Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

Today was beautiful- it was almost 60 degrees the whole morning!

I was able to tackle repairing my fog lamps on the 9-5, which were weighed down by the snow and ice, causign the upper aged plastic mounts to crack and fail, got the back yard cleaned up, planted zinnias in the front yard, and manage...

I try my best to not pass judgement on the various distributions of Linux – but CentOS always ends up rubbing me wrong.

For instance, why does it need 10%+ more RAM than everything else- just to sit and idle? What’s so magical if you are running the same stuff? It’s not like one is compiled with g...

I considered changing this sites’ platform for the first time in a decade.

Up until 2006, I ran my own homebrew CMS. Many of my links and older posts still reference this, and I have many, many shims that still hide under the works- even if things such as my software have been unavailable for ne...

Everything, and I mean everything is either on the “cloud”, moving to the “cloud”, or promoting the entire concept- even if it has nothing to do with it. As evidenced by Kodos (from way back when the Simpsons was still watchable):

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One of the problems plaguing our technology-biased society is that electronics have become disposable. We are at a point that anyone who has a smartphone that is more than a year or two old is viewed poorly in certain circles. I do not run with that crowd.

You may not be aware that the Nexus 4 i...

I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m a big fan of the Open Source movement- I’ve built a career out of supporting “free” software. For a brief flash in the pan of the late 90s and early 2000s, most technology based corporations saw the possible future of Linux, and embraced it wholly. It’s not qui...