Shawn Holwegner's Blog

I’ve cleaned up a bit of the logic to my little RAMdisk utility for OSX. It will take two arguments: a disk name, and disk size. It will then create and mount this disk to your desktop.

I use this to store my internet history and various caches, as well as when creating disk images, I like to ge...

Not unlike my own libOSXCompat, libslack provides functional routines and shims for use on systems that lack semi-standard functions. An overview of these functions is available upon the libslack.org web pages, here.

I’ve ported this set of routines to MacOS X, a binary release with manpages...

I’m trying to make my PC as robust and usable as possible. Using Cygwin as a base, it’s possible; even trivial at times to port my much-loved utilities to work under Windows.

The FTP command line client bundled with Cygwin is quite dated, and I find NcFTP to be a boon – ncftpput/ncftpget are nic...

This is just a simple free-form faq for installing throttled to limit BitTorrent connections, rather than CarraFix, as I’ve had numerous requests for this.

First of all, install Throttled, download it here.

Copy the file to a directory of your choice, then ‘tar -zxvf throttled0.2.7.tar.gz; c...

I’ve written up a tiny little FAQ for people who use the stock BitTorrent client with OSX, and are tired of having it eat up all of their bandwidth. I discourage use of my own hack which limits BitTorrent to 1k, and a single user; that’s just not fair – most of us aren’t on 28.8k modems!

CarraFi...

As a preface, let me explain the following settings are for mutt 1.4.x; the default version of mutt included with Cygwin is 1.2.5i, and is rather dated, if not archaic. I know this configuration will not work with the default mutt client bundled.

The good news is that mutt 1.4.1i builds right...