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ASUS Radeon 9600 XT/TVD

2005-08-23

computers, dead, desktop hardware, hardware, input devices, internet hardware, liked, output devices, previously-owned, proprietary hardware, quiet computing, storage, things, video cards

Hardware >

https://www.asus.com/ca-en/supportonly/a9600%20series/helpdesk/?SearchKey=a9600%2F

A fair graphics card, but with poor 2D acceleration compared to my Matrox Mystique 220.

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Hackers

2005-08-21

culture, dead, eccentricities, hackers, intelligence, personal, projects, todo

Disambiguation – Hackers – (1995 movie)

2004-11-10 TODO — Link to wanderlust and Zuihitsu and wiki gnome and more and more.

Glider emblem

Genius + Programmer = Hacker

(on Wikipedia · Hacker culture)

A broad concept applied to a person who has the hobbyist spirit to tinker.

This is a large topic which I have plenty of notes on which will eventually find themselves here.

A “hacker-type” is an individual who displays characteristics of or is in the early stages of being a “real hacker”.
“Real Hacker” is a rare title given to individuals with notable skills as a hacker.

EncFS

2005-08-21

abandoned, commandline software, dead, encryption, freeware, liked, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, security, software, software with Git repositories

Security > Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/vgough/encfs
was https://www.arg0.net/encfs

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library module to provide the filesystem interface.

2016-12-28 – I have no memory of using this. Boy will it be awkward if I come across stuff encrypted with it.

Abandoned

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Arachnophilia

2005-08-19

dead, disliked, freeware, GUI software, internet software, Java software, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, text editors, Windows software, writing

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/

A HTML / website editor.

In the early days I did things by hand (like most people) and this was likely my first program which helped in any way.

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Comeback

2005-08-19

commandline software, dead, DOS software, freeware, loved, proprietary software, reviews, software

Software >

A transparent trashcan program, allowing one to “un-erase”.

This is a category killer, there was nothing else which came close to it’s functionality.

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NetBSD ancient TODO notes

2005-08-19

dead, NetBSD

NetBSD >

Notes from 2005-08-19 or 2003-05 or even earlier. These were marked “ancient and obsolete”.

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Lopster

2005-08-19

abandoned, dead, freeware, GUI software, internet software, Linux software, loved, open-source software, OpenNap clients, reviews

Software + OpenNap >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/lopster/
http://lopster.sourceforge.net/

An OpenNap client.

Astoninshly-capable. I loved this program so much. It introduced me to music and especially introduced me to good code on Linux.

2016-12-30 – The author confirms the project is inactive.

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Termin8

2005-08-19

abandoned, BBS software, commandline software, dead, DOS software, loved, reviews, software

Software >

was www.terminate.com

A modem/BBS terminal program.

One of the top contenders. It is truly frightening, and still very useful today. However, they missed out on some basic functionality and got too complex. Telix and Telemate are two other contenders. Telix, well I don’t know why.. I still use Telemate to this day.. it kicks the pants out of terminate for most of the major simplicity and functionality. Too bad none of them are in development anymore. Hrmph.