„Zeichen das man alt wird“, Teil 3872: die jungen Kollegen kennen den Norton Commander nicht und haben mich nur fragend angeguckt… Fortsetzung folgt #NortonCommander

@HopelessDemigod @asahi_95@tech.lgbt you mean #NortonCommander ?

Well, #MidnightCommander still exists to this day as #TUI application and is even shipped with #RetroPie...

Dieser fröhliche Ausspruch geht auf eine populäre Software zurück bzw. auf eine ganze Software-Familie: Die alternativen Dateimanager. Einer ihrer ältesten und wichtigsten Vertreter ist der sagenumwobene Norton Commander. Jeder Nerd sollte bei diesem Anblick feuchte Augen bekommen:

https://steadyhq.com/de/die-nerd-enzyklopaedie/posts/d9f4d9f6-663a-4c15-ad97-dab62258b436

#computer #anekdoten #mythen #nerd #totalcommander #nortoncommander #nc #dateimanager #filemanager

https://www.winnc.com/

Actively developed, reasonably priced. Done.

I've spent all evening last night and all morning happily curating the 200 GB of personal detritus that has been clogging my storage space for nearly 20 years and I couldn't be happier.

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#windows #nortoncommander

Organizing files in Windows with Windows Explorer is hot garbage. Sometimes you quickly need to navigate up/down/back through a tree of loosely related folders, and it would be nice if you could have multiple folders open simultaneously in two panels in the same application so you didn't have to ALT-Tab all the time. I was literally thinking "I wish we had Norton Commander for windows" the other day.

Well, shit, it exists.

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#windows #nortoncommander

So, one of the things that has held my digital self-organization in a state of task paralysis for... oh, like 15y... has been the lack of a really good file organizing tool. I have close to 20k digital photos, scans of old prints and slides, and captured home videos that sit in a random mash of folders. And lets not talk about the 10,000 mp3s I've been carting around since the great CD Collection RIp of 2004 (I got tired of moving 400 CDs every other year).

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#windows #nortoncommander

Copying disks like it’s 1989 #retro #retromontag #nortoncommander #486 💾

@funqr @sr_rolando @ffs Ich kannte tatsächlich immer nur ISDN. Ein Knatter-Modem hatten wir zu Hause nie in Betrieb oder ich kann mich einfach nicht erinnern. Anfang der 90er war ich im Grundschulalter und mein Vater hat immer direkt den neuesten Kommunikationsstandard gepflegt. #Nostalgie #WarNichtAllesBesser #ICQ #Win311 #Dos #NortonCommander