Project Playground
comics
I was bored. So I wrote a comic collector. The inital selection
is just my subjective one, but it's configurable. The configuration
will be memorized in a cookie on your machine (valid for one year),
and you can clone the configuration to other web browsers with a link
that's provided at the bottom of the page.
You can give it a try here, but if
you want to use it regulary, you better find a server of your own.
I don't have the neccessary bandwidth.
Here's the source.
dvdlist
To keep track of my DVDs, Blu-rays and other media, I wrote a small cgi script.
Check it out (with a fictional example list
of movies). Here's the
source and the sample file.
recps
I wrote a program to aid with the recording of MPEG streams, such as live
encodings. It takes a stream from an encoder board and writes it to disc.
The MPEG data format is checked for compliance and bad data is thrown out.
The recording can be split into more than one file, interactively
or, based on the file size, automatically.
It's called recps.
dsproxy
Looking for a program to divert audio to a file,
I came across an abandoned program called
dsproxy.
I tried to get a hold of the original author, but to no avail.
So I made it work on newer kernels and added some useful
functionality, such as a continuus time display. Here's my branch
of dsproxy 0.2.17.
strec
This is a wrapper, written in perl, for dsproxy. It calls
the 'lame' ancoder and the RealPlayer, connects both
via 'dsproxy' and monitors if the recording process
was successful.
strec v. 1.0, a Stream Recorder.
mp3cut
I needed a simple program to cut out segments of an
mp3 audio file. mp3cut
is a very rudimentary tool for this, it cuts mp3 files
on frame boundaries with 1/10th of a second accuracy
and leaves ID3 information intact.
divfrac
divfrac is an
extension of the div() library function.
It provides the quotient, remainder and fractional part
of a 32 bit unsigned integer division.
sudoku
This is a number puzzle. The objective is to fill
a 9 by 9 array with the numbers 1 through 9. Each
number can only appear once in each row, each column,
and each of the 9 segments of 3 by 3 cells.
The program allows you to create your own puzzle
and, once it's solvable, print it as a riddle
with the solution below. Initially you'll see
an array of 9 by 9 cells, each filled with the
numbers 1 through 9. Click on one of the numbers
to select it as the predermined content of that
cell. Manually selected cell numbers are displayed
as big red numbers, derived numbers are black.
If an illegal constellation occurs, an orange
cross is printed in that cell. You can also click
on the red numbers to take back that selection.
You can give it a try here, but if
you want to use it regulary, you better find a server of your own.
I don't have the neccessary CPU power.
Here's the source.
I found out about this puzzle from an
article in the
christian science monitor.
Monitor tests
I have the opportunity to test different video modes on
monitors with a DVI or HDMI input. This usually tells more
than what the manufacturer gives away in the manual.
The first one to be tested was my new LCD monitor,
the Princeton 17D
More monitors might follow.
private
I have some more stuff, but since I consider
it private, it's protected by a password and for Friends only.
If I know you, ask me for it.
