- My @xs4all.nl email-addresses will no longer be accessible by me as of July 21st 2010. Others may end up grabbing the same addresses, so just be sure you check that you use one of my @gmail.com addresses, or my @jult.net addresses.

- My old homepage web-address http://www.xs4all.nl/~jult (and every link/URL/address starting with xs4all.nl/~jult) will yield a File Not Found 404 error. For the time being I made an exact replica of all content at this new address: http://jult.net/xs
So, if the old file was located at (for example) www.xs4all.nl/~jult/livez.jpg the new location will be jult.net/xs/livez.jpg

old URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jult/art/eerlijke_postbank.png
new URL: http://jult.net/xs/art/eerlijke_postbank.png

In addition, most Audio and Video has been moved to ftp. This can be found here.

• Total Commander (Christian Ghisler) - it's in my startup-folder, explorer users don't know what they're missing, who needs bloated Winzip or WS-ftp?
  
• 7zip plugin for TotalCommander! Many other great plugins for TC.
  
• WinRAR (Eugene Roshal) - best compressor on the planet
  
• Notepad2Mod (Kai Liu, Florian Balmer) - best notepad replacement ever, supports column block selecting etc. VERY fast, VERY configurable
  
• OpenOffice.org - It will make you forget all the other office suites. Exports to pdf as well.
  
• STDUviewer - still using Adobe's monster? Try this PDF-viewer instead!
  
• Forté Agent (email and USEnet) - ideal for smart users, header-freaks, plain and fast for email, great for binaries too
  
• ERUNT - backup NT hives and stuff. Very useful for Windows NT/2000/XP recovery. Must have for the experienced Windoze user/admin.
  
• HxD (Maël Hörz) - Hex Editor and Disk Editor
  
• Autoruns (Mark Russinovich/Bryce Cogswell) - checks all autoruns, trim down Windows load
  
• JkDefrag (Jeroen Kessels) - very good free disk defragmentation and optimize utility
  
• Ad Aware Personal & Spybot S&D - top spyware cleaners
  
• ADS Scanner (Pointstone Software) - find/kill Alternate Data Streams with this great free tool
  
• Everything - administrative tool for very fast systemwide search, fast ftp/http serving and much more
  
  
• ThumbsPlus (Cerious) - much better and way more handy features than the standard Windows XP image viewer, also great for fonts (viewing and installing)
  
• ScreenHunter (Wisdom Soft) - perfect freeware for fast creation of printscreens/screenshots of selected area etc.
  
• Photoshop CS (Adobe) - although I must say ImageReady sucks (who uses this?)
  P2P related:
  
• µTorrent (Ludvig Strigeus) - the best bittorrent client alive today, to use with
  cgaura NewArtRiot FXG demonoid isohunt torrentz latebyte tvtorrents rlslog etc. etc.
  
• PeerGuardian - for some piece of mind when you're doing scary things
  
• HashCalc - splendid free file md5, sha2, hash, crc and hmac calculator
  
• ImgBurn - the best software to burn (lasermedia) images, like .iso .nrg .bin etc.
  
  Audio & Video related:
  
• K-Multimedia Player - KMP is the best freeware Windows videoplayer out there, the latest version is here
  
• K-Lite Codec Pack - this is the one you need to play all (updates often!), also handy for Matroska/MKV container: the CCC pack
  
• QuickTime Lite - replace the Apple-pushed plugin
  
• HDConvertToX - convert your BluRay or HD (MTS/M2TS/AVCHD/TS/VOB etc.) to h264, XviD, DivX, x264 or WMV muxed as mp4/avi/mkv/wmv etc.
  
• VirtualDub and VirtualDubMod - amazing video filter/conversion AV re-sync/re-dub and cropping tools.
  
• ExactAudioCopy - a.k.a. EAC, the high-end audio-CD ripper
  
• Real Alternative - really don't need the realmedia crap
  
  
• OggdropXPd - the easiest way to encode OGG files, I highly recommend the aoTuV release
  
• RazorL.A.M.E. - best stuff to encode high quality MP3 files
  
• TagScanner - process ID3 1.0/1.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments
  
• MP3Gain - level-change MP3 files without re-encoding
  
• mp3DirectCut - fast mpeg audio editing, a little complex, but does the job
  
• WinAMP - the best audio-player, and my skin
  
• SoundForge 9 (Sonic Foundry, now Sony) THE best audio editor around.
  
• Vegas Pro 8 (Sony) Best video-editor/audio tracks mixer around. Adobe Premiere pales in comparison!
  

• PuTTY THE ssh/telnet client
  
• TrueCrypt - On The Fly disk encryption/decryption
  
• Ultr@VNC - remote screen/desktop control, my support thing is based on it
  
• WinMTR - clone of popular Matt's traceroute Linux program.
  
• Unlocker (Cedrick Collomb) - closes, kills and unloads any and all Windows processes (even trojans/viruses etc.)
  
