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Software Inventory

April 5, 2009 in Computers by Big Eazy | 1 comment

A list of the software I have been using lately. This is a mental reminder for what to install on the new laptop.

Must Haves

  1. Mozilla Firefox (placemark for pre-installed)
    1. Better Flickr
    2. Diigo Bookmarks and Web Annotations – Use it to cross-seed bookmarks
    3. Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer – keep consistent across computers (need one for every browser)
    4. Live HTTP headers – helpful for identifying URLs for log mining
    5. NoScript – stay safe ono the net
    6. Password Exporter – only use for switching computers
    7. Search Engines -
      1. Creative Commons -
      2. Wikipedia -
  2. Mozilla Thunderbird  (placemark for pre-installed)
    1. Headers Toggle – Hit “h” to see full headers
    2. Message Filter Import/Export – easily move filters between machines
  3. Notepad++ – text editor
  4. Java JVM – Bb CE/Vista Java applets
  5. Silicon Circus PenguiNet – SSH / SCP
  6. Pidgin – IM client
  7. Tweedeck – Twitter client
  8. WinMerge - GUI diff
  9. Xming – local X for Oracle installs

Probably will get re-installed eventually

  1. Google Chrome – faster browser
    1. Manual bookmark export / import?
  2. Picasa – for editing photos for boss
    1. picasa2flickr + Flickr Uploadr – upload quickly and easily to Flickr
    2. Picasa Uploader for Facebook -
  3. Adobe Reader
  4. Apple iTunes + Quicktime
    1. Last.fm Scrobbler
  5. Free PDF to Word Doc Converter – make a PDF editable

Probably coming with install

  1. Helpdesk software
  2. Office Software
  3. Meeting software
  4. Zip software

Young Sesshu

March 28, 2009 in Books / Novels / Writing, Photography, The World by Ezra S F

I ran across this photo of an amazing painting on Flickr. Derrick says:

The story goes that the young Sesshu loved to draw. His love of drawing was so great that one time when he was tied to a post as punishment for an infraction at the temple he created a picture of a mouse with his tears.


IMG_1668.JPG by Derrick on Flickr.

Software Sucking So Seeking Something

August 12, 2007 in Computers by Ezra S F | 1 comment

So many to cover let me number them.

  1. Trillian has been my IM client of choice since their beta. I’ve used Gaim and any number of programs who do multiple IMs from one client but found them lacking. Trillian was even the first software for which I was willing to pay my own money. (Otherwise its been work who has paid the price. :D ).Lately, we have been coordinating through AIM chat rooms. Trillian was working fine for a while but in the past couple weeks has demonstrated issues with these chat rooms. It doesn’t send or receive invites for the rooms. I have an account with Meebo, so when Trillian didn’t work and Meebo did, I knew it was me. So, Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is installed to see if it works and rule out a firewall or something similar. Too much work…
  2. Much of my work involves using Unix-style shells to connect to a machine and type things at the command line. This is the way things are done. When I first started this kind of work, I was using a Sun Ultra 5. It worked really well. Trying to work similarly on Windows 95 in TerraTerm was not the same at all. Ugh. Things in Windows have gotten better… Sorta. Its still not the same.I finally have gotten so fed up with the ssh software from ssh.com I’ve started looking at alternatives.

Or… Maybe the stress of work is getting to me? I’m taking it out on my software? Wow… what psychobabble!

UPDATE (3007-AUG-13: Naturally, PuTTY is at the top of my ssh.com replacement list. I’ve used it before. However, over the weekend I used PenguiNet. It did pretty well. I’ll probably be playing with a bunch of different software over the few months.

Also, a reader pointed out that if I really want to get back to the feel of the Ultra 5, I ought to go Linux. Its an excellent point. I’ve been thinking since 1996 it would be good to go play with it, but I never seem to actually do. One day… One day…

How did that happen?

July 18, 2007 in Humor / Weird by Ezra S F | No comments

Places where works of Sesshū Tōyō are kept:

  • The Freer Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  • The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mass.
  • The National Museum of Tokyo

I wish I’d known about his work being at MFA Boston which I was near last week.

I’d heard his work was at the Freer Gallery, but I got frustrated trying to confirm it with their web site. :(

So, in the last year, I missed opportunities to view his work twice. Ugh.