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Play/Pause Applescript

iTunes switches from "paused" to "stopped" at the slightest excuse. If you have a play/pause button or other control using Applescript to start/stop iTunes, and use it when you've got a different playlist displayed, iTunes will more likely than not end up playing the displayed playlist when you hit the button again to resume.

This script saves the current track and position when you pause playback, and goes back there if the player is stopped when you hit it again to resume.

OSX2X

OSX2X for Panther seems to have gone walkabout. I built this from the source tree on opendarwin.org. There's also a 2.3 version for Tiger that's a Universal binary at Softpedia.

Blue Skies

Blue skies, sunshine, clouds, screensaver, images...

Divider

Nice algorithm, pretty pictures...

Universal Unicode Converter

Well, kinda universal...

amber

Amber light ... defer suspicious SMTP connections for qmail.

setpoof.tcl

Set your dock poof, safely.

Anagrams

anisometric creationism miscreation ramisection reactionism

PrefBoy

Check your Mac OS X Preferences.

MediaDockNew

An unofficial modified version of MediaDock with a more "dockish" look and fixed resize code so pinning works properly. Doubleclick to open folders in finder, right-click to play music, configure MediaDock. Source only.

doubleConfig.

Configure doubleCommand.

View DB.

A quicky Tcl/Tk script to stick on the end of a UNIX command line to browse the output more conveniently.

Matrix

A dumb quicky program to list files in "matrix" style.

rot.c

An even dumber program to list files. This is the first program I ever had posted to Usenet, and has the bug that Chris Torek noticed when he posted it for me fixed.

Update: I've added strategic delays (see definitions of SLEEP and USLEEP) so you can watch it update the way it used to on vt100s. If tweaking USLEEP doesn't do anything, set it to 0 and tweak SLEEP and INSOMNIA instead.

detach

Runs a command in a whole new process group. Once you have detached a process, you can airmail your terminal to Brazil. It won't care.

Browser

A Tcl/Tk mini file browser, inspired by the Amiga workbench.

Utilib

Software components for C: file scanning and "password" file parsing, variable length strings and arrays, symbol tables, and memory checked malloc. These routines were originally written for converting shell scripts to C quickly, but they work equally well for speeding up the translation of Tcl and Perl.

PPS

Postscript pretty printer, text to PS conversion written primarily in Postscript. The output is prettier than most of the other Postscript pretty-printers I've seen, both in terms of the final result and the generated code, which makes it a lot easier to customize.

plugdaemon

Firewall proxy daemon: dumb point to point plug, like plug-gw, with load balancing.

Basilisk II and U. A. E. config file editors.

Quick dumb preference editors for UAE-style config files as used in UAE and Basilisk II. Require fewer layers of GNU/Linux libraries than the native tools.

vt100.tar

Back in the early '80s finding a PC terminal program that would deal with VMS and VAX software was tough, so I wrote one. Later on I turned it into a filter that would run on Xenix-286 and translate the output of a vt100 into whatever your terminal could handle. This is not the final version (that's lost), but it works.

(I have made one change to this, converting from the System III "termio" calls to get the speed to modern "termios" calls)

wblander.lha

An Amiga program that Karl Lehenbauer and I wrote for the BADGE killer demo contest. If you have an Amiga (or UAE) it's a cute hack.