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The Ultimate 'Essential' Program List

Author:  Martin [ Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:31 pm ]
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Here is a list of all of the amazing free programs out there, so you don't have to resort to piracy.

OpenOffice - An office suite comparable to Microsoft Office (not nearly as bloated though)

the GIMP - Image editing suite that kicks the ass out of Photoshop. Unfortunately, if you're still a windows user, you can only use version 1.2. Still good though

DevC++ - A nice, free, small C++ compiler.

Mozilla Firefox (0.9!) - Web browser with the following features:
- Built in popup blocking
- Uses less RAM than IE (by far)
- Faster renderer than IE
- Customizable GUI
- Tabbed Browsing
- Plugins, including RSS readers and ad blockers (as in banner ad blockers)
- Lots more. There is no excuse for not having this program.
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/
-This is a list of the vast majority of the extensions available for firefox.


WinAMP - A media player far less bloated than Windows Media player, and no spyware (unlike realplayer). Again, essential.

PageDefrag - Windows wants its users to run disk defrag every couple weeks, which thrashes your hard drive for a few hours and then you get an amazing 2.7% speed increase until you try to run a program. The real problem is that Windows' page file gets defragmented, which disk defrag doesn't fix. This program is for you. Run it if you have more than one fragment on any of the categories, and restart your computer. It only takes a couple of minutes to run.

Linux - Get yourself a real OS, that can do everything windows can with the following exceptions:
- Doesn't crash randomly nearly as often
- You never get the message 'You need to restart your computer for changes to take effect.'
- Boot in 5 seconds flat. Nice for the one time that you have to turn off your machine a month.

Okay, so you want to steal programs off of the internet, but you realize that Kazaa is junk for everything except for music. Err, make backup copies of all of those cds that you own. That's what I mean.

Well, here's a list of some useful programs and websites for that stuff too.


Getting Kazaa is kind of hard to do lately. All of a sudden, everyone started charging money for the versions of Kazaa lite. OldVersion.com used to have a copy on it, but that site mysteriously disappeared I just found out, so I have no idea. Google it up, something'll surface eventually. Damn Nazi's.

TorrentStorm - Definately one of the best BitTorrent clients out there. As far as good torrent websites go:
http://www.torrentreactor.net/
http://suprnova.org/ (note no e)
http://isohunt.com/

mIRC - A nice IRC program, great for all of your video game and pornographic needs. And ahh...chatting. Yeah.

That's all that I can think of at the moment. Feel free to add to this list.

Author:  Catalyst [ Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:26 pm ]
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Shareaza nice (and opensource) p2p program. Connects to Gnutella 1&2 along with eDonkey2000 networks. Also a bit torrent client.
Apache Best (and free) Web Server

AVG Free Antivirus
Adaware Spyware removal

edit: removed (duplicate)

Winsyntax A great(and small) html/php editor

Author:  Martin [ Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:34 pm ]
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winAMP's already on the list.

Author:  roer [ Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:39 pm ]
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WinRar - http://www.rarlabs.com
Great compression program

Newsbin - http://www.newsbin.com/
Newsgroup program

i used to have a huge list of useful applications, ill try to find the url

Author:  SuperGenius [ Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:44 pm ]
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About open office..... I used it in the career centre at my school, and hated it because it ran so slowly on the computers. On a decent system does it run more smoothly?

Author:  Amailer [ Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:02 pm ]
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Spybot Search & Destory - Kills all spyware, works very well!
Emule - Good, fast working p2p client, allows you to connect to diffrent servers for downloading. No Spyware or ads!
EditPlus - Ah good editor for java/php and etc ;D nice, simple and has some nice functions
Virtual Daemon - With this you can play downloaded CD's and etc (.bin/.cue and etc files..) ya
iTunes - Sweet player, was first built only for a mac users but now also for windows users Very Happy. Works with your iPod if you got 1... got a music store and etc.

EDIT: Deleted 2 repeats.

