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  Pentium 1.5   (Downloads: 276) 
Java code to tell you facts about the Pentium and AMD CPU. Pentium works on Windows and Intel Pentium class and AMD 
CPUs to determine the CPUID information such as the vendor, 
brand/model, step, model, instruction set family, cpu serial 
number, and the RDTSC Time stamp register for high 
resolution timing measured in CPU cycles since the last 
boot. It is designed to be incorporated in your own Java 
progams. 
 
You can also use it as a standalone utility with: 
 
java.ex... 
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  Pluck 1.0   (Downloads: 204) 
Scans multiple files looking for a REGEX pattern, and summarised what it finds. Scans multiple files looking for a REGEX pattern, and 
summarised what it finds as a CSV file. 
 
java -jar C:\com\mindprod\pluck\pluck.jar  "\.[a-z]+\." E:\temp\temp.csv E:\somedir 
 
adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. 
The first parameter is the regex pattern. See regex in the java glossary 
for how to compose them. 
 
The next parameter is where the output in to go.  use the 
wo... 
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  FontShowerAWT 2.9   (Downloads: 330) 
Displays all the fonts available to AWT in Java. Displays all the fonts available to AWT in Java on your 
machine. Displays the fonts in a variety of styles, sizes 
and colours, rendered either with a Canvas or with a TextArea. 
 
FontShowerAwt displays the fonts available on *your* machine 
to *Java*. Other people will have different fonts installed 
and will see different selections available to Java on 
their machines. Your browser will see a slightly different 
set of fo... 
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  JDisplay 4.5   (Downloads: 419) 
JDisplay displays colorised program listings in web pages. JDisplay displays Java, HTML, bat, SQL, ini, csv, xml, mft 
properties...  files a variety of colours,  fonts, sizes 
and weights to help make them more presentable and readable. 
 
Why would you use it?  For the same sorts of reasons you use 
colours and fonts in an IDE like IntelliJ or Eclipse. They 
make the code much easier to understand. 
 
There is no server-side code used.  Java utilities parse the 
code snippets i... 
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  Password 1.7   (Downloads: 549) 
Generates random passwords that are hard to guess. Generates random passwords that are hard to guess.  It uses a crytographic quality random number generator. The passwords are generated locally in a Java Applet. They are never transmitted over the Internet, even in encrypted form. 
You can also run it as a standalone program, invoking it with 
java com.mindprod.password.Password 
or 
password.jar 
 
You can also run it online at the mindprod.com website without installing it.... 
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  FontShower 2.9   (Downloads: 496) 
Displays all the fonts available to Swing in Java. Displays all the fonts available to Java on your 
machine. Displays the fonts in a variety of styles, sizes 
and colours,  rendered either with anti-aliased or plain. 
 
FontShower displays the fonts available on *your* machine 
to *Java*. Other people will have different fonts installed 
and will see different selections available via Java on 
their machines. Your browser will see a slightly different 
set of fonts than Java ... 
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  FourTidy 3.1   (Downloads: 313) 
Tidies Take Command/TCC/4NT/4DOS DESCRIBE file descriptors To tidy, sort, prune and dedup a JP Software 
Take Command/TCC/4NT/4DOS hidden descript.ion file. These files are used by 
the DESCRIBE utility to track what your various files 
are for. 
 
First make the directory containing the usually-hidden descript.ion file 
current. e.g. 
 
C: 
cd \env 
 
Then invoke the java program with: 
 
java.exe -jar C:\com\mindprod\fourtidy\fourtidy.jar 
 
If you... 
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  Untouch 2.4   (Downloads: 436) 
Reverts files dates back if the files have not really changed. Documentation on the original student project outline 
mindprod.com/projects/untouchproj.html 
This explains how it works and some of its uses. 
 
Untouch supports the following command line switches which appear 
before the directories. 
-c or -clear = clear history first and take current file times as the new revert-to point. 
-f or -force = revert files back to previous dates whether they have changed or not. 
-h or -help =... 
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  Converter 5.5   (Downloads: 413) 
How to Interconvert any of the Java primitives. Conversion Amanuensis. Conversion teaching tool. Shows you how to convert any of the 17 basic Java types into any of the other. Conversion Amanuensis as your side whenever you need Java code to convert anything to anything else.  Runs an as Applet or application. 
 
