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(on Wikipedia)
http://openbox.org/wiki/Main_Page

A straightforward but powerful window manager.

Openbox has been my window manager of choice for years now. Over that time, I’ve amassed some significant knowledge which I’ll try to maintain here.
A component of LXDE.



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Entertainment > Games (PlayStation 2) >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/587620/

An action/adventure type game, with an expansive world to explore, a huge set of skills, a lot of things to do .. and is just generally fun.

Beautiful and artistic. Very forgiving gameplay. A very linear plot. Has some unfortunate mini-games that break the general style and fun.

  • Properly titled Ōkami
  • Japanese: 大神 (literally “great god”)
  • aka Ohkami (Oh Ka Mi)



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(on Wikipedia)
Software >

A file can be “summarized” into a short string. That string can be compared with the file again to determine if it’s the same file. This is often used when downloading a file to check it after the fact. This sort of thing is built into compression software, but using md5sum is way faster/easier because it doesn’t need to put the file in a container and uncompress it to use it.

There are various other programs which do similar things, like sha256sum. These all come with almost all Linux distributions.

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