I have added another goody for anyone working on Windows that might be interested. It’s an new tool that does MD5 checksum generation and comparison for you. It’s free and still in BETA, but I am pretty sure it’s solid and I have any kinks worked out. If you have any troubles, let me know or post in the forums. Now, get over there and check it out!
Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category
Mar
8
8
Hash Monster – MD5 Checksum Tool
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Mar
1
1
Media Monkey Rocks
Media Monkey Screenshot
No, really, it does. Like a hurricane even. I found this nifty media player and manager while looking for something to replace iTunes. WinAmp used to be a cool product, but recent versions leave me flat. I tried others and ended up choosing Media Monkey after I found it. Not only is it an awesome media manager, but it can sync to your iPod as well. I couldn’t get rid of iTunes altogether because I get books from Audible, and the DRM is tied to iTunes, but I still like Media Monkey for everything else. I liked it enough that I bought the gold version, it’s a great tool. Check out their website at http://www.mediamonkey.com/ and give it a test drive. I bet you will dig it as much as I do!
Jan
31
31
Nice Usenet News Reader For Free
XanaNews Screenshot
I was looking for a good, solid and preferably open source news reader (usenet client) whilst booted into Windows XP on my laptop earlier, and I found a dandy. I found a lightweight client called XanaNews, which although lightweight, not over burdened or bulky, it is also solid and easy to use. Throw in that it is open source and free, and it’s a nice application.
I looked at the screen shots and it looked like it was along the lines of what I wanted, so I decided to download it and give it a try. After running the installer I easilly configured my news server (Giganews, if you aren’t using them and you want AWESOME usenet access, check these guys out! Like NOW!) and off I went, effortlessly subscribing to groups and reading posts on procmail. That’s what I was working on at the time.
Well, I liked XanaNews so much, that I decided to install it on my main machine running Ubuntu. I fired up Wine and ran through the same install steps and it again worked like a charm. So now I can use this dandy little news reader on Windows and Linux. I felt like I just had to share with everyone, because it seems like good usenet clients are hard to find unless you want to try and use something bundled into a web browser or email client which I usually don’t. Give me an app made especially for what I want to use it for, and it’s probably going to do a better job of it every time. Not always, but most of the time I would say. Hope you enjoy it!
Nov
6
6
Update to the PERL round function
Mr. Thierry H. was kind enough to post a comment with a nice little mod to the PERL round function I posted a while back. With his addition, you can now specify how many digits to show on the right of the decimal. Pretty neat, check it out.
Aug
7
7
Using VNC Viewer, F8 is your friend
This is just a quick tip for anyone that uses VNC, expecially on Linux. This works in TightVNC and maybe others too, it might be a VNC standard. When using the VNC viewer or client on Windows, you can right click on the title bar of the window to get some extra options, like sending Ctrl-Alt-Del to the host to log into a Windows box. When using this on Linux, right clicking on the title bar had no effect. Uh oh, how was I going to login to my Windows box? Well, I found that F8 will bring up the menu and allow you to do various things, including sending keystrokes to the host you are connected to. So, there you have it. When in doubt, try F8 when using the VNC viewer.
Jul
20
20
Interesting Note About Vista SP1
I wanted to share something that I observed recently on my own PC. I am running Vista Home Premium, it came on my Alienware box. I had some directories shared so I could hit them from some of my other PC’s, and the share names had underscores (_) in them. Well, I recently installed Vista’s SP1 and afterwards, I noticed that my network shares were not working. Hmm, that’s strange. Skip ahead and what I found out was that after the SP1 install, my share names were renamed to the same thing, only without the underscore. Well now, how about that? So I had something like share_name, and then it became sharename without me changing it. Not that big of a deal, but I thought I would share just in case anyone else was having the same troubles.
