Welcome to my little home in the cyberspace!

"Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking." -- Richard Stallman

Contacts

You can contact me in different ways (replace at with '@' and dot with '.'):

Jabber

You can use jabber, an open XML based protocol for instant messaging, my JID is gscrivano at gmail dot com, but rarely you can find me online.

Email

My email address is: gscrivano at gnu dot org.

My GPG key.

Projects (where I am directly involved or I follow carefully)

The GNU Project

The GNU Project was launched to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is completely free software. http://www.gnu.org

GNU MyServer

GNU MyServer is a powerful and easy to configure web server with a lot of built in features. Visit the official site http://www.myserverproject.net if you are interested.

GNUzilla

The goal of the GNUzilla project is to provide a completely Free version of the popular mozilla source code. Visit the official site for more information: http://gnuzilla.gnu.org.

Emacs

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. But I use it for a lot of other things too, read about it here if you don't know about: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/.

Hurd

The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. The biggest difference from the UNIX kernel is that hurd uses a microkernel; at the moment it works on gnumach but probably it will be developed on a faster microkernel, http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html.

Hurd Extras

Hurd extras is a project to host developing translators or software specifically for GNU Hurd. Visit the savannah page if you are interested: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/hurdextras/.

A* algorithm implementation

A* (A star) is a pathfinding algorithm http://code.google.com/p/a-star/.

pyCodeAnalizer

pyCodeAnalizer is an auditing tool for source code. http://code.google.com/p/pycodeanalizer/.

Files and documents

HTTP Digest scheme for APT This patch enables the HTTP proxy digest scheme in the debian APT packages manager, I had to write this to allow debian users at my university to use apt behind a proxy with the digest scheme.

Force autocompile .el for emacs This patch enables auto compilation of .el files in emacs if they are newer than the respective .elc file. Define force-auto-compile to a non nil value in your ~/.emacs to enable it.

How write a HTTP manager for myserver This tutorial shows how it is possible to write a HTTP manager for the MyServer web server. A HTTP manager allows to load a plugin in the web server to dinamically manage a MIME type.

A dev-cpp package for libevent The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. For more information look at the official libevent web site.

MyServer threads model A very preliminary version of a paper describing the MyServer threads model.

The MyServer development model The agile development model used for the GNU Myserver web server.

Brain Fuck intepreter A Brain Fuck interpreter written in Python. If Brain Fuck is the easiest language to write an interpreter for, probably Python is the easiest language to use.

Other stuff

Hack for Freedom A modified version for Manowar's Fight for Freedom.

A nice suggestion An interesting suggestion from the Microsoft website.

http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/gscrivano My ohloh.net profile page.

No animals were harmed or non-free software was used during the creation of this web site