Artifacts of my free-time programming

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Utilities

Optimal Windows backups with rsync and Volume Shadow Copy
Backing up a Windows box, utilizing open-source and Microsoft tools.
Visualize real-time data streams with Gnuplot
Streaming data to Gnuplot in real-time (Perl, Gnuplot).
Survive bad sectors and scratched CDs/DVDs (Slashdotted!)
Shielding your files with Reed-Solomon codes (C, x86 asm, python-fuse, FUSE).
Optimal remote backups with rsync over Samba
Backing up a remote Linux box, when all you have... is Windows (hard links and sparse files).
Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader (Slashdotted!)
Put Wikipedia on your laptop (C++, Python, Perl).
Converting Greek polytonic HTML to LATEX
LATEX documents from Greek HTML (Python).
Offline rsync
Synchronize remote file trees with no network (Perl).
How hard can it be to fill up a DVD?
Gain DVD space with dynamic programming (Python).
Software cooling an Athlon XP/1600+
"Detect the HLT command" (C).

Video / Audio

MPEG-2 (DVD) transcoding to H.264
H264 changes the quality/bitrate equation (Perl).
IVTC and DECIMATE
NTSC filters for transcode (C).
Playing mp3PRO files under Linux
Closed formats are painful... (MPlayer debugging).
Playing music with a microcontroller
(ATmega168, AVR-gcc).

Miscellaneous

UNIX/Linux notes (potpourri)
Tips and notes after a decade of Linux.

Coding

The Knight's Tour (Slashdotted!)
Moving a Knight, visit all squares of a chess board just once (Python).
The power of Python's yield
Computing permutations elegantly and efficiently.
The crossing ladders puzzle
Loads of equations... what to do? (Python, GNU gsl, Octave, Maxima)
Playing with probabilities and Python
Answering a simple question about a lottery.
A Python puzzle for Python newbies
Python always does what I want. Except this once.
HeapCheck
E-fence inspired Win32 Debugging Allocator (C,C++).
Writing Makefiles
Handling build dependencies and code generators using make.

Graphics

Using hardware: Renderer 2.x in OpenGL
Real-time Phong/ZBuffer rendering through OpenGL fragment shaders (C++, OpenGL).
Using software: Renderer 2.x
A portable, multi-threaded, Phong, ZBuffer, Soft-ShadowMap, Ambient Occlusion, software renderer (C++, SDL, Intel TBB, OpenMP).
SouthGreece
Real-time flying over South Greece (Windows/Linux).
A real-time Mandelbrot zoomer with OpenMP and SSE assembly
The joy of reaching the limits of your H/W (C, x86 SSE assembly, OpenMP, SDL)
SDL hacks (Slashdotted!)
"Simulators" for fireworks, waves and snow flakes (C++, SDL)
Trender
Very old code that performs simple software-only rendering of 3D Studio .asc files. For archiving purposes only :-) (C++, SDL).

Thanassis Tsiodras, Dr.-Ing.
Email: ttsiod-at_nospam_thank-you-softlab-dot_ntua-dot_gr
Dedicated to the kind souls that helped my spirit rise (a bit) from it's original state.