Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

I’ve decided upon a new ‘scale’ for gauging my friends, associates, and the like. I call it ‘Back ro the Future’ dating.

If someone is born long enough before the inception of ‘Back to the Future’, they’re ‘kin’.

If someone was born after ‘Back to the Future’, they’re a bit too young to understa...

I’ve added multiple-user support to Rollator; now to add functionality to the system beyond basic authentication.

Currently proposed ideas for administration: ‘Edit/Add’ permissions, file administration, ‘specific area administration’, such as only allowing data entry into the ‘diary’ subset, only...

Not too long before Ogg Vorbis, Emmett Plant was working on BlinkTags. I miss that comic.

Thankfully, someone else liked it, and had an archive. I haven’t bothered to look at the new stuff, though. It might be good.

[Edit: It appears that the original crew, well, most of the original crew, plu...

I turned on my old PowerMac 5300 today in an attempt to snarf some pictures off of my ancient PDC-3000 camera – and all seemed well, but the mouse refused to work. I tried removing a few things on the ADB chain, to no avail. It appeared to be getting power from the keyboard. Odd.

Plugged in a seco...

I’ve rebuilt DOSBox for Panther.

It’s been tagged 0.60 recently – I’ve built a small wrapper around it, and it works! Only a general subset of 386 protection is supported, somewhat trivial sound card emulation, and emulated modem support via SDL_net.

As stated on the DOSBox home page:

“Eve...

I’ve updated my port of Bozotic to MacOS X.

It works with MacOS X 10.2 and 10.3. I’ve still got the ‘fake’ poll included – even though under Panther, Apple’s included one of their own, oddly, a similar emulation to that which I first used, but I found to be slower than the alternative which I ha...