BITCH<title>Ali's XCF Home Page</title>
<h1>Ali's XCF Home Page</h1>
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I'm no longer an XCF active member, though I still keep the hacks on this
page current. I'm current a <a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/~rahimi">
grad student at MIT.</a>
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Check out my <a href="http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ali/oldhack/oldhack.html">
<em>This Old Hack</em></a> for a list of some of my other hacks.
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Meet the other <a href="/">XCF</a> <a href="/members.html">members</a>.
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See what some of the actives have been saying during meetings when you
weren't listening. Look at the XCF <a href="quotes.html">QUOTES</a> page.
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Patent new terms and words on <a href="word-patent.html">The XCF Word
Patent Page</a>.
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Regular <a href="screenshot.gif">screenshots</a> of my workspace.
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<A HREF="csua-quotes">More Quotes</a> from CSUA and various other people.
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     Many software people do not "have a life," therefore, they have
     very little real contact with problem domains. ... Many hackers
     grow up to be system administrators because this is a "problem
     domain" that works well with the limited real-life experiences
     that they have. <i>-- Jim Fleming.</i>
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     The ClipSave package is WhateverWare. If you like it, send me a
     postcard or some money, or donate to your favorite charity, or
     bake some brownies, or call your grandmother, or whatever. <i>-- Russ
     Nelson.</i>
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     Lisp in action is like a finely choreographed ballet.
     Ada in action is like a waltz of drugged elephants.
     C in action is like a sword dance on a freshly waxed floor.
	<i>-- Chris Ross.</i>
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    Artificial Intelligence is the study of how to make real computers
     act like the ones in movies.
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    After the feast of the egos, everyone leaves hungry.
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<li><B><a href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ali/Predator">Predator</a>: </B>A Motion Capture System Using Computer Vision.
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	<li><B><a href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pm/horatio">Horatio</a>:
	</b>A real time computer vision library. Starting to look more like a
	real-time Matlab.
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	<li><B><a href="http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~ali/DU/DU.html">DU</a>:</B>
Distributed Users. A system which allows people who live on
different machines to interact with each other as if they were logged on to
the same machine.
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	<li><B><a href="http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~ali/K0D">K0D</a>:</B>
The XCF's code repository. It's slowly beginning to take off! I put most of
my hacks here instead of mentioning them directly on this page.
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	<li> <B><a href="fiddlesticks">FiddleSticks!</a>:</B> A neat 20 minute
hack to help you beat your firewall.
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	<li> <B><a href="/~ali/npong.c">Networked Pong</a>:</B> One of the
stupidest things I've ever written.
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	<li> <B><a href="/~ali/libugrad">libugrad </a>:</B> The stupidest
thing I've ever written.
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	<li> <B><a href="/~ali/comparator.cc">comparator.cc</a>:</b> Defines
C++ integers so that transitive boolean operations like "A < B < C" work.
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	<li> <B><a href="/~ali/getcut.c">getcut.c</a>:</b> Gets the X windows
cut buffer and print it to stdout. Very complicated.
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	<li> <B><a href="/~ali/ebonics.el">ebonics.el</a>:</b> Makes Emacs
converse with you more fluently.
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	<li> <B><a href="/~ali/cie.mat">cie.mat</a>:</b> Table of CIE color matching functions. I had to type them in by hand. Now you don't have to. Getting a floppy from CIE will cost you too much and won't be worth your trouble.
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	<li> <B><a href="/~ali/puzzles">Puzzles</a>:</b> I'm going to start
sharing the cooler puzzles I come across.
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	<li> <B><a href="/~ali/elpp/elpp.el">elpp</a>:</b> Embed arbitrary lisp
code in the middle of your source. I use it as a preprocessor for my config
files and source code.

	<li> <B><a href="/~ali/elpp/cgen.el">elpp</a>:</b> Lisp routines for
generating C code. Also see <a href="/~ali/elpp/elppc.el">elppc.el</a>, elpp
extensions for C.
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	<li> <B><a href="/~ali/wpointer.cc">wpointer</a>:</b>Warp the pointer
to an X window using the keyboard. Better than "next-prev" and better than
Window's stupid Alt-TAB brain damage.
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	<li> <B><a href="refcount/refcount.h">C++
smartpointers</a>:</b>Provides almost seamless garbage collection with
an automatically reference counted pointer class. See <a
href="refcount/refcount.cc">refcount.cc</a> for an example.
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