Home Page of Alexander Gromnizki

On this page you can found some free open-source software and other interesting things mostly for UNIX®-like operational systems.

Software

... are distributed under the terms of the X11 license (non-copyleft, but compatible with GNU General Public License). See the file LICENSE in each tarball for details.

metallah 0.14

This is a web-based man page viewer that has a thought out user interface, visual options tuning, and the ability to properly display localized manual pages.

Hosted by Sourceforge.

Requirements: Web-server with cgi support, Tcl 8.4, web-browser (elinks is recommended), several utils: file(1), nroff(1), gunzip(1), bunzip2(1).
Screen shots: metallah.dir.png (20432 bytes), metallah.man.png (21604 bytes).

steelpoll 0.1

This is a Web polling application which allows you to quickly and easily create and manage polls by just editing plain Tcl files. A single poll can be created by editing the variables in a single file.

You can optionally control votes by checking the user's IP address. A parsed vote log can be viewed.

It doesn't require any SQL database backend because it stores the results in easily parsed plain text files. It doesn't use graphics to display poll results, which is great for text-based Web browsers.

Requirements: Web-server with cgi support, Tcl 8.4.
Download: steelpoll-0.1.tar.gz (11326 bytes, Sun Feb 18 21:59:53 GMT 2007).

pr2nntp 0.2.4

This is a gate from RSS to NNTP and RSS readers killer. It is quite flexible, easy to use and maintain.

More...

tkpile 0.4

This program grabs APM information (by ioctl() system call or with help of FreeBSD apm(8) utility) and displays current status of battery in your laptop. Written especially for FreeBSD installed in VMWare Workstation (TM) but you can of course use it on a real hardware too.

Requirements: FreeLSD, Tcl/Tk 8.5.
Screen shots: tkpile.png (771 bytes).
Download: tkpile-0.4.tar.gz (24100 bytes, Sun Apr 27 14:16:11 GMT 2008).

xoris 0.1d

Program grabs the RGB color value of any pixel on the screen and dumps the color's name to stdout. The output can be printed as:

hex (#b0958e);
triple of decimal RGB values (229 229 229);
abstract name (gray90).

xoris has only been tested on displays with a bit depth of 24 bpp.

Requirements: X Window, ANSI C compiler, imake.
Screen shots: xoris.xmessage.png (1384 bytes).
Download: xoris-0.1d.tar.gz (6676 bytes, Tue May 06 20:28:51 GMT 2008).
FreeBSD port: listed in graphics.

tktz 0.2

Program will help you to guess the current time in another country. It reads special timezone description file (usually /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab) and shows you a list of the countries and zone name for each entry.

Requirements: Tcl/Tk 8.4.
Screen shots: tktz.png (7341 bytes).
Download: tktz-0.2.tar.gz (9766 bytes, Tue May 30 22:57:37 GMT 2006).
FreeBSD port: listed in x11-clocks.

tkvgetty 0.1

This is a simple Tk frontend to vgetty. It can play your incoming voice messages but can't view your "incoming fax's". Fax's are boring, outdated and useless, please forget about them.

Requirements: Mgetty+Sendfax 1.1.35, Tcl/Tk 8.4, Snack 2.2.10.
Screen shots: tkvgetty.png (8081 bytes).
Download: tkvgetty-0.1.tar.gz (19308 bytes, Sat Sep 22 15:50:34 GMT 2007).

wmtitle 0.12a

Title generator for testing your favorite X11 window manager. Written in pure Xlib.

Requirements: X Window, ANSI C compiler, BSD make.
Screen shots: wmtitle.png (10249 bytes).
Download: wmtitle-0.12a.tar.gz (4137 bytes, Wed Apr 05 18:44:11 GMT 2006).

tidyup-mail 0.12

This program is especially useful for russian/ukrainian/belarusian users but however can help those who reads mail from people that uses such brain-damaged web-mailers as yahoo mail.

Fatigue with xterm when reading mail from mutt? Tired to press "Do Full reset" every time when terminal becames full of garbage? This program is for you! It removes unsafe characters for email & makes xterm happy!

Note that all documentation comes in russian language. Check for your local russian hacker ;)

Requirements: ANSI C compiler, BSD make.
Download: tidyup-mail-0.12.tar.gz (6849 bytes, Wed Jun 28 18:33:53 GMT 2006).
FreeBSD port: listed in russian.

Articles

Available in russian language only.

Закат эпохи Тома: Draft статьи вышедшей в киевском журнале Компьютеры+Программы #5/2004. Слегка устарела (да и технический ее уровень оставляет желать много-много лучшего), но все еще актуальна и на сегодняшний день. После прочтения, настоятельно рекомендую ознакомится с официальным сайтом vtwm.
tclcaptcha - простой текстовый captcha генератор: Вместо графических изображений использует ASCII-графику.
Система написания структурированных документов: (Дубоватое название, верно? ;). Введение в SGML и DocBook. Доступна тут и вот тут.

Et cetera

Send mail to <iwerdon.at.gmail.com> if you have some questions about programs on this page.

My patches to several programs.

My blog (in russian, rarely updated). Atom feed of the blog.

My photo and my cat Cecilia.

Enjoy! ;)