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NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by tambourine_man »

pavlov wrote: post #47
babuskov wrote: post #31

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I'm curious. If you have 20 electron apps running, does that mean you would have 20 copies of the completely same thing wasting your disk space and RAM? How would that work if all the application developers decided that native sucks and all should use Electron?

Yes, that's essentially what happens. And it's a huge waste if you have 20 Electron apps running. Each ships with its own copy of Chromium which is as large as an operating system. I created a proof-of-concept called Electrino that uses the platform native libraries to cut down on app size: https://medium.com/dailyjs/put-your-electron-app-on-a-diet-w... Unfortunately I haven't had the time to work on Electrino due to…

I've been thinking of something along those lines for years. I hope your project gets traction. I'd love to develop with web technologies exclusively, but what we've been doing with Electron is crazy. Imagine loading a whole new Win32 or Carbon/Cocoa for every app you open.

I can understand the inconsistencies and lack of feature support that could emerge from using a different browser engine for each OS (Webkit/Edge), but there should at least be away for Electron apps to share Chromium/Node runtimes between them.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by neko_koneko »

snarfy wrote: post #20

> Each time that a popular AntiVirus software begins to detect one of my utilities as Virus or Trojan, my email is flooded with messages from worried people that think my Web site is infected with Viruses. Some of them even blame me that I spread Viruses through my Web site. I wonder if there is a defamation/libel type of lawsuit here. Anti virus vendors are making false accusations.

Malware authors often incorporate legitimate software into their malware - e.g. Nir Sofer's Mail PassView and Web PassView are used in Emotet spam bot to harvest user credentials. Usually such files are marked as "Potentially unsafe software" by analysts, or in some cases could be detected as part of a malware family by AV companies' automated detection tools.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by themodelplumber »

Does anybody remember the tiny Windows games that fit in a little window the size of an icon? I remember playing pool and Tetris in a little corner of my screen at a very boring job where I was a couple months ahead of my work. I never did find the game developer after that.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by maxxxxx »

oblio wrote: post #59
Tushon wrote: post #40

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I would guess OP meant "integrated into" rather than acquired by, so that they are available by default rather than having to be installed separately.

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.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by sli »

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.

I agree. His marketing almost writes itself.

My parents have been shortening my name to "Code" pretty much since I was born. My friends and coworkers tend get a kick out of it when they realize my name can be shortened that way.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by robin_reala »

themodelplumber wrote: post #63

Does anybody remember the tiny Windows games that fit in a little window the size of an icon? I remember playing pool and Tetris in a little corner of my screen at a very boring job where I was a couple months ahead of my work. I never did find the game developer after that.

There’s always still Defender: http://www.p01.org/defender_of_the_favicon/

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by huehehue »

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 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)

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by aerodog »

> The entire Web site and all the utilities that you can find here were developed by me, and only by me.

I look at HTML for 2 seconds to find a link to Google Analytics...

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