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PyPanel

2009-07-20

dead, disliked, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, utilities

Software >

http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/

A customizable lightweight panel/taskbar.

Touted as being light. It’s not bad. Very annoying to configure, and has no menu.

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Firefox 3.5 hangs on GMail’s contact list

2009-07-03

bugs, Firefox, internet, Linux, misadventures, reviews

Firefox >

The subject says it all.

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Ogre Battle – (1993 game)

2009-06-27

console games, dead, entertainment, games, loved, offline games, oldschool games, owned, payware, PlayStation 1 games, PlayStation games, proprietary software, reviews, single-player games, software, tactics games, things

Entertainment > Games (PlayStation 1) >

(on Wikipedia)

A fine tactics game.

aka Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen

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splashy vs bootsplash vs plymouth

2009-06-22

reviews

bootsplash silent mode

bootsplash verbose mode

Unity Linux booting

gettinther had issues with Splashy and so Unity Linux is returning to Bootsplash for the time being.

Plymouth (wiki, source) is something to keep an eye on in the future, but right now it doesn’t support all cards and especially not older hardware. Once Plymouth has its issues solved, it’ll be looked at again.

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Mairix

2009-06-13

Claws Mail, commandline software, email, freeware, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, utilities

Software > Email >

https://github.com/rc0/mairix

An index program for Maildir, MH and mbox folders.

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Awesome window manager: A new hope

2009-06-11

Awesome, reviews

Since there are so few pages/blogs on Awesome, my previous posts were ranked very high on Google. I am compelled to write a followup to my previous misadventures so people aren’t getting the wrong impressions of what may well become my new window manager of choice.

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Growing up

2009-05-22

documentation, my writing, personal, reviews, writing

Reading earlier things I’ve written, I’m like some kind of half-drunk crotchety old man on a rocking chair on his front porch, shaking his fist and muttering at “those crazy kids”.

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Software > Search >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

“The GNU Find Utilities” is one of those packages that’s installed everywhere. find is one of those programs everyone ends up using and ends up being horrified at.