I wrote a Linux CLI tool to play audio CDs. It has since been updated and improved by many others, and is still distributed with current Ubuntu releases.
Flickr badges were a simple way to include a selection of Flickr pictures on your web page, but they’ve been deprecated for a while, so I wrote a simple replacement that has only the features I needed for my web site. It uses Flickr’s API and jQuery.
A Chef cookbook we use to configure a cloud-hosted internal BIND server. We use this to forward (or slave) internal domains to the appropriate on-premises name servers, while maintaining internal to AWS view of other domains and avoiding any unnecessary dependencies on on-premises name servers.
See also “Resolving AWS DNS Issues” Justin Franks’ Gracenote Tech Blog post about how his team deploys a DNS service in AWS using this cookbook.
A Java program for rendering a tartan from a list of colors and thread counts, together with a CGI-based database for browsing tartans by name.
Here are some really old programs I’ve written for class or to amuse myself. Please feel free to use and/or distribute any of the following files. If you were nice, you’d let me know if you found it useful.
You may accurately infer that the value of much of the following is diminished by its age.
Convert a MS Windows 3.1 Calendar file to human readable text.
3D Game of Life shell for old Irises that I wrote for George Francis’s Spring 1992 Math 198 class. With instructions.
A Perl script to create graphs that answer, roughly, “how well must I do on the remaining tests to pass this class, to get an A, etc.” See an example and more.
In the Spring of 1999, I gave a Topics in Unix Seminar at the Berkeley Department of Mathematics. These notes focused around Unix CLI usage: What is Unix? and Cshrc and Login files.
Calculus Courseware for MATLAB
William Stein and I rewrote the software used for Berkeley’s M-series calculus classes, updating code by Alex Gottlieb and Julie Mitchell. In addition to updating the modules for MATLAB 5.2, we completely rewrote the user interface, making it more attractive, more consistent, much easier to use, and generally more robust.
Covered by this license.
Daemon to monitor a parallel port device interface board as described in the January 1993 issue of Computer Craft, “Recycling Old Computers” by Raymond H. Green.
An unofficial version of Eric S. Raymond’s speaker driver as a loadable device driver for Linux 2.0 and newer. Also, speaker-linux-1.1.tar.gz for Linux 1.1.
A very simple program for generating city names which sound like Chicago suburbs. Try it online.
Simple program to interpret data on World Library CD-ROMs, such as the Electronic Home Library, Library of the Future, etc.
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