Technical Issues

I've been programming for years, but much of what I spend time doing is single shot ports or debugging that only goes so far. Not all this time is wasted and I've authored some releasable software. I did the initial port of the Hayes ESP to NetBSD, this code has made it into both FreeBSD and Linux. I also authored the lastlogin utility in the NetBSD release 1.2 as well as disk statistics modifications for the userland utilities.

  • Perl Fnet Client 1.4 - client software for the Fnet/ICB chat system in perl5 for Unix, Mac, and Windows.

  • Apache Proxy Patches 1.0 - patches to Apache 1.3.x proxy module to allow the systematic denial of advertisement banners. (See Banning Banner Ads using a Proxy).

  • Perl Forum Client 1.0 - perl client software for the UCSC forum system.

  • Yow! I Found Jane Fonda's Nighty! - A version of the legendary Zippy the Pinhead Yow! file parser in perl. Useful for picking random lines from text files. Also useful for random pickup lines.

  • Omarspeak 1.0 - Another annoying lexical translator, this one reading like a guy named Omar from UCSC in 1993. Back then, jive and valspeak were pretty funny and novel.

  • SpreadSheet Scan 1.0 - Some diagnostic code I wrote during the Quattro Pro for Windows 1.0 project while I was at Borland. This code can parse and edit WB1, WK1, WKS, and most older spreadsheet formats. I primarily used this tool to identify bugs in the translation of WB1 and WB2 format files.

    • NetBSD Help

    How to be a PPP client under NetBSD
    About COM ports under NetBSD
    NetBSD Disk Partitioning Info
    NetBSD Audio

    NetBSD Benchmarks

    lmbench RAM benchmarks under NetBSD
    NetBSD Disk Benchmarks

    Misc Info

    ISDN SUCKS
    Monitor Gamma Test
    Random Tools
    Banning Banner Ads using a Proxy