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1. Firefox

2. Thunderbird

3. GIMP

4. Pidgin (was Gaim)

5. Beryl

6. Notepad++

7. TrueCrypt

8.

if os==linux

    then

          print AmaroK

    else

          print Foobar2000

9. Foxit Reader

10. 7Zip

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Updated list:

- MSVC6

- Notepad++

- uTorrent

- Mozilla Firefox w/ Firebug

- XChat

- Pidgin

- TightVNC

- Winamp

- VLC

- Portable MS Word 2003

And note:

PoyBoy's signature is talking about "1337-speak" and grammar, yet the "Don't" in the animation is missing an apostrophe.  I just thought I'd like to point the irony out. :)

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Not top ten?, but top 10 most used daily.

1.  ZoneAlarm

2.  Opera

3.  Notepad

4.  Photoshop

5.  Media Player

6.  VMWare

7.  Wireshark

8.  uTorrent

9.  WinRAR

10. WS_FTP32

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Everything worth wile seems to have been already mentioned, except I want to add one thing to this list.

Windows Power Shell.

The engine syntax is far superior to that of COMMAND.COM/CMD.EXE. Plus you can import code from any .NET modules you have. Plus you can code custom hosts for Power Shell. The default host uses that stupid windows terminal window, but it is possible to make an X-Term like host.

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Everything worth wile seems to have been already mentioned, except I want to add one thing to this list.

Windows Power Shell.

The engine syntax is far superior to that of COMMAND.COM/CMD.EXE. Plus you can import code from any .NET modules you have. Plus you can code custom hosts for Power Shell. The default host uses that stupid windows terminal window, but it is possible to make an X-Term like host.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003...ll/default.mspx

Have yet to try it. What does it do that you can't already in windows?

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Everything worth wile seems to have been already mentioned, except I want to add one thing to this list.

Windows Power Shell.

The engine syntax is far superior to that of COMMAND.COM/CMD.EXE. Plus you can import code from any .NET modules you have. Plus you can code custom hosts for Power Shell. The default host uses that stupid windows terminal window, but it is possible to make an X-Term like host.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003...ll/default.mspx

Have yet to try it. What does it do that you can't already in windows?

Powershell starts as a command line interpreter and ends as a .NET interpreter(like Iron Python).

For admins: This means that it is easy to use for system automation. It has much better flow control than CMD.exe, and can access WMI, COM, and .NET. The syntax in Powershell can also be an improvement over that of WSH, by potentially preventing redundant code in some places and has much easier access to .NET objects. Think of it as bash with discrete object types and better string manipulation.

For developers: You can start out writing and testing your applications as Powershell scripts. The Powershell syntax is much easier to read than something like C++. You start out coding an application in Powershell as a RAD environment, then convert that into any managed language you use. You can also make use of any types in any .NET assemblies you have.

Its one real problem is that it is very slow, even for an interpreter. However, this is easily offset by that fact that any code that does use much CPU power can just be compiled in Visual Studio and then imported into Powershell.

All of that is for naught if all you use your computer for is browsing the web.

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