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Title	Author	Date	Last comment

Linux\|Unix Application Development	Tony Lawrence	2005 01

NETTEST	Shade Tree Software Inc	2000 01

Text vs. Binary Data formats	Tony Lawrence	2003 10

Using Netcat for a simple lpr client	Carsten Hammer	2002 09

Fork and exec with Perl	Tony Lawrence	2003 10	2005/07/22 21:45 anonymous

Perl Input	Tony Lawrence	2003 10

Javascript Bit Twiddler II	Tony Lawrence	1997 12






Random subroutines in Perl	Anthony Lawrence	2007 11	2007/11/17 21:08 TonyLawrence

Library Cross Reference	Tony Lawrence	2002 03

Jim Mohr's SCO Companion	James Mohr	2005 07

Buffer Overflow Attacks	Tony Lawrence	2005 02	2008/06/02 12:42 PollyFrost

Handling missing data in inputs	Tony Lawrence	2004 09	2005/03/17 22:01 TonyLawrence

Smart text reformatting with Perl	Tony Lawrence	2004 09

IOMEGA REV Drive with Fedora Core 2	Tony Lawrence	2004 09	2007/10/16 17:13 anonymous

Converting Print Files to HTML Invoices	Tony Lawrence	2002 11

Another Password to Ldap Script	Tony Gibson	2001 10

Using Multiple Submits with Perl CGI	Anthony Lawrence	2008 01

Custom 404 Pages	Tony Lawrence	2000 01

Javascript Calendar	Tony Lawrence	1997 12

Spamassassin on Mac OS X	Tony Lawrence	2003 03	2005/07/08 10:13 TonyLawrence

Fixing 404 errors	Tony Lawrence	2004 07

Email attachment stripping	Bob Meyers	2001 12	2005/08/01 17:26 BigDumbDinosaur

Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom	Tony Lawrence	2004 12

Simple FAQ Creator	Tony Lawrence	2002 11

Perl script to get Numly	Anthony Lawrence	2008 01

Running out of space for web logs	Tony Lawrence	2004 06

Simplified OSR5 Printing	BigDumbDinosaur	2005 01

How many RSS readers do you really have?	Anthony Lawrence	2007 11

Unix passwd to LDAP Script	Tony Lawrence	2000 01

Real World U/SQL TCL script	Bruce Baumann	2001 08

Perl idleout	Tony Lawrence	1998 11

lp driver include file	Tony Lawrence	1997 12

lp driver- debugging parallel driver	Tony Lawrence	1997 12

Simple Schedule	Anthony Lawrence	2006 02	2006/02/26 22:59 TonyLawrence

Squidlog II	Tony Lawrence	2003 05	2008/12/12 20:08 TonyLawrence

USB I/O on Wiring.org board	Anthony Lawrence	2007 11

POST,GET: Tech Words the Day	Tony Lawrence	2005 03

WinPopup	Keith Farrar, Michal Jaegermann	2004 02	2005/05/29 06:26 anonymous

Backlinks (http_referrers)	Tony Lawrence	2002 10

Log Serial Port Data to a Specified Logfile	Bruce Garlock	2002 09

bfind.c- Finds which file contains a block	Tony Lawrence	1997 12

Surveys with Google Graphs	Anthony Lawrence	2007 12

The AutoMagic Web Site	Tony Lawrence	2000 10	2006/07/06 14:18 TonyLawrence

CUPS print to file - the hard way!	Tony Lawrence	2003 03	2009/10/31 11:12 TonyLawrence

Ad Tracking and Rotation	Tony Lawrence	2001 03

Operating System Concepts	Tony Lawrence	2003 05	2007/09/21 11:48 anonymous

Some Assemblance of Order	Tony Lawrence	2003 09

cpdos- Dos Shell Script Helper	Tony Lawrence	1997 12

Source code search engine	anonymous	2004 11

Printing to a remote printer with a dynamic address	Tony Lawrence	2003 06	2008/07/15 05:29 AnupKatariya




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Goal seeking code	Tony Lawrence	2005 01

No programming	Tony Lawrence	2004 07

Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5	Tony Lawrence	2004 12

Perl Getopt and GetOptions	Tony Lawrence	2003 09	2009/07/02 09:50 hemant

Squid Log Analyzer	Tony Lawrence	2001 02

Who locked that file?	Anthony Lawrence	2007 11	2007/11/15 15:29 BigDumbDinosaur

Random errors in Perl	Anthony Lawrence	2007 12

Getopt and getopts	Tony Lawrence	2003 09	2009/10/19 23:28 hb6381

Handling missing data	Anthony Lawrence	2006 12

visitors web log analyzer	Tony Lawrence	2005 06

Understanding Floating Point Formats	Tony Lawrence	2003 09	2009/02/27 14:49 ScottHanson

Sample Test Question Creation	Tony Lawrence	2003 01

lp driver ioctl program	Tony Lawrence	1997 12

Around	Tony Lawrence	1999 11

Creating Simple Logs With Perl and HTML	Tony Lawrence	2002 02	2005/05/08 19:21 anonymous

showmem- shows contents of memory pages	Tony Lawrence	1997 12

Setting up Netcat Printers	Steve Fabac	2002 01

Sometimes you should reinvent the wheel	Anthony Lawrence	2008 01	2009/02/08 13:50 TonyLawrence

A Y2k problem solved with Expect	Tony Lawrence	1999 05	2006/03/22 11:16 TonyLawrence

about- search body of man pages	Tony Lawrence	1997 12

Yesterday	Tony Lawrence	1999 08	2009/02/04 12:26 TonyLawrence

Real World Printer script	Bruce Baumann	2001 08

Simple RSS Feed Generator	Tony Lawrence	2003 08

Notify Cell Phone of Incoming Mail	Tony Lawrence	2003 02

Noted in Passing June 2002	Tony Lawrence	2002 06






Javascript Bit Twiddler	Tony Lawrence	1997 12

Perl mailsplit.pl splits mail files	Tony Lawrence	1998 11

Simple User Request Web Forms	Tony Lawrence	2002 10

Determining clients IP address by service and PID	BigDumbDinosaur	2004 11

Equal height CSS columns with filler text	Anthony Lawrence	2007 12	2007/12/06 21:58 TonyLawrence

Virus Research and Defense	Tony Lawrence	2005 02

User Friendly Date Script	Tony Lawrence	2001 06

Transferring mail to a new mail server	Tony Lawrence	2005 01

'makekey' for Linux	Steggy	2008 12

dird- dumps OSR5 directories	Tony Lawrence	1997

How and where to start writing first Shell Script in UNIX Part 2	Rakesh Awasthi	2004 08

Perl Web Log Analyzer	Tony Lawrence	2000 03

An example of poorly commented code...	Bruce Garlock	2005 01

Books: Buffer Overflow Attacks		2005 02 (February)	2008/06/02 12:42 PollyFrost
Books: Virus Research and Defense		2005 02 (February)
Books: Linux Application Development		2005 01 (January)
Books: Perl 6 Now: The Core		2004 12 (December)
Books: Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom		2004 12 (December)