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  • E Erik Funkenbusch

    My god... $10 a month just to use a media player? That's $120 a year. Would you pay $120 for Winamp? Or any other media player? $240 for 2 years... that's more expensive than Windows itself. I refuse to ever use Real products. Every Real product i've ever installed has broken something, then they had the GALL to testify before a senate committee that MS intentionally broke THEIR software (when it turns out it was actuall a bug in THEIR code). -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?

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    Erik Funkenbusch wrote: My god... $10 a month just to use a media player? No, not quite. RealONE is a whole music service. You get a the media player software which I think is very good. Then you get the ability to download music (I think 25 songs a month), plus videos, radio stations etc. That is what you are paying $9.95 a month for. So if you have broadband it is really good value. You are not paying for the software though, not really. Erik Funkenbusch wrote: I refuse to ever use Real products. Every Real product i've ever installed has broken something I agree with you on every product they have made, except for RealONE. It is a really good media player. It does not install other programmes without asking nor does it break anything. I think they fired their whole dev team and got a new one for RealONE :) I still don't like Real much though. Have we found a company to hate more than MS? WOW! hehe regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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      Having just helped install a new PC for a friend and having to suggest various apps that I think she needs I thought it would be interesting to ask the experts what they find essential. Here is my list of apps that I cannot do without: - Macromedia Fireworks - Jasc Paint Shop Pro - WinZip - MS Outlook - MS Word - MS Visio - Visual Interdev - SQL Enterprise Manager - CuteFTP - ICQ - Sonork - Acrobat - MS Internet Explorer - Netscape - Notepad (so handy!) - Terminal Services Seeing as most of my development is ASP, HTML and JavaScript I don't need much in the way of debugging tools or compilers. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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      The apps I cannot do without include (in no specific order): - WinCVS 1.2 - MSVC 6 - UltraEdit 8.1 - WMP8 - Paint Shop Pro 6 - HTML Help Workshop - Wise InstallMaster 7 - Telnet (the GUI version lifted from Win98! - not the NT console version) - IE6 - Nero 5.x - InCD 3.x (the built-in XP CD-RW support sucks) - MS Money 2002 - MS FrontPage - Kerridge Mail 3.x - Google toolbar for IE - CodeProject toolbar for IE :)

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        Mine would be

        1. Visual Studio 6.0/service packs
        2. IE 6.0
        3. Visual Studio.NET
        4. Winzip
        5. Ws_FTP
        6. Paint Shop pro 7
        7. Office 2000
        8. Swish
        9. Yahoo Messenger
        10. Sonork
        11. Adobe Acrobat Reader
        12. FaberToys
        13. In Control
        14. FlashGet [much better than Getright]
        15. Pop 3 Protector ;-)
        16. Google toolbar
        17. TweakUI
        18. SlowView [image viewer thats not slow at all]
        19. TweakUI
        20. Windows Media Player 7.1 [I stopped using Winamp]

        Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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        Slavo Furman
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        >>I stopped using Winamp<< What's wrong with WinAmp? Why WMP 7.1 is better? thanks, SlavoF "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." --Confucius

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          >>I stopped using Winamp<< What's wrong with WinAmp? Why WMP 7.1 is better? thanks, SlavoF "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." --Confucius

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          Nish Nishant
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          Slavo Furman wrote: What's wrong with WinAmp? Why WMP 7.1 is better? Well, WMP 7.1 supports more media file formats including DivX. I believe Winamp is basically an audio player rather than a full-fledged media player Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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          • P Paul Watson

