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Watir

2005-10-19

abandoned, dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, internet, liked, open-source software, programming, Ruby, Ruby programming, Ruby software, software, software testing, web browser software, Windows software, Windows XP software

Software >
Ruby > Ruby web programming, Ruby testing >

(on Wikipedia)
(old website, archive)
was watir.com

A functional testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It drives the Internet Explorer browser the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. It also checks results, such as whether expected text appears on the page.

I did some simple website testing with it.

aka Web Application Testing in Ruby.
Pronounced “water”.
my Watir scripts
Water 2.0 had support planned for Linux and Firefox using the “selenium” engine. 2019-09-29 – That engine appwars to have become https://www.selenium.dev/
Abandoned – 2024-04-22 – No website updates in a while, and the domain is down.

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Fluxbox

2005-09-13

abandoned, dead, freeware, GUI software, liked, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, window managers

Software > Window managers >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.fluxbox.org/

A light window manager. Based on Blackbox. Not bad, but not as good as Blackbox. I liked Openbox more than this.

Blackbox has been obsoleted six ways from Sunday. See versus Blackbox.

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EVMS

2005-08-31

abandoned, archivism, commandline software, file systems, glances, GUI software, RAID software, software

Data security > Backups > RAID >
Software >

(on Wikipedia)
http://evms.sourceforge.net/

A disk/volume management thing, with SoftRAID and more.

Required kernel patching and I never really did figure it out.

Enterprise Volume Management System
LVM won out.

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Vwmc

2005-08-27

abandoned, commandline software, dead, disliked, freeware, GTK+ software, GUI software, Linux software, macOS software, open-source software, reviews, Ruby software, software, Windows software

Software > MUD >

was rubyforge.org/projects/vwmclient
was vwmclient.rubyforge.org

A cross-platform native Ruby language GTK 2.x MU* (Telnet) client written by Mario Steele. It has been released under the LGPL license.

While not yet in a stable form, its goals will be to create a client:server model which allows for client-side processing of scriptlets.

Abandoned. It seems to have just vanished.
Virtual World MU* Client

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EncFS

2005-08-21

abandoned, commandline software, dead, encryption, freeware, liked, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, security, software, software with Git repositories

Security > Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/vgough/encfs
was https://www.arg0.net/encfs

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library module to provide the filesystem interface.

2016-12-28 – I have no memory of using this. Boy will it be awkward if I come across stuff encrypted with it.

Abandoned

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Termin8

2005-08-19

abandoned, BBS software, commandline software, dead, DOS software, loved, reviews, software

Software >

was www.terminate.com

A modem/BBS terminal program.

One of the top contenders. It is truly frightening, and still very useful today. However, they missed out on some basic functionality and got too complex. Telix and Telemate are two other contenders. Telix, well I don’t know why.. I still use Telemate to this day.. it kicks the pants out of terminate for most of the major simplicity and functionality. Too bad none of them are in development anymore. Hrmph.

Competed with Telemate as a category-killer.
Abandoned – Between 2021-09-22 and 2021-11-14 the domain expired.

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Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
was dillo.org

A lightweight web browser.

I thought it had hope but needed significant work.

2022-07-12 – Apparently abandoned
- The website is down
- the source code archive as of 202201280 shows the last activity at 2021-02-09. It was a small change and the update previous to that was 2018-10-05.
- The mailing list archive doesn’t tell me enough because it’s an old snapshot.

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FTE

2005-08-17

abandoned, commandline software, DOS software, freeware, glances, Linux software, open-source software, OS/2 software, Python editors and IDEs, software, text editors, Windows software

Software >

fte.sourceforge.net

Modeled after generally accepted principles: menus, hotkeys etc.

Folding Text Editor
Abandoned
- As of 2021-05-30 the last release was 2001-08-19

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Software > Remote controlling software >

https://web.archive.org/web/20201111173326/http://remote-anything.com/

A remote-control tool that can be used without firewall configuration. Port scanner and Trace Route, drag&drop files, get system passwords, Power-down or Wake-Up remote PCs.

By far the most impressive piece of software I’ve ever used. It’s tiny and does the impossible. But it made enemies.

2009 – Abandoned
It was said to be coming out for OS X, but never did.

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Xpertmud

2005-07-04

abandoned, dead, disliked, freeware, GUI software, KDE software, Linux software, MUD clients, open-source software, reviews, software, telnet software, Windows software, Windows XP software

Software > Telnet > MUD >

http://xpertmud.sourceforge.net/

Telnet/MUD client.

Alpha. Very visually appealing. Languages: Perl, Python, (Ruby “soon”, though they seem apathetic), possibly JavaScript later.

eXtensible PERl scripTable MUD client
Abandoned: As of 2020-05-14, not updated since 2004-03-30.
- Unresolved feature requests and bug reports. No activity on the mailing list or forum.

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