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autofs

2009-03-17

abandoned, commandline software, dead, freeware, Linux software, mount, open-source software, reviews, software, utilities

Software >

www.autofs.org ^[ 1 ] (archive)

Automatically mount stuff like CD-ROM disks when inserted.

Footnotes[+]

^ 1

(archive)

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locate

2009-03-17

commandline software, dead, disliked, file utilities, freeware, glances, Linux software, open-source software, software

Software > Search >

(on Wikipedia)

Maintains a database for easy filename finding. Part of findutils.

I don’t like this idea at all; it presents one single point of attack to get the knowledge of the filesystem(s). This is also installed by default on so many systems, so I uninstall it and delete its database because that gets left after uninstallation!

Use slocate

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cdcat

2009-03-17

dead, disliked, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, OS/2 software, Qt software, reviews, software, utilities, Windows software

Software >

http://cdcat.sourceforge.net/web/uk/index.html

Creates a searchable XML database of files on removable media.

This appears to be variously called CdCatalog, Cdcat, The cdcat and Hyper’s CD Catalogizer.

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graveman

2009-03-15

CDRW software, dead, freeware, glances, GTK+ software, GUI software, Linux software, loved, open-source software, software, utilities

Software > Linux optical drives >

https://projects.tuxfamily.org/?do=group;name=graveman

CD/DVD burning software. A frontend for: cdrecord, mkisofs, readcd, sox, flac, dvd+rw-format/dvd+rw-tools, cdrdao

Wonderful!

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Centericq

2009-03-14

commandline software, dead, freeware, Linux software, loved, open-source software, reviews, software

Software > Instant messagers >

(on Wikipedia)
was http://thekonst.net/en/centericq

A textmode multi-protocol instant messager client.

Abandoned – CenterIM was forked from Centericq

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qvv

2009-02-04

dead, disliked, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, Qt software, software

Software >

http://cade.noxrun.com/projects/qvv/ ^[ 1 ] was http://cade.datamax.bg/qvv/

An image viewer.

Doesn’t let me continue viewing to the next image.

Footnotes[+]

^ 1	was http://cade.datamax.bg/qvv/

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Python

2009-02-03

commandline software, dead, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, programming languages, projects, software, Windows 10 software, Windows software

Software > Programming >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.python.org/

coming later

I had originally fallen in love with Ruby with the hopes of being able to use it on 16-bit DOS computers, but didn’t turn out to be possible. Since then I had stuck with it to tinker around quite a lot. But it turns out that a vast amount more programs are written in Python. Since my experiences with Ruby GUI toolkits were just horrifying, and all the Python GUI stuff I’ve seen is awesome, I think I’ll check things out.

I didn’t end up looking into Python much, but I have a bunch of notes.

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