What practical applications have you made? (21)

1 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-21 00:42 ID:rO9+6Aeh

ITT We post our practical and USEFUL creations.

2 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-21 03:59 ID:DPILdi8u

I wrote a program that adapts rzip to pipe-mode compression. It reads data from stdin, dumps it to a temporary file in a directory given by either TMPDIR or RZIPTMPDIR (because /tmp might not be enough), runs rzip on it and spews the output forth.

It was useful for compressing spam for a while, but then I discovered 7zip and found that rzip gets completely owned in both compression speed and effectiveness. 7zip also makes use of multiple hardware threads, which is nice these days.

3 Name: dmpk2k!hinhT6kz2E : 2007-08-21 06:21 ID:Heaven

My first useful "application": it could inflate executables and stuff datafiles with useless crap without affecting the operation of the victim application. Pick a desired size and compression level, and off it'd go.

Now, what possible use could a person have for a program like that? Well, see, as a kid only BBS's were available in my area, and all of them had download ratios...

4 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-21 13:28 ID:Heaven

I wrote a Befunge interpreter.

5 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-22 01:53 ID:QJ2gXQ72

I made a small app in C# that analyzed multiple Exact Audio Copy log files to make sure they met certain standards. Yeah, that's about it.

6 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-22 05:48 ID:BCiVWM+g

I coded a net-radio backend with an IRC interface a while back; think I posted about it here. Said net radio is now down.

I'm currently working on a simple framework for shooting games.

7 Name: Storlek!baacaIHVk6 : 2007-08-22 08:02 ID:Heaven

8 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-22 12:20 ID:Heaven

>>7
Please reconsider using autopackage. Its design contains several serious and irreparable flaws that lead to its being entirely outside recommendation for anything at all.

In a nutshell, use of autopackage is nothing short of a threat to system integrity in every sense of the expression.

9 Name: dmpk2k!hinhT6kz2E : 2007-08-22 18:32 ID:Heaven

>>7
Interesting.

Out of curiosity, why did you decide to keep FreeEMS?

10 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-22 19:35 ID:rO9+6Aeh

>>6
SHOOTAN GAMES?

11 Name: Storlek!desu/4y/Xg : 2007-08-22 19:43 ID:Heaven

>>8
I agree, but the other developer doesn't like distro-packages. Supplying both kinds makes everyone happy, more or less.

>>9
It's mostly for entertainment purposes.

(This time I'll actually use this silly tripcode correctly...)

12 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-22 21:18 ID:PtDPg9vc

An IRC bot with some mildly useful functions, and a mill managment app (together with someone else).

13 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-31 02:46 ID:E/Q8y0dJ

Most of my useful stuff is mainly for me and wouldn't be that useful to most of "you guys" out "there". That said,

14 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-09-07 00:53 ID:/YhhUmLw

I wrote a blog engine in PHP (bash me ;), a Brainfuck interpreter in C, and a sticky-notes like application in C/GTK.

There are other things, but are mostly old/uninteresting stuff, simple shell scripts, or projects I will never ever be able to complete.

15 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-09-14 08:31 ID:8Rp/U4wY

I wrote "Hello World"

16 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-09-15 16:33 ID:Heaven

>>15
[i]I[/i] wrote "Hello World". Don't try to claim credit for yourself.

17 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-09-16 07:31 ID:Heaven

>>16
Can't believe a man that fails bbcode

18 Name: DQN!TgfOVovqoo : 2007-09-18 23:11 ID:Heaven

[b][u][i][glow color=red][size=80]I[/size][/glow][/i][/u][/b] fail bbcode. Don't try to claim credit for yourself.

19 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2008-05-04 02:36 ID:s68445z5

I made my college's website; cms and active pages.

20 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2008-05-04 03:47 ID:Heaven

>>15-16
Oh yeah? Well I wrote the Eiffel version of desu. Take that losers!
http://www.desudesudesu.net/

21 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2008-07-18 00:41 ID:Heaven

Most useful thing? A replacement for uuencode. Some of the most simple tools that are POSIX that Windows has no equivalent for show how sad Microsoft is. " ' \

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