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stols.com/net : software
Disclaimer: All the programs are free. They come without any warranty. You are
using them at your own risk.
MD5 PACK
MD5 signatures can be useful to verify the integrity
of files, e.g. after copying. The two free utilities in the MD5 pack allow you to make
and check signatures in an easy and fast way.
Detailed information is available on the MD5 pack page.
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LL2MP3 (Flac
& Ape to MP3 converter)
This free frontend combines a FLAC to MP3
converter with an APE to MP3 converter. The tags present in the lossless
audio files are transferred to MP3 files. More information is available on the LL2MP3 page.
The older frontends processing FLAC only and APE
only are still available as well; they are not updated anymore. Use LL2MP3
instead.
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DIRECTORY SIZES
This is a useful tool that displays an overview
of subdirectory sizes in a selected directory. It features a colored bar graph
of the values found. The list of subdirectories can be sorted according to name
or to size. Useful to find out where all the free disk space has gone you thought was still left!
Try out the version 1.5.0.16 (228,041 bytes)! Take a look at a screenshot.
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CONTINUED FRACTIONS
Continued fractions are
fun if you want to find two whole numbers which, when one is divided into the
other, give a good approximation to a certain rational number. Take for example
the number PI. It is known to numerous decimals: but by which two numbers (other
than 22/7) can
it be approximated with good accuracy? Take a look at the Continued
Fraction Program.
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EASTER SUNDAY
Did you ever wonder how the calendar makers
knew when exactly Easter Sunday would be a certain year? Well, perhaps they make
use of my little Easter Sunday program
that finds for you the date of that day for any year of the Gregorian Calendar...
The algorithm I use is derived from the famous
Gauss formula, published in 1800 (Von Zach's Monatliche Correspondenz 1800, pp
121 and 223). The calculation is an implementation of the method given in:
W.E. van Wijk "De late paasch van 1943", The Hague, 1943.
Proof of the Gauss formula has been given by many authors,
the most recent of which mentioned in Van Wijk's book is:
H.L. Vernhout "De berekening van het Paaschfeest volgens de formule
van Gauss", Groningen, 1920.
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