Projects

1. A script for mailman administrators (Try this version for mailman 2.1.x).

   Apply a command to postings held for approval. Commands are:
           approve - allow the posting to be sent to the list
           reject  - prevent the posting from being sent to the list, return an
                     error to the sender
           discard - similar to reject, but does not send an error to the sender.
   
   You may specify which postings should be processed using a regular expression 
   to match the subject or the from fields of the header. If either matches then 
   the posting will be processed according to the command supplied.
   
   %% bin/list_handle_pending <listname> [-s |-f |--subject=|--from=] 
                              (-a|-r|-d|--approve|--reject|--discard)
   

2. mod_niso- This proftpd module limits the number of people that can download a *.iso file to a ftp-server-wide limit.
3. Hover Carnage -I've worked on this project occaisionally in the past few years. Sometimes development is intense, other times non-existent. But the idea of producing a fun game is never far from my mind.
4. Clones of:
1. Scotland Yard (boardgame)
2. Chiral (olde Macintosh arcade-style game)
5. Computer Vision (currently amounts to fancy code that does simple realtime image convolution on a video source using Video 4 Linux)
6. OpenGL hacks
1. Rain - I hacked David Bucciarelli's ' Fire' program to make rain
2. Another hack based on 'Fire' that mimicked mist rising from the ground and being blown by the wind.
3. Sparks (based on Mark Kilgard's ' Dino') - simulates sparks bouncing on a plane
4. 3D Point Viewer - draws point clouds. Allows the user to rotate the point clound about its 'center of mass'
7. Anagram Maker - A small GTK-Perl application that helps you make anagrams. (English alphabet only).
8. Spam-Agent Architecture - A system designed to automatically classify and respond to spam. I have no intention of implementing it at this time (too many other neat projects). Here are some unpolished design documents.
9. Miscellaneous Graphics
   • A Simple Ray Tracer (expirementing with different projective lenses)
   • A gourard-shading 3D polygon renderer (not just triangles)

• Operating Systems (UCR)

1. Escher Shell
2. Rot13 encryption/decryption pseudo-devices
3. File system auditing
4. File system design and implementation (incomplete)

• Networking (UCLA)

1. "Duh" protocol client for reliably sending integers over UDP
2. DNS resolver using UDP requests

• Parallel and Distributed Computing (UCLA)

1. Parallel sort (based on bubble sort) (pthreads)
2. Adaptive contrast enhancement (pthreads)
3. Timing analysis (UTP, pthreads)
4. Image convolution (MPI on an IBM SP2)
5. Pi calculation (Java RMI + Java Threads)

• Independent Study  (UCLA)

This was the reason I wanted to come to a University. Turns out, this is more like graduate than undergraduate education. Anyhow, a team of 3 friends and I attempted to design a chip that would fool a SPARCv5 into running Java bytecode. The concept was based on concepts found in something called JSTAR.

• Computer Graphics (UCR)

1. Sredavni Ecaps - Space Invaders spelled backwards. I modelled the ships for this game using graph paper and my imagination. I added cheesy sound playing capabilities in 5 minutes. Somehow managed to get by with over 100% for making a fully 3D game with sound. This is part of what prepared me for Hover Carnage.
2. Polygon filling - nothing too special here. Not even gourard (sp?) interpolation of color values.
   

• Introductory Course Work

Eventually I'll probably post some of my introductory coursework descriptions. For now, it's not horribly significant. Suffice to say: I was bored.

1. The GIMP
2. Torsion
3. Debian GNU/Linux
4. GNOME (Nautilus)
5. Mozilla
6. Evolution
7. Robotfindskitten
8. The LEMON Parser Generator
9. GNU Dia
10. Sodipodi
11. OpenOffice
    
12. Tridge's junk code