Discussion » Absolutely Necessary Programs

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Posted by mattjacob, 04:20, 6th December 2002:
 
What programs do you consider necessary to be installed on every machine? I'm getting ready to format my Win2000 box again, so I've got to take these things into consideration. ;)

For me:
EditPlus Access Manager WinRAR ACDSee Classic Photoshop SmartFTP Winamp Acrobat Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL, etc. Norton AntiVirus PostCast Server LAME/ripper Mozilla Word AIM
Posted by ell, 05:47, 6th December 2002:
 
vim
Posted by zxenor, 07:35, 6th December 2002:
 
cygwin

and for me: all my music software. though it wouldn't apply to most people
Posted by cal, 08:09, 6th December 2002:
 
my essential software:

noted
leechftp
trillian pro
paint shop pro 5
putty
apache
php
activeperl
mysql
winzip
beyond compare
Posted by mattjacob, 20:24, 8th December 2002:
 
cal, do you use a separate machine as a dev server? I've got a few spare parts laying around, and I was considering building a server of my own for dev and SMTP serving.

All I need is some more RAM (have 64 MB, want at least 256) and a CD-ROM drive. Actually, I guess I don't really need a CD drive, because I could just copy over the Win2000 setup files onto the new HD. So a stick of PC100 RAM would run me, what, $20? :p
Posted by chandler, 20:56, 8th December 2002:
 
absolutly necessary programmes?

2DTV (!)
X-files
Red Dwarf
Have I Got News For You
Posted by Sul, 21:29, 8th December 2002:
 
I agree Chay but you forgot:

I'm Alan Partridge
Men Behaving Badly
and Danger Mouse
Posted by detergent_drinker, 21:35, 8th December 2002:
 
personnally i need winamp. without it i would go insane. oh, and several gigs of good mp3's :)
Posted by Redmaiden, 22:35, 8th December 2002:
 
psp 7
winzip
err carmageddon
Posted by chandler, 22:39, 8th December 2002:
 
Sul, very very true. And "Trap Door" and "Henry's Cat"

and yes winamp too
Posted by cal, 23:23, 8th December 2002:
 
mattj: yeah - i have a number of dev machines, and some dedicated dev web servers.
Posted by Sul, 00:00, 9th December 2002:
 
oooh, I'm not a big fan of sampled songs but I was in freespirit the other day and hear a song that was basically sampling shit loads of stuff, like that avalanches track (couldve been them for all I know) but it had the trapdoor theme in it and I found myself looking for my hat singing along. I love that theme. Only have 2 VHSs of trapdoor though. I'm sure I need more. Willy
rocks hard!
Posted by mattjacob, 03:50, 9th December 2002:
 
cal: I think I'll build a small fleet of $150 budget machines for testing. We're talking bare bones here. :)
Posted by Grim..., 11:25, 9th December 2002:
 
Hey - you've all forgotten MS Publisher.

/coat
Posted by arsepuppy, 11:30, 9th December 2002:
 
"Willy
rocks hard!"

I'm saying nothing.
Posted by Grim..., 13:42, 9th December 2002:
 
Especially with a Nick that directly translates as 'Take me from behind, big boy'...