Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

This issue has been perplexing myself, and others. A person with the handle of “Laconicus” imparted the wisdom:

“One of the Verisign Code-Signing CRLs is due to be updated today (as of 8th Jan, midnight GMT), and your computer hanging for a few seconds when you right-click a file (or try to delete...

With the cold weather, I’ve opted to experiment with soups once more. This one has almost an Italian flare.

Soupthing Italiano

Ingredients required:

· 20oz 16 bean soup mix · 7oz small elbow maraconi · 24oz ground beef (15% lean or better) · 16oz beef stock broth · 3 tbsp basil leaves (dry, fi...

System error 1058 has occurred.

The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

C:\Documents and Settings\shawn>net time /querysntp
The current SNTP value is: tick.usno.navy.mil
The command completed successfully.

C:\Docum...

Although I tend to focus primarily upon the geeker-side of my life here, I do have other hobbies as well. My favorites are classic videogame systems, cooking and botany – my turn-ons include – oh, wait! It’s not that kind of list!

Back on track. Today, I felt like experimenting in the kitchen. A...

To those of my fellow phpBB users, be aware that there is now a security annoucnement and patches available – I strongly suggest you update your code base, or manually update to include these patches!

The following is a rewrite of David Grant’s updown, a simple little utility that will take a file POSTed to it and write it to a local file. It also prints all of the files in the given directory it is in. I’ve rewritten it to work without requiring register_globals being turned on, and cleaned...