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TODO – tested and working, though my most recent Lubuntu experimentation has problems I’m still troubleshooting.

At best, my computer hangs when prompting for a password. I think this is related to the 4.4.14 kernel but have not confirmed this.

Projects >

dm-crypt
https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
https://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/cryptfs/cryptfs.html

These instructions are a lot easier than they seem, and a smart and patient beginner will be able to follow them!

  • These notes were made from instructions from Slackware “current”, as of 2016-11-05, and have been tested on Slackware 14.2, and 14.2 32bit.
  • These notes were made on an everyday system with one hard drive which I completely formatted for this purpose.

    • If you are a new user, it is strongly recommended that you remove all hard drive’s your using and do this on a spare unused/empty drive.
  • This concept and these notes build a full-disk Slackware installation which also uses LVM. You can safely ignore the entire LVM post and just follow this one.

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TransmogTokens 1

World of Warcraft > AddOns >

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/transmogtokens
https://github.com/Kruithne/TransmogTokens

States if you need the appearance of an item the tier token can buy. Tells you the location of where the tier token can be redeemed.

With the new transmog system in place, this is mandatory.

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World of Warcraft > AddOns >

svn://svn.wowace.com/wow/elephant/mainline/trunk
https://web.archive.org/web/20151223171529/http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=7816
https://www.wowace.com/projects/elephant

Logs messages, so they are remembered between sessions.

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Can I Mog It another class

World of Warcraft > AddOns >

https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info24015
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/can-i-mog-it

Gives more detailed tooltip information on transmogrification for an item. For example, it lets one see if it’s learnable on an alt.

A absolutely essential addon.

  • On disk, it is called CanIMogIt



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World of Warcraft > AddOns >

https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info23877
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/details

Yet another DPS meter.

It can be made to work quite well. I especially like chat-tab integration.

Although it can be configured to be more simple, the fact that it’s such a large/complex addon makes it vulnerable to breakage and not worth using.

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