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Posted: 1/5/2012 9:52:46 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/5/2012 9:53:22 AM EDT
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For Windows
Putty WinSCP LibreOffice Eclipse for Java Notepad++ Netbeans IDE |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 9:57:18 AM EDT
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cluster-ssh
ssh to (my personal best is 28) multiple linux servers, execute exact same commands simultaneously on them all. ???? profit! |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 9:58:37 AM EDT
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ZenMap GUI
FileZilla Hypertrm VMWare Server and Player All the turnkey linux distros are cool. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 9:59:55 AM EDT
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GIMP
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:04:53 AM EDT
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GIMP +1 It's the kind of program nearly everyone has use for to some degree these days. It does an excellent job. Is very powerful but you can use just the basics and ignore the rest. Best of all, getting a commercial version of similar capabilities is extremely expensive for the average consumer so the cost savings is huge. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:04:57 AM EDT
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+1 I wanted to see if it was ready for the big time. I've run it on my laptop with full disk encryption about a year. Works great. Of course, I've got nothing but a bunch of ARFCOM browsing history on that laptop worth encrypting but it is kind of cool having leat level of security. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:11:15 AM EDT
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MagicDisc-virtual drive tool that is better than alcohol 120/Daemon IMO
Foobar2000-mp3, ogg vorbis, whatever it can play a lot of formats better than winamp/whatever else I've used in the past. It is very customizable too. those are my favorite that I use all the time besides google chrome. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:12:29 AM EDT
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KeePass - password database, incredible.
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:15:53 AM EDT
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Open Office
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:16:02 AM EDT
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The Gimp
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:20:24 AM EDT
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PhotoScape
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:20:28 AM EDT
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OOO, Wireshark, Gimp, TrueCrypt, openGPG, I can go on.
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:20:54 AM EDT
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FastStone Image Viewer.
Open Office Inkscape (for editing/creating scaled vector graphics) |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:22:39 AM EDT
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linux, xwindows, ktorrent, firefox, koffice, mplayer, gpg, xine, grep, diff... bunch others i'm missing.
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:23:28 AM EDT
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GIMP +1 It's the kind of program nearly everyone has use for to some degree these days. It does an excellent job. Is very powerful but you can use just the basics and ignore the rest. Best of all, getting a commercial version of similar capabilities is extremely expensive for the average consumer so the cost savings is huge. I hate gimp. I use photoshop at work every day and I just can't use gimp. I'm sure its a good program, I just don't like it. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:24:55 AM EDT
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Open Office I used to run OpenOffice on my computer but I've found myself more comfortable with LibreOffice. Both are decent enough but I think LibreOffice is a bit more polished. YMMV |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:25:09 AM EDT
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Snort
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:26:32 AM EDT
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emacs.
 I think I just heard Richard Stallman cry out in pain. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:30:24 AM EDT
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Lots of great recommendations above!
I'll add VLC, VirtualBox, ImgBurn, Virtual Clone Drive, CDBurnerXP, and Kernsafe TotalMounter. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:40:08 AM EDT
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Love this site for setting up a new machine Has a bunch of solid picks depending on what will be done with it.
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Posted: 1/5/2012 10:54:22 AM EDT
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Gimp is not friendly for the casual user, and the help system is cumbersome at best.
Paint.net is a lot easier to pick up, though maybe not as powerful; it'll still do 95% of what most PC users need. Irfanview for managing and viewing images. Opera for browsing. Foxit PDF reader isn't nearly as bloated and nagging as Adobe. 3CDaemon is a handy little free TFTP / FTP / syslog server, though getting a bit long in the tooth. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 11:15:45 AM EDT
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Gimp is not friendly for the casual user, and the help system is cumbersome at best. Paint.net is a lot easier to pick up, though maybe not as powerful; it'll still do 95% of what most PC users need. Irfanview for managing and viewing images. Opera for browsing. Foxit PDF reader isn't nearly as bloated and nagging as Adobe. 3CDaemon is a handy little free TFTP / FTP / syslog server, though getting a bit long in the tooth. I'll second Paint.net. I use it all the time when annotating screenshots. I use Gimp as well, but for the really stuff, Paint.net does what I need. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 11:17:43 AM EDT
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VirtualBox has been good to me.
