anders.com: projects

Projects at Anders.com

Legit
- SRV / NAPTR generic record builder
  A generic record builder for non-nativly supported record types in tinydns, part of the djbdns nameserver.
- Blog Quote
  Small popup of near realtime stock quotes in a web page through CSS and javascript.
- Configuring Tomcat
  Sample configuration files for the notoriously finniky Apache Tomcat servlet environment.
- thermostat-graph
  RRDTool based graphing for IP enabled Thermostats.
- Form Post Hijacking
  What "Form Post Hijacking" is, why spammers hijack forms and what you can do about it.
- JustHumans.com
  A form spam elimination solution. OK, it's not part of this site, but I made it and it is legit.
Older but still important
- webgallery
  Perl script to quickly create a thumbnail webpage of an images directory.
- panacea
  A PostgreSQL schema for recording web access information typically from Apache.
- Daily Bulletin
  A small content management system in active production at The Stony Brook School.
- Merits
  A student merit / demerit tracking system for boarding schools.
- Mock Market
  A web driven stock market simulation game that uses prices from the live stock market.
- Systems Administration Notes
  Unorganized notes primarily from Linux systems administration experience.
  - PostgreSQL Notes
    Crib sheet on quickly setting up postgres and some comments on performance tuning.
  - Reverse Classless Delegations with tinydns
    Example of how to make tinydns serve a reverse classless name delegation.
  - Netmask Chart
    Helpfull chart to look up netmasks.
  - RTP Payload Types
    Chart to look up RTP payload codecs.
- 1030N Set-top Box
  Experiences getting Linux running on a box with no moving parts featured on Slashdot.
Out of Date
- Linux Netatalk HOWTO
  A fairly popular guide covering Linux installation of the Appletalk fileserver.
- Route66
  A database driven car MP3 player featured on the front cover of Maximum Linux magazine in January 2001.
- JavaScript archive
  Old JavaScript samples mostly for the old way of doing DHTML in Explorer. Very outdated.

Once to every man and nation,
comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
for the good or evil side;
Some great cause,
some great decision,
offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever,
'twixt that darkness and that light.

Once to Every Man and Nation.mp3
~ James R. Lowell - 1845

"In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our despair, against our will comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

~ Aeschylus

"Some men see things as they are and ask 'Why?'. I dream of things things that never were and ask 'Why not?'"

~ RFK

"In dreams begin responsibilities."

~ U2

"... we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard!"

~ JFK - on sending man to the moon

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