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- gr_wwwstat
gr_wwwstat is a package that I wrote after feeling
a great deal of frustration trying to make gwstat
work (which is futile--believe me). It was used quite
well at the GIS Facility for generating their
web
server usage graphs. Visit the
gr_wwwstat
homepage for more information.
- ToyChest
ToyChest is currently working quite well. I have been using
it for months on my machine (I did have it working well
before my previous deadline of May 1998). However, there
are still a few things I need to take care of that I'm not
sure how to handle, but I see that
O'Reilly and Associates is
publishing just the book I need to finish it up and start
distributing it to the world at large.
- Virtual Black Sun
This past semester (Spring 1998), I took a class on virtual
reality and have started working with the VR group here at
Iowa State. For this class, we had to do a big (at least
mine is big--6800+ lines and growing) project, and I chose
to attempt to build a virtual representation of the Black
Sun from Neal Stephenson's wonderful novel Snow Crash.
As part of the project, I wrote a
detailed paper describing
how it worked and the software abstraction that I implemented
in the hopes of making my life easier.
- Kerberized xdm(1) with PV-like login
options
For as long as I have run free versions of UNIX for i386,
I have wanted to be able to have tickets granted to me at
login as on Project Vincent workstations. It allows the
Zephyr WindowGram client to be started automatically at
login (as well as the possibility for doing similar things).
Finally I got patches to xdm(1) that do
Kerberos IV authentication! Once I had those, I decided I
needed more--specifically, the login options that are used
on Project Vincent. I have this all working now. This is
after losing my patches on a Jaz disk that went bad after
not being used all summer (HUH?!?).
My new implementation is a lot cleaner and simpler, and the
icky string manipulations to separate the arguments are
done in their own function. Working at the Naval Research
Laboratory even got me some experience with Imake (which is
really simple to use) so one of the four desired options can
be chosen at compile time:
- Have both Kerberos IV authentication and login
options.
- Have only Kerberos IV authentication (default).
- Have only login options.
- Have neither authentication nor login options.
I currently have patches for the version of xdm(1)
distributed with XFree86 versions 3.3.6 and 4.0. Just
let me know if you
would like them, and I will give you the lowdown on how
it all works.
- Zephyr WindowGram Client description file
After spending quite a while using other people's Zephyr
WindowGram Client (zwgc) description files, I decided I
should write my own so that the code wouldn't be so
messy and patchy, and it would behave the way I wanted it
to. That was quite a while ago (I finished the first
version of it in January 1996). Now I plan on writing a
completely new one from scratch. I have lots of ideas,
and now that I'll be here for a while longer in graduate
school, I have time. For now, refer to my
online HTML documentation
for the current version.
Long Past (i.e., Failed):
- RealBBS ISCA Client
In mid-1997, my friend Chris and I got totally fed up with
the ISCA clients out there. We were inspired to create our
own with features that no other client programs have, but
it just never happened. Its current state seems to be
dead which is really too bad because we had a lot of really
good ideas. Of course, ISCA is probably long dead, so it's
all moot.
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