Shawn Holwegner's Blog

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According to Alexia, I’m estimated at a traffic rank of 3,983,704, this means on this great wide internet, I’m number 3,983,704. Oh well. Perhaps I’ll come up with some extremely killer application and the world will beat it’s way to my door… er, webpage. ;)

From MacCentral:

Intego issues Mac OS X Trojan Horse warning By Jim Dalrymple jdalrymple@maccentral.com April 08, 2004 3:10 pm ET

Macintosh security specialists, Intego on Thursday issued a security warning to its customers for the first Trojan horse to affect Mac OS X. Dubbed MP3Concept (MP3V...

BTWinCap is an alternative Windows WDM driver for those with BrookTree/Conexiant based capture cards. This is a wonderful enhancement to those of us who have either unsupportted, or poorly supported hardware with newer systems (Such as drivers for Windows 98 only).

I’ve discovered that my MediaLa...

Mortis has updated MKVToolNix, and as such, my official MacOS X port has been updated as well. Note that mmg, the wxWindows based front-end is currently non-functional, and as such is not included.

MKVToolNix has been statically compiled, so you not need additional support software to use the in...

Since I like to keep up to date (and it didn’t work), I’ve submitted my first patch to an existing Gentoo build, specifically, mod_php. It utilized an old patch that was valid for elder revisions of PHP. Oddly, the bugs were fixed in PHP 4.3.5 for Apache 2, but not Apache 1; so I removed the pat...

My Optorite CW4002 has been exhibiting an odd issue. It will no burn over 32x, despite being a 40x CDRW drive. I have known good disks (newer build Ritek 40x), and it outright refuses to burn faster.

Here’s a screenshot using Nero’s CDTest on my PC with the 100E firmware:

\[Too slow\]

And now, with the upd...