique???.jpg desk???.jpg

in File Manager

In Windows: CTRL+A, F2, "desk", ENTER.

Admittedly that gives you names like "desk (01).jpg" and not "desk01.jpg" but it's close enough. If you want a significantly higher level of control, try something like Flexible Renamer (somewhat prone to crashing, but the most versatile and powerful I've found).

True, but even though it's April 1 I was being truthful. Derek's native port of Lynx:

      http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/os2lynx2_8.zip

is a rather different code base from the traditional POSIX port:

      http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/lx287d9.zip

Another source of Lynx for OS/2 for completeness:

      http://www.os2site.com/sw/internet/browser/lynx/index.html

and of course the versions of Links which are available are well-documented here:

      http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/links-2.1pre14.zip
      http://www.os2site.com/sw/internet/browser/links/index.html

I've not actually used any eLinks port under OS/2, though.

      http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/elinks03pre3.zip

Oh yeah, and there's w3m as well:

      http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000199/os2/w3m.html

I'm not a fan of w3m, though. :-)

courtesy of crazy Japanese censorship laws. Google for gmask or see examples at Lecture on masking (Yes, it's SFW)

Pixel's newest game. This time he's done a schmup. Can be found the same place as his other games. http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/storehouse.html

The Japanese blur their porn, and so someone has invented a device that removes it and restores the original image. This is possible because it performs a transformation from a limited set every time and so all you need is one clean sample.

You realise that several (Japanese, I think) blurring algorithms are specifically designed to be reversible, right?

Properly designed blurring filters cannot be reversed so easily! Alternately, instead of blurring, they could just use black squares to cover stuff up.

Oekaki Shi-Painter Pro, Not really PhotoShop but you get layers etc http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA016309/spainter/i ndex_en.html/

tree -diL 1

It's quite annoying that I can't do that on XP.

You can do that - XP has a QoS service that can do exactly what you want. I use it when I'm at work to prioritise my RDP over any torrents downloading, and to make sure my mp3 streams from home don't get choked.

WinTC - a small service used to configure the Windows QoS service.

If that doesn't do it for you, you could download something like NetLimiter, and use that to manage your bandwidth.

Funny, I also carry a thumb-drive with a removable memory card slot. It's this generic one floating around online: http://www.supermediastore.com/supermedia-handy-4i n1--usb-20-flash-memory-card-reader-yellow.html

I think they're a great idea, because I can move with the SD card market as flash memory becomes denser and denser. Speed hasn't been a problem, either. The thumbdrives support USB 2.0 and my SD card seems to be capable of a very decent data transfer rate.

I have a collection of Windows tools on the drive. Not Linux tools, because I can usually accomplish whatever it is I'm doing in the Linux environments I encounter day to day.

Network Tools:
* Raw TCP/IP transfer -> netcat ( http://www.vulnwatch.org/netcat/ )
* SSH/Telnet -> putty ( http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ )
* Port Scanner -> SuperScan4 ( http://www.foundstone.com/resources/proddesc/super scan.htm )
* Classic Port Scanner -> nmap ( http://insecure.org/nmap/download.html )
* Packet Capture and Analysis -> WireShark setup ( http://www.wireshark.org/download.html )

Editors:
* General -> vim 7.0 ( http://www.vim.org/download.php )
* Hex Editor -> xvi32 ( http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi 32/xvi32.htm#download )

Development:
* Tiny C Compiler ( http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ )
* nasm ( http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=6208 )

Misc:
* Lightweight Windows md5sum -> md5summer ( http://www.md5summer.org/download.html )
* Process Explorer ( http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplo rer.html )
* MP3 Encoding -> RazorLame with lame ( http://www.dors.de/razorlame/download.php )
* Terminal Emulator -> TeraTerm Pro ( http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.h tml )

The folder is 26.7MB.

I have a few gigabytes of games that offer quick gameplay and aren't available on the Mac. From an old list I compiled for an earlier thread:

Cho Ren Sha 68k (shmup)
Kenta Cho's games (mostly shmups)
Destruction Desire (fighting game)
Mind Arms (fighting game)
Galax (Shmup)
Doukutsu Monogatari (platformer)
Every Extend (kamikaze'em up)
Glace (platformer)
Frontline (sidescrolling shooter)
Minebot (... Action?)

