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Software >
Pale Moon > Pale Moon extensions >
was https://github.com/wsdfhjxc/expose-noisy-tabs, but I found a copy at https://github.com/adisib/expose-noisy-tabs
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/expose-noisy-tabs/
Adds an icon to tabs to indicate which emanates sound and allow one to easily mute them.
2018-03-31 – 1.1.0
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103644/
Survivors of an alien attack crash next to a prison and learn that the alien came with them.
This was my first movie with a shaved-headed woman. I guess I was all “oh no she di’int, now wesa gettin serioooos”.
In my mind, the franchise was significantly weakened by this movie. It just didn’t “feel right”. Perhaps the previous two were so good that they became too tough to follow, but after yet another re-watch this movie really just doesn’t seem all that good.
Alternately titled ALIEN3
todo – watch the director’s cut
todo? This is novelized
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/
Waking from long hibernation, a woman claims to be the survivor of an alien attack from a planetoid which has since become a terraforming colony.
A direct descendent of Alien – (1979 movie), this movie not only builds on but improves on the movie, turning this into a blockbuster franchise.
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
A crew of civilians investigates a distress beacon, but it turn out to be a warning that they were too late to heed.
Alien is another “first to get there” movie which has set the bar for its sub-genre.
It has a dirty old-but-futuristic look to it that really stretches its technological and budgetary limitations. As it turns out, this has given the movie incredible longevity. For a movie as old as this, it easily stands the test of time.
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.hamrick.com/
2018-03-03 – 9.6.06 on Windows 10 64bit
It really looks great.
VueScan supports the CanoScan LiDE 120, which I tested it with.
It watermarks what it scans, unless you buy it. It’s not worth $50 for something decent, because my scanner cost that. $100 to get OCR cooked-in also isn’t worth it.
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Entertainment > Reading >
A too-forgiving man and his stupid brute of a friend travel as farm hands to scrape together money for the dream of owning their own land.
A thriller, a gripping tale … that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick.
— The New York Times, who are about as smart as Lenny.
An unforgivably-terrible book. Awful almost beyond reason. Plodding and boring, it’s only a “page turner” because it’s tauntingly short enough to tear through like ripping off a bandage. But on the plus side, although it’s littered with written-accents, it’s not difficult to read.. plus the ending is great!
2019-08-07 – Wow, this was so forgettable that I couldn’t actually remember reading it until I read the first few paragraphs..
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Entertainment > Reading >
In a world where everyday people use the internet through total-sensory virtual reality, a specialist intelligence agency tracks down murderers and terrorists.
Slow and confusing, this book isn’t just a challenge to read, it’s a challenge to read with a straight face. One of the risks of speculative science fiction is that they can get very, very, wrong in their predictions. This book hand-waives people being transported into a magical world with no explanation as to how it’s possible or what it’s like. It is vague in everything it demands the reader suspend their disbelief in. It is awed at 900 Mhz computers. This is definitely a 1998 book that had way too much hope for its future.
I had a sticker with two, and the book had two.. and none of these are coming up with anything:
This inspired Netforce – (1999 movie)
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Entertainment > Reading >
An unlikely little hero is swept into an travel-adventure through dangerous lands to recapture the lost treasures of a fallen Dwarvish kingdom.
Considered a classic fantasy book, it’s definitely a children’s book from it’s narrative tone. It’s slow and awkward in a lot of places, and takes too long to pick up into anything interesting for me. Perhaps it’s because I had read it long ago, and perhaps it’s because of the staggering quality of its associated movies, but I didn’t like it.
Definitely not recommended as an entry into fantasy fiction, in spite of its popularity. Veterans of the genre may as well read this just to say they have.
Published 1982-01
Adapted into a movie which I don’t have notes on.
Soon to be renamed System Informer
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Software >
https://github.com/winsiderss/systeminformer
https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/
A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.
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Software > Text editors >
https://github.com/gottcode/focuswriter
https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/
A beautified text editor with the widgets around the edges removed (“distraction-free”).
I started using it because I couldn’t trivially get Geany spell checking working. Once I did get it working I stopped.
Although I’ve used this on Linux a bit, it merely idles in my Windows kit.
