glances

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DOSBox icon

(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/
http://www.dosbox.com/

A DOS emulation program.

Absolutely essential for emulating DOS not just within Windows or a traditional Linux environment, but within ARM/Linux as well, for palmtops and phones.

For games I’ve played via it, see /tag/dosbox-games (although the tag is new and not populated well)



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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110406021457/https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
(2008-09-25)

  • Tweak UI 1.33

    • Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98 or Windows 95.
  • Annoyances.org: TweakUI Download
  • Seems to be abandoned.

    • A replacement for more recent versions of Windows has not been discovered.

Not to be mistaken for Thunderbirds – (1965 show)

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Linux email clients >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

A multi-OS email client.

POP3, IMAP, SMTP, NNTP, LDAP, SSL/TLS, OpenPGP, S/MIME, filters, multiple identities, bayesian spam filters.

Excellent, but awfully slow.



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Software >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/

A P2P daemon, which requires a network protocol such as openFT or gnutella. Any number of frontends are also recommended.

So far, giFT has proved to do what it is made for. Most problems will appear to me to be the fault of the frontend, but there may well need to be certain features inserted into either the openFT protocol, the giFT daemon or the frontend.. it’s difficult to say.

  • The software hasn’t had an update since 07 May 2005!

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XMMS image

(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200511163612/https://legacy.xmms2.org/

An audio player.

A really fucking inexcusably-ugly audio player. Thankfully abandoned.



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Software >
(on Wikipedia)

A ubiquitous file compression program.

  • Also unzip
  • I don’t use the GUI version, I use 7zip for that, or the built-in manager for Windows (various versions)



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prat-logo-dark-small.png

World of Warcraft > AddOns >

https://github.com/Legacy-of-Sylvanaar/prat-3-0
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/prat-3-0

A chat AddOn.

I use it to eliminate my need to hold alt to move my cursor back and forth while typing into the chat box, and to move that box to the top so can move the whole chat area down further.

  • /prat

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