Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

… the Speed Limit posted is viewed as a ‘serving suggestion’. Seriously! I knew I was back home when I was being passed like I was standing still when cruising down 101!

I’m back from Nevada, albiet with sunburn and a few days of accumulated scruff. I’m trying to get back into the swing of thing...

If you look here, you’ll find that I’ve updated the MacOS X port of BNBT to the 4.3 code base. I’ve also created a ‘Project Builder’ framework to build under Apple’s native development system.

Beyond this, BNBT 4.x supports user comments, quite a few updates, and some wonderful additions, bringi...

I’m driving up to Reno to spend some time with my folks. I’ll be back in a couple days. Please post any questions/issues to the forum, and not via email, if possible. Registration is, of course, optional.

I hope not to recieve too much brain damage from the horiffic weather, but we’ll see!

I’ve ported mailwrapper to MacOS X. This program, quite common in BSD derivatives, replaces common sendmail-style commands whith itself, doing a lookup for their companion definitions as specified in /etc/mail/mailer.conf, then executing them as required.

This makes it trivial to replace sendmai...

I love GNU’s wget. I use it every day.

First, some background. Elder revisions of wget would only display dots as you download larger files. This provided hours, well, at least seconds of amusement. Newer revisions have various user-configurable bits to set the type of status bar.

I miss those...

Recently, I’ve received a collection of various pictures of my family over the years, and had a bit of joy with nostalgia going through all of them.

Horrifically, I found a picture of myself when I was 14, dated December 1990. The frightful part of this, aside from my hair style, is that I look...