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ttmrichter I'll drink to that…
China

I'm a disturbed and disturbing Canadian software geek-turned English teacher-turned father-turned back to (part-time) software geek living, to my surprise, in the People's Republic of China.

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Software reviews
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qbittorrent
"This replaces transmission on every level (supports proxies!)."
5
acidrip
"Works, works relatively easily, and has all the features I (a non-pro) need."
4
gaupol
"I've tried a lot of these tools. This one is the only one that was consistently functional."
5
empathy
"Doesn't support proxying and is thus useless to me."
2
slimrat
"Doesn't do anything except change icons into cryptic symbols. Actual downloading never happens. No assistance is given to set it up or make it work. Typical lousy F/OSS crap. "It worked for me!""
1
tucan
"Fails right out of the box. Services activated: check. Service support updated automagically: check. Links for download checked: check. Downloads start ever: nope. Downloads even get listed in the main window: not a chance. This is a dog."
1
transmission
"Overall I like this. Being able to support the "udp://blahblahblah" URLs for trackers, however, would get me to bump it up to five stars."
4
simh
"Any fans of Big Iron™ should get a kick out of SIMH. I've used it to relive my student years on PDP-8 and PDP-11 machines running a variety of systems (including my all-time favourite: RSTS/E)."
5
opera
"As a browser it's great and would be my choice of browser but for one slight problem: the company steadfastly refuses to support SOCKS5 proxies so the package is 100% useless to me, seeing as I use a SOCKS5 proxy to circumvent China's so-called Great Firewall™."
3