There's a small set of apps that I usually install on any Windows machine I use. I don't consider all of them to be "great apps", but they fill gaps that are missing in a default XP install. Most of these are pretty well known, but here you go:

1. Acrobat Reader
2. WinZip
3. Winamp
4. Quicktime Player
5. Gaim for Win32
6. TeraTerm Pro + TTSSH
7. Hijack This!
8. UnixTools

Speaking of which, one of the best games I've played is a retro freeware game similar to early NES games like metroid. Cave Story is the top downloaded game on gamehippo, highly rated, and has awesome replay value. Check it out (originally in japanese).

http://www.gamehippo.com/category/top20_rated_titl e_1.shtml

(Japanese version)
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/

Speaking of which, one of the best games I've played is a retro freeware game similar to early NES games like metroid. Cave Story is the top downloaded game on gamehippo, highly rated, and has awesome replay value. Check it out (originally in japanese).

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/

http://www.gamehippo.com/

--riotgrrl

On my Windows Mobile 2003SE I use:

- CAB Installer: you can select where install programs
- GSPlayer: Simply audio player for Pocket PC
- Mozilla Minimo: web browser
- Opera for windows mobile: web browser
- TCPMP: media player
- Total Commander: file manager
- Vbar: task manager
- WiFiFoFum2: the best WiFi scanner and war driving software for Pocket PC
- PocketPuTTY: ssh access
- .NET VNC: VNC viewer

I will suggest also a daily visit :) to this great website: FreeCABs (Your Link to Free PPC Software which can be installed without a PC connection)

I should keep the list somewhere...

Cho Ren Sha 68k (shmup)
Kenta Cho's games (mostly shmups)
Destruction Desire (fighting game)
Mind Arms (fighting game)
Galax (Shmup)
Frequon Invaders (weird)
Doukutsu Monogatari (platformer)
Every Extend (kamikaze'em up)
Glace (platformer)
Frontline (sidescrolling shooter)
Minebot (... Action?)
N (Platformer)

Now how do we get a court to say they can't include the default Luna theme?

Try this game too: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/FreeSoft/I kachan.html

It's similar to Doukutsu Monogatari, with a very fun gravity based gameplay, you can only rotate and propel yourself.

It would be great if they translated this too.

Just some beefed up 2D Barcode....

It would be interesting to see if some executables generate funky pictures, when printed as PaperDisk...
Maybe you'll get a Stereographic '666' if you print 'kernel32.dll' :)

You can use this to test: http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/win95/util/se157092.h tml?site=n

There is Cygterm, that allows you to use almost any native Windows terminal emulator to connect to a Cygwin shell instead of the default "DOS" box.
I know that TeraTerm works well under Cygterm, because I use it myself. And it appears that PuTTY does as well.

1. Music player: either Winampaq or Mortplayer.

Just a brief suggestion, GSPlayer
does http streaming mp3/ogg. No need for huge local storage, does shoutcast etc. Free, take it or leave it ;)

i might as well write an app for my palm to control the TV via the infrared port.

It's been done.
Check out PalmRemote.

Windows + .Net for a simple picture frame ?

wtf ? do they not teach the concept of KISS in school anymore ?

I think the likes of TRON will be around for quite sometime ...

Sunny Dubey

(and just as free as TeraTerm!)

Actually, PuTTY is much more free.

PuTTY, from here:

The PuTTY executables and source code are distributed under the MIT licence, which is similar in effect to the BSD licence. (This licence is Open Source certified and complies with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.)

TeraTerm, however, from the readme.txt that comes with the source packages:

Without written permission by the author (Takashi Teranishi), you may not distribute modified versions of this package, and may not distribute this package for profit.

You may not copy any file, module, subroutine and resource in this package to create commercial products (including sharewares), without written permission by the author.

If you want to distribute modified versions of Tera Term widely, you need also the permission.

(and just as free as TeraTerm!)

Actually, PuTTY is much more free.

PuTTY, from here:

The PuTTY executables and source code are distributed under the MIT licence, which is similar in effect to the BSD licence. (This licence is Open Source certified and complies with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.)

TeraTerm, however, from the readme.txt that comes with the source packages:

Without written permission by the author (Takashi Teranishi), you may not distribute modified versions of this package, and may not distribute this package for profit.

You may not copy any file, module, subroutine and resource in this package to create commercial products (including sharewares), without written permission by the author.

If you want to distribute modified versions of Tera Term widely, you need also the permission.

There's also another one I use that is simple and has an SSH extension. It's called TeraTermPro

It's older but seems to work like gangbusters.

I use TeraTerm Pro and TTSSH regularly for accessing remote systems from my Windows machine. Very nice tools, with plenty of options.

