CGI & Linux Stuff

PrimeStats, a perl script that interogates the top producers table at: http://mersenne.org/ips/topproducers.shtml, after you've saved it to disk, it will give you a report on participants as specified by yourself in a seperate data file. The script will also give you a detailed report of the future prospects of one user ID that you supply to the script via the command line, this detailed report tells you how many people are in front of the user but going slower and how many people behind but going faster and gives you estimates of when the user will catch the pack in front and when the chasing pack will catch up etc.

Have a look at a sample report. Before running the script please read "primestats.txt" which you will find in the tarfile.

NewsStats is a perl script that generates a report of statistics of a local news spool in the slrnpull format. It now includes date analysis (which doesn't work on usenet but that will come later). In order for the date analysis section to work you'll need the Date::Calc module from CPAN.

You can chose how many massages a group should have before it is checked, how many senders/posters to list on the report under each group, how many subjects/threads to list under each group. You can also have a server wide table of sender/poster stats. There is the capability to turn group reporting off/on and server wide reporting off/on.

You can point to a different news spool and have a different output file name. View some Sample Output (150K), taken from a spool holding groups from the POV-Ray news server. The only documentation is in the script itself, and the bits that you would want to change are clearly marked near the top of the script.

PovMenu is a menu system that runs in an rxvt window and allows you to change the most common command line attributes for rendering with POV-Ray and MegaPov. Click on the link above to download povmenu.tar.gz then unpack and read povmenu.txt for instructions on installation and usage.

Have a look at a screen shot.

NewsLink is a CGI script that displays ftp and http links from within articles held on a local news spool. The links are clickable, you'll also have a link to the article that the URL came from along with the name of the sender, their email address, the subject line and the date the article was posted.

View some sampel output (488K) and see what you think. Before using please read the text file included in the tarfile.

Below are some of my perl CGI scripts. Feel free to have a play around with them, some of the scripts can also be downloaded as zipped tar files.

• Linktracker is a script to help you keep track of links stored in plain text files. View - Download (17k).
• WebTV html Viewer is a script that lets webTV viewers see the url's of images in html documents and lets them view html source. View - Download (3.2k).
• html Colour Picker is a small script that I wrote to experiment with cookies. I havn't got as far as messing around with the cookies yet but I think you can see where I am going with it. You can use this scrpt to help you choose a colour scheme for your html documents. View - Download (1.5k).
• 10best Project This is the upload script that I've weritten for the 10best project, (click on the banner at the top of the page to find out all baout it). This is a multi screen multi section multiple file upload script, it also allows the visitor to delete any of the files that they've uploaded in the current session. Feel free to hava a play.