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Friday 20 July 2012

Quentin's Software


I don't have nearly as much time these days to write code as I would like, and most of what I do manage is in the form of quick hacks to solve particular problems. Besides my past work at AT&T and DisplayLink,
I have written some other bits of software in the past which some people are foolish enough to use. Here are a few:
  • I wrote the original Windows VNC viewer, and the first Windows VNC server. You can see a copy of the old VNC pages here, but its official home is now at RealVNC.
  • PyGarmin is a set of Python classes for talking to Garmin GPS receivers.
  • ev2vnc takes Linux USB keyboard and mouse events and injects them into a VNC session.
  • VNC2DL allows a DisplayLink USB device to show the output of a VNC session.
  • Venn.ps is a Postcript program to produce multi-set Venn diagrams.
  • Here's a keyboard you can use for entering URLs if you don't have a keyboard! I did this for the Broadband Phone, when Javascript was still a bit of a novelty.
  • DateOpen is a little Mac utility for renaming files based on today's date and then opening them.
  • sshput is a script to help you set up ssh public keys on remote machines.
  • Qvideo is a simple input filter for Drupal that allows you to specify several different video files in different formats, and it embeds the appropriate HTML5 video tags with fallback to a Flash player.
  • imapdedup is a Python script that tidies up duplicate messages in an IMAP mailbox.
  • Wagipedia is a web site to help you find nice places to take you dog for a walk, and to tell others about good spots.
  • check_drobo is a plugin for the excellent Nagios monitoring system, that lets you check on a Drobo connected to a Linux box.
from http://www.qandr.org/quentin/software