dead

Legacy software

2006-03-11

dead, oldschool, oldschool topics, projects, software

TODO – There is a HELL of a lot of work which has to be integrated. This project is also heavily linked to The Archive Project and Content management.

Often called “abandonware“.

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Sylpheed

2006-03-10

dead, disliked, email clients, freeware, glances, GTK+ software, GUI software, internet software, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, weeXpc software

Linux email clients >

(on Wikipedia)
https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

An email client.

POP3, APOP, IMAP4rev1, mh, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, SSL/TLS, OpenPGP, external editors, filtering, muliple identities. Good multilanguage and character set support.

Sylpheed is bafflingly bad in places, and Claws Mail was a welcome improvement. This relationship reminds me a lot of PCManFM versus PCManFM-mod (which later became SpaceFM).

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xine

2006-02-06

audio software, dead, freeware, GUI software, liked, Linux software, media software, open-source software, software, software with Mercurial repositories, video software

Yeah this is a shit image, but I’m too lazy to capture my own.

Software >

https://sourceforge.net/p/xine/xine-lib/ci/default/tree/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xine/

A multimedia player.

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Smalltalk

2006-01-17

commandline software, dead, freeware, Linux software, open-source software, programming languages, projects, reviews, Smalltalk, software

Software > Programming >
(on Wikipedia)
http://www.smalltalk.org/

A programming language.

Smalltalk (Programming):

Smalltalk is intriguing. Very intriguing. I was turned onto this while Ruby was a live project, where the rabbit hold led me to Seaside.

Smalltalk leads to Squeak, the open source implementation, and through one if its main contributors (Alan Kay) leads to the Croquet Project.

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Neverwinter Nights – (2002 game)

2005-11-30

abandoned, dead, disliked, entertainment, games, Linux software, multiplayer games, online games, payware, proprietary software, reviews, software, Windows 10 software, Windows software

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20151105102937/http://http://nwn.bioware.com/

An online MMO type thing. I was using Linux at the time, and so I suppose my options were limited.

GOG.com: Neverwinter Nights – Diamond edition

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AdBlock

2005-11-28

advertisements, Chrome extensions, corporate jamming, dead, Firefox extensions, freeware, GUI software, internet software, Linux software, loved, open-source software, Pale Moon extensions, reviews, software

Software >
Firefox > Firefox add-ons and extensions >
Chrome > Chromium extensions >

(on Wikipedia)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-%E2%80%94-best-ad-blocker/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom
https://getadblock.com/en/

The equivalent for Pale Moon is Adblock Latitude.

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Watir

2005-10-19

abandoned, dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, internet, liked, open-source software, programming, Ruby, Ruby programming, Ruby software, software, software testing, web browser software, Windows software, Windows XP software

Software >
Ruby > Ruby web programming, Ruby testing >

(on Wikipedia)
(old website, archive)
was watir.com

A functional testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It drives the Internet Explorer browser the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. It also checks results, such as whether expected text appears on the page.

I did some simple website testing with it.

aka Web Application Testing in Ruby.
Pronounced “water”.
my Watir scripts
Water 2.0 had support planned for Linux and Firefox using the “selenium” engine. 2019-09-29 – That engine appwars to have become https://www.selenium.dev/
Abandoned – 2024-04-22 – No website updates in a while, and the domain is down.