reviews

Chiron FS

2011-07-10

abandoned, dead, freeware, FUSE, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, storage, utilities

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.furquim.org/chironfs/

A userland-level raid type solution. This might have replaced my use of rsync, which can only be good.

2011-07-17 – The last update was June 2008. The fourm was never particularly active, and was last used at the end of 2009.
2016-12-15 – still inactive.

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Pandora review

2011-06-23

entertainment, oldschool, Pandora, reviews

Pandora >

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World of Warcraft initial thoughts

2011-06-17

my writing, reviews, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft 2 (BC), World of Warcraft 3 (WotLK), World of Warcraft 4 (Cataclysm), writing

World of Warcraft >

It’s been a very long time since I started playing this game. I found some of my random thoughts from way back when, and as I’m anti-deletionist I want to record them somewhere.

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Gobby

2011-02-25

collaborative programming, dead, disliked, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, text editors

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://gobby.github.io/

A collaborative text editor.

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Steady State

2011-02-07

archivism, freeware, proprietary software, reviews, security, software, utilities, Windows, Windows software

This is the notion of “freezing” Windows in time, such that it can work as-expected but be “rolled back” to a previous state.

Software (Security) >

https://web.archive.org/*/social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=windowssteadystate

I’m also lumping similar projects into this page, for reference.

X-Men – First Class – (2011 movie)

2011-01-01

alternate present, Disney movies, entertainment, fiction, James McAvoy, liked, Marvel comics, Michael Fassbender, movies, movies inspired by comic books, PG-13 rated, reviews, superhero entertainment, superhero movies, X-Men series

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/

TODO – I’ll add notes when I get around to re-watching this.

Properly titled X-Men: First Class

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Mythryl

2010-11-22

abandoned, commandline software, dead, freeware, HOWTO, Linux software, loved, macOS software, Mythryl, open-source software, programming languages, reviews, software, software with Git repositories, Windows software

Software > Programming >

was mythryl.org
https://github.com/mythryl/mythryl

A programming language which resurrects and improves upon SML/NJ to create the first production-ready mathematically-provable language.

Had incredible potential; I was highly interested in this and its abandonment was the final nail in the coffin for my desire to program.

Abandoned – The author Cynbe ru Taren (Jeffrey Prothero) died, the community evaporated, and a resulting foundation was later abandoned by his widow.

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Bitnami

2010-11-13

Apache, bundled server software, internet software, MediaWiki, MySQL, PHP, PHP software, reviews, Ruby software, software, todo, zombie

more possibly coming later

Software > Bundled server software >

(on Wikipedia)
MediaWiki: https://bitnami.com/stack/mediawiki
https://bitnami.com/

I would NEVER EVER recommend regular humans go anywhere near running raw server software on their desktop. It’s a horror – I mean truly a horror unlike any you’ve ever imagined – to get that shit to work, to lock it down and to keep it running. If for some reason you did want to run a server, use a proper server distribution. A branch will eventually crop up for Unity Linux I’m sure, but there are Linux and BSD distributions which excel at this task.

So for us regular humans, a LAMP (software bundle) is the best thing to use. This is a collection of all the necessary tools which have been pre-configured to cooperate and bundled together in one .. much easier to use package. This concept has become wildly improved over the years, and I’ve used a bunch of different packages.