Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

Much like my last extended period of not posting, I have once again had the same.

Life runs quickly, and with long hours experiencing it, there’s a lot less time available here, on the virtual landscape.

I may try to do more updates just so those who are still in touch at a distance will be able...

I’ve been using OpenWRT for years, and the idea of using a little bit of storage on an otherwise-wasted USB port makes the idea of an idling IRC client, or a handful of other minimal services has always appealed to me. I suppose that’s why I still have a 64MB VPS out in the wild.

For anyone who h...

I bit the bullet and upgraded to TXP 4.7.3 from my modified 4.0->4.2.x->4.6.x code bases, and.. it didn’t take all that much effort to get back basic functionality- most of the plugins I relied upon have been taken in by the TXP community and rebuilt, or integrated similar functionality has been int...

“Why would I care about running KernelCare on an unsupported distribution”, you might ask me. “What are you talking about? Why are you here?! Get off my lawn!” might be another.

KernelCare is a great idea which sometimes breaks, but usually keeps you well within your SLA. It lets you do nearly-rea...

Welcome, one, and all to 2019. Kicking, screaming, and otherwise- we’re all here.

Well, I wanted to bring you something from the archives of “Wait, that happened?”

Here’s an Atari ST demo song by Mad Max. It was so good that I encoded it to MP3 20 some years ago so I could save it to play on my...

We’ve entered an interesting time on the internet.

I’ve always been a proponent of free speech- whether I agree with you, or not. I’ve never tried to do more than ridicule people who have a differing opinion.

We’ve entered another era.

People are no longer content making fun of, teasing, or ot...