Dan Kegel's Home Page

My current home page is www.kegel.com, better just go there!

My wife's home page is www.zilf.org. Click on the zilflet to see what she's been up to.

This page is a quaint little time capsule... horton, for instance, was an email directory system *that relied on open relays* to function properly!

The need for speed

• My ISDN page, circa 1996. Of historic interest only. ISDN is a great example of how the telephone company just didn't get it... Includes pointers to all vendor ISDN web pages I knew about back then.
• My ADSL page, circa 1998. Not of much interest anymore. Includes pointers to all vendor *DSL web pages I knew about back then.
• My Fast Ethernet page, circa 1998. Includes pointers to all web pages about Fast Ethernet I knew of back then.
• My fast hard drive page. References and resources for finding fast hard drives, circa 1998.
• Internet Resources - Cable Television
• Fixing an Overloaded Web Server - what to do if you can't install more RAM

Usenet

• The la.personals newsgroup's home page
• The la.config newsgroup's proposed home page
• About regional newsgroup hierarchies

Software

• A few notes on multiplayer game programming (Dec '98)
• Peer-to-peer networking and Network Address Translators (NAT's) (Dec '98)
• Fonts and Internationalization in Java
• Automating Visual C++ Builds with Perl - examples and unsolved problems
• Overlapped Serial I/O Under Win95 - examples and unsolved problems
• Microsoft Winsock 2, Microsoft Front Page, and Sun's JRE 1.1.5 - how to escape from disaster when your end users install JRE 1.1.5 and Front Page stops working
• Microsoft Project survival manual - things you need to know before you try to use Microsoft Project. (Ignore these at the risk of becoming extremely frustrated!)
• How to compile "Hello, World" in C on Win95 and run it it under MacOS. All hail CodeWarrior!
• Extension Languages - for embedding inside applications to make them configurable and extensible
• Web resources about GNATS (aka PRMS), the GNU Bug Tracking System
• wwwgnats, a WWW front end for GNATS, the GNU Bug Tracking System. Written by yours truly. (15 Mar 95)
• TCP/IP Programming for MS-DOS
• Network progamming for computer games
• Uwho, a front end to many e-mail directory services. Makes whois easy.
• Horton, an easy way to create an e-mail directory for your campus. Uses finger to maintain a user database for all hosts in your domain. Automatically discovers new hosts monthly. Unlike netfind, user queries never cause a finger.
• nansi.sys and nnansi.com - improved ANSI screen drivers for MS-DOS
• My old FTP archives, now only available via http. Includes some stuff for DOS, DSP, CAD, e-mail address discovery, Unix security, a travelling salesman solver, a IP address scanner for Win95 clients of Novell fileservers, etc.
• Mon - a network monitoring toolkit.

Health

• Dan Kegel's Life Advice -- or, do as I do, not as I did!
• Two Guys talking about their Carpal Tunnel experiences -- me and a friend share stories and tips about RSI NEW
• Dan Wallach's typing injury FAQ
• Los Angeles RSI Support Group NEW
• ErgoWeb Home Page - ergonomics info.
• Bilbo Innovations, Inc. - STEP ON IT! Keyboard Control Pedals
• Nancy's Voice Input Devices Page

Fun and Games

• Dan Kegel's Personal Mechwarrior 2 Page
• Books I have or will read