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.

PuTTY and pscp.

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.