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Leatrix Latency Fix

2016-02-10

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Disambiguation: Leatrix Plus

Improving latency on Windows >

https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html
https://mega.nz/file/oXgQAKKC#AjY7F6kXcEVzYXdOQqQhnMBclmviCOlA1AOFl8QXkYg ^[ 1 ] was leatrix.com/leatrix-latency-fix

Leatrix Latency Fix will reduce your online gaming latency significantly by increasing the frequency of TCP acknowledgements sent to the game server. For the technically minded, this is a program which will modify TCPAckFrequency.

Abandoned – Officially abandoned

Footnotes[+]

^ 1	was leatrix.com/leatrix-latency-fix

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TODO – add my notes, and scripts

Git >

Provides a reasonable environment for working with Git while trapped on Windows. A console window with Bash, various everyday linux console applications, and git.

I loved it, and used it regularly for sane scripting when trapped on Windows, via bash, as well as for git itself.

I replaced it with Cygwin/Babun.

Not related to Windows Subsystem for Linux.

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Windows 10 symlinks

2016-01-29

HOWTO, shell scripting, todo, Windows, Windows 10

Windows 10 >

Symlinks, variously called junctions, hardpoints and whatever else, exist on Windows. On Linux, it is simply ln.

These are my notes for Windows 10.

Note that if you want to do any of this in a .cmd file, then you will need to elevate permissions. See Running a batch file as administrator on Windows 10.

Git on Windows has ln, but it does not work.
Babun supports it.
- Maybe this means Cygwin does, too.

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Windows 10

2015-06-01

dead, GUI software, Microsoft software, operating systems, proprietary software, reviews, software, Windows, Windows 10, Windows distributions

Operating Systems > Microsoft > Windows >

(on Wikipedia)
(download)
was microsoft.com/en-us/windows/features

Released 2018-08-14

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Microsoft terms changing, with interpretation

2014-07-23

evil, glances, intelligence, Microsoft, my writing, Windows, writing

Microsoft >

Oh hey, Microsoft changed some of their legalese. Let’s interpret.

Just some random brainfart.

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Windows 8.1

2013-12-01

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Windows >
(on Wikipedia)

Released 2013-10-17

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World of Warcraft on Windows, performance improvements

2013-06-02

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World of Warcraft >

Windows-specific notes on World of Warcraft performance improvements.

These notes were written, I believe, when playing with World of Warcraft on Windows XP.

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Linux distribution booting from a USB drive which has a Windows-viewable partition

2011-06-25

HOWTO, Linux, USB hardware, Windows

Linux >
Hardware > USB >

Goal:

Given a USB stick.
Be able to boot a Linux distribution.
Be able to view a separate partition.
Have Windows not be confused about the Linux partition.

Instructions taken from Arch Linux‘s advice. (Original source)

Partition Alignment

2011-06-20

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Computers > Data, Files > Storage >

update 2 – this is basically pointless with contemporary hardware and software. Just use the defaults for something like cgdisk or GParted:

https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-specify-partition-alignment

Use MiB alignment for modern operating systems.
…

The Cylinder/Head/Sector values reported by modern disk devices no longer have a direct physical relationship to the data stored on the disk device. Hence it is no longer valid to use this alignment setting to achieve enhanced performance.

update: cgdisk, when beginning with a new partition table, when creating the first partition, automatically creates a small empty partition before it, and thus is said to align everything properly. I haven’t double-checked this.

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Steady State

2011-02-07

archivism, freeware, proprietary software, reviews, security, software, utilities, Windows, Windows software

This is the notion of “freezing” Windows in time, such that it can work as-expected but be “rolled back” to a previous state.

Software (Security) >

https://web.archive.org/*/social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=windowssteadystate

I’m also lumping similar projects into this page, for reference.

spiralofhope

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Partition Alignment

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