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1 Welcome to ahs3.net
2 Debian Stuff
- 2.1 Packages Currently Being Maintained
- 2.2 Packages Maintained in the Past
3 Upstream Work
4 Random Mind Candy
5 Getting started with Wiki

Welcome to ahs3.net

This is where I keep the collection of stuff that I mess about with. If it is not patently obvious, I am not a web-geek and have no desire to be one (that's why MediaWiki -- so I don't have to muck about it with web stuff).

On the other hand, I am a pretty lucky guy. I've got a wonderful wife and family that are usually pretty tolerant of all the time I spend in the basement playing with the computers.

Debian Stuff

I'm a Debian Developer. The packages I like to play with usually revolve around Linux software development or performance analysis. These are the packages that I currently maintain:

Packages Currently Being Maintained

These are the packages I am currently interested in (even if the maintenance is sadly a bit behind):

libcoyotl -- a collection of portable C++ classes, rather eclectic actually, but needed by acovea
libbrahe -- a heterogeneous library of C numeric functions, used in acovea (uploaded to NEW queue)
libevocosm -- a C++ framework for developing evolutionary algorithms
acovea -- ACOVEA (Analysis of Compiler Options via Evolutionary Algorithm) implements a genetic algorithm to find the "best" options for compiling programs with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) C and C++ compilers
acovea-gtk -- (new package, not yet in Debian) -- a GTK-based user interface for acovea
acovea-results -- a collection of some of the reported results from acovea
lmbench -- a set of utilities to test the performance of a Linux system
q-tools -- simple command line performance analysis tools (ia64 architecture only, Linux 2.6 only)

Packages Maintained in the Past

Like some others in the Debian project, it seems like a good idea to refresh oneself and look at new things. Hence, I maintained these for a while, then either let others take over or had the packages removed because they really weren't that useful:

libpfm3 -- a user library to access the performance data collected by the Linux kernel module "perfmon"
laptop-net -- automatically adapt a laptop to a networking environment (ultimately replaced by Network Manager)
oprofile -- a performance profiling tool for Linux systems, capable of profiling all running code at low overhead
pfmon -- a command line tool to access Linux performance data collected by the "perfmon" module (uses libpfm3)
qprof -- easier-to-use Linux command-line profiling tools (dead upstream, very little usage)

Upstream Work

There's also some software where I've either created it or have picked up upstream development for:

Ski -- this one I picked up from a past life in a major US corporation; it's an ia64 CPU simulator, originally used to develop Linux for the ia64 architecture and since then donated to the world at large as an open source project
- Project page: http://ski.sourceforge.net
- Download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=201975

bind2nsd -- a project designed to help keep some heterogeneity in the DNS world; it's not that BIND is bad, it's just that I like making sure I can help keep the Internet from becoming a monoculture.
- Project page: http://bind2nsd.sourceforge.net
- Download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=199888