Monthly Archives: February 2004

memberdb 0.1!

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Oh yes, time for me to abuse my position and spam a bunch of lists! :)

memberdb is the membership database software i’ve been hacking off and
on for a while now, and is being used by Linux Australia.

In it’s current form, it’s visually not very pretty – but the backend
database has had a huge amount of design (and redesign) work put into
it. This release is to encourage feedback, patches and volunteers.

It’s also out there so that other groups can look at it as a possible
solution to their membership database needs. Okay, realistically,
they’ll need a lot of work on it before it suits them and not us. It’s
called contributing dudes!

Yes, there are bugs. Yes, probably a security issue or something that’s
slipped me by – open source, peer review – all good.

Anyway, go have a look:
http://www.flamingspork.com/projects/memberdb/

or grab the 0.1 tarball from:
http://www.flamingspork.com/projects/memberdb/release/0.1/memberdb-0.1.tar.=
gz

even better, grab the latest sources and start hacking! esp if you’re a
XHTML and CSS guru – i need them :)

jpeg_recover.c

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New junkcode addition – jpeg_recover.c
http://www.flamingspork.com/junkcode/

Borne out of weirdness going wrong with a friend’s compact flash card while we were on holiday – suddenly a bunch of photos went missing. It didn’t seem to be easy to recover them using conventional manipulations of the FAT filesystem, so instead (without an internet connection, but with lots of beer) hacked up a program that searches through a file (given as the command line parameter) extracts things that look like jpeg files and dumps them in the current directory. It can produce a number of false-positives, which is probably due to the fact that I didn’t have access to any jpeg specs, so this is all from looking at some jpeg files and working out something simple, quickly. But hey, we got a fair few of the photos back.

superbowl

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well, after a 13 hour length american national anthem, much like one i saw on some show where it was so long you’d start falling asleep – they’re actually playing “football”.

What a pack of wimps. Stacking on 40 pounds of padding and a helmet to play a game with less contact than Rugby.

really, they should get a proper sport.