Homepage of Arthur de Jong

Hi, I'm Arthur de Jong and this is my homepage. I live in Delft in the Netherlands. I finished my computer science study (M.Sc.) at Delft University of technology and am currently working for West Consulting as a software engineer.

I'm also active at De Koornbeurs (a student/youth organisation), mainly with financial stuff. I am book-keeper there and am responsible for ensuring the correctness of the financial administration. De Koornbeurs is located in the monumental building of the same name in the center of Delft. The fun thing about the Koornbeurs is that nothing ever works yet most of the work gets done just in time. I like the unprofessionalism of the organisation.

I am also a Debian developer. I currently maintain four packages in Debian.

Here is a list of links to several projects I have worked on or am working on. Also there are some links to documentation and other stuff I've written or made.

Hacking a security tag

Illustrated guide to removing a security tag from a piece of clothing. 2008-04-13

nss-pam-ldapd - NSS and PAM modules for lookups using LDAP

NSS and PAM modules that allow your LDAP server to provide unix account/group/host and other information that you would normally get from /etc flat files or NIS. It also alows you to do authentication to an LDAP server. 2006-12-23

webcheck - website checker

A website checking tool for webmasters. It crawls a given website and generates a number of reports. The whole system is pluggable allowing easily adding extra reports and checks. 2005-07-24

cssmenu - simple dropdown menu using only CSS

These are more or less my notes of an effort to implement a very simple dropdown-like menu that is implemented purely in HMTL and CSS. 2005-06-09

ldapgdmfaces - generate faces for gdm from LDAP

Small perl script to extract gdm face files from an LDAP directory. 2005-04-16

svn2cl - Subversion ChangeLog

An xslt script that generates a classic ChangeLog from a subversion repository. It is partially based on some ideas that I saw on changelog generation but was not completely happy with. 2004-11-29

crash recovery using debsums

A small document describing a way to recover some disk corruptions without a complete reinstall. 2004-11-08

some nautilus emblems

I've put some of the emblems I use in nautilus online. Just for fun. 2004-08-10

using WPC54G with Debian

This document describes the steps I used to get my Linksys WPC54G CardBus 802.11g wireless network adapter to work under Debian GNU/Linux. This is really a one-time document that I do not really intend on keeping up-to-date. 2004-05-22

bindery2ldif - convert a NetWare Bindery to LDIF

This simple perl script uses tools from the ncpfs package to query the NetWare Bindery and export all the data as an LDIF file. It should be possible to import this data into a LDAP server.
This script was written for one-time use, so it's not very polished and you shouldn't expect many updates. 2003-06-16

cvsd - a cvs pserver daemon

cvsd is a wrapper program for cvs in pserver mode. It will run 'cvs pserver' under a special uid/gid in a chroot jail for improved security. It is fully configurable through a configuration file and tools are included for setting up a chroot jail.

rl - Randomize Lines

Tool for picking a random line or a number of random lines from a text file or stream. I made this to use in a script to play a random sound from a large collection of audio files.

IDEA module for GnuPG

A Debian source package for building IDEA support into GnuPG. Not a very nice solution but one that works for me anyway.

my computer science study

A list of my grades of my computer science study. 2001-02-23

AAA

Documentation, source, presentation slides and other stuff of my graduation project. AAA concerns Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting where I focused on accounting protocols and applications. Main documentation is in Dutch but java source is documented in English and some English documentation is available. 2001-07-12