Linux Software

Some fun projects:

Password generator written in perl. Creates a strong, pronounceable password by alternating random consonants and vowels. Creates a very strong password that is easy to remember. I am in the process of adding some more features and may be converting it to C or C++ for inclusion to a linux GUI. If someone wants help with Java, let me know.

[ webtool ]

The webtool is an http based web service designed to integrate the usefulness of many common reference sites on the web into a single search tool.

[ php-chat ]

Just as it sounds, php-chat is a php scripted chat program. Originally designed for intranet collaboration, it is also useful in some customer support applications as well. Supported platforms include any webserver running php ver 4.0 and up.

[ Proposed "Modified MIT License" ]

I have been working long and hard on much of the free software you see mentioned below. I have not been satisfied with other existing open source licenses out there. I used freely available sourcecode to build these projects and they were meant to run on operating systems that provide this available sourcecode. Without it, these programs would not have been written. Therefore, I have proposed the "Modified MIT License".

[ Pine-Tools ]

A command line contact management utility which retrieves extended contact information stored in the PINE addressbook. Searching by name and alias is supported. Exporting your addressbook to an XML file or a Palm™ readable delimited text file is supported as well. You can even use your pine addressbook to store multiple phone numbers, URL's and instant messenger nick's!

Visit the Pine-Tools project page at SourceForge.net
See it on Freshmeat.net

[ NS-Killer Epplet ]

An Enlightenment Epplet which relieves my stress when Netscape "hangs" on my computer. It plays a smashing sound as it kills all netscape processes, removes any lockfile and restarts netscape.

[ DefCon Epplet ]

An Enlightenment Epplet which counts down your free processor cycles in the style of the movie War Games. This was originally written by Bryan Olmstead and I have made several modifications which I think add to the fun! =)

See screenshots on the DefCon project page
See it on Freshmeat.net or visit Bryan's site.

[ Obscure Code! ]

Fun with obscurity!

Here is some code I abused from Larry Wall, the creator and all-knowing guru of perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl
@a=(Hfbebdift,Tibolmfttoftt,
Fsvtusbujpo);$b="Jfe Rfdpse"
; $b  =~  y/b-z/a-z/ ; $c =
" Tif " . @a . " hsfbu sfx".
"bset pg b qsphsbnnfs".":\n"
; $c  =~  y/b-z/a-z/ ; print
"\n\n$c "; for ( $i=0; $i<@a
;$i++){$a[$i]=~ y/b-y/a-z/ ; 
if ( $a[$i] eq $a[-1] && 1 )
{ print "and $a[$i]" . "\. " 
; } else {  print "$a[$i], " 
; } }print"\n\t\t--$b\n\n" ;

This obscure piece of code tells you what is does at the end, but how does it get there?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w #
use strict ; my  ( #
$bad_os,$there_joe #
) =(($^O!~ m/l  in #
u x/ix), getpwuid( #
$<));my $poor_soul #
="U" . "SE L"."IN" #
."UX" ."\! "."\n"; #
print "Hello, "  . #
$there_joe .". Yo" #
."u are on $^O\n"; #
warn               #
   $poor_soul      #
       if $bad_os; #
####################
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