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Posted: 1/5/2012 11:27:49 AM EDT
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Not necessarily all open source but free nonetheless (I use the stuff below on windows and linux both were applicable):
Mozilla: Firefox, Thunderbird (email), Lightning (Calendar app that integrates with TBird), Enigmail (uses GnuPG for PGP like email encryption) Notepad++ gVim for Windows Freemind Zenmap irssi GanntProject InfraBurner puTTY and puTTY Session Manager WinSCP Password Agent by Moon Software Angry IP Scanner VideoLan VLC Media Player Fiddler2 Paros Proxy thats all I can think of at the moment |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 12:06:51 PM EDT
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Open Office I used to run OpenOffice on my computer but I've found myself more comfortable with LibreOffice. Both are decent enough but I think LibreOffice is a bit more polished. YMMV OpenOffice isn't being supported anymore, it seems. Look on Wikipedia. LibreOffice is essentially the successor to OpenOffice. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 12:14:59 PM EDT
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VideoLan VLC Media Player Yep, VLC is awesome. Windows Media Player is 1960s Soviet technology by comparison. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 12:19:30 PM EDT
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Love this site for setting up a new machine Has a bunch of solid picks depending on what will be done with it. Interesting... |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 12:22:33 PM EDT
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VLC
PDFCreator Paint.Net (quick, non-serious photo editing when I don't have access to Photoshop) Audacity (quick audio editing) Pidgin ClamWin (I keep a download of the portable version on a thumbdrive for quick scanning other's PCs) 7-Zip Firefox There are others I use, but these are general apps I tell others to download. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 12:24:09 PM EDT
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I'm going to have to go with irssi, my longtime favorite IRC client, and VLC.
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Posted: 1/5/2012 12:41:44 PM EDT
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Some of my favorites:
Linux Libre Office Clonezilla Rhythmbox Ruby Thunderbird Firefox GNote (one of the best programs EVER) GnuCash WINE GEdit jEdit Quake Wally VirtualBox Transmission |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 12:51:28 PM EDT
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Firefox, GnuPG, Thunderbird, Linux (Ubuntu), Inkscape, FreeOTFE, Notepad2 or Notepad++, VLC, Paint.NET.
Libre/OpenOffice and the GIMP are meh. Tag. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile ETA: Virtualbox, Pidgin, 7-zip, Audacity, FileZilla, PDFCreator. Honorable mentions: LibreCAD, Scribus, Evolution, LiVES, Bluefish Editor. __________________________________________________________________ Cross-platform gun database/electronic bound book (v1.2) (and the original thread). «nolite confidere in principibus, in filiis hominum quibus non est salus» |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 1:08:30 PM EDT
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tag for any new apps I have missed...
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Posted: 1/5/2012 1:50:44 PM EDT
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Dual Boot your laptop - Windoz 7 & Linux Mint 10 or 11 now I guess (some say 12 isn't ready for prime time).
LMMS for the composer in you. Octave for the math genius in you. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 2:04:47 PM EDT
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Picasa isn't open source.
I use open source every day with linux. On windows, I use OOo/libreoffice, Gimp, Pidgin, and VLC |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 2:11:35 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: GIMP +1 It's the kind of program nearly everyone has use for to some degree these days. It does an excellent job. Is very powerful but you can use just the basics and ignore the rest. Best of all, getting a commercial version of similar capabilities is extremely expensive for the average consumer so the cost savings is huge. I hate gimp. I use photoshop at work every day and I just can't use gimp. I'm sure its a good program, I just don't like it. I use paint.net instead. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 2:28:16 PM EDT
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KeePass - password database, incredible. I have never, I mean, never understood the need for a password database. I can't think of a better way to roll up your whole identity/security into one data base. Before anyone bitches about their number of passwords, I'd like to point out that I have 3 user accounts for work to access over 2 dozen different systems, all with their own password strength requirements and separate password expiration deadlines. I also have all of the same online accounts (or more) as everyone else. Developing a secure and easily recalled password schema is a vastly superior use of time than inserting your most precious "keys" into software, particularly "open source" software. also, before anyone posts the "highlights" from keepass about how secure their product is, I'd like to point out that anything which can be put together, can be taken apart. All measures have counter-measures. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 2:31:43 PM EDT
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KeePass - password database, incredible. I have never, I mean, never understood the need for a password database. I can't think of a better way to roll up your whole identity/security into one data base. Before anyone bitches about their number of passwords, I'd like to point out that I have 3 user accounts for work to access over 2 dozen different systems, all with their own password strength requirements and separate password expiration deadlines. I also have all of the same online accounts (or more) as everyone else. Developing a secure and easily recalled password schema is a vastly superior use of time than inserting your most precious "keys" into software, particularly "open source" software. also, before anyone posts the "highlights" from keepass about how secure their product is, I'd like to point out that anything which can be put together, can be taken apart. All measures have counter-measures. You do your thing. You're not getting into my KeePass, but good on ya if you do. I'm also glad that you have an incredible brain. Some of us have more passwords than that and can't recall all of them.
