Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

Not too long before Ogg Vorbis, Emmett Plant was working on BlinkTags. I miss that comic.

Thankfully, someone else liked it, and had an archive. I haven’t bothered to look at the new stuff, though. It might be good.

[Edit: It appears that the original crew, well, most of the original crew, plu...

I turned on my old PowerMac 5300 today in an attempt to snarf some pictures off of my ancient PDC-3000 camera – and all seemed well, but the mouse refused to work. I tried removing a few things on the ADB chain, to no avail. It appeared to be getting power from the keyboard. Odd.

Plugged in a seco...

I’ve rebuilt DOSBox for Panther.

It’s been tagged 0.60 recently – I’ve built a small wrapper around it, and it works! Only a general subset of 386 protection is supported, somewhat trivial sound card emulation, and emulated modem support via SDL_net.

As stated on the DOSBox home page:

“Eve...

I’ve updated my port of Bozotic to MacOS X.

It works with MacOS X 10.2 and 10.3. I’ve still got the ‘fake’ poll included – even though under Panther, Apple’s included one of their own, oddly, a similar emulation to that which I first used, but I found to be slower than the alternative which I ha...

ftp> ! 8:21 [maccy] /Users/shawn%vi groovy.php 8:21 [maccy] /Users/shawn%exit ftp> zsh: suspended (tty output) ftp blorblesnort.org 8:21 [maccy] /Users/shawn%fg [1] + continued ftp blorblesnort.org 221 Goodbye. 8:21 [maccy] /Users/shawn%

Why’s it taking my return from shell as a signal to logout?...

I’ve run into a few various issues with a clean install of 10.3 since I’ve received it. Other than my own personal feelings about the Finder being metallic, and a few other oddities, it does feel a bit snappier than 10.2. Then again, I don’t have a whole lot of stuff running at the moment. ;)

Safa...