OK, so it's not much of a page. But hey, it has some free (mostly Linux and GPL) software for you good people to download. Some of it written by me, Vik, some not. So without further ado, let's introduce the stars of this page:
A very nice Linux repair disk from tomsrtbt. It uses a non-standard floppy format to squeeze an amazing amount of Linux on a 1.7MB floppy. It has built-in network card drivers, various editors, Windows partition support and on-the-fly configuration of the environment.
Available for DOS and Linux systems. You run the file specified in the README, and it'll create the floppy under the appropriate system. Once you have one, you can use 'clone' command to produce more:
This is without a doubt the easiest, most flexible, standard single-floppy Linux distribution I have yet found so you can bet I didn't write it! That's right, it boots from one floppy and has the tools you'll want to rework your network configuration, recover from disk muck-ups, and even temporarily start a Windows machine up on a network as a Linux box so you can get some real work done:
I wrote this bash script to notify me when web pages change, and give me the option of popping up a GUI or text mode browser to view the page. It got more sophisticated from there with sound, multiple levels of update time interval, complex filters to filter out adverts, timestamps, unwanted news columns, comment counts and so forth. I use it with Linux but it should work with anything that runs bash and lynx, although I prefer links as my text-mode browser and w3m as a web page getter:
This is a Perl/Tk program that will one day be a GUI modelling tool. I used Perl/Tk because it allows the code to run on, and hence be developed by, anyone on just about any platform be it Windows, Linux or a Mac. It is in a constant state of what I like to think is improvement, but I tend to keep my latest version here:
A text mode RealMedia player. Useful for playing RealAudio and RealVideo from the command line. Designed by Matthew Campbell as an aid to blind users, but also handy for background functions like playing the BBC World News on the hour. Complete source and details can be found at http://www.linux-speakup.org/trplayer.html or you can download the mirrored Linux i386 RPM here: