Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

First and foremost, I’ve updated the drawing engine on my doodleboard to PaintBBS 2.22_6, which is current.

Secondly, I’ve retooled one of my first little toys, a simple WHOIS query tool in PHP. It now understands both InterNic and ARIN; and is customizable via either POST, or GET requests, so...

Since many people who have used the Mac are fairly new to UNIX, they’re rather nonplussed that many things “don’t work” for the unix underpinings as they do for the GUI.

Many of them are used to being able to cut and paste with Command-C, Command-P, but what if you’re not in insert mode?

The fol...

I’ve updated my simple port of DOSBox to 0.61. It’s statically compiled against the SDL, SDL_net, and PNG frameworks, and should work on any OSX system from 10.2.6 onwards.

Happy DOS gaming!

I’ve got most of the kinks worked out, and you can test it out live, at esrc.us (Limited to images only, and 30k max/file).

It’s can be somewhay annoying working with several arrays in PHP; as well as somewhat slow. I’ve worked around this by nesting my own select siwtches for the file managemen...

I’ve always found the ‘single file upload’ method archaic, and have opted to expand my next release of Rollator, and perhaps my esrc.us image hosting to allow several files being uploaded in parallel.

It seems easy enough. I’ve got the prototype working already (sorry, it’s a raw dump):

DVDOrd...

From http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];834489:

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Microsoft plans to release a software update that removes support for handling user names and passwords in HTTP and HTTP with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or HTTPS URLs in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The foll...