TODO – add my notes, and scripts
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Software > Text editors >
(on Wikipedia)
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/
https://nano-editor.org/
The license-unencumbered version of Pico.
Small, easy. Needs some basic functionality but is still quite useful.
formerly: TIP (TIP Isn’t Pico)
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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: mc
http://midnight-commander.org/
A commandline file manager, with FTP access.
Particularly easy to use and featureful. I consider this an essential tool, but usually forget it exists.
mcmcedit is its text editor
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(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/geeqie/
http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/
A straightforward and lightweight image viewer.
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Software > Web browsers >
(on Wikipedia)
Linux > http://www.palemoon.org/
http://www.palemoon.org/
A web browser which is essentially a fork of Firefox. Pale Moon keeps the simpler UI before the astonishingly terrible changes Firefox made.
A very good browser. Newer addons targeting the latest Firefox which are addicted to its new interface will not work with Pale Moon, since Pale Moon lacks that interface. Older addons or proper UI-agnostic addons will work fine.
TODO – add additional notes
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.ecryptfs.org/
A cryptographic filesystem.
A fantastic concept and program which I used heavily for a long time across multiple Linux distributions.
Be aware that attacks on people, hardware and implementation are the go-to methods for defeating encryption. Some points:
eCryptfs-mount.sh is my helper script.
 I'm using this logo .. because reasons
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(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.
Abandoned by it’s originators, and community-developed.
Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >
https://wordpress.org/plugins/manage-upload-types/
Manage Upload Types enables an administrator to add additional, or modify existing, uploads allowed by WordPress.
I use this to support .svg and .svgz (compressed SVG).
poweroff replaces halt for how I was using it.
I finally took some time to look into why halt wasn’t powering off my computer. This was a very long-standing bug, and it was odd that something so obvious would go unfixed.
Provided by the package “pm-utils”
Software >
(on Wikipedia)
http://www.rdesktop.org/
A remote desktop thing.
I didn’t really take notes on rdesktop itself, though I had significant exposure through some of my projects with it. See /tag/rdesktop. Apparently I didn’t note an rdesktop version.
check out SeamlessRDP mode. It does what I was using xpra for.