To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, available from 
winzip.com (or similar unzip utility) into any 
directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the (user 
folder names) option. To run ... 
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  Biorhythms Calculator 2.7   (Downloads: 928) 
Calculates and displays biorhythm graphs. Calculates and displays biorhythm graphs. 
 
Enter your birthdate and this Applet and it will calculate 
your biorhythms.  It computes your 23-day physical, 28-day 
emotional, 33-day intellectual and combined cycles.  The 
combined cycle is sometimes called the luck cycle.  The 
theory of biorhythms is when the cycles are positive/high 
you will have high energy.  When they are negative/low you 
will have low energy. When they... 
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  Comparators 1.4   (Downloads: 312) 
Comparator classes to include in your Java  programs. Java classes to include in your programs. Includes: 
HTMLArrayComparator.java: Compares two arrays of Strings of HTML, ignoring embedded tags. 
HTMLComparator.java: Compares two Strings of HTML, ignoring embedded tags. 
StringComparator.java: Compares two Strings, case sensitive. 
StringComparatorIgnoreCase.java: Compares two Strings, case insensitive. 
 
Not useful on its own, though you can run the debugging harness with: 
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  Insult 1.9   (Downloads: 331) 
Generates insults typical of those posted by Republicans in newsgroups. Generates insults typical of those posted by Republicans in 
the alt.politics.bush newsgroup. 
 
Java Applet that can also be run as an application. 
 
You can run it without installing it at 
mindprod.com/applet/insult.html 
 
To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, (or similar unzip utility) into 
any directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the (user 
folder names) option. To run as an application,... 
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  Compactor 3.4   (Downloads: 576) 
Compresses HTML by removing unnecessary white space. Compresses HTML by removing unnecessary white space. 
 
Compacts HTML so that web pages are 20% smaller and hence 
20% faster. It does this by removing all unnecessary white 
space.  To fluff files up again, I suggest using SlickEdit 
beautify. The file will render on browsers exactly as they 
did before. Any [pre] sections are left intact. No comments 
are removed. 
 
NOTE THE COMPACTOR JUST COMPACTS YOUR HTML. IT DOES N... 
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  Borders 1.5   (Downloads: 231) 
Displays a variety of decorative borders. Shows off what you can do with Swing. Displays a variety of decorative borders. 
Shows off what you can do with Swing. 
 
To run as an application, type: 
 
java -jar C:\com\mindprod\borders\borders.jar 
 
adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. 
 
The picture frame icon represents the various decorative 
borders you can put around your Swing panels.... 
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  CreditCard Validator 1.8   (Downloads: 403) 
Verifies that credit card number is valid. The CreditCard Validator will help you tell: 
1. if a credit card number is valid, 
2. which credit card vendor handles that number. 
 
It is a simple Applet to demonstrate the use of the ValidateCreditCard class. 
 
It validates the prefix and the checkdigit. It does *not* contact the credit card company to ensure that number has actually been issued and that the account is in good standing. 
 
It will also tell you which of ... 
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  Volser 1.2   (Downloads: 372) 
Gets the 4-byte 32-bit binary volume serial number in Windows. Gets the 4-byte 32-bit binary volume serial number of a Windows 
disk drive assigned when it is formatted to provide and almost unique id. 
Don't confuse this with the volser(, the string name, 
or the manufacturer's disk serial number assigned to a hard drive at the factory. 
Uses JNI and C++ native code. 
 
Consists of  java and JNI you include in your own code. 
 
You can test with 
 
  C: 
  CD \com.mindprod... 
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  Encodings 1.6   (Downloads: 248) 
Applet to list all supported encodings (character sets) supported by Java. Applet to list all supported encodings (character sets) 
supported by your browser/java. 
 
To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, 
(or similar unzip utility) into 
any directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the (user 
folder names) option. To run as an application, type: 
 
java -jar C:\com\mindprod\encodings\encodings.jar 
 
adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.... 
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