Favorite Files

1. 7-Zip (32-bit)
2. Adium X
3. Arovax Shield
4. AutoGK (Auto Gordian Knot)
5. Autoruns
6. Dial-a-fix
7. freedom GUi
8. Fresh UI
9. GX::Transcoder
10. Hamachi for Windows
11. KeePass Password Safe Classic Edition
12. Mass Downloader
13. Massive Assault Network
14. MediaMonkey
15. Microsoft SyncToy
16. Nero DiscSpeed
17. NetLimiter Pro (32-bit)
18. nLite
19. PDFCreator
20. Send To Toys
21. System Safety Monitor
22. Tor for Windows
23. Unlocker
24. WinMerge
25. Wireshark for Windows
26. wxMusik for Windows
27. Yahoo! Widget Engine for Windows

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - KeePass Password Safe Professional Edition

   2.00 Alpha (Mar 21, 2007)

   I've used this software for quite a while now, and really like it. There is also a Linux variant that can access the same file format as teh 1.x series which I've found to be partifularly useful as I move often between Linux and Windows.

2. Comment - AOL in Spat Over Certified E-Mail 'Tax'

   2.00 Alpha (Mar 1, 2006 - 1:44 PM)

   In reading these comments, I notice two significant misconceptions that should be corrected:
   1.) This is not a "tax." A tax is a payment exacted from an individual by force (i.e. a government). AOL charging *businesses* for *commercial* email is in no manner, shape, way or form a "tax." There is nothing that *forces* people to pay to send email to AOL, they are choosing to pay to send email to them. Not to mention, as I will elaborate on in my second point, that even if someone wants to send email to AOL, they can still do that, with the same confidence as they have always had because:
   
   2.) This doesn't affect everyone sending email to AOL, or mean that AOL will now block *all* email going to their domain that isn't paid for. This is patently false. All this does is guarantee the delivery of certain commercial emails that a company may certify. All the other email continues to go through the same gauntlet of spam filters, etc. that they always have. So this doesn't constitute a *reduction* or *constriction* of email being allowed in, it is simply a new process on top of that. Anyone who chooses not to use this service will have exactly the same confidence that their mail got through as they always have.

3. Comment - Torvalds Says No GPLv3 For Linux

   2.00 Alpha (Jan 27, 2006 - 10:06 AM)

   I read Linus's post in the Kernel mailing list archives but I can't find anything he said that relates to the DRM provisions of the GPL v3. He never really gives a full reasoning, just a small reason.
   Quotation from lkml.org:
   
   The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licenceable under v3, but not the kernel in general.
   
   And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code.
   
   Conversion isn't going to happen.
   
   Linus
   End of quotation from Linus
   You can read the whole post here:
   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/273
   
   Rearden
   edited to add link to post.

4. Comment - Google Censors Chinese Search Results

   2.00 Alpha (Jan 25, 2006 - 2:48 PM)

   As am I.

5. Comment - Microsoft Opens Windows Source Code

   2.00 Alpha (Jan 25, 2006 - 12:10 PM)

   I agree. The EU shouldn't have any right to force someone to distribute their source code just because they have a significant part of the market.

6. Comment - Disney Board Approves Pixar Buyout

   2.00 Alpha (Jan 24, 2006 - 1:51 PM)

   huh? That made absolutely no sense, whatsoever.