TweakUI, same as FreshUi, but different options, these two combined give you a lot of different options.
PowerToys, tweaking utilities. In particular the [Send file name to clipboard] and other options which I cannot work on Windows without.
Get everything from SysInternals, a ton of wonderful stuff here, too much to mention, but will let you track every file access, every registry write, every debugging message. Tons of great command line tools too. For instance, ever wanted to delete a file only to get a "There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use" message ? Where Windows doesn't even know for sure if the file is in use or not. Get Process Explorer from SysInternals.com and type the file name in its [Find][Find Handle] menu. Close or kill the appropriate process if necessary.
Alt-Tab Replacement, Gives a screenshot of window Alt-Tabbing, useful when you have multiple unsaved docs open, etc...
OpenCommandWindowHere, right-click on folder option to open command prompt window at that folder, useful for deep or complicated folder names
Memstat XP, lets you monitor memory usage in tray, small and simple but not that useful.
NetMeter, lets you monitor network usage in the tray, small and simple but does not seem to work on all types of network interfaces. Online Eye Pro works better and has lots more options, it's based on WinPCap just like Ethereal (see below).
TrayMeter, lets you monitor cpu usage in the tray, small and simple.
WinRAR, unzip anything you want, supports tar.gz, zip, rar, arc, and much more.
Putty (and friends), ssh client and other utils (but ssh is part of cygwin and works just as well)
WinSCP, a wonderful SCP/SFTP client for windows (scp is part of Cygwin but this is easier to use)
NetScanTools a GUI interface for most command line tools also found in cygwin
WebDrive, mount various types of network protocols (ftp, http, ssh) as local drives, buggy but useful (RiverFront)
POPfile the best spam remover I've found so far (works with outlook express and any app)
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At a recent job interview I was asked whether I prefer vi or emacs. My answer was none of them. If there's no X then pico/nano is probably enough to get the system up and running. And then I can use nedit in X. Anything else will be missing from the system.
BTW, nano is the editor of choice in the Gentoo setup. Good for them.
For your purpose, you don't need a waterproof camera, or even a bag for underwater photography (like Ewa-Marine). All you need is a waterproof storage bag or box to carry your usual camera.
And for the dark conditions get a TRIPOD. Don't use sensitive film. Yes, I have been in Zion.
"This manual says what our product actually does, no matter what the salesman may have told you it does." --In a californian graphic board manual, 1985.
"Here is your parachute and here is the manual.
Welcome to Linux."
Yes,I was going to suggest those SysInternals tools too. They are very useful, but the problem is that one has no idea of the staggering amount of file/registry modifications that go on while in normal operating mode, much less when installing a new app. Even with the provided filters and grep it's hard to track down what you are looking for.
I recently came back to France and noticed that the country side drives seemed a lot... cleaner. It took me a while to figure out that there were no more billboard signs. Upon inquiry I learnt that they are now illegal outside of city boundaries. Very nice.
It's those Xenon HID headlights I hate. You know, the ultra-bright, kinda bluish ones that blind you late at night as they come around the curve. Those seem bright enough to be unsafe
I can't agree more about forbidding those. Those things live a long lasting blind line on the retina as they pass. And their put thoe blue light in much smaller reflectors too, so the light is concentrated in one sharp spot. There should be a legal minimum surface area for reflectors.
I bought a car last month (okay, two but the 1st one died within a week) and the salesman was giving me his pitch on various models: "And this one has those amazing blue xeon light..." I went off track and gave him an asshole rant he's gonna remember.
I don't know about that specific vulnerability, but I always suspected something fishy about the chm files. They can run javascript and whatever else you compile into them with full user priviledge. Yes, I write chm files. I think a workaround is to disable Javascript and other scripting at the local intranet security level in IE options.
THis seems stupid to me. It's just like the current throwaway accounts. Get on a mailing list. You UNC key becomes visible. Spammers grab it and start spamming you with it. Back to point one. That doesn't solve anything at all.
I had been happily downloading my cygwin updates when this news came out on/. I looked at where the installer was: xorg-x11-6.7.0.0-1.tar.bz2 !!! It's announced today and it's already up for download in the distros ! Maybe that's why this 16Mb download is taking forever...
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
This quote is misatributed. It's from Jean Meslier ( -1729), a French priest, in a letter he left after his death denouncing all the abuse of the Catholic church.
Sounds like usenet to me... I remember reading his proposal some time ago and it does make a lot of sense. No more flooded mailbox while you are on vacation... And it's also a good way for the sender to control whether or not the mail has been read (as opposed to only received). And idiot family members who send the content of their new digital camera to all family members without downsampling the images will get a quite useful "Full outgoing mailbox" error message.
Now if only Storagetek made USB cables for the Timberline silos
I've used those, but I'd like to see a silo with hot-swappable hard drive inside instead of the now obsolete 8mm tapes of SuperDLT tapes. Imagine it full of 400Gb Hitachi IDE hard drives... You have a 20 seconds delay for the robot access and the hot swap and then full ATA-6 transfer speed... Put 5 of them together to make a RAID of silos !
let's face it, if you manage to destroy not one but TWO copies of the same DVD then you don't deserve legal rights to copy it again, you need a beating with a cluestick
Although I agree 99% with what you said, I beg to differ on that quote. I went throught 4 paid for originals of my prefered CD. One was scrapped beyond recognition from too much listening, the second had the surface peel off (bad manufacturing), the 3rd was stolen and the 4th burnt in my car. That was before mp3s were popular. I then downloaded it off Napster or somesuch. I don't have an original, what will I say when the MPAA comes barging into my home ?!?
what's the use of a 100mbit/sec connection with a mobile phone
Here's one: with a digital camera no more need for lots of memory cards. Just use some wireless to transfer each image as it is taken to the cell phone in you rpocket which then transfers it to the image server in your home/company/newspaper.
