Your Tech

Haowdy everyone, I'm just curius about everyones hardware and software, like what operating systems we like to use, maybee some cool apps we found on the web, hardware that we love, or stuff everyone wants.

I guess I'll go first, I'm using a copy of windows 7 ultimate x86 on my shit-dell xps laptop with 2gb of ram, 120 gb hdd, and 3.0 Ghz cpu.

Along with my favorite apps like
ccleaner - to clean my computer (registry and delete bs)
steam - games
Internet addons from adobe, java, and microsoft (silverlight ofc)
notepad++ - for editing cfgs
ms office 2010
avs video editor - for when I want to edit a video before putting it on youtube, I know I don't need to anymore, youtube has an online editor
jondo - my favorite way to stay anonymous
project64 - to play old games
Web browsserve chrome, opera, mozilla firefox, safari, and ie
itunes - for music and my ipod (i'd prefer winamp though)
sandboxie - in case I want to be paranoid about files I download
virtual box - for testing out boot discs and testing out other operating systems on my computer
ninite to install it all
peerblock - to block spammers and hackers from getting into my computer as well as some other stuff
limewire - oh wait thats full of virus's and was just shut down
dropbox - easily sync files between all my computers
handbrake - convert video files for my ipod
boxee - nice little app that turns my computer into an entertainment pc of sorts
hulu plus - the totally online version of netflix (no dvds)
vent - I think thats some piece of bloatware though
virtual clone drive - instead of burning images to dvds I can read a copy of a disc right off my hard drive
skype - talk with fam and friends
steel - keylogger that avg isn't so pissy about
imgburn - burn iso files to dvds and cds
k-lite codec pack - read any popular video file
logitech touch mouse server - use my ipod as a wireless mouse
maleware bytes
avg
truecrypt - encrypt documents and passwords
recuva - to recover that file I accidentally deleted
xxamp - setup a quick website
OpenAFS - access my website
Logon Backround Changer
Tether - tether my blackberry to my computer

Boot discs
Hirens boot disc
UBCD4win
UBCD (ultimate boot cd)

Other discs
ophcrack when I forget my password or need to get into a friends computer for maintainence
Dell Ubuntu restore disc - its ubuntu just with bloatware and the dell wifi drivers

Operating systems I like
Windows XP Pro
WIndows 7 Ultimate
Ubuntu
Kubuntu
Linux Mint (thats right, I'm getting into it now Bunny)
Redhat but for now centos

how about we make this a bit more organized....

Security (anything from antivirus to encryption)
Nod32
Truecrypt
Axcrypt
ComdoFirewall
Spybot search and destroy
sandboxie

Maintenance (cleaners to speed enhancers)
Ccleaner
regedit lolz

things like that xD

what in the hell are you guys talking about?????

I gotsa cumpoter! lol

Bahahhaha!!! ^^ nice Sho and DQ!

applications and mods that our computers use to enhance how they function for individuals like us

I got 2 computers,

My lappie, a HP TouchSmart tx2 with 4gb ram, 218 gb of space(with 835 mb left), and Vista SP1.

And my 4-year old HP Pavilion Slimline s7600n, with about 448mb ram, and 500 gb of space(with about 210gb left)

Security:

Bitdefender
Malwarebytes
HijackThis

Maintenance:
CCleaner
regedit(if that really counts)
Some defrag software I found

Game Software:

Steam
Garena
Qtracker

Boot Discs and OS`s:

Linux Mint(First, and only linux dist I use right now)
W/i/ndows(Now sitting in a secret "defense" file hidden away in my most inconspicuous folders along with my other "safety" tools in case of attack)
Hirem`s boot disk with modifications by some falcon dude
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows Vista with some shiny tablet features in lieu of keyboard whilst in tablet mode

Internet browsers:

Opera
Firefox
IE(never used)
Netscape(also never used)
SeaMonkey

Media Players and File sharing and General Entertainment +Tools(no game tools)

K-Lite Codecs
uTorrent
BOXEE
TagScanner
VirtualDJ
mp3DirectCut
VirtualDJ
QuickTime
Vegas Pro
Flash CS4
Winamp
OpenOffice
Notepad++
Winrar
DAEMON Tools lite
RivaTuner MSI Overclocking thing I got to speed up Just Cause 2
RecordPad Sound Recorder
Audacity
Sweet Little Piano 32(yeah, I dunno)
MySQL Query Browser
MySQL Server
GIMP
LightScribe
FxBear Video Converter
Power2Go
NetTools(if I put all those individual apps here, this would be a very, very long post.

Dev tools, I guess:

devkitPro
Hex Workshop
CodeBlocks + gcc
Dev-C++ also with gcc
Visual C++ 2008
NetBeans

Beat that.

Dos 3.10

I can beat it.....I just don't have an hour to list everything I've got. To much work to do.

Fffff. You guys and your amazingly large amount of software.

to many to list plus lazy lol

You guys know, there is a company claiming that it can use a powerful gpu to brute force any random patterned encryption w/ 128 random character password within a day. I don't believe it's possible, however...it's being claimed.

