Shawn Holwegner's Blog

For the last few months, my bandwidth use as been increasing; and my pageviews have stayed relatively the same. Upon researching this, I’ve discovered that many places are now “hotlinking” directly to my programs, which means that the user might no idea what, or where they are getting the software f...

It’s my fault. I admit it. Upon hearing of a primary author of the MacOS X port of VLC “dropping out” for a spell; I wanted to make sure that I’d be able to continue to play my files!

I thus opted to attempt to update MPlayer. MPlayer OSX is horribly out of date, and rather slow. Horribly so....

GET THE HOLY WATER!

That’s not specifically my BioStar M7MIA; but that’s only because I’m a rather forgiving person. This motherboard has the old buggy VIA 686b chip; which renders both PCI and USB entirely unusable. I’m finally getting rid of it; I’ve got a nice ABIT NF7 coming to replace i...

Whist looking for utilities to manipulate the evasive Matroska format; I stumbled upon Mortiz Bunkus’ MKVToolNix tools.

I was suprised to see that no one had yet made a MacOS X port; and after a bit of a discussion with Mortiz; I guess I’m the official MacOS X port guy. Neat, huh?

You can sn...

I’m on a roll this morning; my Bozotic Port has been updated to the 18.02.2004 code base. It now supports SSL, redirection, and still touts CGI, virtual hosts, and the like.

A precompiled binary is available within the source package, as well as a poll() emulation header for compatibility with M...

I know it’s been forever (nearly two years) since I’ve worked on any original compisitions, but I’ve decided to dust off my rusty old fingers and do a simple little remix to see if I could remember.

I present to you, “Dope“, my mini-remix of Jugi’s song for Complex’s 1995 award winning demo musi...