• Angry IP scanner - don't be mislead by its name, a reliable little Windows port-scanner.
  
• WinSCP - Secure SHell file transfer client
  
• UPX - the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables (and UNpacker ;-)
  
• Bootdisk (Petter Nordahl-Hagen) - need Administrator access to a blocked WinNT/2000/XP machine? This is your friend!
  
• UltimateBootCD - perfect collection of boot tools on one CD
  
• Bootdisks (the whole nine yards..) - ever needed to make a bootdisk for BIOS flashing etc. ?
  
• MHDD (Dmitry Postrigan) - bad sector repair, HD diagnostic tool
  
• HDHacker (Dimio) - simple and useful to save and restore MBR/boot sectors, or to low-level view them.
  
• MBRtool - easily Backup, Edit and do stuff with your MBR ...
  
• CG-Security very useful data recovery and security stuff
  
• Explore2fs the WIN32 explorer for Linux ext2fs partitions, and rfstool to read (copy from) ReiserFSystems!
  
• wGetGUI & wget - the ultimate leechers
  
• bw_mod Ivan Barrera's stable bandwidth controller module for Apache!
  
• DVD43 - find out what copy-protection is used on CD/DVD..
  
  
• IsoBuster - bust open img and iso files, recover broken CD-roms or DVD's
  
• CD-DVD Speed (Ahead Nero) - Amazing free CD/DVD media quality tester
  
• AutoIt - Windows automation, great free tool to record keyboard+mouse actions into executable scripts
  
• NetStumbler - Network stumbler, scanning for wireless access..
  
• BackTrack - security and wifi exploiting linux live CD, leave no trace ;-)
  For more security, pen-testing and sniffing-ware, check Oxid and Irongeek.
  

• CentOS is my favorite linux o.s. distribution by far
  
• wine - translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications
  
• webmin allround (remote) browserbased administration tool for your linux/unix system(s)
  
• Midnight Commander a.k.a. mc (fastest in handling files and editing text)
  
• Postfix the best MTA, easier and faster than sendmail
  
• Dovecot secure, fast, reliable IMAP server
  
• Squirrelmail php IMAP based webmail suite, try only the stable ones
  
• eAccelerator (mmCache sequel) double the speed of your php, optimizer
  
• DenyHosts - handy security tool
  
• ccrypt - secure file/stream encryption
  

3. If you're English is not perfect, no problem but than always try to make short understandable sentences

You're - A contraction for "you are" (You're hot!).
Your - Ownership (Isn't that your car?).

They're - A contraction for "they are" (They're leaving now).
Their - Ownership (That's their car).
There - A place (It's not here, so it must be over there.).

Our - Ownership (That's our car).
Are - Are you really that dumb?

Two - The number 2.
Too - "Also" (I want some too) or "in excess" (That's too loud).
To - All the other uses.

Breathe - Verb, action, pronounced BrEEthe (I can't breathe).
Breath - Noun, a thing, pronounced Brehth (Take my breath away).

Than is a conjunction used in comparisons, like: Julius is smarter than you are. This is more important than you might think. Is he taller than me?

Then has numerous meanings.
1. At that point in time; I wasn't ready then. Will you be home at noon? I'll call you then.
2. Next, afterward; I went to the store, and then to the bank. Do your homework and then go to bed.
3. In addition, also, on top of that; He told me he was leaving, and then that I owed him money. It cost $5,000, and then there's tax too.
4. In that case, therefore (often with "if"); If you want to go, then you'll have to finish your homework. I'm hungry! Then you should eat.

The Bottom Line:
Than is used only in comparisons, so if you're comparing things use than. If not, then you have to use then. How hard can it be?

"I would of thought that"
is getting more popular by the day. "of" is not a verb. It should be:
"I would have thought that" !

Then, of course, there are idiots writing "it's" when it should be "its".
it's is from "it is", and
its is (once again) for ownership; Its own mistake, for the computer-software making its own mistakes.

And there is a growing number of fools using "sports" where they mean "supports";

to sport = to amuse oneself, to play, to mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with ("Robin sports with her emotions"). Also; to wear (something) with pride, i.e. "Brenda's sporting a new pair of shoes."

to support is mistakenly replaced by "to sport" when used in this meaning: To provide materials, effort, information or endorsement for a specific activity, ideal, or entity. As in "This new camera supports the micro four-thirds format." or "This audio software supports several outputs at once."

To: Chan Lee chanlee091@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Details About This Transaction
From: me
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:51:12 +0200

Dear Chan,

You wrote:

> Please ACKNOWLEDGE receipt of this email,

Sure, I received your email, but you have to realize that nobody with such a proposal would ever use a yahoo.com email-address, or would be sending email from Cobranet in Lebanon. So: Nice try but no cigar, "Chan".

And good luck with future scamming using your standard reply. I hope you don't mind that I post your email on the web, so people can find out about it via search engines.