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dd

2016-03-23

commandline software, coreutils, file utilities, freeware, glances, GNU software, HOWTO, Linux software, live, loved, open-source software, software, storage, utilities

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

A ubiquitous byte-copying tool.

I use this for copying disks, partitions and ISOs.

Part of GNU’s “coreutils”

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smartctl

2016-02-24

archivism, commandline software, freeware, liked, Linux software, live, open-source software, S.M.A.R.T., smartmontools, software, storage, utilities, Windows 10 software, Windows software

TODO – add my notes

Storage > Software > smartmontools >

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

A HDD health program.

I find it essential. I think.

This is part of the smartmontools suite.

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Software > Image viewers, [/tag/svg-viewers |SVG viewers]] >

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: IrfanView and irfanviewplugins
https://www.irfanview.com/

A venerable picture viewing tool. Can also view other media with plugins.

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Sumatra PDF

2016-02-10

Chocolatey, commandline software, freeware, glances, image software, image viewers, live, media software, open-source software, PDF viewers, software, Windows 10 software, Windows software

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: sumatrapdf and sumatrapdf.commandline
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader

Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows.

Seems decent enough.

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Lua

2015-12-11

commandline software, disliked, freeware, glances, Linux software, live, Lua, macOS software, open-source software, programming languages, projects, software, todo, Windows software, World of Warcraft programming

Projects > Software > Programming >

(on Wikipedia)
www.lua.org

A programming language of some note.

I had some small interest in this language, primarily because it’s used for World of Warcraft addon programming and general scripting , but I ended up losing interest in it and in programming in general.

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Change Referer Button

2015-12-08

Firefox extensions, freeware, glances, live, open-source software, Pale Moon extensions, privacy, software, todo

TODO – reverse-engineer this to make other extensions that work like it.

(No, its name is not a typo)

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Remove IP

2015-12-02

freeware, glances, live, privacy, security, software, software with Subversion repositories, this website, WordPress plugins

Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-ip/

Removes comment IPs from new comments.

This plugin will be useful to people that cannot/or don’t want to use libapache2-mod-removeip (because you don’t use Apache or don’t want to wipe out the IP logging on all vhosts).

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