            Having just helped install a new PC for a friend and having to suggest various apps that I think she needs I thought it would be interesting to ask the experts what they find essential. Here is my list of apps that I cannot do without: - Macromedia Fireworks - Jasc Paint Shop Pro - WinZip - MS Outlook - MS Word - MS Visio - Visual Interdev - SQL Enterprise Manager - CuteFTP - ICQ - Sonork - Acrobat - MS Internet Explorer - Netscape - Notepad (so handy!) - Terminal Services Seeing as most of my development is ASP, HTML and JavaScript I don't need much in the way of debugging tools or compilers. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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            You've forgotten the most important app MS Visual C++! Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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              Having just helped install a new PC for a friend and having to suggest various apps that I think she needs I thought it would be interesting to ask the experts what they find essential. Here is my list of apps that I cannot do without: - Macromedia Fireworks - Jasc Paint Shop Pro - WinZip - MS Outlook - MS Word - MS Visio - Visual Interdev - SQL Enterprise Manager - CuteFTP - ICQ - Sonork - Acrobat - MS Internet Explorer - Netscape - Notepad (so handy!) - Terminal Services Seeing as most of my development is ASP, HTML and JavaScript I don't need much in the way of debugging tools or compilers. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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              Probably: - mIRC - VC ++ (even when not hacking, I love the html "syntax" coloring!) - MSDOS Prompt - IE 5 - WinZip - PSP 5 :suss: -Jason nirgle.bitdevil.com

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                Probably: - mIRC - VC ++ (even when not hacking, I love the html "syntax" coloring!) - MSDOS Prompt - IE 5 - WinZip - PSP 5 :suss: -Jason nirgle.bitdevil.com

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                Paul Watson
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                Jason Hooper wrote: MSDOS Prompt :laugh: oh so true! Even with the fancy GUIs of today the good old prompt is invaluable. Jason Hooper wrote: mIRC You are an addict too huh? I was but I have been IRC free for two years now *the room claps* hehe regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                  You've forgotten the most important app MS Visual C++! Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                  Norm Almond wrote: You've forgotten the most important app MS Visual C++! Me no comprendai C++, me do ASP. Me no want C++. C++ not the future... ;P regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                  • N Nish Nishant

                    Mine would be

                    1. Visual Studio 6.0/service packs
                    2. IE 6.0
                    3. Visual Studio.NET
                    4. Winzip
                    5. Ws_FTP
                    6. Paint Shop pro 7
                    7. Office 2000
                    8. Swish
                    9. Yahoo Messenger
                    10. Sonork
                    11. Adobe Acrobat Reader
                    12. FaberToys
                    13. In Control
                    14. FlashGet [much better than Getright]
                    15. Pop 3 Protector ;-)
                    16. Google toolbar
                    17. TweakUI
                    18. SlowView [image viewer thats not slow at all]
                    19. TweakUI
                    20. Windows Media Player 7.1 [I stopped using Winamp]

                    Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                    Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                    Here's mine:

                    • Visual C++ 6.0/service packs
                    • IE 6.0
                    • WinZip
                    • Office 97 (OK, so I'm too tight to upgrade :rolleyes: )
                    • Dreamweaver 1.2 (free version!)
                    • Windows Media Player 7.1
                    • ZoneAlarm Pro
                    • McAfee VirusScan 5.21
                    • MSN Messenger 4.5
                    • SmartFTP
                    • ClickTeam InstallMaker
                    • ClickTeam SynchronX
                    • Adobe Acrobat Reader
                    • WndTabs 3.05 VC add-in
                    • ResOrg 1.4 VC add-in
                    • Folder Size Shell Extension 3.0
                    • CleanEx Shell Extension
                    • CodeProject Toolbar
                    • Google Toolbar

                    I've probably forgot a few, but that's the basics at least :) Andy Metcalfe - Sonardyne International Ltd

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                    "I'm just another 'S' bend in the internet. A ton of stuff goes through my system, and some of the hairer, stickier and lumpier stuff sticks." - Chris Maunder (I just couldn't let that one past ;))

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                    • P Paul Watson

