dead

Yet another MMO, but this one is set in the Star Wars universe. Because light sabres, yo.

Conclusion: Amateur night.

This would have been great in the late nineties. Right now, the voiceovers are fantastic but the quest interactive cutscenes are ugly. The choices are sometimes vague and unforgiving. There is spectacular effort with all the rendered videos, but that just took away from resources for the game itself.

Star Wars – The Old Republic, on Linux?

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Mangler

2010-07-08

dead, freeware, GUI software, internet software, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, software with Git repositories, Ventrilo, VoIP clients

Software > VoIP, Instant messagers >

https://github.com/pi0/mangler ^[ 1 ] was www.mangler.org

The linux alternative to Ventrilo.

Footnotes[+]

^ 1	was www.mangler.org

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cdparanoia

2010-06-18

archivism, BeOS software, commandline software, dead, freeware, glances, liked, Linux software, open-source software, optical drive software, software

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/

CD ripping program.

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Polipo

2010-06-16

commandline software, corporate jamming, culture jamming, dead, disliked, freeware, glances, internet software, liked, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, todo, utilities, web browser component replacement

Software > Proxies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/polipo/

A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server).

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fbpanel

2010-04-20

dead, freeware, glances, GTK+ software, GUI software, Linux software, loved, open-source software, reviews, software, taskbars, zombie

Software > Taskbars >

https://fbpanel.sourceforge.net/

I’ve used it with Blackbox, xfwm, Openbox, etc. It’s wonderful. It’s also the only KDE-compatible tray which I’ve seen.

Fantastic.

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Working with versioned directories

2010-04-10

compiled website, dead, freedom, HOWTO, Linux, misadventures, my writing, programming, projects, simplicity, software, the chain of trust

The Chain of Trust >

When it comes to all the fancy software tools out there, I’m finding myself becoming more and more luddite.

I’ve learned through reading and discussion many ways on how to handle data. It’s something I’m always interested in. However, the one thing that I’ve learned – and sometimes the hard way – is that no matter how awesome your handling of your data it all falls to pieces when your tools break.

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