Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

I know that security\s never been a big part of MacOS X, but some things are just bad. I mean, real bad. First of all, it\s possible for anyone to run nidump. This is just bad coding. This also isn\t news. It\s been reported a billion times by now.

%nidump passwd .
nobody:*:-2:-2::0:0:Unprivilege...

In a few short weeks, I’ve gone from nearly-XHTML compliant to XHTML 1.0 Transitional, all the way around (at least, with my external toolset) to XHTML 1.1.

I don’t really like the web, per-se, with all of the cruft and annoying things it has, but XML is starting to seduce me – I’ve used it otherw...

I’ve configured CVSWeb to browse the current heirarchy of some of my tools and utilities, as well as a couple of ports – jzintv, libmikmod, and Rollator.

[Edit: 29.10.2003: Products superceeded or no-longer supported have been removed.]

I’m not really sure if anyone out there has a use for it, b...

I got fed up with my antiquated layout and multiple rewrite heirarchies to attain the same basic data. Given the extensible nature of my tools I’ve been creating (and updating frequently lately – hence my lack of posts, et al), I was still using two different interfaces for my diary and the rest of...

I’ve decided it was time to better serve RSS feeds with my little tool here, so I’ve rewritten the RSS Syndication with the 2.01 specifications in mind.

What this means is that you can view my site with any RSS feed reader (usually small desktop applets, PDA tools, wireless, et al), and be abreast...

This is an outdated link to my ‘once static blogged’ software page. It’s only left here to keep the structure of my original database intact.