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Things change and previous list was an inventory for myself. I have now changed a lot of software and made the use of my laptop mostly obsolete. Here is a new list of software I use on a daily base, ordered alphabetically:

A list of software I use on a daily base, ordered alphabetically:

I LOLled!

Luckily my local installation of Firefox doesn’t crash that often, but when it happens it’s always good to be able to restore the session. I’m usually visiting pages not worth bookmarking, but worth visiting once. I’m not sure if Internet Explorer has such a feature, but I’m not using that anyway. But I’m pretty sure Portable Internet Explorer is not an option, where Portable Firefox rules! I just stick in USB and have all my own programs and settings anywhere. Beat that Microsoft.

I recently had such a rare Firefox crash and didn’t want to spent any more time on that Windows installation (because of more problems). I plugged in the USB in my laptop and restored my session on it. Long live open source! Too bad my games don’t run (good enough) on *nix

Concerned about losing your stick would put your data on the street? Encrypt your data on-the-fly with TrueCrypt and even that is covered. Too bad my Apacer stick has been replaced 2 times already because it just failed on me. That thought me to make backups regularly!

Image source: I Can Has Cheezburger? / Firefox Crash

Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds might be a brilliant man, his way of expressing himself is not always how I would choose to talk to people. Few weeks ago he thought “the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys“, this time he is fed up with the “security circus” surrounding software vulnerabilities and how they’re hyped by security people.

Torvalds explained his position in an e-mail exchange with Network World this week. He also expanded on critical comments he made last month that caused a stir in the IT industry.

Linus, a hero in his own way.