Programs

On this page I’ll keep track of the programs I’ve made or packaged. I expect this to become quite cluttered in a few months, but for now a simple list will do. I’ll add the newest programs on top. I usually just alter GPL’d programs, so they’re still GPL. If I wrote something myself, consider it GPL.

• Widelands CVS version, packaged for Mandriva 2005LE. I try to update this often.
• WebMediaMaker, a PyQt frontend to easily resize .jpg-files. Read about it here.
• check_ldap_starttls (source), a Nagios plugin, but nothing more than a little adaptation of the standard plugin check_ldap. My version uses STARTTLS to start a secure connection (instead of ldaps://). Read about it here.
• twiki-kupu_1.0b4.1-1_i386.deb, a packaged version of kupu for TWiki for Debian Sarge. Read about it here.
• Cyrus 2.1 with the Autocreate patch from the University of Athens. The links and some explanation about that can be found here.

If at any time you have question about these packages, just ask me in the comments of the articles that are associated with the files. I usually respond quite quickly.

Update Removed the very old links. No longer have those files.

GUI wrapper for ‘convert -resize’

Last night I started working on a little Python (or rather, a PyQt) experiment. My dad always needs help doing very simple stuff, like resizing images. Of course, everyone can use The GIMP to resize images, but the program takes long to load and isn’t very intuitive when you only want to resize stuff. And we Linux-people just use convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a slew of photographs to send through email. But that’s way to difficult for my dad. And actually, I don’t want him learning the command line. So I made him this program:

It’s very easy to use. First you select the directory in which the photographs are that you want converted. Then you select the maximum width and maximum height and then you click the big button in the bottom. The program starts converting very .jpg it can find in the directory you choose. In case you were wondering, of course this program is released under the GPL, although I doubt anyone really wants to use it. My next ‘great feat’ will be a frontend for MPlayer’s Mencoder, to resize movies.

Download my Python script here: webmediamaker.py

Start it like so: python webmediamaker.py

Comments are welcome, of course. I’d appreciate any help in getting the output from ‘convert’ into a textfield in the program, so any errors are reported and other nice output can take place.