This is probably my best work yet. These numeric utilities are a set of programs for use from the unix command line. They allow the user to deal with numbers in several different ways, much like the GNU text-utils allow you to process text. This can be useful for summing up numbers in a log file, finding the average of numbers, creating numbers for a for loop and so on...

Where I work, there was a fad that went around where everyone was writing their little random signature generating programs. There were ones that worked from a cron job, ones that were generated by emacs and most of them drew their quotes from quote files. My gimick was to write a randomsig program that would pull random sentences from my email spool. Things grew from there.

As the suso.org network started to grow, I realized that I was granting accounts to users who I couldn't always keep track of or who I didn't personally know. I found that a simple program that would show me the commands that where run on a daily basis on the server would let me know if someone was doing something they weren't supposed to be doing. Like creating root compromises. :-(

A while ago, before I knew about htpasswd, I needed a way to encrypt a password and write it to a .htpasswd file automatically. Encrypt does that and more. Eventually I'm wanting to exapand this program to use different encryption schemes besides the normal Unix crypt library.

This was the first official program that I released to the public. news2html is a program that will convert a set of newsgroup articles into a formatted web site. I originally wrote it because I needed an automated way to update the news archive section of The Philip Glass Library. Ironically enough, even though the program works, I still haven't taken the time to set it up there.