License purity. Part 1.

As you know, the State Duma adopted
amendments to the fourth part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation: “Allowed without the consent of the author or
other copyright holder and without payment of remuneration reproduction
a citizen when necessary and solely for personal purposes is legitimate
published works. As always, the terms are vague,
fuzzy definitions - all according to the old Russian tradition: “The law that
the tongue, as I turn, and left. ” The need to have to prove so
same as the need for self defense when attacking.
Earlier, the Supreme Arbitration Court passed a resolution on “innocent responsibility”:

23. By virtue of paragraph 3 of Article 1250 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, no guilt
violator does not release him from the obligation to stop the violation
intellectual property rights and does not exclude the use of
violator of measures aimed at protecting such rights.
With this in mind
courts should bear in mind that the repression is
regardless of the presence or absence of guilt of the offender.
The absence of
guilt of the violator does not exclude the use of other measures of protection
exclusive rights, including in the form of recovery from the violator
or compensation.
At the same time, the court considering the case on recovery
compensation from the offender in the amount of from ten thousand to five million
rubles, takes into account the absence of his guilt when determining the size
compensation (paragraph 43.3 of this decision).

Read more here .
I hope it is clear that if you go online and read this post
- the browser will make a copy of it before displaying it on the screen.
Since I obviously did not give you the right to copy, then cook five
million Thanks to the genius of the legislators, now anyone is guilty.
Naturally, the ruling also applies to unlicensed software.
security. For the sake of interest, I went through my laptop and did not find anything
unlicensed and illegal, surprisingly. Presently
the situation is such that for each paid software
the package exists its absolutely free analogue or commercial
a program that is incomparable in cost, and pirated software is put only from
“Familiarity” and lack of education. Well, nothing, millions of fines,
I hope the people will reason. So, I present to your attention a small
a list of software necessary for life, some of it is free, some -
worth the money.

Operating system.

Of course, there are better, faster and faster operating systems.
more reliable than windows. Unfortunately, the situation in Russia was initially
so that on the home and office computer special sense to put
Something besides Microsoft products is not. And a crucial role in choosing
OSes are played here by familiarity, clarity, availability of the necessary
software and drivers. Try, for example, to force
work under Linux printer-processor Epson RX610.
In the end, here we have no alternative, and deny yourself a bottle
average whiskey or lunch at a sushi bar, with this money we buy
licensed Windows. Laptop owners have no problem, found in
Selling a laptop without Vista preinstalled is now impossible.
By the way, Microsoft is now completely free distributes Windows 7 in order to
testing. I must say, even this beta version is much faster
and more stable than all previous products.

Office

Licensed Microsoft Office 2007 for home use costs about 2500 rubles. But it does not make sense, since OpenOffice
from Sun completely covers the needs of home and office, while remaining compatible
file formats. Why do people prefer stolen Microsoft Office
- a mystery. Probably need to introduce the death penalty for use
unlicensed software to force an ordinary user to draw
focus on alternative products.

For those who are too lazy to bet anything, you can use it for free
Online office packages Google Docs or Microsoft Office Online.
Guess which one is slower and eats up more traffic.

Graphics.

Professional photographer or designer without branded products from
Adobe can not do. Just because of a decent alternative.
Photoshop and other products just do not.

For the needs of the site developer, Gimp (more sophisticated) or Paint.net (simpler and more bright) are quite enough as an analogue of Photoshop.
Inkscape can be used as a vector graphics editor instead of Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator.
As a result, save $ 3000 and not go to jail.

Video.

Oh miracle! Windows Vista has everything you need to process your home video!
AT
The composition of the operating system includes Windows Movie Maker for cutting,
editing, effects and subtitles and DVD studio recording
result on discs.
For Windows XP, all this can be taken for free from the Microsoft website.

Alternatively, you can use - VirtualDub ,
it can do the same, but its developer has deprived the interface.
There is practically none. But VirtualDub is much faster, because
written in C ++ and assembly language.

Antivirus.

Since we use Windows, we have a problem of viruses.
In addition to the very inexpensive Doctor Web and Kaspersky, there are free
for home user Avast! and AVZ .
I recommend reading the list of AVZ features ,
many commercial antivirus did not dream of this. By the way, the creator
AVZ Oleg Zaitsev in 2007 joined the Kaspersky Lab.

Kaspersky can be obtained free of charge with the Yandex messenger .

Organizer.

It turned out not so simple. There are not so many analogs to Outlook
and for convenience - almost none. The only thing in Outlook isn't
Enough - this is a hierarchy of tasks. When choosing an organizer, I
guided by the following:

• Outlook Compatibility for Importing Data
• The ability to synchronize with PocketPC
• Security
• Simple easy interface

By the way, Outlook also turns out to be a mail program. =)

MyLife Organized

Has a version
for Windows and Windows Mobile, remarkable hierarchical-contextual
task system. Disadvantages: buggy, severe, completely non-intuitive
interface (task editing window contains hundreds of parameters, with
this elementary category sublighting is not implemented), is absent
calendar as a class. As a result, the program instead of assisting in the distribution
time he devours. Cost does not match the quality.

Google calendar

There is another problem - only the calendar is implemented, there are no tasks. But
The calendar is the best I've ever seen. Shows a place on the map
meeting, sends an SMS with a warning, integrates into sites.
Syncs with anything. Disadvantages - web application, no tasks,
the need to donate all your private Google data (according to
with license).

Mozilla sunbird

Mediocre organizer without claims. Outlook 97 features are not synchronized with anything. Lightning is the same with mail client.

do Organizer

The most powerful and featured program of the described. Maybe at all
everything. And multiplayer, and calendars for you and tasks, and bookkeeping,
and hierarchies, and memory cards, and a project manager ...
The developers tried to stuff everything they saw around into the product.
Hence the problems - a huge nesting of windows and menus, non-obvious
communication between the modules (it is clear that different people wrote). Synchronized
but not with all devices and not always.
The result was a package for devouring free time, but at an affordable price of $ 50 .

EssentialPIM

Almost complete Outlook 2003 clone, while disproportionately smaller
size, faster and more convenient. The task structure is hierarchical,
syncs with Outlook, Windows Mobile devices, Palm, iPOD,
Google calendar Encrypts AES databases, automatically creates backup
copies. The cost is quite adequate , I bought it and the synchronization module.
There are drawbacks, but the merits do not overlap. Failed to sync with
occasionally, you have to clear connections, delete all PIM data
on the device to sync again. Problems recovering from
tray in vista Just turned off the minimize option to tray and planned
back up more often.

In the next part of the article I will tell you about memory cards, knowledge bases and development tools.