Hacks

Software

Here are some software / hacks that I've written, most of them arising out of my own need as an academic project. See individual pages for more detail.

Greasemonkey Scripts

Greasemonkey is an extention for firefox that lets you customise how websites appear using tiny scripts. These are some scripts that I wrote.

gmail Auto Bcc

Ever wanted to BCC / CC all outgoing email from gmail? This is just right for you.

gmail Unlabelled

Search for all unlabelled (unlabeled?) email in gmail.

Miscellaneous

These are some miscellaneous hacks that I'd used at some point of time. Some of them are ancient, who knows someone might just find it useful.

wp_comment_count.pl

A script to fix incorrect comment count in wordpress blogs.

PHP Hit Counter

This is the counter I used to keep track of page views. It uses flat files and file locking for integrity.

phpDiary

These are a set of rudimentary scritps that ran my old blog / journal. At some point of time I moved to LJ and later to wordpress, but Deepak took it up and hacked on it. He might have a better version.

Academic

These are stuff I did as academic projects during my Bachelor's course.

discussion-forum

A CGI / perl based discussion forum.

news-alert-system

A client-server system designed to deliver news headlines to a GTK+ client.

ginf

Ginf [GINF Is Not Frontpage] is a WYSIWYG HTML editor.

dPaint

dPaint is a graphics package written for the DOS environment.

miniDrafter

A ncurses based light weight text editor for linux.

Documents and Other Resources

Secure Programming

A presentation on secure programming

FC3 on IBM Thinkpad r40e

Installation experience, comparison with Suse Linux Professional 9.1, linmodems, etc.

Email HOWTO

How to stop being an annoying emailer

Wireless and ADSL Router HOWTO

HOWTO add a wireless router to a small / home network a.k.a. HOWTO interconnect two routers