Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

It’s been yet another wonderous time in early-morning California!

I fixed up my old PowerMac 5300 that I previously used used to support some legacy software, and donated it to a local family within my complex who could not afford a computer.

It was quite nice to see how happy they were to rec...

I’ve been told this countless times, and I find it to be quite true, wether it’s in the land of software, hardware, or even being a friend. Not that there are any problems with that!

This can be quite benificial!

For instance, there’s a bug in libmikmod 3.1.11 which I didn’t even notice, as it d...

With the procurement of esrc.us for my research, I have begun to move, and integrate various tasks unto that site.

It not only offers URL redirection (which I am currently externally stress-testing via my filemanager, but also avatar image hosting. I hope to setup a colo system so I might...

I’ve obtained the domain esrc.us, and all of my various trivial web related tools will be moving there. This includes my URL redirect service, simple upload system, et al.

I will continue to support them on this site for the next few months, but I will be turning this site into my “personal” sit...

As I reported back in September, MacOS X would blindly give any user access to any other user’s crypt’d password hash.

This made it quite trivial for any user to run one of the many ‘crack’ programs in a brute-force attempt to obtain access as other users. For obvious reasons this is bad, as Mac...

In my effort to further globalize Rollator and allow customizations for users, not just administrators, I thought it might be nice to allow users to obtain localized information to their own area.

The first, and certainly most easy to write, was a simple weather application. Here, in it’s infanc...