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(on Wikipedia)
http://menuetos.net/
A light multitasking windowed operating system.
glances
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https://web.archive.org/*/addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/10897
https://web.archive.org/*/www.andyhalford.com/checkplaces/index.html
An add-on which helps deal with bookmarks. It has three features which I really appreciate:
- It checks for duplicate bookmarks.
- It checks for dead links.
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It re-downloads Favicons
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Abandoned
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I can’t count the number of times I’ve updated/upgraded only to be kicked in the teeth by some smartass programmer’s bright idea for a feature.
It’s one thing to add bloat to a program, it’s another to force it down your users throat.
I really don’t mind having a featureful program. Really, I don’t. However, when I’m used to things working one way I don’t like having things change without my permission.
I also really hate when that happens and I can’t figure out how to change things back the way they were.
I decided to check out the newest version of Firefox. I didn’t do it because of my Flash issues, but because I had heard of the new JavaScript. Ok, I should say the “old” original SpiderMonkey engine from Netscape Navigator which has now been updated to become TraceMonkey.
Firefox has traditionally been a pig of a program, and so it doesn’t surprise me to see them drop entire chunks of code in preference to a rewritten component. This is the smart thing to do.
Macromedia Adobe Flash is a stupid idea that has been implemented badly. Hell, since day 0 the entire concept of browser plugins has been shaky at best. Seriously.
Software >
Testing Linux software speed and memory costs >
https://github.com/maxzheng/memory-tools/blob/master/memorytools/show_mem.py
Determine the memory use of a program.
Reportedly more accurate than Ganglia.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/moblock.berlios/
https://www.berlios.de/software/moblock/ [ 1 ] was http://moblock.berlios.de/
A linux console application that blocks connections from/to hosts listed in a file in peerguardian format (guarding.p2p and p2p.p2b) or ipfilter.dat files. It uses iptables libnetfilter_queue userspace library and NFQUEUE kernel module.
Footnotes
https://web.archive.org/*/www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/dirwatch/
Apparently it requires sqlite – but gem is fucking insane and locks my system up trying to update.
nice -n gem install sqlite
TODO – make a proper page
TODO – add any notes and make a more complete review
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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: claws-mail
https://www.claws-mail.org/ (on Windows)
A light and capable email client.
POP3, POP before SMTP, APOP, IMAP4rev1, IMAP over SSH, IMAP CAPABILITY, mh, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, SSL/TLS, full OpenPGP support, external editors, filtering, muliple identities. Good multilanguage and character set support.
- Uses the MH Message Handling System.
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Can import the Mbox format.