Reporters and sports photographers are gonna love it.
In some countries like italy it used to be common in numerous families to give kids first names according to their birth. There's a family I know with 9 kids named:
Primo
Secondo
Terzo
...
A few famous people have such first names: Primo Levi, Settimo Severo and sometimes I wonder about Ottavio/Octave...
Okay for the April fool's joke, even if it's past date in Europe. I'm just surprised that nobody mentioned it already. This system (not RFID but similar) of sub-cutanuous tracking devices is already in widespread use on animals in Europe. I don't know about the US. Tagging of dogs for instance used to be through tatoo and customary. Now this option is available.
One example of use is people who abandon their dogs before the vacations. You can track who the owners are. Even in the case of those assholes cutting their dogs' ears to get rid of the tatoo! Unfortunately I'm not making this up.
"A scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do that." -- Gordon L. Glegg, American Engineer, 1969.
...I have been using Linux professionally for a few years, so I know how to configure ethernet, Apache, firewall, an internal RAID and more stuff from the config files, but I have no idea how the "Linux on the Desktop" works. I just installed Knoppix and Mandrake on my own machine for the 1st time a few days ago and was a bit lost. Is there some book or comprehensive website that will tell me how to:
use Gnome or KDE (how to add icons, how to add menus, how to add context sensitive menus, where are they defined internally...)
how to burn CDs
how to configure sound cards if they aren't recognized at once (I'm lucky, mine was)
how to deal with advanced X-windows. For instance on installation Mandrake guessed my 2 monitor setup. On second boot, X wouldn't work anymore and I had to manually delete all references to the 2nd monitor in the X config file...
In other words, a "How to use a Linux Desktop for command line admins" type of book.
Slashdot Mirror
Network Utilities
BTW, nano is the editor of choice in the Gentoo setup. Good for them.
I didn't get the job...
And for the dark conditions get a TRIPOD. Don't use sensitive film. Yes, I have been in Zion.
After 2 years spent in Antarctica, what about a penguin cake ?
Yes,I was going to suggest those SysInternals tools too. They are very useful, but the problem is that one has no idea of the staggering amount of file/registry modifications that go on while in normal operating mode, much less when installing a new app. Even with the provided filters and grep it's hard to track down what you are looking for.
This image looks like something you could do in under 500bytes of PovRay code... Anyone cares to comment on the difference ?
I recently came back to France and noticed that the country side drives seemed a lot... cleaner. It took me a while to figure out that there were no more billboard signs. Upon inquiry I learnt that they are now illegal outside of city boundaries. Very nice.
I love their sample spell check... Guess what it is...
I bought a car last month (okay, two but the 1st one died within a week) and the salesman was giving me his pitch on various models: "And this one has those amazing blue xeon light..." I went off track and gave him an asshole rant he's gonna remember.
I don't know about that specific vulnerability, but I always suspected something fishy about the chm files. They can run javascript and whatever else you compile into them with full user priviledge. Yes, I write chm files. I think a workaround is to disable Javascript and other scripting at the local intranet security level in IE options.
THis seems stupid to me. It's just like the current throwaway accounts. Get on a mailing list. You UNC key becomes visible. Spammers grab it and start spamming you with it. Back to point one. That doesn't solve anything at all.
Wait till I finish !
Or use a different mirror...
I had been happily downloading my cygwin updates when this news came out on /. I looked at where the installer was: xorg-x11-6.7.0.0-1.tar.bz2 !!! It's announced today and it's already up for download in the distros ! Maybe that's why this 16Mb download is taking forever...
Sounds like usenet to me... I remember reading his proposal some time ago and it does make a lot of sense. No more flooded mailbox while you are on vacation... And it's also a good way for the sender to control whether or not the mail has been read (as opposed to only received). And idiot family members who send the content of their new digital camera to all family members without downsampling the images will get a quite useful "Full outgoing mailbox" error message.
Reporters and sports photographers are gonna love it.
- Primo
- Secondo
- Terzo
- ...
A few famous people have such first names: Primo Levi, Settimo Severo and sometimes I wonder about Ottavio/Octave...One example of use is people who abandon their dogs before the vacations. You can track who the owners are. Even in the case of those assholes cutting their dogs' ears to get rid of the tatoo! Unfortunately I'm not making this up.
- use Gnome or KDE (how to add icons, how to add menus, how to add context sensitive menus, where are they defined internally...)
- how to burn CDs
- how to configure sound cards if they aren't recognized at once (I'm lucky, mine was)
- how to deal with advanced X-windows. For instance on installation Mandrake guessed my 2 monitor setup. On second boot, X wouldn't work anymore and I had to manually delete all references to the 2nd monitor in the X config file...
In other words, a "How to use a Linux Desktop for command line admins" type of book.