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mweb initial release (0.1)

Mweb is a small personal webserver with basic mime capabilities and CGI handling. It was an assignment in my OS class in fall 2000, I decided I’d make it multithreading for fun. It’s tiny, basic, trivial even, but it’s fun … Continue reading

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Status report

Just letting everyone know I’m not dead or anything 🙂 I have several projects on my plate right now (I did a todo list, 18 things, 15 of them programming), so I’ve been a bit busy. I’m hoping I’ll be … Continue reading

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debupdnot 1.2 released

Yes, yet another bugfix. Apperantly I lost a variable in the parser that generates the list of new packages. I re-added the variable and it seems to be working correctly again.

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version 1.1 released

Oops, had a small error in the two scan passes that’d cause failures if new packages were available. All fixed now, please report any bugs to erik@smluc.org 🙂

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debupdnot 1.0 released (initial release)

I administrate a few debian linux machines on the ‘net (and I’m doing it gratis when I should be looking for a job, silly me). One of the things that is kind of tiresome is ssh’ing into these machines, su’ing … Continue reading

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FBSD like du for linux

The -d option in the freebsd du utility is very handy, the linux du has the option, but only with a long name ‘–max-depth’, which is simply too many keypresses. I changed the getopt parse in the standard du to … Continue reading

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‘agent’ public

For those of you who are interested, I scrapped up a quick cgi to collect statistics on what % of what os hits this webserver (math.smsu.edu). The URL is http://math.smsu.edu/cgi-bin/agent. I’ve had a PHP script that did the same thing, … Continue reading

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iview changing name to ‘vp’

I got an e-mail from “iview-multimedia” claiming they have registered the word ‘iview’ as a trademark and would have their lawyer in contact with me if I did not change my softwares name. Instead of researching and verifying, I’m just … Continue reading

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VP 1.5 released

I’m kicking out version 1.5 today. Probably the biggest noticable difference is the name changed. Here’re some of the other differences: fixed fullscreen toggle fixed timer restart bug now uses getopt_long for parsing the command line new ‘sleep’ parameter tells … Continue reading

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x86info for freebsd port

x86info is a neat little program written mostly by Dave Jones (I think) that pulls some basic info about the 80×86 cpu on the machine, using stuff like the cpuid opcode. I thought this was neat on my linux partition, … Continue reading

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