Virtual Tools. Real Applications.

Packaged Software

Free Software

In the course of our operations, or just as samples, we produce a few pieces of software here and there as open source, free-as-in-beer software.  This is the list of all those items:

Title Description
Arkane.Xkeys A .NET library to drive the X-keys range of programmable keypads and other devices from P. I. Engineering.
Exim for OS/2 A port of the Exim mail transfer agent, version 1.89, to OS/2.  Obsolete and no longer supported or under active development.
Formmail for .NET A formmail-compatible web form processing script for ASP.NET.
Mouse Jiggler A very simple piece of software whose sole function is to "fake" mouse input to Windows, and jiggle the mouse pointer back and forth.

Useful for avoiding screensavers or other things triggered by idle detection that, for whatever reason, you can't turn off any other way; or as a quick way to stop a screensaver activating during an installation or when monitoring a long operation without actually having to muck about with the screensaver settings.
Port I/O under OS/2 Not an actual library, but rather just some code I have remaining from my OS/2 2.x programming days that allows one to perform port I/O without actually having to write a device driver, by taking advantage of the TESTCFG.SYS device driver supplied with the system. Probably of minimal use to anyone these days, but for what it's worth, here it is.  Unsupported.

Web Services

As a service (and example), we make some simple SOAP web services available for public use.  These services are as follows:

Title Description
Bit A web service which behaves like a Tron-style bit - it answers your questions, yes, or no. (Fairly pointless, although note that it doesn't strictly alternate - its responses will vary depending on who else has been talking to the bit recently. Available in both string and boolean flavours.)
BOFH Excuses A web service which returns excuses from the Bastard Operator from Hell's excuse calendar. The particular excuses provided by this service are taken from Jeff Ballard's BOFH excuse server, http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/.
.Sig Quotes A web service which returns sample quotations from Alistair Young's personal stock of Usenet .sig quotes.  From back in the day when Usenet was worth reading, that is.