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Diploid
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What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use?
#7813377 - 12/30/07 12:00 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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VMWare - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VmwareVMWare
There's a version for both Windows and Linux and there are torrents everywhere.
I currently have Windows XP running in a virtual machine launched from Debian Linux which in turn is launched from Windows XP running natively on the real CPU.
The emulation is almost perfect. Just start it up with the Windows or Linux install disk in the drive (or an image mapped) and it will up and install a virtual machine just like that. I think it's pretty impressive.
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elcharrosays
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Diploid]
#7813419 - 12/30/07 12:10 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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mac osx is all i need and i dont need to run around in circles to use it
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freddurgan
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: elcharrosays]
#7813480 - 12/30/07 12:29 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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foobar2000 is probably my favorite software.
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Diploid
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Diploid]
#7813504 - 12/30/07 12:39 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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For any Windows person who wants to play around with Linux without committing, WMWare is perfect. Just install your favorite flavor of Linux in a virtual machine that almost perfectly emulates real hardware.
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Diploid]
#7813811 - 12/30/07 02:15 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I agree with you. If you want to play around without committing it really is amazing. It's all stored in one big file and it's perfectly contained and functional.
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Colonel Kurtz Ph.D
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Diploid]
#7813833 - 12/30/07 02:20 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Bash and amarok, THE POWA!
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Asante
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Diploid]
#7816166 - 12/31/07 07:36 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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The Open Office suite.
It is a free word processing/office suite that absolutely blows MS Office out of the water, and a lot of auxilliary programs as well.
It has MAD FEATURES. I'm an absolute diehard fan of it. None of the MS Word crap, I don't even use that shit anymore.
You can save $1.000 on software and STILL have more features, in one integrated package.
And free! Open Office rules! Not convinced?
Take the free tour!
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Free. Way to go Sun Microsystems!
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Boom
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Diploid]
#7816531 - 12/31/07 10:17 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I like nerovision a lot...it's pretty solid.
The new grabit is cool too, it repairs and extracts downloads automatically
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automan
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Diploid]
#7816627 - 12/31/07 10:58 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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amarok
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debianlinux
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Asante]
#7816644 - 12/31/07 11:06 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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God knows I hate M$, but nothing compares to M$ Excel. Especially nothing in Open Office. I'm pretty sure Excel is what keeps M$ on top of the whole office productivity arena. Also, M$ Office apps play very well with each other and other M$ products like Exchange and Portal.
Goddamn, I cannot believe I just said something good about M$ products.
The most amazing software I use is XBMC and ccxstream. XBMC_PC + ssh + ccxstream = t3h shiznit.
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? *DELETED* [Re: Diploid]
#7816692 - 12/31/07 11:18 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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funnybunny
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: poke smot!]
#7819806 - 01/01/08 11:50 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Xen > VMware zsh > bash
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koppie
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Diploid]
#7819850 - 01/01/08 12:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/
Online program that turns bitmaps into vectorgraphics with a quality that is superior to anything else out there.
The trace functions in Inkscape and Illustrator don't even come close.
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Diploid]
#7820060 - 01/01/08 01:26 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I rarely use linux anymore, but when I do, amarok makes up for all the headaches. Can't wait for it on windows.
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tak
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Gijith]
#7820135 - 01/01/08 01:49 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've been using Ableton Live more and more recently. Everything about it is unique, from the GUI to how audio is processed. The learning curve was pretty hard for me coming from more traditional DAW's, but the more I use this fucking program the more I fall in love with it.
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: tak]
#7821647 - 01/01/08 08:56 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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As much as I hate to say it, Office 2007 is actually pretty fucking sweet.
The new gui actually makes it easier to use, and seeing as I've had to write a shit ton of scientific papers recently for college its certainly made my life more productive. I particularly like the equation builder. It was probably around in older versions of word, but 2007's gui makes it all easier to find.
As much as I'm a linux zealot, I must congratulate microsoft on this one. Office 2007 kicks the shit out of OOo 2.3.
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funnybunny
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Cepheus]
#7822533 - 01/02/08 03:08 AM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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A friend of mine said the same. Shame I don't have a Windows installation to check it out :P
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Seuss
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: poke smot!]
#7822582 - 01/02/08 04:19 AM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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> I have gotten much use out of the arduino set of tools ( http://arduino.cc )
*drool* Thanks for the link... this is awesome! Wish I had known about this last year... would have saved myself a lot of time.
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tak
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: Seuss]
#7823004 - 01/02/08 09:50 AM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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yeah that is pretty fucking cool...im not that imaginative and i can think of too many projects right there
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Diploid
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Re: What's The Most Amazing Software You Currently Use? [Re: poke smot!]
#7823022 - 01/02/08 10:01 AM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Wow, I've made a lot of 8051 based gadgets. Arduino's USB and Bludetooth would have made them way more useful.
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