Quick post with some possibly useful programs.
If you need a good, free FTP client, try Filezilla. Gabe originally recommended it, and I've used it ever since. Free and functional. What else do you want?
Another Gabe recommendation (I need to find out what else he uses that I don't know about yet) is Grabit. Parker, Gautam, and I have been using it for a while now to grab binaries from USENET newsgroups. It's designed for grabbing lots of binaries so it's not really useful as an article reader (although you can read articles if you want). It does the job really well, despite the occasional bug. I can barely remember what it was like to use Agent or manually cut, paste, and uudecode binaries in the olden days.
Sometime when I wonder where my disk space has gone, I go directory by directory and either look at what's inside or go to the properties of each folder. This takes forever, and you never really get a good feel of how much space is taken up by each folder, because you can't hold all the numbers in your head. If you want a little utility to make that task easier, try downloading JDiskReport. It's another free, open source program that does what you ask of it without a ton of crap or nagging you every time you start up. You pick a folder and it generates tables/graphs of the space usage in several different ways. (size distribution, type, date modified, largest files, and of course directory breakdown). With this program it only take a few seconds to hunt down a rogue temp file which wasn't deleted or figure out that most of your my documents directory is pictures. You may think it's an unnecessary program, since you can figure the same stuff out with effort in explorer, but I think it saves a ton of time. Plus the UI is nice to look at.
Posted by ramk at December 14, 2004 08:44 PMRe: JDiskReport
Good God man! This is exactly what I'm looking for. Time to hunt down the freespace sinkhole on my sister's computer!
btw: I've been using xnews for my newsgroup needs. Grabit looks good though. Think I'll switch.
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Posted by: stalker at December 28, 2004 04:55 PMThere are too many complaints on the Internet these days. We all
seem to be bitching about something. It's either those damned 13 year olds
that are bringing the intelligent World Wide Web to its metaphorical knees.
Or it's something about how your e-friend club kicked you out despite years
of dedication and service. People are bitching because they are banned and
because other people haven't been banned yet.
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