Softwares that Every Geek Must Have

alienationware said:
Name a software that every computer geek must have.

For me, it's Microsoft VirtualPC 2004.
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For me it's VMware, you should try it. It's definitely faster (I've used VPC04), more compatible, and has more advanced features.

Azureus

And CCleaner, great utility.
 
For me it's VMware, you should try it. It's definitely faster (I've used VPC04), more compatible, and has more advanced features.
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VMWare is a resource hog, it eats up more extra memory (in addition to that which you allocate to the VM) than VPC2004. What's more, it doesn't support shared folders for Win98 (imagine trying to download a big torrent into the VM instead of thru a shared folder to the physical host). VPC2004 may be slower, but it's more user friendly, uses less system resources and has great support for Windows OSes.

Oh yeah, I was also annoyed by the fact that I couldn't import my Win98.vhd into VMWare.
 
alienationware said:
VMWare is a resource hog, it eats up more extra memory (in addition to that which you allocate to the VM) than VPC2004. What's more, it doesn't support shared folders for Win98 (imagine trying to download a big torrent into the VM instead of thru a shared folder to the physical host). VPC2004 may be slower, but it's more user friendly, uses less system resources and has great support for Windows OSes.

Oh yeah, I was also annoyed by the fact that I couldn't import my Win98.vhd into VMWare.
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I guess it depends on your system, yes, VMware makes my system as a while much slower, but it offers me much better performance in the VM than VPC. And the outside OS is usable if I need to use it. When I'm in the VM however, it's usually all I'm doing. If I download a torrent, I just make a disc image of it and mount it in daemon, then run it in the VM. It also emulates better hardware. Most people I know prefer VMware, but hey, whatever works for you, keep on using it. I know VPC runs Win95 better.
 
Opera browser
iTunes
BlindWrite 5
Daemon Tools
7-Zip / WinRAR / Stuffit Deluxe
NOD32
Ad-Aware
McAfee / Sygate / Kerio Firewall (NOT Zone Alarm)
 
kerio personal firewall, spywareblaster, Spybot S&D, Adware personal Edition.

However, my next few will be subject to some snobbery :P

Norton antivirus (no firewall... i dont get viruses with it) and IE... i dont care what people say, its the browser for me and all the hype of Firefox being tighter than scrooge's fist is a myth from the early days when nobody targeted it.

For uber geeks any hex editor is worth having too.

For all us number peeps you have 3Dmark 05/06, SuperPi with the mod so that it displays times to 3 decimal places and sisoft sandra.
 
Software I must have in order to do my job:

UltraEdit-32
Ghostscript
HTML Kit

Magic eDeveloper

JCSC
NetBeans IDE 5.0
JCreator

VS.NET 2003
Sun Studio 11

MS SQL Server 2000:
- Enterprise Manager
- Query Analyzer

MS SQL SERVER 2005:
- SQL Server Management Studio

HHD Serial Monitor
HyperTerminal

Dameware
VNC viewer

Camtasia
 
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