glances

All posts tagged glances

World of Warcraft > AddOns >

https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info12801
https://github.com/TekNoLogic/bimbo

When looking at the character sheet, this adds a sparkle over items which are not properly enchanted, or which could, but do not, have a gem.

Does the job well.

  • Abandoned – not updated since 6.0.0.15-Beta

    • There are no viable forks; killing this as it’s unnecessary.

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404 to 301

Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://github.com/joel-james/404-to-301
https://wordpress.org/plugins/404-to-301/

Redirect your 404 pages to a page or a custom URL. Turn them into 301 (page moved), 302 or 307 codes so that search engines aren’t so offended by missing pages.

Does the job, and it’s an important job.



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Don’t mistake this for the movie Alien – (1979 movie)

(on Wikipedia)
https://joeyh.name/code/alien/

A tool to convert between package management types.

Mandatory for getting software working which does not have a maintainer for one’s current distribution.

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https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Isohybrid

Though it can do other stuff, I use this to edit ISO images meant to be burned to a CD or DVD, to make them appropriate for copying to, and booting from, a USB stick.

Phenomenal. I wish I knew about this a long time ago. I’ve ignored many Linux distributions because of the very issue this tool solves.



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Linux distributions + Debian >

https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/+archive/ubuntu/boot-repair
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/

Automagically repairs a boot loader.

This is something I wish I had/knew about a long time ago. I’ve had bootloader misadventures that really stressed me out.

I’ll accept this, even though it uses systemd.

See also:



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Linux distributions + Debian >
Software > GParted

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gparted
https://gparted.org/ [ 1 ] was https://gparted.sourceforge.io/

A Linux system rescue disk.



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Linux distributions + Gentoo >

(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=systemrescue
https://www.system-rescue.org/ [ 1 ] was https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/

A Linux distribution. A Linux system rescue disk.

  • Note – If you just want to repair your boot loader, try boot-repair.
  • I’m sure an updated version will use systemd, as Gentoo now does.



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VLC > VLC plugins >

https://web.archive.org/web/20160718195007/http://addons.videolan.org:80/content/show.php/Remember+Playing+Now?content=171318
https://web.archive.org/web/20170206054146/http://gna.org/projects/rem-play-now-vlc/

Appends the ‘Now Playing’ info to a text file.

I use it to save the title when listening to a web radio station that puts the artist/song in VLC’s title.

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