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Posted by Crono on Sat Mar 5th at 9:33am 2005

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you can get linux and get almost everything for free...


but the installation... *debian tried to beat me into submission with
torture tactics* i never got it to work = / but i really wanted linux


I'd suggest trying something package based.
You might want to try Fedora or Mandrake. They're pretty user friendly. (SuSE is expansive and friendly too, but getting certain things working is very hard sometimes)

And there's also things like Free-BSD, which is fairly easy to use.

(In particular, Fedora is pretty intuitive. Not to mention there's an insane amount of documentation AND user support through IRC and Forums)


Oh and: I <3 Vi [addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Sat Mar 5th at 10:19am 2005

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Anyone know of a good FREE music download program? I got BearShare but it loaded my computer with so much adware/spyware that I needed to reformat to get rid of it.

EDIT: I also need a good pop-up blocking program. I get a lot and it interrupts my games frequently.


Looks like you still have all that spyware on your box. Might want to try cleaning it up with

-Spybot Search And Destroy ( http://security.kolla.de/ )
-Adaware SE ( http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ )
-MS AntiSpyware ( http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx )

If you're still having trouble, get "Hijack This!" ( http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html ) and contact one of the various help groups on the web.





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Posted by thursday- on Sat Mar 5th at 11:27am 2005

WIN MX :: http://www.winmx.com
MP3/Video/Image searcher. Main usage, MP3's of course.

SKYPE :: http://www.skype.com
Internet telephony, like Ventrilo programs and such I suppose.
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Posted by parakeet on Sat Mar 5th at 2:14pm 2005

Hmm i guess i check out mandrake. im kinda scared of killing my old files, is there any boot from cd' mandrake?
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Posted by Leperous on Sat Mar 5th at 4:59pm 2005

/me checks to see if Firefox is having a problem posting in this thread for some reason, ignore this post




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Posted by Varsity on Sat Mar 5th at 6:20pm 2005

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IRC client: xchat - http://www.xchat.org/
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4) 100 % free, with no annoying message telling you to give in to shareware.
http://xchat.org/windows/#register :/




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Posted by Captain P on Sat Mar 5th at 10:40pm 2005

TuneUp Utilities: Tool to optimize your Windows, like defragmenting the file registry, changing your Windows style, memory management and more.
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Posted by parakeet on Sun Mar 6th at 1:22am 2005

Hey, ive fully installed fedora linux and its nice . I do perfer it over windows , and i dont particullarly mind having to switch to windows for all my games = ) .




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Posted by SaintGreg on Sun Mar 6th at 6:25am 2005

Wow, I didn't realize that someone would publicly rape the GPL and everything it stands for... I guess I didn't realize that the windows version of xchat was shareware. You could still compile from source and have that nastyness go away, but thanks to windows thats much more trouble than its worth. Guess I'll have to go find another, not gay, irc client. [addsig]



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Posted by Varsity on Sun Mar 6th at 10:36am 2005

Eh? Windows is a different OS. Of course it's difficult.




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Posted by Pegs on Sun Mar 6th at 11:22am 2005

AVG (anti virus) - http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

There original site is under construction for some reason or another.
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Posted by Dred_furst on Sun Mar 6th at 12:27pm 2005

use cygwin and use irssi
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Posted by Crono on Sun Mar 6th at 8:38pm 2005

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AVG (anti virus) - http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

There original site is under construction for some reason or another.



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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Mar 7th at 11:57pm 2005

Bit Tornado the best GUI i have used thus far. it allows you to assign bandwidth (everyone knows bit torrent steals all it can) .

Xats JPG optimizer the best program of its type.. PERIOD!

ViPlay my all time favorite avi viewer.

ATI Tool find the maximum setting your card can deliver.

Nero burning software 'nuff said

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Posted by Static88 on Tue Mar 8th at 5:57am 2005

Quite possibly the best DVD burning software known to man. It's reliable, it's user friendly, oh and did I mention that it's FREE? Not to mention that it's a very small file size. Perfect DVD copies every time. And now that blank DVD media is only about 50 cents a disk, how can you go wrong? Not that I copy movies or anything. Enjoy.

http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html

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Posted by OtZman on Tue Mar 8th at 9:48am 2005

Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
? quoting http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

Azureus offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents.


SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Shows temperatures, controls fans ect.


Anyone know of any good app for taking screenshots, with functions such as the ability to take more than one screenshot and choosing the file size/quality?
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Posted by LAzerMANiac on Tue Mar 8th at 5:27pm 2005

Fraps maybe? It's not free but it can take decent enough screenies... [addsig]



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Posted by OtZman on Tue Mar 8th at 5:46pm 2005

I can't set picture quality with fraps . Or is there a way?
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Posted by parakeet on Mon Mar 14th at 10:37pm 2005

Vlc was quite exelent and i am currently using fedora. do you guys know of any (wmv to avi) file converters that are free?
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Posted by Forceflow on Tue Mar 15th at 7:00am 2005

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Vlc was quite exelent and i am currently using fedora. do you guys know of any (wmv to avi) file converters that are free?


There's a tool called StoikConvert. It's free.
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