Author:  Mazer [ Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:23 pm ]
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Darkness wrote:
the GIMP - Image editing suite that kicks the ass out of Photoshop. Unfortunately, if you're still a windows user, you can only use version 1.2. Still good though

Glad I didn't have to edit your post or complain about that. But you are mistaken, version 2.0 is available (I have it).

Author:  Martin [ Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:30 pm ]
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Oh, awesome. I'm not too up on the Windows software...it pwns. Very HappyVery Happy

Author:  Martin [ Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:32 pm ]
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SuperGenius wrote:
About open office..... I used it in the career centre at my school, and hated it because it ran so slowly on the computers. On a decent system does it run more smoothly?


I think it's optimized for unix. It works faster than office did on my computer right now, so it might just be because you were on junky rigs. No idea though.

Author:  Mint [ Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:58 pm ]
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Opera - A pretty groovy web browser, tab browsing, very good pop-up protection, it can disguise itself as other browsers, lots of other great features such as: continuing browsing without any work (you'll see what I'm talking about), there is a banner unless you pay for it BUT it doesn't get in the way of browsing otherwise it's exactly the same as the payed version.

Author:  wtd [ Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:31 pm ]
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For developers PostgreSQL is a must. It's an open-source, feature-rich database. The capabilities of it make MySQL look like a child's toy.

Author:  naoki [ Tue Jun 29, 2004 9:26 pm ]
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EDIT: hmm, i don't know, but it seems like rizzix is an apple user. mebbe it's the praise he gives to all iApps, or mebbe how every single program he suggested is for OS X only. Hmm ..... Laughing
Also, I gave them links Heart

Nimo CodecPack - contains all the codecs you'll ever need to play music, video and stream files. Different builds allow for customization for hardcore media freaks.
[url]http://nimo.titanesk.com/modules/freecontent/index.php?id=1 [/url]

Net Transport - prolly my favourite download manager. batch downloads, and the option (only with IE ... not sure about Firefox) to selectively download anything and everything off of one page (vids, pics, files). Pretty damn fast, and plenty of options. http://www.xi-soft.com/download.htm

Visual Boy Advance/MAME - hey, I don't feel like paying money to play MvC and Advance Wars 2, so these emulators are good alternatives (ROMS are far harder to come by though, especially MAME ROM's)
http://www.zophar.net

Author:  Paul [ Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:11 pm ]
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Mame is pretty cool, doesn't work for my computer though, so I stick with WinKwaks, for the KoF series.

Author:  rizzix [ Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:00 pm ]
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Dont be lazy.. include the links plz. Now..

UltrVNC - (Virtual Network Connection(s)) This is both the server and a client.. extremely low latency.. favourite app. installed on every comp in my LAN. For those who don't know what VNC is.. its a remoted desktop-like technology. This app is opensourced and free!

Oracle 10g Database - kicks the ass of all competing database vendors. Free for non-commercial use.

Camino - fantastic (Gecko) brower for OS X

SubEthaEdit - collaborative editor for OS X

CPlot - visualizer for complex 3d functions (OSX only)

Acquisition - the best p2p program for OS X (no windows p2p app can compare to this!!)

Konfabulator - heh what can i say. its a must-have, unless of course u have Tiger (OSX only) Oh an you got to love the new Gmail widget!!

Xirc - scriptable irc chat program for OS X. And no its not the same as the unix one, this one looks and feels far better heh.

Proteus - the coolest IM app for OSX

All the iApps from Apple - Yes every single one of them rocks (OSX only)

Author:  wtd [ Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:27 pm ]
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rizzix wrote:
All the iApps from Apple - Yes every single one of them rocks (OSX only)


Except for iTunes, which is also available for Windows 2000 and XP.

Author:  rizzix [ Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:49 pm ]
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i almost forgot!!!

Fink - unix-side package manager for osx, i can't live without this!!!

Author:  the_short1 [ Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:34 am ]
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um.... DAP can do the save all files / pictures / videos from a webpage... ( a list of all them comes up u just select all the ones u want)... and DAP is muchos FAST... and it works with FIREFOX!!!!


GO DAP!!!!