I used to use TeraTerm, but a couple of years ago I switched to PuTTY and haven't looked back. Great application (and just as free as TeraTerm!).

-- Pete.

I use TeraTerm Pro and TTSSH regularly for accessing remote systems from my Windows machine. Very nice tools, with plenty of options.

are all y'all nuts? Reinstalling the OS once a month or even once a year? Holy shit! My current box is 4 years old and I've never reinstalled the OS and hope I never have to.

Once a month I consider rather excessive, but for a Windows box, reinstalling at least once a year greatly reduces the kruft. After a clean install, you can feel the improved responsiveness.

Anyway, my list of the first ten (+1 x2):

0) Turn off half of the default Windows crap (services, the recycle bin, CD autostart, etc), and perform assorted registry tweaks to stop Windows from acting like a crippled DOS-box-with-GUI (ala Win95) with only 64MB of RAM (such as LargeSystemCache, NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate, CompletionChar, and DisablePagingExecutive).
1) PageDefrag, which keeps your registry and pagefile in a single contiguous file (though you should always have your min and max pagefile the same, so that doesn't get fragmented in the first place).
2) AntiVir. No sane person goes without an AV program, and IMO, this counts as the best of the free ones (for that matter, I consider it better than Norton as well - Slightly more awkward autoupdates, but it doesn't hog system resources). Best of all, as a non-USian program, it doesn't deliberately ignore "official" virii such as the FBI's Magic Lantern.
3) AdAware. We all know what it does.
4) SpyBot. Ditto, and it catches some things that AdAware doesn't (and vice-versa).
5) Mozilla, of course.
6) Winamp. I still prefer the v2.x series, but, gotta have at least one of them.
7) TeraTerm Pro and TeraTerm SSH. Technically two installs, but only a moron would use unencrypted telnet these days.
8) Calypso, a really nice (and free-as-in-beer) email program. Want the latest, greatest features in your email program, making it all but indistinguishable from a full-featured web browser and media player? Don't use this. Want a safe medium for text communication, with fairly powerful regexp filtering? You'll consider Calypso a godsend.
9) The GIMP. 'nuff said.
10) Finally, a compiler (or three... The next dozen installs after this one would include various other dev tools). Currently I still prefer Borland C 5.02, sadly not free. Although advancing technoology has already made it basically obsolete, it has what I consider the most straightforward IDE of any development suite out there.
0, part 2) Repeat step 0, since by this point Windows will have tried to undo half of my changes from the first time.

Okay. Ego-post of the day done.

you didnt google hard enough....here

Speaking of slowdown, Storm Caliber has adjustable slow down that will work consistently on machines running at ANY speed (even on Athlon 64 FX!), which is perfect for bullet filled scenes. BTW, despite Japanese docs, the game menus are written in English.

I use GSPlayer for my Dell Axim. It supported URL playing so I could listen to shoutcast servers through the wireless. It has the option to turn off the display so it saves batter and you don't have to worry about accidently activating anything while it's in your pocket. It also comes with the source code.

This was the first I found with all these features. Also, you can map the buttons of the PDA to actions for the program. So even with the screen off, as long as the prog is active, I can easily pause, play, change songs or change volume with the mapped buttons.

Oh, and for others in the Slashdot crowd, it also supports OGG.

GreenSoftware GS Player

• SSH for Windows - works great for terminal access and secure file transfers.
• Teraterm - network device access via either telnet or serial port. There is an SSH add-on, but I prefer the "real" SSH client above.
• TightVNC - for your Windows boxes
• Superscan - great port scanner and all around TCP/IP utility
• Cygwin - for all your real *nix shell and utility needs

Jason

I'm not sure if you have a PalmOS or WinCE/PPC-based device, but...

If you have a Windows CE or PocketPC device, you can play OGGs. Another common misconception, sometimes perpetuated here at Slashdot. I've used GSPlayer to play MP3s and OGGs for a few years without a problem.

I beg to differ that only consoles benefit from gamepads.

I have one of the Radio Shack PSX to USB adapters, and use it for almost every game I play on my PC. Hell, I even play FPS games with a gamepad & mouse, instead of the keyboard & mouse combo people seem to be so fond of. Using the program JoyToKey to assign keyboard commands to the gamepad, I get 8 buttons in my left hand (Up,down,left,right on Left Analog, plus pressing the stick in, select, and L1/L2), and 5 buttons in my right hand with my wheelmouse.

