Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

I apologize for the lack of updates – I’ve been busy, rather so, away from the Internet.. and haven’t had much time to work on my playtoys.

However, I’ve got a new little tool I’ve been coding. Based upon a semi-portable SQL backend (yes, my infamous shim), it will work with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or...

After settling upon this design nearly two years ago, I was sure there would be some bugs to crop up – and I found them. Being CSS based, not only text based browsers dislike it, but Konq 3.3.x seems to dislike my css divs due to a...

I must say I was shocked this afternoon to find an email asking me when My Music would be fixed. I noticed that the bandwidth use had gone downhill – but it never did more than a few hundred megs a month, anyhow. After looking at my base64 encoded URLs, I realized that I still had the references...

I’m starting to appreciate the abilities of DCOP:

%./amaroktunewatcher > Notification: New Song (Streaming): Tom Wax – Maximal ssl > Notification: New Song (Streaming): Absolum – Push | Album: Sub Science > Notification: New Song (Streaming): Mili Sefic – 04 > Song has not changed. > Song has no...

Mosu has released MKVToolNix 1.4.1, primarily a bugfix version. Here’s a partial bugfix log:

* mkvmerge: bug fix: AC3 detection was broken in rare cases. * mmg: bug fix: If the TEMP environment variable contains spaces then the calls to mkvmerge when adding files failed. * mkvmerge: bug fix: Extra...