Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

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.

When you’re tunneling ports behind NAT, it’s useful to know what ports you have open, and wether or not it’s working. Short of having a system outside of your firewall, there are relatively few safe ways of testing.

There are at least a few sites which offer similar utilities, however, they are...

For various reasons, you might find that you wish to find your whole data stream, and post-process it before you send it to the browser. A practical reason is to support ‘Content-Length:’ to increase speed, and cachability of your program, or to manipulate the data again before it’s fully sent to th...

Peter Veenstra, (Qbix, DOSBox) has been so kind as to donate cash to help cover the cost of my webhosting. Many thanks to Peter and the entire DOSBox crew for this gift.

Per request (no, really, I did have one!), I’ve setup a PayPal donate button on my software download page.

Update: The li...

I’ve had a few inquries in the past about moving from the ‘old standard’ Stuffit format for my bundles, as Apple no longer offers Stuffit Expander with MacOS X.

I refuse to embrace the .Zip broken-standard which Apple offers with MacOS X 10.3 – it not only stores things in a rather hackish way, bu...

Several unpopular utilities which have not been updated in ages are now officially dropped; the list of these programs is at the bottom of the page.