Download Acesslerator Plus..

www.speedbit.com

anyways.....

yea.... kazaa lite is still out there..

here ill hook you up... there is one person who still cares about kazaa lite.... he made a site to save kazaa lite's existance... ianywaysi know him... name nathan moir... here is the siet to get kazaa lite.. (FREE no spyware no shit version) and no u cant find his site on google....


www.freekazaalite.tk


here are all the mirrors.. (since his site is badblye oranized... and he also links other kazaa lite clients (like clean KMD, and resurection)




anyways..... kazaa lite 2.4.3


ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/bazar/kazaalite/klitekpp243e.exe

http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Windows/softking/soft/en/k/klitekpp243e.exe

http://itcsoft54.free.fr/klitekpp243e.exe

http://tanguycc.free.fr/av/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.ariete.net/pag_utils/download/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.bryanthecomputerguy.com/software/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.cerberus.uklinux.net/software/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.gameglitch.com/download/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.home.no/ralle89/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.kazaadores.com/modules/Downloads/store/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.xillioncomputers.com/downloads/klitekpp243e.exe

http://ftp.korus.ru/Software/internet/p2p/klitekpp243e.exe

http://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/ftp/Vendors/Softking/soft/en/k/klitekpp243e.exe

http://ftp.pconline.com.cn/pub/download/200311/klitekpp243e.exe

http://gettingmovies.selectedhosting.com/klitekpp243e.exe

http://klitekpp.uw.hu/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.pcbugfixer.com.au/temp/klitekpp243e.exe

ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Windows/softking/soft/en/k/klitekpp243e.exe

ftp://ftp.korus.ru/Software/internet/p2p/klitekpp243e.exe

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/bazar/klite/klitekpp243e.exe

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/bazar/klite/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.dl1.oldversion.com/x/kazaalite243.exe

ftp://3261137477/pub/filepilot/windows/filesharing/kazaa/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.danburywoodworks.com/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.hotnewmedia.com/nrobilla/klitekpp243e.exe

http://dc.good.lv/klitekpp243e.exe

ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/.disk0/filepilot/windows/filesharing/kazaa/klitekpp243e.exe

ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/windows/filesharing/kazaa/klitekpp243e.exe

ftp://ftp.komputery.wp.pl/pub/Obslugapolaczen/Pobieranieplikow/klitekpp243e.exe

ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Windows/Internet/Kazaa%20Lite%20K++%20v2.4.3/klitekpp243e.exe

http://superfastcomputer.com/stuff/klitekpp243e.exe

http://download.technet.cz/sw_mp3soft/klitekpp243e.exe

http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/4players/mikemth/kazaa/klitekpp243e.exe

http://rebeltag.home.insightbb.com/klitekpp243e.exe

http://strony.aster.pl/marek_g/k-lite/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.allabouthits.com/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.neom.ca/junk/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/d/w/dwv108/files/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.redox.si/support/CommonUser/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.rifted.com/files/file-programs/klitekpp243e.exe

http://www.uwwwb.com/files/klitekpp243e.exe



there we go... enjoy.... is 2.4.5.3 better? he has that on his site too.. but only like 2 mirrows.... hmmm w/e... im happy with my vurrent version...
and i will take the installer and host it in the pub section of my webserver for safe keeping...

Author:  jonos [ Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:52 pm ]
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<a href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html">Seti@home</a>: Help find those aliens.

<a href="http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1">DosBox</a>: For playing old games (Dos emulator).

<a href="http://www.7-zip.com/">7-Zip</a>: Freeware unzipping tool for a lot of formats.

<a href="http://www.zipzag.com/">ZipZag</a>: Another archiver/unzipping program but the thing I like about this one is that it can zip up into .pk3 archives which is good when one wants to screw around with Quake III stuff.

<a href="http://www.videolan.org/">VLC Media Player</a>: I like this because it comes with its own codecs so my downloaded video files work, while in Microsoft I can never get codecs.

Maybe I'll think of some more later.

Author:  the_short1 [ Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:11 am ]
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ahh... how could i forget.....



