the scootabug virus

Here’s one for ya, www.filehippo.com. It’s basically a repository of current and (more importantly) old/previous/legacy version installers of your favourite software.

Why the heck would you want old software? Because more often than not new software will kindly provide you with as many new issues as it resolves, and in my case, remove a feature you actually still need.

I just downloaded HandBrake 0.9.3 from because in the latest release, they’ve dropped support for AVI file output.  That’s fair enough because AVI is the ugly old brother of newer formats that support better codecs and other built in functionality. Unfortunately the device I’m trying to encode video for won’t play an MKV or M4V, so I need to stick with the AVI for now.

I haven’t figured out if the software developers and/or the “community” are supplying FileHippo.com with the software installers as they’re released – and obviously that isn’t really that important but it’s interesting either way.

There is another site I stumbled across, www.oldapps.com, and they basically do the same thing as the large water dwelling mammal.  If you can’t find what you’re looking for on either of these sites, I guess you’re really screwed now (not).  But it does beg the question – if you’re holding on to every installer you’ve ever come across, are you wasting your time? Meh, I don’t think you can rely on everything being “in the cloud” – some clouds get thick, heavy and dark and start to fall from the sky so it won’t be stopping me any time soon!

Here’s an excerpt from one of my favourite TV shows, Flight of the Conchords: Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros.  Let’s face it, that’s what this whole post was leading to!

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