TODO – add patch notes
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Software > Web browsers >
(on Wikipedia)
http://links.twibright.com/
A fast, open source, cross-platform Web browser based on the Links web browser.
Where Lynx is the standard console web browser for most Linux distributions and is complete shit, Links is fucking awesome.
I had used this for some time but abandoned it for a while. I’ll try it again eventually.
aka Links2
http://xpertmud.sourceforge.net/
Alpha. Very visually appealing. Languages: Perl, Python, (Ruby “soon”, though they seem apathetic), possibly JavaScript later.
Abandoned: As of 2020-05-14, not updated since 2004-03-30.
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Software > PHP >
Bundled server software >
Apache PHP MySQL PhpMyAdmin bundled for Windows.
This ran my earlier content management system for a while. I don’t recall if it was the first bundled server stack that I used.
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/
Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux
I really liked it but I ultimately didn’t really bother with it.
Software >
https://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptlanmon
A network monitoring tool.
Abandoned:
2022-07-10 – Joe Winett has stopped maintenance.
Not to be mistaken for Thunderbirds – (1965 show)
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
A multi-OS email client.
POP3, IMAP, SMTP, NNTP, LDAP, SSL/TLS, OpenPGP, S/MIME, filters, multiple identities, bayesian spam filters.
Excellent, but awfully slow.
Shares some code with Firefox
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/diablo-ii [ 1 ] was https://www.blizzard.com/games/d2/, https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/games/d2/
2016-12-25 – Blizzard still hasn’t abandoned it yet.
It’s ugly to an extreme, and offensive to my eyes to even look at it. The controls are awkward and hard on my mouse hand.
Properly titled Diablo II
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.guildwars.com/en/
I really thought Guild Wars had it all when I learned of it. I went out and found all of the resources i could, and noted all the specs and rumours and whatnot. I ended up becoming a beta tester for it and everything.
Sadly, during gameplay I was very severely disappointed and walked away. I went back to try it a second time and what I considered to be very serious and obvious issues were not and apparently would not be addressed. This topic only remains for amusement’s sake, as a testament to my ability to waste huge amounts of time for nothing.
Followed by Guild Wars 2 – (2012 game)
Software > Web browsers >
(on Wikipedia)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/browsers.html
The problem with the Mozilla of browsers is that decent functionality isn’t included out of the box. This is what drove me away from Windows and I don’t want to waste my life configuring things anymore.. so I can’t really stand this browser.
This project is dead – see SeaMonkey.
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
A ubiquitous file compression program.
