===== Miscellaneous Hacks =====
These are various scraps of code that don't fit into other categories.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/aimbot/|AIMBot]]**\\
A collection of robots for [[http://aim.aol.com/|AOL Instant Messenger]].  Requires the TAC<sup>link needed</sup> client, and also possibly HeX<sup>link needed</sup>.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/apm.c|apm.c]]**\\
Display the current battery life on a [[FreeBSD]] system.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/buf_size.c|buf_size.c]]**\\
Determine the optimal buffer size based on the amount of system time required to write various blocks to a temporary file.  This doesn't seem to work anymore for some reason.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/bump-serial.sh|bump-serial.sh]]**\\
Bump the serial number in a standard DNS zone file to either the current date x 100, or increment it by one.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/cdda2mp3.rb|cdda2mp3.rb]]**\\
A Ruby script to rip, encode, tag, and organize MP3s from a compact disc.  Also see the original shell script version: [[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/cdda2mp3.sh|cdda2mp3.sh]].

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/clsearch.rb|clsearch.rb]]**\\
Search [[http://www.craigslist.org/|CraigsList]] for apartment listings based on location and price.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/ethvend/|ethvend]]** (also **[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/ethvend.tgz|ethvend.tgz]]**)\\
Identify the vendor of a specific Ethernet address, including by IP address (if it exists on the current subnet).

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/fetch-megatokyo.csh|fetch-megatokyo.csh]]**\\
Fetch all [[http://www.megatokyo.com/|MegaTokyo]] comic strip images.  I think this no longer works now that the URL scheme has changed.  Somebody should fix it.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/fp.c|fp.c]]**\\
Print the buffered IO callbacks used in libc for various file types.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/fxtvchan/|fxtvchan]]**\\
Change the channel from the command-line on "FreeBSD TV".  Works with Brooktree drivers for [[FreeBSD]].  Used with ffmpeg for headless recordording of TV shows.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/idle.c|idle.c]]**\\
Print a message to the terminal when another user stops being idle.  This is furiously nerdy, but I used it to stalk girls I had crushes on who used the same shell boxes.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/mipsdis.c|mipsdis.c]]**\\
A MIPS disassembler in 218 lines of ANSI C.  Could probably be shorter if it were less readable.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/mixer.sh|mixer.sh]]**\\
A bootstrap script for [[FreeBSD]] to maintain the audio mixer state between reboots.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/motd.asm|motd.asm]]**\\
Assembly language program to print the contents of ''/etc/motd''.  Doesn't seem to work anymore.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/port-update.csh|port-update.csh]]**\\
Update //only// a specific [[FreeBSD]] port and its dependencies from a CVS repository.  Avoids the overhead of doing a full update.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/rot-bg.plx|rot-bg.pl]]**\\
Rotate the X background image every //n// minutes from a cached directory of images.  I used this to alleviate boredom and freak out my coworkers.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/syscall.c|syscall.c]]**\\
Print the return value of a given syscall.  Not sure what this was useful for anymore.

**[[http://www.meowfishies.com/code/thetick/|thetick]]**\\
A fortune file of quotes from The Tick<sup>link needed</sup>.  Can be installed into ''/usr/share/games/fortune'' and used with ''fortune thetick''.