This is the notion of “freezing” Windows in time, such that it can work as-expected but be “rolled back” to a previous state.
https://web.archive.org/*/social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=windowssteadystate
I’m also lumping similar projects into this page, for reference.
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Software (Security) > Steady State >
https://www.fortresgrand.com/products/cls/cls.htm
A steady state-type program. Discards unwanted user changes at log off or reboot and has easy application-blocking.
I was exploring security on Windows XP and wanted a state-freezing system, so I can make dangerous changes and easily roll back. I purchased Clean Slate, played with it, was unimpressed and abandoned it. I don’t know what’s changed since those days, but this is a very complex and powerful program and I bet I could have put it to better use.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190922094853/http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/
Allows one to use RSS with an email client.
Software > Linux optical drives >
(on Wikipedia)
https://userbase.kde.org/K3b
CDROM burning software.
Well, it actually does the job! Awesome!
KDE as a dependency is really really unfortunate though.
Software >
Mirror a website, using curl.
I couldn’t find an official website for it. Though there are other, updated, copies of it, I mirrored it for reference: curlmirror.pl
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(on Wikipedia)
https://mplayerhq.hu/
Pretty much the de-facto video player on Linux, as it comes with most Linux distributions. It can play both audio and video, and works at the commandline.
Although it’s great, it’s a last resort compared to other audio playing software.
Although it can play without one, the common frontends are:
Software >
This is just a tags placeholder for this concept.
diff is the commandline thing; important for patch.
-u switch. (advised by Working on Free Software)https://rdiff-backup.net/ [ 1 ] was http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
Combines rsync with diff storage, so one can retrieve a backup from any point in time.
My initial impression was “Works wonderfully well.. very easy to use, very nice. Would be nice to have a GUI tool for recovery purposes though, but oh well.” .. but my 2009-04-01 glance was a flop.
Footnotes
TODO – add my notes, and scripts
(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes
A program for identifying (and optionally deleting) duplicate files residing within specified directories.
An essential part of my toolkit, giving me detailed information on the tangled mess that are my archives.
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