RamPage - It goes next to system clock, your double click and it will free memory up from programs that forget to free, or just mismanaged memory, works great especially from turing(forgetting Pic.Free or Font.Free etc... or with computer with less then 128 mb ram, but can be used with computer withs 512 MB ram (ive tried it) works good

you can make it free up to a certain ammount, or just free x amount more ram.... very handy....


http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/

AddKiller - Buypin ok.. for all u peeps still using IE... or if u need to use IE forsomething that firefox cant ... this is for u! .... simply right click on this little bulleye on system tray, move mouse to 'add rule', a drop down list comes up with all active windows.... simply select the one u DONT want to see agan.... BOOM.... it closes... and if that winow tries to open again... it auto kills it... .. like right now... Compsci.ca :: Post Reply... if i blocked this window, anytime that TITLE comes up... it would be closed... handy... also can limit open windows to x ammount... good for 'underground sites with lots of pop ups' just limit to 2, one for searching, one for the pop up window with the information

www.buypin.com (yea, program at source forge now...)

IRFANVIEW!!!!!!! cant beleive no one has said this one yet....

Irfanview is the BEST free IMAGE program out there!!! can do some image effects, coller filters etc, but mostly a Image, Sound, Movie Viewer / Converter.... can convert from ANY format to ANy other Format... its INSANE!!!! can even open up autocad images.... nice printing interface... slideshows.. fullscreen...screensaver maker, nero burning, mp3 player... download the full plugins thingy too... opens program in .1 seccond...

www.irfanview.com

Author:  Paul [ Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:44 am ]
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bah... rampage, I use it, it says theres more ram available then within 1 min, it slowly goes back to what it was

Author:  the_short1 [ Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:58 pm ]
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yea... that only happens if u use rampage when no more ram is available..

i can free all 64 mb of my ram if i wanted... but oviously OS and other running programs will just steal it back...

rampage will steal ram taht a program may need (if u keep clicking on it)... then the program will just take it back..

u just kidna gota know ur flow point (what ram u have left when nothing is running) and only free up to that point.. then ur fine..

rampage is the best for me since i only have 64 mb ram...... after closing a program some dont free the memory they were using... and it allows me to run at peak mempory at all times...

its really more beneficial then u thijnk... hell before i had it i never knew that i only had 5MB free after running some programs then closing them.

ull be shocked how much u acually have left (about 3 hours after u first boot ur pc)... resource meter is much differnet then this..

Author:  Martin [ Fri Aug 06, 2004 10:12 pm ]
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Notepad2: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Updated graphics engine, ragdoll physics, 1024mb video cards supported, and syntax highlighting!

Author:  rizzix [ Sat Aug 07, 2004 9:30 am ]
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CyberDuck - Great free ftp/ssh/scp/sftp program for osx

MPlayer OSX - Highly optimized video player for osx

mplayer - Same as above, but for linux/unix (once again highly optimized)

Azureus - the best (highly tweakable) bit torrent client/server out there for all java supporting platforms (other clients are based of python, this one is based on java)

Author:  Martin [ Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:18 pm ]
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I beg to differ as far as Azureus being the best BitTorrent client. I much prefer TorrentStorm - www.torrentstorm.com

Author:  Mazer [ Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:45 pm ]
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TorrentStorm wrote:
The Windows BitTorrent Client.

Nope, I'm gonna have to agree with rizzix.

Author:  Dan [ Sat Aug 07, 2004 5:08 pm ]
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Mplayer is prity good when it is not casuing masive errors that requize it to be reinstalled.

Dose any one know any relay good p2p clinets for linux? I tryed aMule and xMule but both caused system lock ups and i tryed limewire but it's netwrok was crap and i could not find any anime on it at all.

Author:  rdrake [ Sat Aug 07, 2004 5:50 pm ]
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Apollon - P2P Client for Linux

Author:  Dan [ Sat Aug 07, 2004 9:49 pm ]
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i knew some one was going to say that. That one dose not crash anything but it dose not conecte well to any netwrok but openft and i also could not find any good sorces for anime on thos.

