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Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by anexprogrammer »

hoof_marks wrote: post #101

Windows XP and its search feature- Win7 above does not have it. Yahoo Geocities- simply miss it. and also Yahoo in general. My current yahoo mail is chock a block with spam mails. plus their ads. Xerox Ventura desktop publishing software- that was cool when book publishing was required. Motorola T90/91 basic mobile phone. superb and handiest phone used. Current Moto is smart but not unbeatable. Most importantly old B…

What's wrong with your tap water? Don't they have the same safety standards to meet?

UK tap water is great (Well, outside of Greater London where it's basically limestone slurry). I've never bought bottled or filtered aside from the brief time I was in London.

At least two brands of UK bottled water were bottling northern tap water and selling it. Business idea I wish I had thought of!

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by anexprogrammer »

elvicherrera wrote: post #78

If you consider kazaa a tool, then kazaa. It was like limewire but a little older. This was one of the best programs ive ever used. It allowed for p2p transfers also. RIP Kazaa

I did more friends and family free PC support because of Kazaa crapware than any other cause.

Ended up as "if Kazaa is installed, you're on your own, no matter what happens".

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by xvilka »

qhoc wrote: post #34
nekitamo wrote: post #19

Softice

Agree. What is the replacement for this now?

Syser claimed to be that replacement. But in fact it's too old, unstable and nobody using it. Now everyone is using WinDbg for kernel/drivers debugging. It has terrible command syntax, but with PyKD extension and some customisation it's usable. See those slides[1] on how to do that. Also, there is another way to work with WinDbg protocol - using radare2[2]. Beware this support is in early development and may be unstable. But, unlike original WinDbg, it is cross-platform tool without external dependencies and completely free and open source.

[1] https://www.botconf.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014-2.1-W...

[2] https://github.com/radare/radare2/blob/master/doc/windbg

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by anexprogrammer »

cperciva wrote: post #79

Chrome, the fast, stable, and lightweight alternative to Firefox. I don't know quite where it went off the rails...

I can't resist, it applies perfectly:

Firefox, the fast, stable, and lightweight alternative to Netscape.

I don't know quite where it went off the rails...

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by guyzmo »

kome wrote: post #157
avar wrote: post #116

A few things: Everything not being 4:3 screens. I found it better for programming than everything being cinematic screens. Back when monitor manufacturers were racing to make better / higher resolution monitors, instead of just leaving it at 1080p / 4k / whatever the current standard good enough for movies is. The GMail interface before it started auto-converting the textarea to HTML when edited externally. Console g…

> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war. I am still fighting, and the war is not over.

So am I... at some point for colleagues that were telling me that my mail looked bad because text (and they weren't using fixed width font), I was sending them text converted to html by a script, so it is contained in a 
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PageMaker: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker
I used it to typeset nearly all of my academic work until I was forced to switch to Word by peer pressure. Adobe made a complete hash of it, and none of those files are readable anymore.

      
    

    
  

  
  

    

      
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    AdamJacobMuller wrote:
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    cperciva wrote:
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Chrome, the fast, stable, and lightweight alternative to Firefox. I don't know quite where it went off the rails...

  




    
    
It is still quite stable for me, I can run a single chrome session for months on my desktop. But, thank god that desktop has 32GB ram and a fast, QC i7 because damn is it bloated and slow! I remember switching to chrome years ago because it was so much faster than Safari, and, yes, while I'm 100% sure Chrome is just a bloated slow mess now, I can't really pinpoint any time when it happened.

  




      
      
Are you sure you're not just browsing more complex sites? Modern rich web applications can use a surprisingly high amount of cpu, gpu and ram

      
    

    
  

  





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