Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

Since I’ve been quite busy otherwise, and have had little to add to the site (codewise), I figured I might give a rather simple, if not overengineered random quote generator.

What this does is look up a prepopulated table of quotes, with personal attributes, and selects, then prints a random one.

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It’s a Mosu Two-For, er, Saturday. After updating MKVToolNix, I noticed that there’s been an update to OGMTools. Hence, an updated package of OGMTools, suitable for private, or public consumption.

This may be just what you’ve been waiting for: MKVToolNix 1.4.0.

To quote Mosu:

I’m releasing the new mkvtoolnix version including all the fancy new stuff. It’s v1.4.0.

So what has changed? Tons of new features, tons of bug fixes, tons of
new bugs ;) The more important things are:

- support...

Not really much of note, so I figure this is a “diary” entry, rather than being “front page” worthy -

I’ve updated my unofficial build of uControl to install under MacOS 10.3.8 – trivial work, at best, I know.

I’ve also torn out the guts of my forum, with quite a few CSS changes, more custom...

I’ve been tinkering under the hood, yet again.

Earlier last year, I added support for mirror sites. However, it was a rather trivial hack, which merely allowed you to state wether there were mirrors, and what the relative paths were for these files.

However, tonight I’ve finally fixed things up...

PHP, despite what many “purists” might say, is a powerful programming language. It’s inception has created many things which now exist on the Internet in record time – programs that used to be written in CGI, with custom libraries and horrible amounts of development time, can now be produced with l...