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    Firefox
    Mushclient (for my less potent mudding addiction)
    The Gimp for image editing. It's a nice program over all. And it's free. Since I can't afford photoshop or the like, that is a big check on the win side.

    That's about all I use these days, especially since I'm borrowing my housemates laptop. My desktop decided to switch occupations, and is now a paper weight.

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    Eclipse and firefox.

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    Prehistoric or not, my not very extensive knowledge of the USA does suggest that there might be a couple spots or two in the state of Kentucky that do not have access to broadband internet
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    Is there anything better than Firefox with the ability to block ads? I just find Firefox so slooooow.
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    > Is there anything better than Firefox with the ability to block ads?

    Yes. I have not had a single pop-up in about 12 years now.
    I browse with javascript and active scripting turned off, and
    that does the trick nicely. I also browse with images and
    (almost) everything else turned off as well. It's a habit I got
    into from browsing Fravia's old searchlores site, and it's one
    of the better ones I've ever picked up.

    > pots or two in the state of Kentucky that do not have access to broadband

    I have access to it, I just don't want it. Same thing with
    cable and satelite television. 50 bucks per month and all
    I was watching were a few MMA fights per month. If I want
    to DL a large file, which is rare, I just set it to DL while
    I'm gone. If I don't need or want something, why buy it?

    > I'm guessing gut isn't retarded enough to confuse MB with GB,

    You didn't know that Celestia was a ~35 MB DL?

    > Yeah, I started with one of those too. But they are so prehistoric...

    Honestly, the only reason I can think of to buy a faster
    connection would be for movies. The thing is, I'm not a
    movie guy. Not in the slightest. Can you think of any
    other reasons to buy more bandwidth?
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    Quote Originally Posted by gut View Post
    Honestly, the only reason I can think of to buy a faster
    connection would be for movies. The thing is, I'm not a
    movie guy. Not in the slightest. Can you think of any
    other reasons to buy more bandwidth?
    Because MORE is BETAAAAAAAHHH! =P

    Kidding...

    But i dunno. I'm also the type of guy that leaves his downloads overnight w/o problem (my connection is 2 Mbits/sec), but overall nagivation is a lot more pleasant with a faster connection. Thou i never complained when i used dial up, but after i got broadband it seems impossible to go back. Perhabs you are a stronger person than I am in that matter, because i doubt you never used broadband in your life, and you still choose to use dial up.

    I guess the main thing for broadband imo is the telephone line. Having two lines just for that seems like a waste. Ans using just the one has obvious disadvantages. Also, broadband isn't that expensive nowadays (basic packages at least aren't) and... how much do you spend on telephone bills using dial up? Or perhabs you have a fixed plan or something and then it gets cheaper in the end...
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    > I guess the main thing for broadband imo is the telephone line.

    I have only one line, and experience no problems. If I miss
    telemarketers calling me, all the better.

    > Also, broadband isn't that expensive nowadays

    Not really, but that would be in addition to a phone line.
    The thing that bothers me about the broadband deals, and
    so many other things that I've looked into, is the service
    agreement that comes with it. It's really not the money,
    but the TERMS to which I am compelled to consent. I'm the
    kind of guy that reads fine print, and that ruins a *LOT*
    of stuff for me. Satelite TV, broadband, credit cards (debit
    is fine), cell phones, a zillion apps that came ~kinda~
    installed on my PC (such as MS Works). These are all things
    that I sooo happily live without. Many of the people that I
    know (in real life) that agree to these things often come to
    regret consenting to these deals.

    I'm not anarchist or anti-establishment or anything, I just
    like to know what I'm agreeing to before I sign a deal.

    > how much do you spend on telephone bills using dial up?

    $25 phone (ATT) + $8.95 dial up.

    > perhabs you have a fixed plan

    Those are abominations in my eyes. I view them in the same
    light that I view a used car dealer sellin- I mean, *financing*
    the 3-year extended warranty to an unwitting car buyer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sidrick View Post
    Firefox
    Mushclient (for my less potent mudding addiction)
    The Gimp for image editing. It's a nice program over all. And it's free. Since I can't afford photoshop or the like, that is a big check on the win side.

    That's about all I use these days, especially since I'm borrowing my housemates laptop. My desktop decided to switch occupations, and is now a paper weight.
    Definitely agree on Gimp. It's almost as good as photoshop (and better in some areas I think) and it's completely free.

    I use it for basically any digital drawning / pic editing that I do.

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    BSplayer and VLC (for music and videos, respectively)
    uTorrent (for getting music and videos)
    Mozilla Firefox (for making posts on forums)
    putty (for connecting to my buddy's server which he then changes my password and makes me beg for it back)
    Kismet, Airodump, Aireplay, Aircrack (for getting wireless out of saggy WEP encrypted nodes)
    Eclipse (for pretending I actually do coding)
    Notepad++ (for really doing coding on windows when I don't want the bloat of Eclipse)
    vi (for really doing coding on linux, because I'm damn cool like that)

    That's all I can think of since I actually use them. There's probably a couple other programs I don't touch too often but should have probably mentioned.
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    Free Download Manager - sourceforge
    Sumatra PDF - To replace the Adobe abomination.

    Speak - A text to speach program. http://www.ShadiSoft.Com

    Eraser 3.50.3310 - A program to let you right-click a file
    and erase it instead of sending it to the Recycle Bin.

    ProcessMonitor - To trace down what is doing what. Systinternals.com

    CDCheck 3.1.14.0 - For getting data off of damaged CD's.
    Only occasionally useful, but wow.
    Last edited by gut; 09-30-2009 at 04:24 AM.
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