glances
All posts tagged glances
https://cade.noxrun.com/projects/vfu/
A console file manager of some sort.
Tried twice. Both times 2005-06-19 or earlier. No version was recorded, and no notes were taken, aside from “it’s not intuitive”.
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Linux distributions >
See also Linux distributions based on PCLinuxOS
(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=PCLinuxOS
http://www.pclinuxos.com/
What was, and probably still is, an extremely beautiful and easy to use distribution. Where Slackware had long-held the title “it just works”, PCLinuxOS does that for users who are completely new to Linux.
From its earliest days its hardware detection was renown, its suite of software astounding, and its remastering capability extraordinary.
It was my daily driver for a long time.
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Was nicknamed “pclos” for years.
Software >
http://ipcheck.sourceforge.net/
A python script which is used to update dynamic DNS services.
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I used to use the DynDNS Updater.
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(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 > PHP >
Bundled server software >
Apache PHP MySQL PhpMyAdmin bundled for Windows.
This ran my earlier content management system for a while. I don’t recall if it was the first bundled server stack that I used.
Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110406021457/https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
(2008-09-25)
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- Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98 or Windows 95.
- Annoyances.org: TweakUI Download
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Seems to be abandoned.
- A replacement for more recent versions of Windows has not been discovered.
Music >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.shakira.com/
I was first introduced to Shakira through Whenever, Wherever (2001 song), via the video, and really loved it. I hunted through my resources and found that she had been around for quite some time and a lot of her music was in Spanish (Españoles). Many thanks to that anonymous person somewhere in South America who had an excellent collection which I could build on.
Having lost my fear of “foreign” music through my appreciation for Lacuna Coil (Italian) and later for Vintersorg (Swedish), I fell in love with her voice even when not in English.
A strange aside.. for some reason a song or two really rung a bell for me.. as if I had heard them before somewhere. Nada es facil (“Inevitable”, 1998 – Dónde Están Los Ladrones? #05) did that for me. Weird.
I also bumped into a couple of other artists by the name of “Shakira”.. go figure. =)
TODO – Select songs
TODO – absorb bits of pushmeaway?
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Music >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.linkinpark.com/
A metal/rap-ish/”alternative” metal band, who I know from their very early days and still have pre-release songs from Xero and Hybrid Theory.
They were really great, but like their peers they slid downhill. I stopped caring about them many years ago.
Not to be mistaken for Thunderbirds – (1965 show)
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(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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Shares some code with Firefox
