Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Since I like to keep up to date (and it didn’t work), I’ve submitted my first patch to an existing Gentoo build, specifically, mod_php. It utilized an old patch that was valid for elder revisions of PHP. Oddly, the bugs were fixed in PHP 4.3.5 for Apache 2, but not Apache 1; so I removed the pat...

My Optorite CW4002 has been exhibiting an odd issue. It will no burn over 32x, despite being a 40x CDRW drive. I have known good disks (newer build Ritek 40x), and it outright refuses to burn faster.

Here’s a screenshot using Nero’s CDTest on my PC with the 100E firmware:

And now, with the upd...

It seems that Nero NRG format is a fairly trivial overlay about the ISO9660 CD format. The easiest way to convert an NRG to an ISO is to strip the first 307200 bytes; the rest will be your resulting ISO-9660 image.

For example; to mount an NRG in linux via loopback: mount -t iso9660 -o loop,offset...

This is very-very-very raw; and not necessarily the best solution. What this will do is obtain a web page specified, then print out the data as it is received.

$site = “http://www.holwegner.com/”; $raw = implode(‘’, file ($site)); echo $raw;

Eventually, I will follow iup with the proper means to...

Before I get back on the road yet again, here’s a quick little (horrible) PHP snippit. A friend of mine is learning PHP, and asked me how to strip all of the ‘unprintable’ characters out of a string. ctype_alpha() can not be considered portable enough yet, and of course, there is no isascii() in PHP...

MKVToolNix 0.8.6 has been released; and with it, my official MacOS X port.

This release touts several bugfixes, and a functional ‘mmg’ front-end for MacOS X.

You will probably want the Apple Installer format package from my software page.