Coding Front: Utilities and Generally Useful Stuff

General tools

• Schedulist, program that generates schedules for web pages. (Off site)
• CD Fangs, a script that rips stuff from CD and encodes the tracks as CD
• HexDump, a simple hex dump program, written in Java. (The zip file has source code and pre-compiled class file) version 1.2, 2001-03-20 Note: needs gnu.getopt.* classes to work...
• Vocoditor - quick and dirty Vorbis comment editor
• squidls.py - Lists the contents of Squid cache. (Cool for annoying the "you don't have a permission to right-click" crowd =)
• sid2ogg turns SIDtunes to .ogg, cuts and tags them automagically. It's harder than it looks!

Shell tools

• randarg, program that prints out its argument list in random order. The crazy thing was that it was written in C and I got it working with not a single segmentation fault! =)
• slowcat, program that concatenates probably as slowly as you will...

Mail tools

Arrgh, slightly-hideous Perl from ancient times. Well, damn, who cares if these are hideous, they work. These are pretty straightforward to use. I hope. Mail me if you don't know how to use them. And above all, use the source. =)

• poppeek - lists the contents of POP3 mailbox. Uses Net::POP3.
• popnuker - lists the crucial information (from, subject, date) of each message in POP3 mailbox, then asks if you want to get rid of it. Very handy, in case you need to deal with a large mailbox full of spam or something =) Uses Net::POP3, too.

Usenet News tools

• Mortar - NoCeM notice generator, for XEmacs.

Admin tools

• myip.pl - shows the network interface's IP address (useful for figuring out your dynamic IP address).

Programming tools

• glade2perlsigs.pl - Takes Glade source in, spits out Perl signal handler stubs for all signals that were mentioned. To be used with Gtk::GladeXML; You don't need this if you're using glade2perl.

Useful shell scripts

These were designed for GNU Bash, but they might work with Bourne shells too. These are under GNU GPL v2 or later - even though most of these aren't really that creative. =)

• muckusers.sh - displays the online MUCK users (to add MUCKs, you need to edit the script). Requires netcat.
• booksync.sh - copies Netscape/Mozilla bookmarks to/from specified host. Uses ssh. (Updated 2000-10-26)
• soundmgr.sh - installs/removes soundcard modules; can be hacked the way you see fit.

Other scripts

• DRICheck - a scriptlet that runs programs if DRI is disabled, displays error dialog if it doesn't. Lame, but efficient. Perl script, requires Gtk module.

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