Creatures In My Head

DVD Drive Repair is a useful application that allows you to restore your DVD (Optical) Drive if missing from Windows. In some instances, it can also help when certain applications do not recognize your drive; mostly when your computer encountered a hardware problem or a virus attack that prevents... Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

Registry Explorer can be used to replace window's regedit. This software takes integration with windows to a new level. It is based on "shell extension" technology. After installing the software, your desktop will contain a new item named "Registry", that you can use to explore your registry... Platforms: Windows

SVG::Graph is a Perl module to visualize your data in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. SYNOPSIS use SVG::Graph; use SVG::Graph::Data; use SVG::Graph::Data::Datum; #create a new SVG document to plot in... my $graph = SVG::Graph->new(width=>600,height=>600,margin=>30); #and create... Platforms: *nix

khdapsmon is a monitor primarily for the Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS) found in IBM ThinkPads. Its primary interface is a system tray icon that indicates whether the queue is frozen or not on the selected hard disk device. This is similar to the tray icon found on the... Platforms: *nix

DB::Appgen is a Perl interface which includes both function oriented and object oriented interfaces to manipulate data in APPGEN Custom Suite databases. All this was made in about four hours including reading perlxstut manpage, so do not expect something pretty. Although it appears to be... Platforms: *nix

rzip is a compression program, similar in functionality to bzip2 or gzip, but able to take advantage long distance redundencies in files, which can sometimes allow rzip to produce much better compression ratios than other programs. The original idea behind rzip is described in my PhD thesis... Platforms: *nix

Argv is a Perl module that provides an OO interface to an arg vector. SYNOPSIS use Argv; # A roundabout way of getting perls version. my $pl = Argv->new(qw(perl -v)); $pl->exec; # Run /bin/cat, showing how to provide "predigested" options. Argv->new(/bin/cat, [qw(-u -n)],... Platforms: *nix

TkTag is a Tk/Perl application that allows the user to edit and modify ID3 headers in mp3 files. In addition to editing and modifying tags manually, you can also set up input and output masks to either create tags from filenames, or rename files based on tag fields. First of all, the company... Platforms: *nix

smspasswd software provides two factor authentication via cell phone short message service (SMS). The reason I wrote this was because of all the pesky SSH brute force attacks, which continue to build in numbers. I didn’t want to waste money and time on using tokens because the few people who... Platforms: *nix

GCJ::Cni::Examples is a Perl module with examples of how to use GCJs CNI interface to write Perl Modules in Java. EXAMPLES Writing Treaded modules in Java One benefit of using GCJ is that it takes advantage of POSIX threading. This is nice since Perls threading model is, shall we say, less... Platforms: *nix

pingx is utility that uses the XNoOp(3x) call to see how fast your connection to your X server. Wonder whether your X performance is slower in a SSH tunnel? pingx can give you hard numbers so you can find out. It has an option to print out some details about the X server as well. Its also useful... Platforms: *nix

SBaGen generates sounds that give an altered state of consciousness. The theory behind binaural beats is that if you apply slightly different frequency sine waves to each ear, a beating affect is created in the brain itself, due to the brains internal wiring. If, in the presence of these tones,... Platforms: *nix

Devel::TraceFuncs is a Perl module with trace function calls as they happen. SYNOPSIS Usage: require Devel::TraceFuncs; max_trace_depth 5; trace_file "foo.out"; trace_file $file_handle; sub foo { IN(my $f, "a message"); DEBUG "hellooo!"; } Devel::TraceFuncs provides utilities to... Platforms: *nix

ltxindex is a LaTeX package to typeset indices with GNUs Texindex. WARNING!!! This code is fairly experimental. ltxindex.sty provides a simple package to produce indices with texindex instead of makeindex. In my experience, texindex is fairly simpler to use. If you dont need anything fancy,... Platforms: *nix

Ticketsmith project is an all-in-one, Web-based email support ticket system. Messages sent to your support email list are inserted into a database and cataloged for easy viewing on the Web. Replies, both staff and customer, are also cataloged, even though your customer uses a regular mail... Platforms: *nix

NEsGUI is a peer-to-peer file sharing application written by Neill Miller in GTK+ which utilizes the NEshare library.NEsGUI is a Napster like application. Its one of the simplest and least creative applications utilizing the NEshare peer-to-peer file sharing library. I started writing NEshare... Platforms: *nix

PHKP is an implementation of the OpenPGP HTTP Keyserver Protocol (HKP) in PHP. It allows people to serve a PGP keyserver on most webservers, provided that the webserver has GnuPG and PHP with exec() enabled. Searching, requesting and submitting (optional) of keys are all supported. The... Platforms: *nix

Depends project is a generic dependency tracker in C++. The educational purpose of Depends Much of Depends is its documentation: it explains in much detail how the dependency tracker is implemented and should be clear enough for any programmer to understand both how it is implemented and how... Platforms: *nix

Japha project is an effort to implement the major functionality of the Java library in PHP. The functionality captured in the JPI includes I/O, utility classes such as data structures, Web service architecture, and reflection classes, lang classes for implementing a standardized API, bean... Platforms: *nix

tffs is a FUSE driver that allows you to mount a hard disk from a T*PFIELD digital satellite receiver to a directory in your file system tree. With tffs you can mount a hard disk from a T*PFIELD digital satellite receiver to a directory in your file system tree. Any program can access the... Platforms: *nix