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Zeroth priniciple of Web design: <b>GIZMOS CAN'T REPLACE CONTENT</b>.
Sadly this law seems to be observed more in the breach.<p>
We don't believe in putting unnecessary bullshit like images and
applets (unless they are necessary). I really hate pages like
microsoft.com, hotbot.com etc which build almost their entire page
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Yeah, I know newbies will fall flat when they see such crap. But
wasn't content supposed to be raison d'etre of the Web?
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So if you want to READ, you're welcome. If you want to SEE, or WATCH,
or in short, if you want a TV-like experience, get outa here!
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Briefly about <font size="+3"><b><a href="aboutus.html">Seawood and
Beowulf</a></b></font>. That link contains
gizmos :-). Here for <a href="seawood.html">text only.</a>
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<a href="seawood-page.html">Seawood's Page</a><p>
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<h2>Stuff you can find here</h2><p>
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<dt>Our great software <a href="bl.html">Blue Laser</a></dt><p>
<dd>This is the first software in the world to allow shell
account users to view Web pages using browsers like Netscape and IE
with full graphics.
It shattered the one-liner used to differentiate PPP and shell accounts
: ``You can't see graphics in shell''. You can have the dirty details
on how it works <a href="bluelaser-working.html">here.</a></dd>
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<dt>Our <a href=srating.html>favorite software</a>.<dt><p><dd> This list is
extremely small and the software here are all top class and are here
because they caught our imagination and respect like nothing else. In
our opinion they are <b>world's best software </b> we have come
across.</dd>
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<h2>Work done by us relating to computers</h2><p>
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<dt><a href="swift.html">Swift -- An equation editor in Java</a></dt>
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<dd>Embedding equations in HTML is painful. We have developed a
Java-based solution to make this task a snap. We have a visual equation editing tool written as a Java application and a viewer applet. We developed this after experiencing
first hand the difficulties we faced while putting equations in a tutorial we
wrote about cloth modeling. <p>
You can download the free package and also read an article by us surveying the current state of equation embedding efforts.
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<dt><a href="dn.txt">Generating Arbitrarily Shaped Pipes</a></dt>
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<dd>An article explaining how to generate a pipe in the shape of any curve. Given
a line, you would generate a hollow cylinder and given a circle you would generate
a torus. (Hope that explains it). This article was published in
DemoNews #150</dd>
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<dt><a href="cloth.html">A Tutorial on Computer Modeling of Cloth</a></dt>
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<dd>We discuss various techniques computer graphics techniques for modeling the
static and dynamic behaviour of cloth. The document contains many
images. You can find a <a href=cloth.zip>zipped version</a> of the document with all images
here.</dd>
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<dt><a href="remote.html">Remote Booting a Cluster of Diskless Linux Boxes</a></dt>
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My friend, Krishnan <krish@giasmda.vsnl.net.in> and I (seawood) have worked
together to devise a simple method to remote boot a cluster of Linux boxes. Of
course, we took a lot of help from the docs on the Net. We feel this fill
be a nice guide for rookies.</dd>
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<dt><a href="cyclone.html">Cyclone -- A small DOS comm program</a></dt>
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<dd>This is a very small comm program that we developed as part of our own
off-line mailer for DOS. It is just a 130 KB download. Two EXEs are all that
are needed for full VT100 emulation and Zmodem download.</dd>
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<dt><a href="bluelaser-working.html">Working of BlueLaser - Internals meant for programmers</a></dt>
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We have explained here in detail how BlueLaser works and in what way it is far superior in all respects to its peers.
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<dt><a href="tags.html">A collection of trivia (178 lines, 19kbytes)</a></dt>
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<dd>These were collected from miscellaneous sources.</dd>
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<dt><a href="linomail.txt">An offline mailer for Linux</a></dt>
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<dd>How to do offline mailing in Linux for users with a Unix shell
Internet account. I fit that description and since I couldn't find a
solution I had to make mine. It makes some custom modifications to
/etc/sendmail.cf and then sends external mail using the SMART_HOST
directive to procmail using the Mprocmail mailer. The docs are in
ASCII text. You can <a href="linomail-0.1.tgz">download the
software.</a>
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If that sounded like jargon overload, that's because it is! You see
I'm a newbie and I would like to show off my knowledge. :-)
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<dt><a href="acrobot.html">An Acrobot clone</a></dt>
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<dd>IRC frequenters must have heard about the game acromania. It is a wonderful IRC game in acronymns. This is a software I wrote to play the game on your local network.
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<h2>``Literary'' Work done by us</h2>
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<dt><a href="wordlist.html">A Wordlist of 500 words</a><dt>
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<dd>
This a glossary of around 500 words which I used while preparing for
my general GRE verbal section. The meanings are taken from the
<a href=http://elza.lpi.ac.ru/cgi-bin/wb>online Webster dictionary.</a> I
will be adding my own meanings shortly which will be more useful if
you are preparing for the GRE yourself.
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<dt><a href="rushdie.html">A review by beowulf of <b>Salman Rushdie's</b>, <i>The Moor's Last Sigh</i></a></dt>
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<dd>
This is a review that I wrote of the book. I wrote this review for a
course called "Indian Fiction in English" - A Humanities elective
course which I did. All you had to do was give the vaguest possible
explanation for straightforward things, and pick ironies and humour
where none existed. By writing bullshit in all my exams I peacefully
got an A. (ie one grade below the highest that is awarded in our
institute.) The review I wrote was done earnestly. Please give
me your comments on it.
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<h2>Miscellaneous goodies</h2>
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We will keep adding all the small things we come up with every now and then.
To begin with there are a very few things here.
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<dt><a href="perlfuncman2html.html">A perl script to convert the perlfunc man page to HTML</a></dt>
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If you guys have used the perlfunc man page, you will know it is a
pain navigating through it to find the definition of a function. I
wrote a small Perl script that will convert this to a HTML.
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<a href=reallifehumour.html>Some real life humour from beowulf.</a>
<h2>Unix Stuff</h2>
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<dt><a href="footer_adder.pl.gz">Add Geocities footers
automatically</a>
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A small Perl script to automatically add the Geocities banner to the
bottom of your HTML code. As a bonus, it also adds a "Last updated on"
line by using the modification records stored along with the file
name.<p>
Under Unix do something like:<P>
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$ for fn in *.html do footer_adder.pl $fn /tmp/upload/$fn; done
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<b>The script contains a safeguard. You can't give the same filename
as both input and output.</b><p>
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<dt><a href="ng.txt">Modified <tt>newgrp</tt> utility</a>
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<tt>newgrp</tt> will only spawn a shell after logging into the new
group. I have my web pages under a gid web to prevent accidental
erasure. Since there is every danger of accidentally doing a
<tt>rm</tt> under the new shell, I modified <tt>newgrp</tt> so that I
can specify another program to run. The syntax is similar to
<tt>su</tt>. So I can do <tt>ng web vi /www/index.html</tt> to edit
the web index safely and <tt>ng web netscape</tt> to browse safely.
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Download and compile the program. Remember to suid root it and then cp
into /usr/local/bin.
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