I was informed via e-mail from my web hosting provider that Dice Service 3.4 must be shut down forever.
Dice Server 3.4 is a Perl script that I developed a few years ago that allows on-line board gamers to roll various types of dice. Unfortunately, as my dice rolling form requires the use of e-mail […]

After two years of development, IPS 8.0, Zoran Corporation’s latest and greatest version of their Integrated Printing System, supporting the PCL, PCL/XL, Postscript, PDF and XPS languages, has finally been frozen. So ends a 9 month stretch of intense coding.
With that out of the way for now, I can get back to some other […]

On the fiction front, I uploaded 7 chapters of FeldChronicles #3. The FeldChronicles are works of science fiction based on characterizations of members of the Barscape science fiction forum.

After improving LZ77, I ported my improvement to my implementation of the Deflate algorithm. Deflate uses a 32K sliding window and a 258 maximum phrase size, which corresponds to my worst case LZ77 compression test. The Linux program gzip uses the deflate algorithm and can compress my test file in less than 1 […]