| "Computer Bits" |
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Unless you're
interested in doing some archaeology (to my embarrassment), you should
probably visit my new page at tom7.org instead. This is way old and
out of date!
Computers
are both my work and my play. I'm majoring in Computer Science here at
Carnegie Mellon. I work as a computer consultant, programmer, and
teacher. And in my spare time, I make games and other silliness on my
computer. This attempts to be a
collection of the best stuff that's come of that particular hobby.
(Note that 'Computer Bits' is not meant to be funny, it's just to go
along with 'Tom Bits' and 'Art Bits'!) Some links are greyed-out because the materials they
reference were destroyed in the Great Maxtor Hard Drive Crash of
'99... I want to bring all of this stuff back, eventually. |
| Tom 7's New Computer! |
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| If it's
anywhere near Summer 2000, you can read about my fancy new computer
("metroid") and possibly take my recommendations on what to buy and
where to buy it. |
| Join Tom7's Prime Team! |
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| If you
have a computer hooked up to the internet, you can put its idle cycles
to use searching for large prime numbers! Better yet, you can join my
team Internet Prime Search team and help crush the competition! Fun! Easy! |
| Tom 7's Original Winamp Skins |
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| This is a
page for Winamp skins (downloadable graphics to modify the look of
your winamp mp3 player) that I've created. Right now there are just
two, but they are cool! Check 'em out! |
| ludus |
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| Ludus is
my newest project, and if you hear me shouting "Ha
HA!, I rule!" out my window these days, it's most likely
because of ludus. The project
is to create a free and extensible Role Playing Game environment for
the PC (and potentially, other platforms) for making and playing games
similar to the tile-based Final Fantasy / Chrono Trigger Series for
Super Nintendo. In addition, a multi-user online version of the game
is in the works, allowing people to interact and affect a persistant
universe in an environment similar to the MUDs and MOOs of the early
internet (and entirely unlike the hostile, boring, player-killing
games like Ultima Online). You
can go to the ludus page above if you are a nerd and want to download
and play with the source code (or download and play with the mostly
working map editor); alternately you can go to The Old Outdated
Page for some prettier graphics but practically no accurate
information. |
| Probabilistic
Froodlike Speech Generator |
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| This is a
web interface to a program I wrote which analyzes the things I say on
IRC and is able to produce almost convincing probabilistic replicas of
my speech. This is 100% live; the database updates continuously
whenever I'm talking on irc (it also keeps track of the current
channel topic). The things it says are often funny. ("You think
about kicking his dog and his ping pong ball?", "Steve
Buscemi is a stapler.") Frood
is my handle on IRC. |
| imgsrc : free html
tool |
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| This is a
free tool for web developers. Running under dos/95/98 or unix, it will
run through html documents, automatically filling in image heights and
widths, which can help make web pages load much faster. Free.
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| rvol |
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| If you're
tired of having the same name for your hard drive(s) every time you
open 'My Computer', rvol can fix that. Given a text configuration file
(sample included) and a list of drive letters, it will randomly pick
new names for them! And combined with Windows 95 or 98's task
scheduler, you can have rvol change your drive names daily. Kind of
fun, really. (I said 'kind of'.) |
| Manarags 2 |
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| This is an
anagram generating program I made ("Microsoft Word -> Discomfort
Row"). It's free, and source code is included for those who are
interested... |
| embed |
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| A small
program which sets the embedding level of TrueType fonts to
'Installable Allowed', the least restrictive setting. Due to bugs and
confusing defaults in Fontographer, this often a useful utility for
font developers, and sometimes the only way to set your own fonts
to be embeddable.
The insufferable Agfa Monotype and
International Typeface Corporations sent me a lot of legal threats about this page under the DMCA. An
interesting read...
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| Tom's Cryptography Musings |
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| This is a
collection of some of my cryptography ideas. Go here to learn or
laugh, at your discresion.
Though potentially useful, this page also doubles as my attempt to be
as geeky as I can. |
| Stuff I
Wish I Could Have Learned On The Web... |
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| When I go
searching for something on the web and don't find it, and then
subsequently discover the answer, I put it on this well-indexed and
keyworded page so that people in the future can maybe find it. Not
very interesting to browse, sorry. |
| MIDI
Passthrough |
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|
Small program for Windows which allows you to
connect a MIDI In device to a MIDI Out device. |
| 211
Stuff |
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| Some
documents I wrote for 15-211 (Fundamental Structures Of Computer
Science I), which I TA'd for in Spring 1999. Nerdy. |
| Strings95 |
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|
Eventually I intend to update and
document this program, but it is mildly useful in its current form:
Strings95 is a windows program
intended to make it easy to edit the messages in your applications. It
opens up executable programs (or any files, really) and looks for text
stored in them -- and then lets you change the text to something else
and save the file. Most of the time this enables you to change error
messages, title bars, and other things in your windows and dos
programs! Beta. |
| Tom's Quake Mods |
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|
These are some modifications I made to the game Quake.
They're pretty cool, they're free, and source code is included.
Screenshots available as well. |
| PGP Key |
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|
My public PGP key. I actually
like getting and sending PGP signed/encrypted mail and files, so if
you have PGP, don't be shy using it. (You can get PGP
here). (Actually
just kidding, I probably lost the private key almost 10 years ago.
Don't email me with PGP! Love, Tom in 2011)
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| My Other Web Pages |
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