Cute hacks

Here are various bits of code/cute hacks I've written over the years in my free time, which aren't encumbered by IPR, for my own use. Feel free to use them if you find them useful:

A URL rewriter for the Zeus Web Server. It's a small ISAPI filter which calls an external process to rewrite URLs, through a pipe. Source code and a gzipped tarball are available.
Is your web server safe from malformed SSL packets?
How to get IPv6 running on Debian Linux
A Dilbert filter in lex. This was when I worked in cube in the US for 6 months.
A Perl version of whois that understands top-level domains, registries, RIPE, ARIN, etc. now that NSI have delegated registration.
Filter gcov output better.
My lesspipe filter. I personally set "LESSOPEN=| lesspipe %s; LESS=CQMSdin; LESSCHARSET=iso8859"
Convert CSV into QIF for import into programs like Microsoft Money

My CV is here.

Nostalgia

I've been working as a software engineer for the last 13 years (how times flies!), mainly here in Cambridge, but also in Melbourne, Denver, San Jose, etc. I currently work for Nokia, although you may have previously known me as:

Jak@2:254/27.0 (1988-89) (FidoNET)
..!mcsun!ukc!axion!tharr!jrmt (1990) (UUCP)
jrmt@uk.ac.ukc (1991-94) (JANET big-endian notation)
jrmt@froggy.demon.co.uk (1994-96)
jrmt@uk.gdscorp.com (1994)
jont@convergent.com.au (1996)
jrmt@muscat.com (1997-99)
jon@zeus.com (1999-2003)
jothackr@ps.ge.com (2003-2005)
jonathan.thackray@symbian.com (2005-2009)
jonathan.thackray@nokia.com (2009-)

Eh, them were the days. Kids these days don't know they're born: I accessed my Fido account with an old 1200/75baud modem attached to my trusty Beeb. No more writing ROMs in 6502 assembly language surrounded by a FOR NEXT loop, reading passwords off the school Econet from location &FEA2, or rewinding the tape when a program fails to load. Come back OSWORD and OSCLI, sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk, archie and gopher! It's all too easy these days, rewritable DVDs, gigs of memory, sigh.

Nostalgia, it's not what it used to be.