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Class of 2003:
University of Waterloo / Mathematics / Computer Science / Information Systems
Permanent E-Mail Address (checked monthly):
darik@bfree.on.ca
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[Projects, Papers, and Doodads]
[People]
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Projects, Papers, and Doodads
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FSAVP, a pipe wrapper for F-Secure Anti-Virus.
This script is a substitute for AMaViS that allows fsav to be used as message filter with MTAs like Courier and Exim. In the same style as SpamAssassin, the fsavp script inserts the X-Virus-Flag header.
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Verbose Debian Linux Mail Server Walkthough. (Work-in-progress.)
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Kernel Image and PPP packages for Debian/woody with MPPE support for PPTP. Also read the Debian PPTP Howto.
# /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/projects/debian-pptp woody main
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BorfRRAS, Borf for Routing and Remote Access.
The Brant FreeNet uses this program to enforce time restrictions on dial-up Internet users.
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Waterloo Wireless (((o))), a community wireless network. (The project is defunct and the site may be offline.)
I started this with Ross Jordan, and we eventually merged with a coincident project started by Ian Howard.
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The Do-It-Yourself Chimney Mast for 802.11b wireless networking.
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Somewhat Recent Bug Stomping:
- An optimized Linux video driver for early macintosh computers with monochrome frame buffers. It is several times faster than the generic fbcon-mac driver, and runs the Macintosh ProFont at a comfortable speed. Beta quality.
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Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN").
A self-contained boot floppy for fast, total, and secure data wiping.
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The ACCPAC Simply Accounting File Format (PDF, 57 kB).
This is an excerpt from a paper that I wrote while reversing the file formats used by the Simply Accounting desktop software package (version 7C). It should be enough to get anybody with a related problem started.
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Electronic Surveillance and Perrow's Job Class Typology (PDF, 20 kB).
This is a quickie essay written as a CS 492 (Social Implications) assignment. The instructor thought that the main idea was interesting, so I have posted the document here. Only section 4 is worth reading.
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Excessive Collaboration Debunked (TXT, 5 kB).
This was a newsgroup troll that was unusually successful. People were throwing stones and roses for several weeks after the post.
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A sensible shortcut file for rxvt. (LNK, 2 kB)
A cygwin bash shell is much more pleasant sans cmd.exe with the Lucida Console font.
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Mini-HOWTO: Restore file associations to Media Player 6
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CDRecord 2.0 for Microsoft Windows
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LAME 3.92 for Microsoft Windows
From the same source and without nasm, the MSVC6 compiler produces a proper win32 executable that encodes data 35% faster than the cygwin executable produced by GCC. Each executable does, however, produce very different output files. (I can't tell for better or worse.)
This version of LAME is perceptually transparent if the "--vbr-new -q 0" switches are set, which means that expert listeners can not distinguish the MP3 output from the original input in blind quality tests. Note that you may need a patent license to use this software in your jurisdiction.
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Darik Horn <dajhorn at uwaterloo dot ca>