I gusse a better way of asking the question whould be dose any know of any eDonkey clients for linux other then xMule and aMule?

Author:  Martin [ Sun Aug 08, 2004 2:50 am ]
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Wine is the key.


W.I.N.E. = Wine Is Not an Emulator.

You can get all the good toys with it.

Author:  Mazer [ Sun Aug 08, 2004 6:01 am ]
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So what is it, then?

Author:  Paul [ Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:16 am ]
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Either... the fermented grape stuff is not an emulator... which we all know... or:
Wine Is Not an Emulator Is Not an Emulator Is Not an Emulator... oh I'm confused Rolling Eyes

Author:  Dan [ Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:03 am ]
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Darkness wrote:
Wine is the key.


W.I.N.E. = Wine Is Not an Emulator.

You can get all the good toys with it.


Only simple toys that do not require much to run. Almost anything i have tryed to run in wine that was at all complacted has not worked. Intresting tho, turing works in it Razz

Author:  rizzix [ Sun Aug 08, 2004 12:39 pm ]
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Hacker Dan wrote:
Mplayer is prity good when it is not casuing masive errors that requize it to be reinstalled.


hmm i have no problems as such.. i compiled it my self.. works perfectly.. (btw: compiled on SuSE)

watching movies/anime on this thing is better than watching it on windows. Its much more responsive and no lag time between audio/video ever. Not only that, sound effects and video quality is just outstanding.

but once u compile mplayer it's not just going to work out of the box.

i suggest compiling with the following commands:
code:
cd /mplayer/source/directory
./configure --enable-menu --enable-gui --enable-largefiles
make
sudo make install


NOTE: the configuration above will install mplayer with all optimizations and all features, so long as ur platform supports it and you have the required libraries and repsective header files (-dev packages)

this will create mplayer, gmplayer and mencoder in /usr/local/bin
to use gmplayer you need to download a font file and a skin from their website. after that you need to extract those .tar.[bz|gz] files and cd into those directories then copy all contents in that directory to /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin and /usr/local/share/mplayer/Font respectively. (i'm not sure if those exctly are the direcotries, just double check). On thing you need to keep in mind is that after copying the skin dir into its respective location.. rename that directory as default


Now even after all this it will give problems if it is not correctly set. open gmplayer and right click it and select properties.. then quicky choose a font (the one u downloaded from the website) and then select the audio tab. selec OSS, now select the Video tab and select xv (it might be tempting to chose other like gl but you shouldn't it just degrades performance) now that should do it.. if u want u can also make sure mplayer uses the ffmpeg codec for encoding and decoding for optimised feedback.


PS:There is a catch to compiling stuff your self: you have to take care of the dependencies your self. In SuSE its quite problematic unless you decided to install "everything". If not i suggest install the whole of GNOME, then install all the C++ utils and compilers (u should switch fomr search to selections for this) then search for lib and aslo for dev (switch back to search heh) and installl as much as you can or want to. but make sure u dont just install libs alone, you need the respective -dev packages as well. also install all from the multimedia section as well.[/b]

Author:  Dan [ Sun Aug 08, 2004 2:10 pm ]
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Ya i know, thats how i installed mine too and i did install everything :p. I look in to it and it seems that it only crashs when i have some other media player going at the same time Rolling Eyes.


One good tip for SuSe is to add some other sorces for YaST, like:

ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/suse/suse/i386/9.1/

has all the stuff in the for verson of suse and that is not in the noraml one

and

http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/9.1


that has helped me alot by seting them as sorces so i do not have to go looking for all the things that are dependedt for a package i am trying to install. I also have a copy of the cd files on my hdd as a sorce just in case i need them for some reason.

rizzix, have you tryed to run xMule or aMule on SuSE? I have been having some system luck ups only while ruing thos affter about 15mins-1h of having them runing.

