My hacks

This page contains my own hacks that I hope that someone else might get some use out of. If you modify anything in any of these, I'm interested in seeing your changes.

Antiquarian bookstore database
This is a database of information about Swedish antiquarian bookstores. It is put together by a script that fetches, parses, and merges several web listings of antiquarian bookstores. The database can be searched from the web or downloaded in text format and a couple of different Palm Pilot database formats.
indexpage.pl
indexpage.pl generates one or more index pages and the corresponding thumbnails for displaying images from a digital camera or similar on the web. If there are more images available than will fit on one page with the specified number of rows and columns, indexpage.pl will generate more than one page, each with a navigator to easily reach the other pages. There are lots of configuration options to determine how the generated pages should look.
Molly
This is an IRC bot written in Perl. I use it in an IRC channel at work to tell me intranet news, stock quotes, search the personnel register, remind people, hold polls and other things. If you want to use it, you might have to tweak it here and there, but it shouldn't be very difficult. All the commands in it are written as plugins and there is documentation on how to write your own plugins. If you do, I'd like to see them.
lazy.pl
lazy.pl is a script for automatically keeping programs up-to-date. It reads a list of programs to look for and instructions on how to install them. You can for instance tell cron to run lazy periodically. It also keeps a list of what versions has been installed, so it won't try to install the same version more than once. All versions it has installed are listed.
Adventureland
Adventureland is a database of information about interactive fiction. Mostly, it is interesting for the information content, but all the relevant source code is also available (it's an SGML database processed with Perl).
MacWriteII2text
This is a Perl script that tries to convert Claris MacWrite II files (a Macintosh word processor) into plain text.
text64totext
This is a Perl script that converts Text 64 files (a Commodore 64 word processor) into plain text.
plsql-mode.el
This is a quick-and-dirty attempt at an Emacs mode to edit Oracle PL/SQL code. It is based on ADA mode and created by an elisp illiterate. I used to use it, though. Now, I'm free from messing with PL/SQL. ;-)
Enhanced
Enhanced is a cyberpunk text adventure game written in TADS. You need a TADS interpreter to play, but that can easily be downloaded from the Interactive Fiction Archive.
A page about making Windows 95/NT more Unix-like
This isn't really a hack, just a collection of information to make life easier.
A Linux driver for the USBAT-02 CompactFlash reader for Kodak DC3800
This is information about a project to create a Linux USB driver for this reader.

I have also tinkered with programs originally written by others.

XTicker
XTicker is a Python program originally written by Andy Markebo <flognat@fukt.hk-r.se>. It shows continously updated stock quotes (for Swedish stocks).
OpenBSD Webmin module
This is a very rudimentary Webmin module for configuring the Linux port of the OpenBSD ftp server. I created the OpenBSD module, but almost all the code is taken from the Webmin module for wuftpd.

This page is maintained by Hans Persson (unicorn@lysator.liu.se). Last modified .