Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

Anyone who may be looking to upgrade, or install a new server and require Zend Optimizer to run Zend Encoder / Zend Guard encoded programs:

Zend Optimizer 3.3.0 is broken. It has a broken SHM setup calls in it, which cause it to execute sometimes, but abort early. This breaks ‘interactive’ mode, a...

As this new MySQL bug shows, there is a difference between supported, and cutting edge.

Many Linux administrators treat their system as though having the latest version of a program is always the best. This is not always – and is usually never true for production environments.

Yes. I am advocat...

Yes, it’s just a simple programming issue, but:

281.5 hours to charge at 94%!

281.5 hours to charge

I find that sometimes I revert to the older, simpler tools, despite the fact that there are many newer ones available. Why? They’re standardized. They’ll be everywhere. This means you can almost guarantee they’ll be available for you. This, as they say, is a good thing.

Such is the case of ‘xmore....

Since I’ve opted to give up Windows entirely, I’ve lost quite a few of the ‘not-quite-necessities’ I once had. One of those things was the ability to update the microcode within my computer to support updates and fixes. Well, no more! Thank you, Dell.

Below is a small tutorial on how to use prebui...

I’ve always opted to login to my server and use the good old fashioned textarea entry; however, with the stability of TextPattern’s XML-RPC library, I figured I’d give BloGTK a try.

It’s fairly basic, but it works rather well, despite my personal belief that UI interfaces and scripting languages...