Simon Cook

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This is a shell script that will pull 5 random characters from /dev/random and print them out to standard output. It was created as the input component for a random password generator that I am currently writing. Note on using /dev/random: as usual, using this source for entropy will give you pure randomness, though due [...]

Time to reveal the first image of Techious2, showing an idea inspired from many elements from my previous websites. Partially it is based on some old Ratchet2 design that never made it to launch. Here it is: Now I’ve just put text here, but soon I intend to mix these elements with the spage system, [...]

Well, kind of, the real link to read this kind of garbage is here, and it only shows the magic that is the Techious2 developer blog posts. Here (or there) I will be posting updates as to how the Techious2 project is going as it happens. Now for a small introduction. Techious2 is (obviously) the [...]

Now it’s about time for some real content. Presenting the first publicly visible project, the VAT Converter! Inspired by the need to convert prices from the old 17.5% VAT standard over here in the UK to the new 15%, I wrote a little script to do this for you. I will at some point release the [...]

Here goes nothing, a nice new plugin for my blog so I can highlight code… let’s see if it works: 1 2 3 4 5 #include <stdio.h>   int main(void){ printf("Hello World\n"); } Yup, that seems to work