Author:  rizzix [ Sun Aug 08, 2004 2:22 pm ]
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no, well not yet. i'll look into it tonight

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Ya i know, thats how i installed mine too and i did install everything :p. I look in to it and it seems that it only crashs when i have some other media player going at the same time Rolling Eyes.


how strange.. we both have the same OS, and strangly it gving you problems.. did u install suse from FTP or did u install the personal .iso or maybe somthing else.. i installed mine through the FTP method, that way you get the latest of stuff. o do a YOU (yast online update) might fix thing out, then try re-compiling it.

Author:  JHanson90 [ Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:07 pm ]
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Vim - A complex but extremely useful file editing program. Based off the Vi editor for UNIX.

Author:  bugzpodder [ Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:23 pm ]
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a standard set of ms craps and other misc:
win XP
office 2k3
vs .net 2k3
vs 6
msn 6
msg plus 3
jdk 1.5 b2
mcafee virusscan 7
zonealarm 5
winrar
nero


oh and for those of you who are going to live at res in waterloo
one word of advice
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DOWNLOAD COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS

Author:  wtd [ Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:09 pm ]
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bugzpodder wrote:
vs 6


Visual Studio 6 sucks so badly it's not even remotely humorous. Possibly the most broken C++ compiler I've ever seen.

Author:  the_short1 [ Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:20 pm ]
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yea i was wondering about that






would a router firewall stop college 'computer monitoring' ..with or without zone labs firewall....??. cuz i dont wana have to give up that... or get caught..


yea i going to use my firewall at my dorm so i can use my ps2 and computer Smile.... and that should work even thought the dorm would already be on a network.. rite??

Author:  Dan [ Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:01 pm ]
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wtd wrote:
bugzpodder wrote:
vs 6


Visual Studio 6 sucks so badly it's not even remotely humorous. Possibly the most broken C++ compiler I've ever seen.


Wow, some one side it befor me for once. Persoanly i hate all of M$'s visual crap. Also i whould go with some free atertives rather then: M$ office, mcafee, and zonealarm. Like using open office, avg and there are some free fire walls but perosnaly i like a router with a bulit in firewall more then a software one.

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would a router firewall stop college 'computer monitoring' ..with or without zone labs firewall....??. cuz i dont wana have to give up that... or get caught..


yea i going to use my firewall at my dorm so i can use my ps2 and computer .... and that should work even thought the dorm would already be on a network.. rite??


ummmm, a fire wall is not going to stop them from telling what kind of netwrok trafick you are using/doing. Athougth i whould deftaly use one in a dorm to stop poleop from geting in to your computer tho. I blive that they monitor what you are doing online by wtaching the netwrok trafick and looking at the packets and not by puting evil software on your comp so a firewall whould not help. I am prity shure they could tell prity much anything you are doing by just looking at the packets and the only way i could think of stoping that whould be ecripting them some how but both you and the server on the net side (ie. the web page) whould have to sport that and it is ushely only done for loging in to secuer webpages and when ordering stuff online.

Author:  the_short1 [ Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:23 pm ]
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fuk........ thx....



ill just have to download it at home then bring to dorm on cd..

microsoft office 2000 professional was good in my opinion... and a hell of a lot better then word perfect suite..

what would the school do about p0rn? anything?

Author:  wtd [ Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:31 pm ]
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All these concerns about the school monitoring what you're doing... since it seems it's aimed at basically exploiting Windows to monitor your network activity, bring a Mac.

Or get cable internet in the dorm. Every school I've ever seen lets students sign up for cable TV in their rooms, and there shouldn't be anything stopping you from extending that to cable internet.

Author:  bugzpodder [ Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:22 am ]
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as far as i know, they would not invade your privacy so the stuff on your computer is safe, but since you are using their internet service they have a right to monitor your traffic, as dan said...
so dont even think about kazaa, torrets and stuff like that
yeah you could probably get ISP in your dorm, if you can afford it

Author:  Mazer [ Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:36 am ]
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There's also the problem of bandwidth. You have to realise that if the school is providing internet access to you and another 10000+ students, that's one hell of alot of data being transferred both ways even if you aren't downloading porn and pirated software. If you're using their internet access, they will limit your bandwidth.

