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KA Lite

2016-06-30
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Online learning >

https://github.com/learningequality/ka-lite/
https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/

An offline version of Khan Academy.

A free lightweight solution providing high-quality education where you need it most.

Though this software is unofficial, it is known of and approved by the official website.

disliked - because it has no concept of building a larger topic of things to work on, and showing an easy path to progress through them. Needing to pick through a large number of topics, sub-topics and quizzes and then manually and repeatedly going back into that list is inexcusably frustrating.



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Deluge

2010-04-18
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Software > BitTorrent >

(on Wikipedia)
http://git.deluge-torrent.org/deluge
http://deluge-torrent.org/

A BitTorrent client.

old opinion

From 2010 or so.

One of it's chief benefits is the ability to throttle its bandwidth. It's a rare and powerful ability, and is something that's normally only available at the firewall/router level. I hope there have been a number of other clients out there which have this functionality now, cause I just can't use Deluge.



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rdiff-backup

2007-06-17
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Software >

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

Combines rsync with diff storage, so one can retrieve a backup from any point in time.

My initial impression was "Works wonderfully well.. very easy to use, very nice. Would be nice to have a GUI tool for recovery purposes though, but oh well." .. but my 2009-04-01 glance was a flop.

  • Needs SSH for remote stuff.. it would work nicely with an ssh mount!

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