The terminfo/termcap database -- In January 1995 I accepted the maintainership of the BSD terminal-type database from John Kunze. You can download it in either termcap or terminfo form from here.| Back to Eric's Home Page | Up to Site Map | $Date: 1999/11/01 17:41:44 $ |
Eric's FAQ Collection -- all of the eight or so FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) lists I maintain or contribute to. Includes "How To Become A Hacker", the "Hitchiker's Guide to X386 Video Timings", the "Linux Distributions HOWTO", and the "PC-Clone UNIX Hardware Buyer's Guide."
Since February 1997 I have co-maintained the Sunsite archive, the largest and most popular software repository in the Linux world. I designed and wrote keeper, the archiver's assistant software now used to maintain that site.
Trove is a project that's happening because Sunsite is doomed. The classical model of Internet software archive scales poorly, requiring too much maintainer intervention. A better model of low-overhead, web-accessible software databases is badly needed. We're working on this.
The terminfo/termcap database -- In January 1995 I accepted the maintainership of the BSD terminal-type database from John Kunze. You can download it in either termcap or terminfo form from here.
My writings including "The Cathedral And The Bazaar", "Building The Perfect Box", "War Games II: How I Learned To Start Worrying And Hate The Bomb", and other things I get asked for copies of.
The HTML Hell Page -- some curmudgeonly comments on bad Web design.
My collection of fortune cookies on liberty, politics, the Second Amendment, and other subjects. Most are quotes from the Founding Fathers of the U.S, the sort of thing that ought to be taught in high-school civics classes but isn't anymore. Many people asked me to make these available on the Web after seeing random selections in my mail signature.
The Jargon File -- the definitive lexicon of Internet slang, history, and folklore. Available on paper as The New Hacker's Dictionary, MIT Press 1996 (ISBN 0-262-68092-0). If your browser is graphics-capable there will be images of the second and third edition covers floating somewhere near this text.
The INTERCAL Resource Page The most twisted computer language ever designed now has its own Web page.
An SF Glossary This is a glossary of terms and coinages used in science fiction. It describes main and variant meanings and (where known) first usage and date of inventions. Contributions and corrections are invited.
The Retrocomputing Museum -- a collection of amusingly (and horrifyingly) archaic languages, programming tools, machine emulators, and games.
The Magic Numbers Home Page. Daniel Quinlan, Christos Zoulas, Greg Roelofs, myself and others are attempting to build on the well-established Unix engineering practice of file magic numbers to develop a semantic file type system for the Internet. We're drafting an RFC and designing a file type registry.
Alodar's Tower -- Resources for players and fans of Magic: The Gathering. Includes Alodar's Axioms for deck construction and recipes for many decks, with explanations. (Yes, I've also contributed card designs to Usenet: The Flaming)
The Riddle-Poem Page -- all about making and enjoying riddle-poems, a fun and stimulating game for children and adults.
The Eric Conspiracy Page -- Yes, now the blood-chilling truth behind all those sinister rumors can be revealed. There is an Eric Conspiracy -- and you have fallen into its clutches. MUHAHAHAHEEHEE!
I have designed an fvwm2 layout you may find interesting if you have a sufficiently large (1600x1200) monitor; see Eric's Big Blue-Steel Desktop.
I designed and maintain a netnews suite, TMNN-netnews, which includes threading, security and modularity features not paralleled in other news suites. This project is also on hold until I get PPP access.
The UNIX Dream Machines Bake-Off is dead. I never reached a critical mass of vendors.
I was heavily involved in the GNU Emacs 19 development (in fact, I was the primary Emacs-lisp library person for about two years during 1991-1993). The vc.el mode for one-touch version control within Emacs was mine. So was the gud.el mode for universal debugger control, and the package-finder feature under the Emacs help system. I also wrote the support for package unloading in the Emacs 19 kernel.
I was for a couple of years an active member of the nethack developers' list. I wrote the color support, introduced blindfolds, and edited the `Guide to the Mazes Of Menace', the nethack manual.
I wrote `The Hitchhiker's Guide to X386 Video Timing (or, Tweaking Your Monitor Modes for Fun and Profit)', drawing on earlier work by Chin Fang and others. This cleared up one of the murkiest places in XFree86 setup.
I added many of the new features in pcomm-2.0, the UNIX clone of ProComm written and maintained by Emmet Gray, including the point-and-shoot dialer interface and the support for Zmodem-upload autorecognition.
I was one of the principal developers of the ncurses library, the open-source clone of System V curses distributed with Linux.
I was involved in the development of the RipScrip 2.0 standard, the description of the graphics command language supported by the popular RIPterm program from TeleGraphix. I was the primary technical reviewer for several drafts, and suggested 2.A3's simplification and generalization of clipboard and graphics-resource descriptors into ports.
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