                      Having just helped install a new PC for a friend and having to suggest various apps that I think she needs I thought it would be interesting to ask the experts what they find essential. Here is my list of apps that I cannot do without: - Macromedia Fireworks - Jasc Paint Shop Pro - WinZip - MS Outlook - MS Word - MS Visio - Visual Interdev - SQL Enterprise Manager - CuteFTP - ICQ - Sonork - Acrobat - MS Internet Explorer - Netscape - Notepad (so handy!) - Terminal Services Seeing as most of my development is ASP, HTML and JavaScript I don't need much in the way of debugging tools or compilers. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                      Paint Shop Pro WinZip AbsoluteFTP Eudora UltraEdit VC6 "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                        Norm Almond wrote: You've forgotten the most important app MS Visual C++! Me no comprendai C++, me do ASP. Me no want C++. C++ not the future... ;P regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                        Paul Watson wrote: Me no comprendai C++, me do ASP. Me no want C++. C++ not the future... :omg: and ASP is the future, how niave of you ;P Come on Paul, lets wait until .NET is released before we can speculate on what the future holds. The best growths in the computer industries and Graphics Hardware and 3D programming, so it looks like ASP is *not* the future. ;) Maybe you should learn OpenGL or DirectX (yuk!) Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                          Having just helped install a new PC for a friend and having to suggest various apps that I think she needs I thought it would be interesting to ask the experts what they find essential. Here is my list of apps that I cannot do without: - Macromedia Fireworks - Jasc Paint Shop Pro - WinZip - MS Outlook - MS Word - MS Visio - Visual Interdev - SQL Enterprise Manager - CuteFTP - ICQ - Sonork - Acrobat - MS Internet Explorer - Netscape - Notepad (so handy!) - Terminal Services Seeing as most of my development is ASP, HTML and JavaScript I don't need much in the way of debugging tools or compilers. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                          -MS Word -MS Excel -Putty -CuteFTP -WinAMP -Textpad -Toad -PVCS -Outlook -MS Visual C++ -MS Visual Basic -MS Internet Explorer -Paint Shop Pro -MS Embedded Visual Tools -MSDN -McAfee Virus Scan Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire"

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                            Paul Watson wrote: Me no comprendai C++, me do ASP. Me no want C++. C++ not the future... :omg: and ASP is the future, how niave of you ;P Come on Paul, lets wait until .NET is released before we can speculate on what the future holds. The best growths in the computer industries and Graphics Hardware and 3D programming, so it looks like ASP is *not* the future. ;) Maybe you should learn OpenGL or DirectX (yuk!) Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                            Norm Almond wrote: and ASP is the future, how niave of you I definitley do not think ASP is the future either. I still don't think though that C++ is either. Speculation is exactly that, so I shall speculate that .NET is the future, especially the ASP.NET component. ASP.NET is out of this world. 3d programming in business apps? Oh sure, they will go for that X| Norm Almond wrote: Maybe you should learn OpenGL or DirectX While I am at it I will also have root canal and an anal probe ;P regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                              Paul Watson wrote: Me no comprendai C++, me do ASP. Me no want C++. C++ not the future... :omg: and ASP is the future, how niave of you ;P Come on Paul, lets wait until .NET is released before we can speculate on what the future holds. The best growths in the computer industries and Graphics Hardware and 3D programming, so it looks like ASP is *not* the future. ;) Maybe you should learn OpenGL or DirectX (yuk!) Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                              you should never dismiss what you don't comprendai :rose: Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                                Having just helped install a new PC for a friend and having to suggest various apps that I think she needs I thought it would be interesting to ask the experts what they find essential. Here is my list of apps that I cannot do without: - Macromedia Fireworks - Jasc Paint Shop Pro - WinZip - MS Outlook - MS Word - MS Visio - Visual Interdev - SQL Enterprise Manager - CuteFTP - ICQ - Sonork - Acrobat - MS Internet Explorer - Netscape - Notepad (so handy!) - Terminal Services Seeing as most of my development is ASP, HTML and JavaScript I don't need much in the way of debugging tools or compilers. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                                OK, we have covered a lot of the basics. Here are several I have not seen listed. Editor - PFE Unistall - Remove4Good - Gets rid of entries of programs that are already gone and whose names were left (Thanks to install shield failing if the user moved the menu.) Screen Capture - Hypersnap System info - Tweaking Tool Box for Windows. Michael A. Barnhart mabtech@swbell.net