I find this *so* much more ergonomic than a keyboard, and though it usually gets me some funny looks and comments at LAN parties, I don't get too many after I tend to run circles around them.

Also, you only get half the experience from any given emulator if you use the keyboard. SNES games in particular are horrid to play on one, especially since most keyboards won't allow more than 2 or 3 keys to be simultaneously pressed at once.

I didn't understand until I saw this. That's pretty cool.

I carry this with me on a disk, but on my windows machine I use Tera Term Pro. It is old (pre-Y2K) but unmatched on the Windows side. Best feature is that it is scriptable. It also has an SSH extension.

This is what Japanese often used. Not only apps get DirectX acceleration and runs on Windoze 3.1, it runs in a window too. Get it from here.

You mean this? PalmRemote

From the link:

Computer style infrared (IrDA) ports have been designed to reduce interference for more reliable data transfer. To achieve this, the infrared beam has been designed to be very narrow (5 degrees). This means you will need to aim the IrDA port directly at the target device (TV, VCR, etc). The infrared beam has a reach of about 2 meters ( 6.6 feet ) with good battery condition. Infrared beam power of SONY PEG(IrDA1.2) is weak and has a reach of about 1.5 meters ( 4.9 feet ). Distance and height are important in making this remote work. Vary the height, distance and angle to find what works for your environment.

2 meters is rather close. My couch is about 4 meters away from the TV and the rest of the electronics... So nothing using the regular Palm hardware will work for me.

Worse -- although the "PalmRemote" is also available for WinCE devices -- those, according to the site, have the same hardware limitations.

Not sure about Win95 -- PalmRemote is available for it too, but even the smallest Win95 laptop will not be small and energy efficient enough to act as a remote...

You mean this? PalmRemote
Edit: Google it

For example, Sunflat's superb SFCave (original PalmOS version .. rather poor Java version) - as far as I'm aware it's a completely original game, at least I've not seen it anywhere before.. simple in the extreme (how many games have only ONE control?), and yet fiendishly addictive. There's still a place in the world for the bedroom coder, especially with all these less powerful handheld devices (pda's, phones, etc) around that need this kind of simple but effective game

For example, Sunflat's superb SFCave (original PalmOS version .. rather poor Java version) - as far as I'm aware it's a completely original game, at least I've not seen it anywhere before.. simple in the extreme (how many games have only ONE control?), and yet fiendishly addictive. There's still a place in the world for the bedroom coder, especially with all these less powerful handheld devices (pda's, phones, etc) around that need this kind of simple but effective game

In a similar vein...does ANYONE find that "context menu" key useful, the one to the right of the righthand windows key?

All the time...the less frequently you have to go to the mouse, the better.

The Model M I'm using now doesn't have the Windows or menu keys on it, but I use RemapKey to remap the right Alt & Ctrl keys (which would otherwise go unused).

Strangely enough, the Windows key is also useful on a Mac...it does the work of the Open-Apple key on an Apple keyboard (and Alt takes the place of Option). I have some ADB keyboards I could use...and one of them is connected to a Quadra 610. The beige G3 uses a PS/2-to-USB adapter to share the same Focus keyboard and Microsoft optical mouse that are used by my x86 boxen. I don't think the menu key is mapped to anything, though...having it serve as the Reset/Power key would be useful.

Ctrl-Tab works, too, and it's less awkward [than Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn] (only needs one hand to type).

Err, can't you use the right Ctrl key together with PgUp/PgDn? I.e. just with your right hand?

I learned typing on a keyboard (that of an Apple IIe) with only one Ctrl key, so it only gets hit with my left pinky. (It was enough of a pain switching from Ctrl next to the A to Ctrl in the lower-left corner.) Besides, the right Ctrl key on the IBM Model M I'm using now is remapped to the menu key and the right Alt key is remapped to the Windows key because the keyboard is old enough that it doesn't have those keys.

if you like that, and happen to be a PalmOS PDA owner, check out SFCave which this heli game is basically a clone of. Be warned.. it's more addictive than crack. Oh, and don't bother trying the Java version on the page. it sux. PalmOS version is great tho :)

TeraTerm is a darned fine open source serial/telnet program for Windows. It's supposedly been ported to WinCE, though it seems there hasn't been any development in the past couple years. Might still be worth checking out, though.

TeraTerm is a darned fine open source serial/telnet program for Windows. It's supposedly been ported to WinCE, though it seems there hasn't been any development in the past couple years. Might still be worth checking out, though.