Kragen Sitaker's home

It should be noted that my legal name is still Kragen Sittler.

I finally decided to go ahead and organize this, since there are more than 20 items on here now.

Miscellaneous

These come first because they're the most popular.

• Dumb actions.
• X is Pretty, last updated 9 November 1997
• Come sign my guestbook.
• Some sounds of me whistling.
• Xraw, a GUI developed by someone else. Last updated July 1996.
• My wedding
• My LILO configuration file, which is here because I posted about it to linux-newbie. It shows how to have a choice of multiple kernels to boot.
• A picture of me, 35,000 bytes.

Rants

These are texts of different kinds, mostly indicating my thoughts on random matters.

• Overloaded Microsoft Web server, last updated 19 January 1998.
• My résumé, last updated 18 August 1997.
• my documentation for qmail's stralloc -- now obsolete, since qmail comes with documentation for stralloc.
• Real News (unimplemented!)
• Database thoughts.
• Some thoughts on programming. These shouldn't be unfamiliar to anyone who's spent much time programming.
• Firesides my wife and I hold each Monday, last updated 19 August 1997.
• Thoughts on building a distributed full-text database of the World Wide Web.
• Compiling C or C++ into Lisp or Java, because I'm convinced the advantages of the Lisp/Java pointer model will eventually prevail.
• An alternative to site blocking, for those of us who fear their children finding porn on the Internet.
• The Tao of Programming, which is a joke.
• Tunachat, a distributed chat system design.

Useful Software

This is software that was written to fulfill some purpose other than the mental exercise of writing it. That doesn't mean it's actually useful, just that it was intended to be useful.

• Kragen's Dynamic DNS
• A command-line dictionary-lookup program that uses the web; there's a fetcher, a postprocessor, and a tiny shell script that ties them together, available in a single tar file for convenience; they're written in Perl, use netcat, and were tested in Linux. Last updated 7 January 1998.
• prototype macro language for the WWW
• metext, another one, which I've been using more recently, which doesn't actually have macro capabilities. Every time I've really needed a macro, I've added it into the script. So it's pretty ugly, but it takes the typing out of HTML. Written in Perl. No documentation, but my home home page has some examples. Accessible via CGI.
• cheapo Markov-chain text modeler
• A desk calculator, written in Tcl with Tk. Little functionality so far. If you have the Tcl plugin, you can use it in your Web browser at calc.tcl.
• A searchable index of the RFCs, last updated 2 September 1997. It's just a webbification of some command-line stuff I'd put together. Note that a similar service using Harvest is available from the InterNIC.

Useless software

This is software I wrote just for fun, or for examples.

• An example of binary trees, for a friend of mine who wants to learn how to program. Last updated 21 September 1997.
• A slide rule, in case you don't like digital calculators. Also viewable in the Tcl plugin. Only A, B, C, and D scales so far, and no pi yet.
• An example of hashing I wrote in C++ for a friend of mine who wants to learn how to program. 4.6KB, last updated 13 August 1997.
• Another programming example, demonstrating backtracking, etc. on the map-coloring problem. 94KB, last updated 21 August 1997.

Links

• My home machine.