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                                  Norm Almond wrote: and ASP is the future, how niave of you I definitley do not think ASP is the future either. I still don't think though that C++ is either. Speculation is exactly that, so I shall speculate that .NET is the future, especially the ASP.NET component. ASP.NET is out of this world. 3d programming in business apps? Oh sure, they will go for that X| Norm Almond wrote: Maybe you should learn OpenGL or DirectX While I am at it I will also have root canal and an anal probe ;P regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                                  ROFLOL :-D Nice one, seriously though if we knew what the future held, we'd be Millionaires. Different tools for different jobs, you could'nt write a Word processor in ASP and I couldn't write a e-commerce application in C++. Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                                    OK, we have covered a lot of the basics. Here are several I have not seen listed. Editor - PFE Unistall - Remove4Good - Gets rid of entries of programs that are already gone and whose names were left (Thanks to install shield failing if the user moved the menu.) Screen Capture - Hypersnap System info - Tweaking Tool Box for Windows. Michael A. Barnhart mabtech@swbell.net

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                                    Michael.A.Barnhart wrote: Unistall - Remove4Good - Gets rid of entries of programs that are already gone and whose names were left (Thanks to install shield failing if the user moved the menu.) Does that programme actually work? I have heard claims but never really tested them out. Also does anyone not change the start menu structure? I know I put my apps into a very different menu structure to the default. It confuses uninstall apps like hell though. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                                      ROFLOL :-D Nice one, seriously though if we knew what the future held, we'd be Millionaires. Different tools for different jobs, you could'nt write a Word processor in ASP and I couldn't write a e-commerce application in C++. Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                                      Norm Almond wrote: Different tools for different jobs, you could'nt write a Word processor in ASP and I couldn't write a e-commerce application in C++. I knew a guy who wrote all the back-end processing for an e-commerce application in C++. It was pretty good and very fast. The front-end was all ASP and HTML of course. Also our web content management system has a Word like content editing application with spell checking, full formatting, importing, exporting etc. Much like using Word, only not as infuriating. It is written all in ASP with XML/XSL and a SQL back-end. Of course it uses a VB COM component for the hard stuff but you would be amazed what you can do with Internet Explorer, DHTML and a COM component. You can make a very good UI in a web browser and the COM component does all the data crunching bits. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                                        you should never dismiss what you don't comprendai :rose: Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                                        Norm Almond wrote: you should never dismiss what you don't comprendai touche, touche! :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                                          Having just helped install a new PC for a friend and having to suggest various apps that I think she needs I thought it would be interesting to ask the experts what they find essential. Here is my list of apps that I cannot do without: - Macromedia Fireworks - Jasc Paint Shop Pro - WinZip - MS Outlook - MS Word - MS Visio - Visual Interdev - SQL Enterprise Manager - CuteFTP - ICQ - Sonork - Acrobat - MS Internet Explorer - Netscape - Notepad (so handy!) - Terminal Services Seeing as most of my development is ASP, HTML and JavaScript I don't need much in the way of debugging tools or compilers. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                                          My taskmanager list: - C# - Delphi 5 - VB 6.0 - IE (times 10) 6.0 - Opera --- only 'cause its easier to ALT-TAB out of than IE :omg: ;) - Visual N++ - MSSQL ent. man. 2000 - VSS - BulletProof FTP - MS Messenger and the Boss-screen of all boss-screens: - VC++ 6.0 Simon "...Bill is watching..." "An Object Is Simply A Referenced Thingy" ... Programming Perl, by Larry Wall

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