software

OpenBSD

2014-10-22

BSD distributions, freeware, open-source software, security, software

BSD > BSD distributions >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.openbsd.org/

Security-centric BSD

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Open Cubic Player

2014-09-09

abandoned, audio playing software, audio software, commandline software, dead, DOS software, freeware, glances, Linux software, loved, media software, open-source software, reviews, SID software, software, todo

Software >

https://www.cubic.org/player/

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.

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Btrfs

2014-08-09

abandoned, commandline software, dead, file systems, freeware, Linux software, loved, misadventures, open-source software, reviews, software, utilities

I'm using this logo .. because reasons

(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.
Abandoned by it’s originators, and community-developed.

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systemd

2014-08-08

commandline software, disliked, evil, freeware, glances, init, Linux software, open-source software, security, software, todo, utilities

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://systemd.io/

An init system.. and more.

systemd is a pox on Linux. It has huge amount of dependencies. As it’s critical to a distribution, and it’s folding in a whole lot of code, it’s widely considered unnecessary bloat and a point of attack.

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SpaceFM

2014-08-08

desktop managers, file managers, freeware, GTK+ software, GUI software, liked, Linux software, live, open-source software, reviews, software, todo

Software > File managers >

(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+.

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Manage Upload Types

2014-08-07

dead, freeware, glances, loved, software, software with Subversion repositories, this website, WordPress plugins

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).

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W3 Total Cache

2014-08-07

dead, evil, freeware, glances, software, this website, todo, WordPress plugins

https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
https://www.boldgrid.com/w3-total-cache/

THIS PLUGIN IS DESIGNED TO BRICK YOUR WEBSITE WHEN YOU UNINSTALL IT!!

An Optimization framework designed to improve user experience and page speed.

I’m not currently using it, because as I recall I had issues with this and BlogText.

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Table of Contents Plus

2014-08-07

dead, freeware, glances, software, WordPress plugins

https://wordpress.org/plugins/table-of-contents-plus/
https://dublue.com/plugins/toc/

When tested, it was not compatible with BlogText. It renders items with a ” ¶” appended, because BlogText changes sections to add that. I didn’t investigate further.

I ended up going with BlogText‘s simple [[[TOC]]] feature.

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