Being that the best encryption software is open source....it's easy to make a few small changes and make that a non-issue.

Meh, if thats true our government would be all over it

The FBI, CIA and NSA supposedly are. The only thing you have to do is change the file types to something incompatible w/ a gpu in the source code. Recode the file compression w/ a different name and pointers to it in the encryption source code and viola....not cracking it with a gpu at all

Does'nt matter. The FBI tried for 4 years to crack a Truecrypt container recently and were not able to do it and gave up. I don't believe a word of their advertisements concerning strong random character/numeral/symbol cyphers. For dictionary attacks....maybe. But random passwords are a whole different matter. If you really wanted security, use a random character generator combining several different alphabets....like Cantonese (3000 + characters in the alphabet alone), Cyrillic, and English. LOL! Try and crack that ya bastards.

ASRock ION 330 - Mainly cause it's only 2kg, tiny and uses very little power.

dual Atom 330 overclocked

4g ram (only able to use 3.2 as I run XP)

Nvidia ION

XP Pro SP 3 - because I have a volume license key.

250G internal HDD

1TB Maxtor External HDD

Ccleaner

GOM player - media player.

NoScript

Avira Antivirus

ZoneAlarm Firewall

Foobar2000 - Music

Cometbird - Browser

BitTorrent - lol

888 Casino-on-Net

my college has given me tons of keys to windows software loll

Can I have 1 to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit?

lol most of its for the professional versions mate

I'll take it

Thanks a lot to Jon, mai new rig is almost up and running, just need 3 more parts and I'm ready to go .

And a sweet rig it is too, more than enough to play anything on the market currently if the cpu unlocks to a 4 core. 98% if 3 cores unlock, and 90% if no extras do (2 core operation).

Nice. My current rig is enough to play anything made up to 2009, with some to getting really annoying now lag. Which I mean my lappie. My main computer that i`m currently backing up with this portable hard drive I bought at the local best buy lags when I try to play Duke Nukem 3D. Seriously, it can`t play any game without lag except for ones made before the year 1995 and prolly most 2D platformers. It can handle most games maybe made before or during 2006, excluding obvious ones like Crysis. That game does not like my computers. Once when I didn`t really care about anything I got MW1 for it. I was actually able to play, but it took 20 minutes to load and I played at a frame rate of about 1 to 7 fps.

Ouch! You need an upgrade pretty badly. I just sold my motherboard and netbook so I could get into something a little more capable. Not that what I had was bad at all w/ 3 cores @ 4Ghz.

But a once in a lifetime oportunity came up to buy a very fast former world record holding AMD 965 Black Edition that will run all day at 4.3 Ghz on air cooling, plus once tipped the record book at 6.7 Ghz under Ln2. So anyway, it's currently residing in an MSi 890GXM-G65 mobo w/ 4 Gb's of Geil's Black Dragon ddr3 @ 2133 Mhz. Topped off with a Prolimatech Mega Shadow and (2) Mechatronics high pressure 140 cfm fans. Plus 3 more Mechatronics for case intake and exhaust duty.

I need to up the ante a little bit on video performance from the MSi Hawk R5770 I'm currently running overclocked at 1042 Mhz core/ 1425 Mhz mem. It's pretty good on fps at 37/46/59 (low/mid/high) on BC2 max settings and HBAO on. (fraps run w/ my old cpu/mobo/ram. Haven't tested the new ones yet, still waiting on the thermal grease to cure before I light the afterburners ). Basically, I can play just about anything on nearly the highest settings (except Metro 2033). Although, I do run it all @ 1050 resolution. I need more power so I can update my monitors and run at 1200 rez w/ good fps in games. I do run an aftermarket Artic Cooling heasink/ ramsinks/ vrm heatsinks on it w/ (2) Yate Loon 88 cfm fans for cooling the vid card.

Long story short, I built a 866 cfm high pressure vaccum cleaner, and then built a computer inside of that

I didn`t understand a word of that other than vaccum, pressure, cleaner and computer. I saw something about lighting grease afterburners or idk? But yeah, you`re right. I`m gonna get an alienware PC and then wait a few months for that 16 core amd processor I heard about, or it`s almost obviously going to come out Intel successor soon. Then I can play Duke Nukem 3D without lag, or when my computer is really messed and cluttered, crashes.

chiller345 wrote:I didn`t understand a word of that other than vaccum, pressure, cleaner and computer. I saw something about lighting grease afterburners or idk? But yeah, you`re right. I`m gonna get an alienware PC and then wait a few months for that 16 core amd processor I heard about, or it`s almost obviously going to come out Intel successor soon. Then I can play Duke Nukem 3D without lag, or when my computer is really messed and cluttered, crashes.

Nooooooo, don't get an Alienware. It's overpriced, underperforming middle to middle high end parts. Honestly, it's easy to build a computer. Plus, you'll save a ton of cash doing it.

Too make what I was saying in my earlier post more easy to understand....this is what I just upgraded from.

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Problem is, I don`t know where to start. Also, one of the parts in that comp really reminds me of a part from a car.