Jan
22
2010

Peanut Wars!

Teakwoods Tonight

(Add / View Comments) (0)Friday, January 22, 2010 - 02:34:54 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music)
Tonight at Teakwoods, at least if you believe the back and forth on Facebook. [wink] ha

I'm quite looking forward to the pairing of Velvet Elvis and Violet Wild whether or not Norm brings a bag of walnuts! I need some rock in my life!
Jan
22
2010

Oh How The Times Have Changed

(Add / View Comments) (0)Friday, January 22, 2010 - 01:59:32 am
(Posted Under: Geek)
So tonight I was looking at some sections of my website that haven't really been updated since they were first written - namely the Recommended Software page, which is so reflective of the early 2000's.

  • Netscape Communicator - Gee, even though it needed to be ripped from my clutches - I was certainly one of the last people in the world to let it go - it's actual hard to remember a time when I didn't use Firefox.

    Interestingly I just read that AOL/Netscape dropped the browser in 2008. Interest mainly that it survived that long actually. That was long after even I'd switched to Firefox.

    Such fond memories of early days of the internet are associated. However, thank god for Mozilla Foundation, particularly given the direction Netscape was going when AOL brought them out.
  • Tera Term Pro - Now there's a blast from the past! I don't think I'd remember it if it weren't for my page. I preferred it over Putty, but it's lack of ssh2 support really hurt it. With that said, it's hard to remember a time where I wasn't using openssh.
  • WarFTPd - Running a FTP server under Windows - now that's a novel thought from days gone by.
  • Netlaunch - Great little program in the day, but saying bye to dial-up many, many years ago also signaled goodbye to needing to run this.
  • Radium MP3 ACM codec - Dropped a long time ago for lame. 'Nuff said.
  • TaskInfo 2000 - Just kinda forgot about this one with the dawn of XP
  • Borland C/C++ - This being on the list just makes me think of how unlikely I am to write C code under Windows these days, and certainly not to compile for Win16. Though, if I ever needed to, i'd still pull this out. It's been a long time since I've had it installed by default though.
  • AOL Instant Messenger - Talk about an application that really became uneeded.
And the ones that have stood the test of time:

  • Winamp - My loyalty to Nullsoft will probably never end. Winamp still kicks the Llamas ass, even if I'm running a hugely out of date version.
  • Textpad - While it has some flaws (syntax highlighting, and it's weird window tabbing order, Textpad has surprisingly remained my editor of choice, when not using vim.
  • Trillian - While I could air some complaints about it, Trillian still fullfils the no bullshit, multiple chat client requirement.
  • lcc-win32 - Again, it's rare that I'll write C code for Windows test day, and I'd be inclined to compile with gcc under Cygwin if I did. However, I keep this around, even to this day, if for nothing else, for when I (infrequently) do development on my Hitter Winamp plugin.
  • Cygwin - So I use it a lot less extensively for many years (Linux boxes will do that [wink] ), it's remains one of the things I can't do without on a Windows machine even to this day - even if now it's primary just for vi, rxvt + openssh and...well, quite frankly, the /etc/hosts symlink! [wink] Testament to that is the fact that these days I have an install on my iPod for if I'm ever at a cygwin-less machine.
Similarly, looking at the list of applications I'd written between 1998 and 2004 is impressively dated. Very few of them I've used in several years, let alone even compiled. I will say though, International Time has certainly had a resurgence in use over the last few months!

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