Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

It started out rather cold this morning, and I can’t say I’m a big fan of having to scrape the car before I can get inside to start it. Thankfully, it was only that bad on the side not exposed to sunlight.

However, I had plans today- I was going to breakfast with a good friend, then enjoy the afte...

I’ve managed to do quite a bit over the last few months- getting up to date with CentOS, Ubuntu, the various BSDs, and of course, discovering Void.

Although it’s rather inexpensive, I no longer require more than a handful of rented servers for my personal use- so I’m dropping back to a couple dedi...

OK, so it’s not that exciting-

I made my first commit to Void Linux, updating the Adobe Pepper Flash component to the latest build available, completely built on the framework of another user who didn’t commit their work (for whatever reason).

Been working out bugs and other issues today, but no...

You might notice that I missed yesterdays’ update- my network was down until about 9pm due to poor weather finally eroding my cable (both signal and coax) to the point of being useless. It’s snowing today.

Not a lot to note since I can’t work on the cars- but I’m working on adding keepassxc to V...

GM, in their overtime-penny-pinching wisdom, left the cabin air intake (this is what goes through your heater, and your AC) open in the 2006-2013 Impala.

It’s nearly directly exposed to the weather. This cover (which was not designed to be completely watertight) will not keep water from pooling on...

The “Former Known As” Police Impalas are shaping up!

New fluids, bulbs, buffed out headlamps, and a preliminary rub of the paint- they don’t look all that bad. Oh, and I cleaned the engine compartment. I don’t understand why so many people let them stay filthy. They don’t need to be this clean...