Software Resources

My Source Archives

I have an archive of free tools that I have built for myself which may be useful to others.

How to do technical support

My thoughts on how to keep a customer happy on a difficult support problem.

Database Xcessory

Tips for using my favorite Motif database application builder.

Inserting the Euro character into a postscript font

I don't have the pages up yet. Contact me for more info

HTML Hints and Tips

I collect HTML that I find and try to package it for reuse.

Hacking Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

Notes on hacking Mozilla Firefox keyboard shortcuts without rebuilding from source.

The household Audrey

Notes about my efforts to make a 3Com Audrey into a useful kitchen appliance

Dr. Sluggo's Torture Chamber

This was a game I wrote with some friends in my youth. What I find totally amazing is that I never preserved this bit of code, and yet, more than 25 years later, my friend found it on a web site (bitsavers.org). We have no idea how they got hold of it. Before you think I'm a sick bastard, let me point out that this was done by teenage boys in the era of political incorrectness. It's pretty tame by those standards. I'm much more embarrassed about the quality of the code - Basic... <shudder/>

Using IBM's XML4J 1.x with network input streams (as in a java servlet)

XML4J does not do this very well, and I needed it to. Here's how.

Links

• Richard Gabriel's papers
• The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development
  Abstract: Increasingly incompetent developers are creeping their way into important projects. Considering that most good programmers are pretty bad at security, bad programmers with roles in important projects are guaranteed to doom the world to oblivion. The author feels that a step towards washing himself clean of responsibility is by writing this document. Checking your memcpy() and malloc() calls have been lectured to death. It's not working. The approach used by this document is to instead shame developers into producing better systems. Enjoy.

• Coad/Component models in Color
• Configuration Management Today

• Copeland & Haemer's ``Work'' Columns
• Toolman
• One Guy Coding

• Phil's PDP-10 History
• The Obsolete Computer Museum
• Multicians - the Multics home

• - The nmap security scanner
• Firewalls and related
• Is that a real virus or just a hoax?
• CERT
• CIAC - Computer Incident Advisory Capability   -   CIAC Hoaxbusters
• SANS
• NIPC National Infrastructure Protection Center
• NIST Computer Security Resource Center
• CERIAS - Perdue/Spafford's research project
• Netscape Advisories
• Security Focus - Bugtraq
• Attrition - white hat list of exploits
• AntiOnline
• Cult of the Dead Cow   -   Back Orifice
• RST Corp - source code security scanner
• IBM advisories
• Microsoft Advisories
• Richard Smith - a variety of security/privacy resources
• Dan Bernstein - Crypto / dnscache
• Immunix - stackguard cc / secure? linux
• silkroad - collection of IDS papers by Tim Bass
• Mitre - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project