Welcome!
Mollensoft Labs is a
part-time endeavor for me and I am
committed to providing easy to use, reliable software designed to
significantly enhance productivity by simplifying tasks and operations.
I Love Coding In Perl... it’s by far the best
general programming language in existence (Pls Hurry P6!).
Update! As you can See I have started programming in .Net (Specifically
Visual Basic .Net V 2005)... and found it to be a blast and Free! The SqlFar, Mail Server and
Reachability King Utilities were Coded In Visual Basic .Net and they each are
pretty handy tools that I use Everyday... try them out.... if you like them,
drop me a note I would appreciate the Feedback.
Please Check Out My Google Gadget
as it is used by thousands of folks world-wide as a Real-time Dashboard
depicting the Earth's Magnetic Field Status as sensed by the NASA ACE
Satellite and numerous Global Magnetic Field Sensors!
I will be updating/creating a STEREO Google Gadget as soon as I can decipher the NASA CDF file format (?!)
As Always, please donate if you can! Donations as small as 1
dollar are graciously accepted and help keep the Terramagnetoscope running and supporting students and amateur scientist worldwide
I enjoy tinkering by engineering new software and
innovative scienctific projects... and learning along the way!
Please Check out My "Bit Propulsion By Perl" images on the Terramagnetoscope!
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Mollensoft News!
- 11/26/2009 My Art (first attempt) It's called pointy turbulance... More to follow
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06/26/2008
I've been working on a new application (developed in house) that
I've been asked to open up to others as it may provide utility to
others. It's called LogzPlotter and and you can check it out here! I am working on adding a UDP (firewall punching/LowBandwidth capability this month, using perlnet from Activestate's Perlnet lib and/or possibly using WeOnlyDo's WODVPN
lib which is pretty good too). I think it provides the real-time
capability some folks desire as well as the future potential of
immediately reacting to scans and hackers as defined in the
rulesXML file. [Lots More to come on this!].I have this tied into
my IPTables for Linux servers and am looking for a way to
immediately re-configure the Windows Server Firewall upon Scan
Detections or other activity defined by the rules file.
- 10/02/2007 My Son and I have finished the latest upgrade to the terramagnetoscope.net massive data aggregation project (written completely in Perl) and we are now ready to integrate even more data feeds (if we can find some that are real time in nature <less than 10 mins from sensing>
We are most interested in aquiring Ocean buoy data to overlay but it
seems the various sesors are NOT aggregated in any organized/real-time
fashion! Please contact me if you know of a real time data source that
would benefit the education of students. Its the last/only Terra that
we have, please help me create tools that enable us to analyze and
protect our world!!
- 08/22/2007 I have successfully operated the developmental Aquarium sensor, (data sensed and aggregated by a Basic Stamp)
project for 5 months and it has yielded some reallly insightful
results! I am now working on adding new sensors to the aquarium sensor
suite so that I can profile fish behaviour based on their movement
within the tank. This could help greatly detail how the fish are
'feeling'. If my plan works, I will publish a Perl module/.Net
Class of the existing scripts! Unfortunately, I am having difficulty
finding a cheap underwater capable IR camera so any suggestion(s) would
be appreciated! If you want the plans for this sensor, please contact
me, I will send you the plans and the code that operates the sensor
suite!
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7/17/2007
The latest magnetic sensor project has been uploaded. It is Not based
on a Fluxgate sensor and is an attempt to create an accurate Earth
field sensor from very basic materials including the use of Hall Effect
Sensors.... Click here to view the details of one of our summer projects! This particular sensor represents MONTHS of work/study and analysis.
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7/7/2007 My FLRRMaP Anti
Spam email protocol is currently in the process of being implemented
into a Email Server and Client for testing. Once this protocol is
implemented, you can say goodbye to all spam!
Its still a work in progress but the primary details are not changing
much and I'm just working thru client implementation challenges now as the server implementation works well. I
would appreciate any comments or suggestions regarding the protocol, so
please contact me if you have suggestions.
