I'm interested in various computer things. This page is a collection of bits and pieces that I've written or found useful, and might be useful for others too.
My email address is matt @ ucc.asn.au
I've written a fairly small SSH daemon named Dropbear.
You can get iCalendar exports of the UWA central timetabling with this tricky screenscraping python web-thingmo.
Bits and pieces of Apple stuff
Want to transfer files through an existing SSH connection? ssh-xfer is the answer!
A thing to calculate display width/height/dpi from resolution/diagonal size.
Bypassing thinkpad passwords and booting broken ones.
All the X launcher programs I could find seemed to use GTK. A quick hack written only with Xlib is thinglaunch.c. It compiles to a 6kB binary, and pops up a box where you can type a program to run.
I was trying to get a custom distro working on a Minitar wireless access point.
There is a patch for mindterm ssh to tunnel through a http proxy server using httptunnel.
Some mirrored programs.
Various wireless stuff, and related downloads.
Some fractal code/images from 1st year CS a while ago.
PBKDF2 written in pure python.
How to wire a cat5 cable
Western Australian daylight saving unix/mac os x zoneinfo files for 2006-2009.
Kismet for Maemo package.
Projects I'm currently interested in include monotone (distributed version control, made particularly cool in conjunction with monotone-viz), and a few other things.
I have a new PGP key - please sign it! Also my SSH key.
This page is hosted at the University Computer Club at the University of Western Australia.