A bittorrent client needs to be included if this cd will go to anyone off campus. While I was on campus last year, the download rate was atrocious because I was too lazy to ask ITS to open/forward ports for my bittorrent client; I therefore feel others might be that lazy too. Anyway, I auditioned several clients recently, and right now I find myself using abc, which can be found at: http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/ and is 2939k. I was using Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) before that, which is Java based. I enjoyed it. However, I like abc's interface better, and Azureus is 4492k + the JVM if someone didn't already have it installed. So for this, I vote abc.
I heartily second including firefox over mozilla. http://www.7-zip.org/ Furthermore, I'd like to see 7-Zip replace WiZ because they say they get better compression and you get "Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB" over WiZ and it's still only 920k and I use it. I'm also not sure non-geeks need PuTTY or TightVNC, especially if we're adding WinSCP (which I suppose I grudgingly agree with. I didn't know I had gotten elitist until I caught myself thinking at Ross: "But they Should just Learn the Command Line Interface for pscp.") Anyway, that's the only bit of PuTTY I wouldn't want non-geeks to lose. Documentation of the tutorial/howto sort would probably be a huge-good thing(tm), especially for things like bittorrent. A bittorrent start: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html http://bittorrent.com/FAQ.html --- the first 6 ?'s http://smiler.no-ip.org/BT/BTtutorial.htm I am so done. Nate ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
