Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

I’ve been tracking OpenSolaris for both Sparc and Intel (x86) platforms. Despite the fact that I primarily use MacOS X at home for my personal UNIX based systems, have owned and operated various UNIX derivatives, including Solaris, since 1995.

Although Solaris really shines on Sparc, the x86 bea...

Wow, there are an amazing number of bugfixes in this version! Mosu’s been quite busy!

You can download this build from my software page until Mosu’s able to mirror my build.

The following throwaway function will convert the first letter of every word comprising a FQDN to an uppercase letter. I did it mostly out of boredom, but secondly to abuse ternary operators.

Here’s the function:

function leetHost($hostName=FALSE) { // What have I been smoking? No, this is not...

When you view the ‘full view’ version of my article (clicking the ‘comment’ link, or following a full article from off site, there were once two options. My first attempt tried to discern the user’s browser, then forward to an HTML4 friendly page. Otherwise, it sent people to my newer XHTML 1.1 frie...

Wether you use my software, don’t, or just happened to stumble here across this big wide internet, a few dollars will help significantly.

For reference, here’s one report of the Red Cross mismanaging money donated to 9/11:

What’s more, the Savannah chapter “could not provide information regard...

My build of MKVToolNix is now sync’d to the most recent release, 1.55.

With this release I’ve changed from ‘Stuffit’ to .tar.bz2 for compression. Let me know how easily you manaage to use this form of archive.

You can download this directly from my sofftware page; please choose a mirror site.