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5/21/2007 SqlFar
file Archive Tool has been released as freeware. We call it the
"Smarter Zipper Upper!"
It uses an Sqlite Database to store files and has enabled us to solve
some challenging problems presented by other Zip Utilities. Try
it out!
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3/21/2007 Reachability King
is about to be released, it 's a handy utility that helps keep track of
network resource reachability as well as integrated detailed logging!.
It uses SQLite as its logging database resource and XML files are used
to store the temporal reachability target information.
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5/28/2006 Terramagnetoscope
project has been launched! Due to the requirements with operating/managing
this student/amatuer scientist website, activity on mollensoft.com
will be curtailed for the forseeable future. If your
school would like to be involved in terramagnetoscope, please
contact us!
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5/10/2006 Due to the
increased time I've been spending working with students and amatuer scientists
on the terramagnetoscope project,
I am removing all the freeware projects/products from the mollensoft.com site.
If there was a product that you absolutely needed please contact me and I will
email you a download link!
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3/05/2006 [Magnetic
Field Sensor Project] I have updated the FGM-3 Magnetic Sensor Project You
can see it HERE I also have some fabulous
news coming by the end of the month concerning some rather sophisticated
Magnetic Field Analysis! Stay Tuned for More.
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1/15/2006 [Magnetic
Field Sensor Project] I received the Siteplayer Serial To Ethernet Converter in
the mail today and will be Uploading full Pictures and Video covering how to
connect/configure the magnetic sensor array to one's computer serial port as
soon as I finish configuring the system.
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1/10/2006 The Intranet Ftp Server has
been updated. Minor bugfix on reading the Config File. Only apparently
affected Windows 98 users.
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12/05/2005 I would like to propose5/21/2007 SqlFar
file Archive Tool has been released as freeware. We call it the
"Smarter Zipper Upper!"
It uses an Sqlite Database to store files and has enabled us to solve
some challenging problems presented by other Zip Utilities. Try
it out! to parents to engage their
children in software development for Science fair projects! Software is
great... try Perl or Visual Basic .Net if you want to quickly, and permanantly
engage your children in a "Science" that is both useful and fun! You and your
Children do not have to be experts to be reasonably productive and have fun!!!
Also, Microsoft is offering their Visual Basic Web Express Version for Free
(limited time I believe so act soon!)
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12/05/2005
- I will try to get the Laser Pointer Communication system documented and
uploaded to the site for parents to use for science fair projects by the end of
the month. Keep in mind you will need at least four Basic Stamps and two (any
color) laser pointers to complete this project.
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12/03/2005 - Click
HERE to view updated info about the "Ether
Compass" Project. I have made the compass sensor software available for
download. It Now logs serial readings to a self truncating log file. Makes
a GREAT Science Fair Project for your Child! Much More
To Follow on the Magnetic Field Sensor Project!
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12/03/2005 - Sorry about the late responses to
Forum Questions, I am having some difficulty with the authentication scripts.
I'll try and get them sorted out this weekend.
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12/02/2005 - Now accepting donations as a way of
funding my development efforts to help keep Software Free.
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11/04/2005 - Sorry for the HUGE lapse in time, alot has
happened for me as I am sure has happened for you :>) Firstly
, I am developing freeware apps for the forseable future.
Secondly, I Have stopped actively developing some of the older
applications as I focus on the new apps and programming in .NET!. I am keeping
the apps available for download for a while in hopes they will be useful to
folks that can make use of the utility they provide in their intranet/Lab/home
network on a shoestring budget. Thirdly, I deleted
all the "Mollensoft News" Dating back to Late 2000 because it was just making
this page too darn long!
Finally,
I am spending lots-o-time working on science projects which is significantly
slowing my app development time. Its probably just a phase, but I will post
pictures, diagrams and software for folks that may be interested in stuyding
Magnetics or re-creating the experience without re-creating the wheel!. Like
Larry Wall says, "Don't want too many half created wheels laying around".
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