Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

I’m all for commerce, and advertising is just a side effect of consumerism. However, I don’t want to see ads when I’m checking my bank account online. I consider this pretty crass, and sad that my bank would opt to allow such things.

Below is the information I’ve discovered to make it go away:

I...

This is incredibly simple, but it’s amazing how many people (ab)use Perl to do something that awk was designed for.

Here’s how to find your existing Linux styled ethernet interfaces:

%ifconfig -a | awk '(/inet\ addr/||/^eth/||/^lo/)&&!/127/ \
gsub(/inet\ addr:/, "") { print $1}'
eth0
10.10.0.212...

Long story short, due to political (licensing) reasons, MySQL support was removed from Apache’s APR base. Here’s how to get it back and fix a few bugs in the default driver (the default causes it to die with various named virtualhosts):

First, ensure you have the ability to build all of the requ...

As many of the (few) readers of my blog of years ago know, I often work in PHP – it’s simpler than Perl for a small project, and is fairly universally available with most UNIX hosts these days. For those who are not familiar, it’s essentially ASP for UNIX hosts.

I figured I’d offer a rather trivia...

I’ve realized that all of my favorite songs utilize the Fairlight CMI synth, or at least attempt it’s abilities with a hard hit, with a reverb of the same programmed tune, downtoned with a slight volume envelope shift downwards..

Oh dear.. does this mean… could it be.. have I been downsampled?

I think I’ve just given up. I’ve been trying to discern this song for years! Now that I’ve found it, I think it’s one of my favorite 80s songs. I feel old. Too old.

Take On Me? A-Ha? Well, here’s the one we all know and love:

Ok, now, don’t click below unless you want your illusion shattered (It...