Artifacts of my free-time programming

Utilities

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.
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).

Miscellaneous

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

Coding

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)
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 (Programmers only)
E-fence inspired Win32 Debugging Allocator (C,C++).
Writing Makefiles
A template for use with GNU make, that offers automatic dependencies checking. Also, how to handle code generators.

Graphics

Using hardware: Renderer 2.0 in OpenGL
Real-time Phong/ZBuffer rendering through OpenGL fragment shaders (C++, OpenGL).
Using software: Renderer 2.0
A portable, multi-threaded, Phong, ZBuffer, Soft-ShadowMap software-only renderer (C++, SDL, Intel TBB).
SouthGreece
Real-time flying over South Greece (Windows/Linux).
A real-time Mandelbrot zoomer in SSE assembly
The joy of coding to the metal (C, x86 SSE assembly, 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: ttsiodras at the well known gmail dot com
Dedicated to the kind souls that helped my spirit rise (a bit) from it's original state.