Tools

Software and scripts we have written in the past.

Sony RM-X2S XMMS plugin. Use a Sony Joystick from car radios with XMMS.

Win-O-Matic an OpenGL program to announce winners of competitions.

scsiadd 1.96 lets you add and remove scsi devices from the Linux scsi subsystem on the fly. See the README and manpage for further details.
If you like to do it graphical you can try scsiaddgui. If your system lacks the /proc/scsi/scsi file you have to enable the following option in your kernel configuration: Device Drivers->SCSI device support->legacy /proc/scsi/ support.

cbmfs - a fuse filesystem to read Commodore 8-bit computer floppy images like .d64 and .d81. Those images can be mounted on an operating system with the fuse wrapper (for example linux) and files on the disk image can be accessed with your used tools.

qtpod a GUI to control a Line6 POD 2.0 or POD Pro guitar effects processor.

killcr will search through your directory recursivly and remove all DOS-style line feeds (\r\n) from your text files. It has a built in binary file check and file suffix check. Includes killws to strip traling whitespace from each line and addcr which adds DOS-style line feeds.

dumphex 0.5 prints files and stdin in hex mode with arbitrary bytes per row. Includes a head and tail mode.

lowerall a perl script, which will convert every file- and directoryname to lowercase, recursing through the subdirectories.

truncate a small c program which truncates your files to a specified length. For further details see the man page.

dojstream a C++ iostream compatible library.

pdimport a Windows CE application which imports contacts and calendar information into you Pocket PC from xml files.

apetag a command line program to extract APE Tags from a file.

mp3recode.pl a perl script to encode audio data to mp3. Currently handles .wav, .mpc, .ogg, .wma and .mp3 input files. ID3V1 tags are preserved whenever possible. If you want to handle .mpc files, please download apetag (above) as well.

Two perl scripts for m3u to pls conversion and vice versa. Use either m3u2pls or pls2m3u.

gnomecomp is a shell script to compile Gnome 2.12 from sources. The first invocation should be sh gnomecomp -get which will download all needed files. If compilation aborts you can fix any errors and restart compilation with sh gnomecomp.Rant to the GNOME maintainers: I can't understand why you're not able to make a source download directoriy which contains all needed software. With every GNOME release at least one software is missing on the official ftp servers.

buildapache is a shell script to build an Apache 1.3.x web server together with modperl, Embperl, SSL and php 4.x.

dojhttpd is a http server that only generates one html page. It use this simple perl script when I make maintainance on my main http server so users are informed the web service is down. This program is intended to be started from inetd. Use the following inetd.conf line: www stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/dojhttpd.

stripfilename will rename files so they should be easy usable with command line tools.

rndls will search for files in directories given to the command line and print an arbitrary number of random files to stdout.

A windows port of the the X11 program makedepend and a compiles GNU make for Windows.

mount.nrg is a shell script to mount Nero Burning ROM images (.nrg) via the loopback device as iso9660 volumes on linux.

beeper is a shell script which will beep every second forever. I use this after some long compile jobs to indicate it has finished ("make ; beeper").

pgm2cip.cpp is a small C++ program to convert grayscale images into the cip format used by Cisco's VOIP phones. Together with pgm2cip.sh which used ImageMagick's convert program you can convert any image to a cip. Currently the 2bit grayscale cip format is supported.

t64dump dumps all files contained in a t64 file and optionally converts the t64 into a d64.

sqlite3_pcre.c contains a function for SQLite 3 which lets you match string with regular expressions. The PCRE library is used which provides perl5 like regular expressions for C.
Example:

create table test ( s text );
insert into test values('this is a test');
insert into test values('foobar');
select * from test where pcre('i', s) > 0;
-- will return the row with 'this is a test'

sample2ps tools contains program to convert samples to postscript in various formats.

multimidicast sends and receives MIDI from Alsa sequencers over network.

Cisco XML Services for VoIP phones.

wavinfo will display the structure and chunk info of wav files.

wavshaper can amplify a .wav file to resemble the siluette of a picture.

pas2ps a port of the pascal to postscript compiler by Dulith Herath.

morkdump will dump the contents of files in the mozilla mork db format.

htmltable2latex.pm is a perl module to convert html tables to LaTeX code.

poor man's lint as a g++ wrapper.

pkg-plist.sh is a shell script to help in writing the pkg-plist file for FreeBSD ports.

dechexoct.c is a c program to convert numbers between 4 different base systems.

If you are annoyed by endless streams of "Re: Re: Re:" in your email subjects and you use procmail to filter your mails, here's a small mail filter written in perl to fix your subject lines: fixreaw.pl. It will cope with the german variant of "AW" as well. Use it in your .procmailrc with a recipe like this:
:0 f
| /usr/bin/fixreaw.pl

sshhackfilter is my perl script to set Linux Firewall (iptables) rules for SSH brute force login attempts.

dns_inc_serial is a small C program to increase the serial number in DNS zone files. A similar program is zsu.

fix_libtool_la a shell script which will change the location of libtool .la files in all your .la files on your harddisk. This comes handy when you have installed or moved a library and libtool now complains it can't find it anymore.

cmi a shell script which will configure, make and install a program from its source archive. If you have a .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz archive getting the program up and running is a easy as typing cmi coolsoftware-1.3.tar.bz2. You can leave out the archive filename and run the script from the source directory. It will generate any missing autoconf script by running an autogen.sh if present.

A socket connect wrapper library which is used to lower the default system connect() timeout.