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Technophiliacs & Technophiles The Technophiliacs forum is for discussing any and all forms of tech and other types of social backwardness. Including discussions of strange home-brewed hardware technology. Where to get good tools. How to make fiberglass molds. Computer hardware and software technolgy, including operating systems, applications, networking, hardware, CPU's, disk drives, and other geeky things. Viruses and Artificial Life discussions. End user tools discussions and support issues. Gating the Internet with other nets.

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  #1   Add john_deer to your ignore list  
Old 2008-08-25, 17:37
john_deer john_deer is offline
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Default What do you use on your computer for...

Anti-virus, spyware detector and the like?

Torrent app?

P2P (or what do you use for single songs)?

Browser?

Media Player (for videos and music)?

Anything else you feel should be in this thread?
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  #2   Add villageillness to your ignore list  
Old 2008-08-25, 19:15
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Default Re: What do you use on your computer for...

Firewall = Firestarter and Moblock.
Torrent Application = Transmission Bitorrent Client.
Browser = Firefox 3
Video player =Totem Movie Player
Audio player = xmms

Oh and the bitTorrent protocol is P2P.
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  #3   Add Fallen Angust to your ignore list  
Old 2008-08-25, 19:17
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All in one "fap" box.
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  #4   Add Vic Mackey to your ignore list  
Old 2008-08-25, 19:22
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Default Re: What do you use on your computer for...

No anti virus
No software firewall (my router does just fine)
Firefox
uTorrent
Limewire Pro for single songs
Winamp for music
Media Player Classic for video
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Old 2008-08-25, 21:07
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Default Re: What do you use on your computer for...

On the windows xp side I use:

Zone alarm Security Suite
System Mechanic 8 Pro
uTorrent
Limewire
Firefox 3
DivX
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  #6   Add MunkeyQ to your ignore list  
Old 2008-08-25, 21:54
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Default Re: What do you use on your computer for...

NOD32 + Spybot. Hasn't let one through so far - it's warned me about every virus.

I think practically everyone uses uTorrent...as do I. I use Limewire Pro for single songs or files.

Browser - Firefox, although I'm no fan of it eating my RAM.

Audio - WMP 10. Nothing I've found has come close to ease of use, and I really like the library interface. Winamp with its 10 second startup time and random faults can go fuck itself. WMP has never crashed on me and starts practically instantly. I don't really care for plugins, least of all audio ones as my laptop is plugged into a hi-fi which probably cost as much as most peoples' computers on here.

Video - VLC, as it can handle practically any format under the sun.
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Old 2008-08-26, 00:03
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Default Re: What do you use on your computer for...

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Anti-virus, spyware detector and the like?

Torrent app?

P2P (or what do you use for single songs)?

Browser?

Media Player (for videos and music)?

Anything else you feel should be in this thread?
Azureus
None, my uni gives me free access to ruckus
GOM and MPC
No AntiVirus/Firewall
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Old 2008-08-26, 00:07
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Anti-virus, spyware detector and the like?

Torrent app?

P2P (or what do you use for single songs)?

Browser?

Media Player (for videos and music)?

Anything else you feel should be in this thread?
Spybot
utorrent
Google
Firefox
itunes
Digsby for MSN/AIM/ICQ
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Old 2008-08-26, 00:26
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Default Re: What do you use on your computer for...

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Anti-virus, spyware detector and the like?

Torrent app?

P2P (or what do you use for single songs)?

Browser?

Media Player (for videos and music)?

Anything else you feel should be in this thread?

First answer is my Mac, second is my Linux machine.
Anti-virus - False security beliefs (none), none
Spyware Detector - same as bove
Torrent - Transmission, none (small harddrive)
P2P - Limewire, none
Media Player - iTunes + VLC, Media Player Linux
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Old 2008-08-26, 01:01
john_deer john_deer is offline
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Default Re: What do you use on your computer for...

To those who don't use anti-virus. Do you use mac or another OS? If you use windows how do you not get viruses? Or do you just not care.
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