This page is a collection of bits and pieces that I've written or found useful.

My email address is matt @ ucc.asn.au

I've written a fairly small SSH daemon named Dropbear.

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.

You can get iCalendar exports of the UWA central timetabling with this tricky screenscraping python web-thingmo.

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 quite a while ago.

PBKDF2 written in pure python.

How to wire a cat5 cable

A PC server in a DEC DLT drive chassis. Everything is screwed through holes in the chassis, though at first fan vibration made the disks very slow.

Kismet for Maemo package.

I have a PGP key - please sign it! Also my SSH key.

This page is hosted at the University Computer Club at the University of Western Australia.