Hmi and Appreciation Software for Windows

FDBGet
$0 - Carsten Schmidt

Forwarding database retrieval, fdbget.exe
Version 1.2.3; June 2006
Software by Carsten Schmidt

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Please report bugs and feature requests to:
Carsten@CCSchmidt.de

How does it work and what does it do?
Simply enter the IP address of your switch and its SNMP read community in the
fields and press the Retrieve Table button to get the list. If it fails you will
be told.
Fdbget.exe is a little tool to retrieve entries from the forwarding database
of switches. It gives you a table of MAC to interface number. If you are
looking for a specific MAC on a switch then simply enter the MAC or part of it
into the search field (without regular expressions).
The table results and search results are exported to separate files.


Comments
- Thanks to François Piette for the internet component suite


Version history

Version 1.2.0; November 2004
- added save list function
- added direct links to product homepage and mailto author

Version 1.1.1 June 2004
- added filter for learned addresses
- fixed bug in grid2 where results where written into the header
- fixed tab order

Version 1.1 March 2004
- minor bug fixes
- GUI redone
- cleaned up results to be shown in a table

Version 1.0 2003
First crude release to demonstrate the forwarding database table.

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MultiPing Grapher
$0 - Carsten Schmidt

MultiPing Grapher, Multiping.exe
Software by Carsten Schmidt

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Carsten@CCSchmidt.de


How does it work and what does it do?
MPG is a further development of Perfping with the ability to graph
up to 10 different ICMP results.
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Start the program, use File|Open host file to open a text file with a
list of maximum of 10 IP addresses.
You can also start the program with a host list as starting parameter.
E.g. Multiping.exe hosts.txt

Using predefined host lists, MPG will give you a fast way of checking
multiple connections immediately when you suspect trouble. Comparison
of the different results will give you an indication of where to look
first.
You may also adjust ping interval and ICMP payload (size of the data
portion of the ICMP packet) to fit your needs.

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Multiple Interface Watcher
$25 - Carsten Schmidt

Multiple Interface Watcher, MIW.exe
Version 1.1.0; April2005
Shareware by Carsten Schmidt

If you like this software and continue using it, please buy it. The price
is only 20 Euro. Follow the Paypal link on the webpage


Be sure to send your correct email address. It will be used as a user ID
and the registration code will be send to this address.

Please TRY BEFORE YOU BUY. No refunds will be given.

Please report bugs and feature requests to:
Carsten@CCSchmidt.de


How does it work and what does it do?

Generate a file with a list of devices that you want to monitor. Each line
in that file must follow the format given in the example file '
example_devices.txt':
;;;;.
Do not use more than 10 lines.

Start MIW and open your device file. You will see that a number of graphs
have changed their colour, they are now activated with your information.
Click on 'Start polling' to start the monitoring. The

Options
There are two places to change options: either by clicking on 'Show more'
which expands the GUI to show polling intervall and other options or you
select ToolsOptions from the menu to change graph behaviour.
All of the options are self explanatory like 'stay on top' and polling intervall.
If not, just try them out.

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ServiceWatchdog
$0 - Carsten Schmidt

ServiceWatchdog, servicewatchdog.exe
Version 1.0, May 2007
Software by Carsten Schmidt

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Carsten@CCSchmidt.de


What does it do and how does it work?
If you have problems with a service that does not start automatically after
a reboot because needed resources are not online yet, this software fixes
just this problem.
The name of this program is a little bit misleading but I could not come up
with something better. "Delayed service starter" would describe it better.

The ServiceWatchdog is started automatically after a reboot. After a predefined
time interval, this service tries to start a defined service. It will try to
start the service twice and then it gives up. No logs, event messages or other
information is written.


Installation
1. Install the service with the command "servicewatchdog /install"
Uninstall the service with the command "servicewatchdog /uninstall"

2. Start and stop the service in Computer Management. This creates the
needed registry keys.

3. Start regedit and select "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareCCSchmidtServiceWatchdog"
Edit the 3 keys according to your needs:
Servicename = service name of the service to be started (e.g. Clipsrv for
clipbook)
Interval = time interval between start of ServiceWatchdog and start of the
selected service in ms. Default is 300000 (5 minutes).
Active = run ServiceWatchdog or not. Possible values are "yes" and "no".
Default is "yes". (no surprises here).

Check that startup type of ServiceWatchdog is automatic.


Version history

Version 1.0, May 2007
First release

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SoftStep
$99 - Algorithmic Arts

SoftStep is a modular MIDI step sequencer patterned after the modular analog step sequencers. The big ones, with lots of knobs and blinky lights. But SoftStep goes far beyond its step sequencer roots, to give you algorithmic composing tools of all kinds, including fractal, chaos, probability, and numerical based algorithms of virtually unlimited flexibility.

To create a MIDI composition with SoftStep you create the modules and connect them together to produce a MIDI data stream that drives any MIDI synthesizer, or sound card. It will make a standard MIDI file for your web page, to insert into your music notation sequencer, or just play with any MIDI file player.

You can begin with a simple sequence, and then repeat, modify or combine and recombine it with other sequences. Not only do you hear the changes instantly, you also see them. SoftStep modules are visually dynamic, with values changing, lights blinking, indicators flashing. This visual dynamic is what sets SoftStep apart from other modular algorithmic programs, that let you make the connections but otherwise give minimal visual feedback. With SoftStep, even large, complex patches are easy to follow because nearly every module gives an animated visual indication of its processes.

A review in Electronic Musician Magazine says: "A fascinating program from Algorithmic Arts, SoftStep responds to your playing in creative and spontaneous new ways. Play a major scale on your MIDI controller, and the software responds with an exotic microtonal cluster. Play a few more notes, and it responds with a soft, delayed version of the melody at a tempo determined by your playing Velocity. When you pause for more than a specified period, a long arpeggiated chord sounds. The harmony unfolds in response to biological information from genetic code, and a background rhythm responds to the patterns of a fractal image on the screen. Those are only some of the musical scenarios you can produce with SoftStep."

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Squid Efficiency Analyzer
$0 - Carsten Schmidt

Squid Efficiency Analyzer, squideff.exe
Version 1.1.0; May 2005
Software by Carsten Schmidt

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Please report bugs and feature requests to:
Carsten@CCSchmidt.de


How does it work and what does it do?
Software has been tested with log files from Squid 2.5 STABLE 5 for
Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003

Open a log file and start analysis. Wait for the results which are shown
in an table (detailled view) and in a text field (summary). You may then
export the results to a file.
Squideff checks every line of the Squid log file and assigns occurrence
and traffic to the different cache codes. Afterwards, traffic from cache
and internet are calculated.

For this project I have decided to work with signed 64-bit integers in order
to work with large numbers (?2^63..2^63?1). Despite that, it may be possible
that values exceed this range. In that case, please tell me (not that I know
what to do about it).


The following codes are calculated as data coming from the cache:
- TCP_HIT
- TCP_REFRESH_HIT
- TCP_REF_FAIL_HIT
- TCP_IMS_HIT
- TCP_MEM_HIT
- TCP_OFFLINE_HIT
- UDP_HIT

The following codes are calculated as data coming from the internet:
- TCP_MISS
- TCP_REFRESH_MISS
- TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS
- TCP_SWAPFAIL_MISS
- UDP_MISS

The rest is shown as not considered for efficiency:
- TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT
- TCP_DENIED
- UDP_DENIED
- UDP_INVALID
- UDP_MISS_NOFETCH
- NONE

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