Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

Today is a sad day. My current machine can no longer manage my existing code base for development and production – it’s taken me nearly three weeks to try to make a current build of MyPasswordSafe – which doesn’t work.

I’ve sold my old PowerBook, and am looking to obtain a new system upon which to...

The DOSBox team has been quite busy, and while it’s been little over a month since 0.62’s release, there’s quite a few new things in 0.63:

* File redirection added.

  • Shell improvements.
  • Fixed various crashes.
  • Fixed programs complaining about too low FILES setting.
  • Fixed some CPU/FPU instr...

We’ve finally reached the 1.0 milestone.

As Mosu so eloquently put it:

I’ve meant to release this for over a week now, but something always got in the way. But no longer :) After…

- nearly one year and ten months after joining the Matroska team on 2003-01-14,

- over one year and five months...

It’s that time again, folks. MKVToolNix has been updated with a healthy dose of bugfixes and creamy goodness. You can get it from my software page, or the link above.

I was recently sent an email, requesting information on how to get DOSBox to support certain screen resolutions – the problem being that the proprietary DOS application uses direct screen writes, and, sadly, DOSBox’s CGA driver just can’t handle it. It comes out looking like an Apple ][ color monito...

If you haven’t heard about it, you will. Ubuntu Linux is a rather streamlined distribution, based on Debian. Out of the box, it comes with Open Office, GNOME, and more toys than you can shake a stick at.

What follows is a rather brief howto to make ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant work with Ubun...