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Cubic Player, now Open Cubic Player, was my audio player of choice back in my DOS days. Officially abandoned under DOS, but renamed to “open cubic player” and further-developed to become multi-platform (Linux).
Rather old, but still awesome.
(on Wikipedia)
was btrfs.docs.kernel.org ))
A filesystem I use because of checksumming and de-duplication.
Very good, although I’ve had a sketchy history with it. I’ve used multiple versions of it, sometimes mounting the same partition with different versions of it.
I stopped using it because I lost trust in its reliability.
- B-tree file system
- I have some btrfs scripts in git
- Checksumming helps with The Chain of Trust.
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Abandoned by it’s originators, and community-developed.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm
http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/
The current god of file managers.
It’s bloody amazing, and does so much “just right”. I can tell that the author has his head on straight. It ought to be the default in every Linux distribution which uses GTK+.
See also:
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Computers > Quiet cases >
https://web.archive.org/web/20150206201839/http://www.nzxt.com/product/detail/103-h2-case.html
NZXT H2 Silent Mid-Sized Tower
aka NZXT CS-NT-H2-B or H2-001-BK
Conclusion: Seems great!
NZXT H2 Silent Mid-Sized Tower
I snapped off the front door, tried to glue it on and then snapped it off again. While it’s not fragile as fuck, I’m clumsy and it’s not very well made.
- 2018-05-17 – The manufacturer appears to have replaced this with the H440
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2014-07-29 – I used to use Antec Sonata – (computer case)
As it’s been years since I posted Checking out new web services, I thought I’d do a followup on where those services have gone since then.
The results are not good..
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
www.landmarkthegame.com
The Minecraft for EverQuest Next.
I was invited to the closed beta in 2014-06-15. I tried it for maybe 45 minutes before throwing my hands up in complete disgust.
I have no interest in this now that EverQuest Next has been aborted.
- Abandoned
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Formerly EverQuest Landmark