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Posted: 1/5/2012 2:56:47 PM EDT
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VideoLan VLC Media Player Yep, VLC is awesome. Windows Media Player is 1960s Soviet technology by comparison. Yeah, definitely another good one that I use very often. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 3:42:03 PM EDT
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VLC and Handbrake
EAC and FLAC |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 4:04:39 PM EDT
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Irfanview for photos
Spybot Search and Destroy - antispyware Truecrypt |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 4:51:05 PM EDT
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Quoted: I get all of these but Freemind, what would you use it for?Not necessarily all open source but free nonetheless (I use the stuff below on windows and linux both were applicable): Mozilla: Firefox, Thunderbird (email), Lightning (Calendar app that integrates with TBird), Enigmail (uses GnuPG for PGP like email encryption) Notepad++ gVim for Windows Freemind Zenmap irssi GanntProject InfraBurner puTTY and puTTY Session Manager WinSCP Password Agent by Moon Software Angry IP Scanner VideoLan VLC Media Player Fiddler2 Paros Proxy thats all I can think of at the moment |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 5:01:48 PM EDT
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I use TrueCrypt
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Posted: 1/5/2012 5:02:38 PM EDT
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GIMP +1 It's the kind of program nearly everyone has use for to some degree these days. It does an excellent job. Is very powerful but you can use just the basics and ignore the rest. Best of all, getting a commercial version of similar capabilities is extremely expensive for the average consumer so the cost savings is huge. I hate gimp. I use photoshop at work every day and I just can't use gimp. I'm sure its a good program, I just don't like it. I use paint.net instead. Count me in on this also. I have Gimp but it is the most user unfriendly program I've ever used. I prefer Paint.net with the Boltbait addon. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 5:03:03 PM EDT
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FreeNAS
DD-WRT OpenSSH/SSL Debian squeeze OpenBSD |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 5:07:42 PM EDT
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EMC2
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Posted: 1/5/2012 6:44:26 PM EDT
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I'll add Format Factory, great for converting files between video formats.
AESCrypt if you want to encrypt a file before emailing or uploading to cloud storage services. |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 6:52:33 PM EDT
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Picasa isn't open source.
I use open source every day with linux. On windows, I use OOo/libreoffice, Gimp, Pidgin, and VLC Well, Picasa is at least free. I was on my phone at lunch and it popped into my brain that I use it, and it's free. :P |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 6:56:27 PM EDT
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Inkscape (Adobe Illustrator replacement) ROCKS!!!
Mozilla Thunderbird |
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Posted: 1/6/2012 3:48:25 AM EDT
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I get all of these but Freemind, what would you use it for? Not necessarily all open source but free nonetheless (I use the stuff below on windows and linux both were applicable): Mozilla: Firefox, Thunderbird (email), Lightning (Calendar app that integrates with TBird), Enigmail (uses GnuPG for PGP like email encryption) Notepad++ gVim for Windows Freemind Zenmap irssi GanntProject InfraBurner puTTY and puTTY Session Manager WinSCP Password Agent by Moon Software Angry IP Scanner VideoLan VLC Media Player Fiddler2 Paros Proxy thats all I can think of at the moment I use it pretty frequently. It's a different approach to note taking and getting thoughts/ideas on paper. It organizes information around a central thought, idea, or task. If you are not familiar with what a Mind Map is then check this out: Mind Map on Wikipedia It's really good when you are brainstorming ideas, problem solving, and note taking. I find that brainstorming ideas (individually or in a group) and traditional note taking often don't work well together. It's not a linear process or how your brain approaches a problem. Building a mind map can help bring together ideas that seem disjointed and show how they relate back to a central idea. Overall it's a pretty useful tool. |
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