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https://web.archive.org/web/20190126010616/http://www.christine-project.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20090530072502/http://www.christine-project.org:80/html/index.php

A small and very fast Media Player, it suports the widespread media files that Gstreamer do support. Christine allows you to search trough your media files and play them quickly. You can create playlists to keep your files organized, use a queue and organize radio stations.

Complete garbage when I tried it



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Ventrilo logo

Software > VoIP, Instant messagers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.ventrilo.com/

  • aka Vent
  • I’ve since switched to Mumble.
  • Mangler is an open source vent client for Linux.



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Computers > Data, Files > Storage >

update 2 – this is basically pointless with contemporary hardware and software. Just use the defaults for something like cgdisk or GParted:

https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-specify-partition-alignment

Use MiB alignment for modern operating systems.

The Cylinder/Head/Sector values reported by modern disk devices no longer have a direct physical relationship to the data stored on the disk device. Hence it is no longer valid to use this alignment setting to achieve enhanced performance.

update: cgdisk, when beginning with a new partition table, when creating the first partition, automatically creates a small empty partition before it, and thus is said to align everything properly. I haven’t double-checked this.

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