BlackFox
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Post by BlackFox on Jan 22, 2010 13:51:01 GMT -5
My recently acquired 5GB per month wireless internet at home will reset tomorrow and I have about 2.5 GB left. I was wondering what you guys(I'm looking at you DaWorm) would recommend as something cool to have as a tool that I might not have thought of for my CPU. I downloaded the latest version of GoogleEarth last night and I'm very disappointed in the quality of zoomed images from around here. Bingmaps is much, much better. It also downloaded Google Chrome, but I haven't done anything with it yet. Running IE now. Anyway, just anything is worth consideration. I want to use up as much as possible before starting over with a fresh 5GB tomorrow. I'll check back later from home. Might have a slightly slurred speech though.
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Post by daworm on Jan 22, 2010 22:42:58 GMT -5
Yikes, not sure what you might like to mess with. Here's a few though, that might be interesting...
MythBuntu - If you have a spare PC and a TV capture card, this Linux distro is aimed at turning your PC into a DVR.
World of Goo - No, not a porn movie, but a really addictive game. The first three levels are free and should take a week to finish. Really cool game, runs on just about anything.
VICE - Commodore computer emulator (pretty much all of the 8-bit models, from PETs to VIC-20, C-64. to the Plus4). You can spend a lot of bandwidth downloading the old games. There are other classic computer emulators out there if some other brand was your thing back in the day.
SheepSaver - Along those lines, this is a classic 68K Mac emulator. Good luck finding boot disks, but I think you can still dig MacOS 7.5 off of Apple's FTP site. You'll also need to find Mac ROMs but some creative Googling should help there.
eBooks - Lots of great books are public domain or otherwise free. Project Gutenberg, ManyBooks.net and the Baen Free Library are good sources for eBooks. I especially like ManyBooks.net because it lets you pick your preferred eBook format. I use MobiPocket on my Dell Axim as a eBook reader.
Of course, there is always PornHub if you really want to waste some bandwidth.
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