Author:  Martin [ Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:42 pm ]
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Horny kids. What about porn...yeesh...

Author:  the_short1 [ Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:59 pm ]
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ill get shaw then,,,,,, need fast

Author:  Kingnoz [ Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:56 pm ]
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bugzpodder wrote:
as dan said...
so dont even think about kazaa, torrets and stuff like that



just a piece of info for those going to a university dorm...at least wlu or u of w. There were alot of files available from other ppl staying there. Pm me if u want to know a bit more.

Author:  bugzpodder [ Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:50 pm ]
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anyone know where to get free cd burning things for xp?

Author:  Martin [ Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:53 pm ]
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Windows XP comes with CD burning capability.

If you want to make mp3's into an audio cd, use Windows Media Player.

Author:  wtd [ Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:00 pm ]
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bugzpodder wrote:
anyone know where to get free cd burning things for xp?


http://www.apple.com/itunes Smile

Author:  Mazer [ Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:39 pm ]
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I'm curious, are you guys really worried about a crackdown on pirated software at university? I'm sure it's a bad idea to do the pirating over there, but will they actually check your computers for it?

Author:  wtd [ Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:51 pm ]
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Mazer wrote:
I'm curious, are you guys really worried about a crackdown on pirated software at university? I'm sure it's a bad idea to do the pirating over there, but will they actually check your computers for it?


As far back as '98 campus Resnet admins were already paranoid and tyrannical. Do not tempt their wrath, because they will shut you down if they even suspect you're breaking the rules. Plus, the day-to-day operations are usually run by upperclassmen who haven't yet figured out that they're not God's gift to computer science, and they often have very little respect for underclassmen, in my experience.

Author:  Dan [ Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:44 pm ]
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wtd wrote:

As far back as '98 campus Resnet admins were already paranoid and tyrannical. Do not tempt their wrath, because they will shut you down if they even suspect you're breaking the rules. Plus, the day-to-day operations are usually run by upperclassmen who haven't yet figured out that they're not God's gift to computer science, and they often have very little respect for underclassmen, in my experience.


Do you know how most unis are moderting the content on there net? Are they just checking how much bandwith u use? the ports? or are they acutaly anzaling the packets to find out if they belong to any p2p app?

Author:  JHDK [ Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:43 pm ]
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use JetAudio instead of Winamp, it's as Linux is to Windows.
And you shouldnt use XP to burn music cds if you have cdrw, they wont work.

Author:  shorthair [ Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:10 pm ]
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That is a blaitent lie , you need to do some homework before you post , XP is fully compatible with CD-RW , If you believe diferently , please post as to why this bug is occuring , If you have hte HIGH MAT update installed ( always use windows update ) then your just fine , even without it , you will be fine

Author:  the_short1 [ Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:35 pm ]
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does this 'jetaudio' have as many good streams and plugins liek winamp does??


i dont think so!


all the sttations ive seen are windam compatiple and maybe windows media player or real

the non presense of jetplayer means ... SHITY ONLINE READIO... so it = sucky!

but true.... windows xp built in burning is slow and shity... (that i know cuz ive used it... very blah... ).... BurnQuick is a FAR better burning program!

Author:  Mazer [ Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:42 am ]
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the_short1 wrote:
all the sttations ive seen are windam compatiple and maybe windows media player or real

the non presense of jetplayer means ... SHITY ONLINE READIO... so it = sucky!

What the hell are you talking about? Streaming audio is streaming audio. Or have you actually tried jetaudio?

Author:  Paul [ Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:52 am ]
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the_short1 wrote:
does this 'jetaudio' have as many good streams and plugins liek winamp does??


i dont think so!


all the sttations ive seen are windam compatiple and maybe windows media player or real

the non presense of jetplayer means ... SHITY ONLINE READIO... so it = sucky!

but true.... windows xp built in burning is slow and shity... (that i know cuz ive used it... very blah... ).... BurnQuick is a FAR better burning program!


... he did say it was for linux... -_-;;


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