Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

It’s not public yet, so I doubt it’s fair to post a patch. Tough, I’m doing it anyway.

BNBT is a BitTorrent compatible Tacker written in C++, which uses the abhorrent allegro library. This, in turn requires the libraries which it supports, namely the blasted X11 and esd below. I’ll eventually ya...

Yeah, it’s not front-page worthy, so I dumped it here.

I’ve updated Gallery to b27. They’ve finally got CSS integrated with different things regarding each subalbum, but it’s still a bit odd, and slightly broken when dealing with the root. Thankfully, this bug doesn’t require any more editing of t...

mysql> create database gallery2; mysql> grant select, insert, update, delete, create, alter on gallery2.* to gallery2@localhost identified by ‘mypassword’ with grant option;

Well, I did the deed. I’ve been playing with ‘Gallery 2’ from CVS. It’s rather lacking, and I don’t just mean astetically. I...

No software news today; sorry folks. I’m still working on making the site all spiffyclean and fully integrated.

I’ve created a few more wrappers and modifications to my gallery; it’s now updated to the current CVS revision of b24.

My CSS and HTML wrappers are now cleaned; they’re now fully com...

On the user level layer, systrace is not unlike Little Snitch, at least, to the vast majority of users. Systrace provides kernel-level filtering, which is quite advanced over that which is offered by Little Snitch, and is quite tuned for security.

Still, for the vast majority of users, I find...

I’ve cleaned up a bit of the logic to my little RAMdisk utility for OSX. It will take two arguments: a disk name, and disk size. It will then create and mount this disk to your desktop.

I use this to store my internet history and various caches, as well as when creating disk images, I like to ge...