glances

Philosophy in the Flesh - (1999 book), by Lakoff, Johnson image

https://www.alibris.com/Philosophy-in-the-Flesh-George-Lakoff/book/10659440

To read

This book is mind blowing. I think the best description I can give of what it’s topic and goals are is to present the first chapter, in full. From here I think anyone interested in the subject will understand fully where this book is going and the intentions of the authors.

Properly titled Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.
ISBN-10 0-465-05674-1
TODO – The various Wikipedia topics would need references to cognitive philosophy as a contraindication to the various topics, and in those topics to specifically cite passages in the introduction in this book.
TODO – Finish the linking.

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MediaWiki meta extension

2009-03-20

freeware, glances, GUI software, MediaWiki extensions, open-source software, PHP software, software

Software > MediaWiki > MediaWiki extensions >

http://www.supernifty.com.au/wiki/index.php?title=Mediawiki_meta_extension

See:

MediaWiki SEO

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Foxit Reader (Linux)

2009-03-19

freeware, glances, GUI software, Linux software, proprietary software, software

Software > PDF >

https://www.foxit.com/ ^[ 1 ] was https://www.foxitsoftware.com/ ^[ 2 ] was http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/

A PDF reader. I believe this was a free edition, but I’m not sure if it was restricted in any way. I’m pretty sure this was never open source.

I couldn’t get it working, but didn’t try very hard.

Abandoned? I can’t see anything directly Linux-related any longer.

Footnotes[+]

^ 1	was https://www.foxitsoftware.com/
^ 2	was http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/

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PathConvert

2009-03-18

BSD software, commandline software, freeware, glances, Linux software, open-source software, software

Software > ln >

https://www.tamacom.com/pathconvert.html

This is old stuff, but I wanted to check it out nonetheless.

Adding a relative path flag to ln.

Doesn’t seem to work.

2017-01-19 update – This was adopted into the FreeBSD core as of 2016-11-23. Yay!

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locate

2009-03-17

commandline software, dead, disliked, file utilities, freeware, glances, Linux software, open-source software, software

Software > Search >

(on Wikipedia)

Maintains a database for easy filename finding. Part of findutils.

I don’t like this idea at all; it presents one single point of attack to get the knowledge of the filesystem(s). This is also installed by default on so many systems, so I uninstall it and delete its database because that gets left after uninstallation!

Use slocate

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GNOME

2009-03-17

disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, window managers

Software > Window managers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnome.org/

One of the more popular window managers.

I tried it a long time ago. Tested very briefly. Strongly dislike because of speed issues. Didn’t test for long enough to learn about the style of applications etc. I’ve developed a bias against Gnome in preference for KDE for reasons I can’t articulate. Gnome is kinda pretty, but KDE keeps my attention.

Gnome 2 was forked and continued by a new team as MATE.

Berkeley Automounter

2009-03-17

commandline software, freeware, glances, Linux software, mount, open-source software, software, utilities

Software > mount >

(on Wikipedia)
http://am-utils.org/

Automount utilities including an updated version of Amd Am-utils includes an updated version of Amd, the popular BSD automounter. An automounter is a program which maintains a cache of mounted filesystems. Filesystems are mounted when they are first referenced by the user and unmounted after a certain period of inactivity. Amd supports a variety of filesystems, including NFS, UFS, CD-ROMS and local drives.

You should install am-utils if you need a program for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems.

Incomprehensible documentation.