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NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by maxxxxx »

huehehue wrote: post #69
maxxxxx wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still hard to understand that they haven't touched Notepad in such a long time. The effort to get a good editor must be tiny compared to a lot of other stuff they are doing. I am pretty sure I could improve Notepad substantially with just a few days of work.

I don't see why they would. Notepad is great if you want to do something really quickly w/ plaintext, and the fact that it doesn't really do anything else is the best part IMO. If you want nicer formatting you can use WordPad. Beyond that, there are a million alternatives (including the MS office suite)

I think a system should come with a decent editor out of the box. I sometimes have to deal with locked down systems where I can't install Notepad++. So I have to choose between two bad options like notepad or Wordpad. Both at least 20 years old and unchanged since then.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by mehrdadn »

robochat wrote: post #9

I use the nirSoft CSVFileView utility all of the time. The near instantaneous load time is how computing should be.

I tried opening a 3M-line (550MB) CSV. It took a couple minutes to get to 1M, and it seems to have an O(n^2) algorithm because it was doing 40k lines/second on my machine and now (after around 1.5M rows) it's doing about 1/10th of that. Memory consumption is at over 2GB for this first half of the file.

It's definitely a nice tool, but it's far from instantaneous loading!

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by Carioca »

DEFCON28 wrote: post #50
reificator wrote: post #2

I've seen and used nirsoft products for years, never realized his name was Nir Sofer. What a great name for a software developer.

The name Nir Sofer "ניר סופר" means "Field Scribe" ("nir" also means plowed, but refers to a plowed field, too. Now you know!

So if he travels to Israel he's a DBA?

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by cryptoz »

maxxxxx wrote: post #57
arunc wrote: post #34

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If that happens Notepad++ will probably the first explicit GNU GPL product from MS.

It's still hard to understand that they haven't touched Notepad in such a long time. The effort to get a good editor must be tiny compared to a lot of other stuff they are doing. I am pretty sure I could improve Notepad substantially with just a few days of work.

> I am pretty sure I could improve Notepad substantially with just a few days of work.

With the diverse and enormous install base that Notepad has, do you really think it would be that simple? There must be all kinds of localization concerns, legal concerns, trademark issues, patent concerns, design and Windows brand concerns, that must go into a core OS application update.

I agree that Notepad should be updated. But updating a text editor preinstalled on Windows should be no easy feat for one person over just a few days. The repercussions of each change are potentially huge, and going in especially with a cavalier attitude of "it would only be a few days work to substantially improve" a piece of software used by hundreds of millions of people daily, definitely sounds like it wouldn't work out as easily as you'd expect.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by myself248 »

I can't claim to have used all of Nirsoft's tools, or even half of them, but I've used more than a handful, and they always do exactly what they claim. Quickly, quietly, and compactly.

This guy is a personal hero of mine, and I'm proud to say I sent him a few bucks a few years ago to say thanks. I don't know how many others think to do so, but I hope it's a lot of us!

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by HelloNurse »

maxxxxx wrote: post #64
oblio wrote: post #59

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Parts of them were integrated. Take a look at the Win XP Task Manager and at the Win 10 one.

They are still way behind ProcExp for example.

A straightforward tool for everyone is not "behind" a comprehensive tool for experts just because it does less. Minimizing the probability of someone using Task Manager to shoot themselves in the foot is probably more challenging than adding an advanced feature to ProcExp.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by Havoc »

>But after many users complained about the keys that I added to the Registry

How odd...that's literally what the registry is for. One company putting all their sht in one place in a standardized efficient format.

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