Monthly Archives: March 2002

Financial concerns at Linux Mandrake – I use Mandrake Linux at home, I’m joining their club.

Register Links:

• BOFH
• 2001: vintage year for virus infections
• Ballmer tells how Sun could destroy Windows
• AOL embraces Linux and Mozilla, plans to drop MS Explorer – look up! where are the pigs?

I was just spammed. Nothing new there, but this was from a charity. You’ve probably heard of them, Concern. They are a worth while cause, heck, I even fasted for 24 hours for them a few years ago but this was the 3rd spam I got off them so off to Spamcop I go and report the mail. I’m feeling slightly guilty, but I know I never signed up to any of their mailings.
I couldn’t remember the spamcop URL so I did a google search and came across a few interesting titbits.

• Spam FAQ – not what you think.
• Hotmail uses RBL
• Bill Gates on Spam
• Google Search

The Blogger Unofficial FAQ blog

I came across an unsettling weblog here. She moved her blog elsewhere. The page is brighter but the background picture she used speaks volumes.

Thank you Rachel for pointing at wunderground.com. Cork City, where I live is covered by them. They also linked to a tourist page on Cork. There’s some nice pictures of Cork here, and lots of info too!
Hehe. Kathy Collins visited Blarney Castle. Myself and Martina went there last year and she kissed the stone, I did it years ago so I declined this time! On the way out we saw something unusual.. A guy in the bushes doing something with his hand that I really shouldn’t describe here.. The two of us were suitably shocked. Thankfully, the middle-aged American tourists behind us didn’t see him. “Yes, ambulance please, I have a man here who can’t breathe after seeing…” *gulp*

Just got a long email from Martina’s friend Caitriona. She’s in New Zealand, moving on to Australia, and then on to Tokyo while the World Cup is on. Several people are upset because she has no interest in soccer!

Virtual PC 5.0.2: Vroom Sputter Sputter Vroooooogasp! – it [OS X] allows you to run native Unix programs, Classic and native Mac OS program (9 and X, and some programs dating back 10 years!), and with VPC, any Windows or Intel-based OS’s and programs. Why get a PC with one OS when you could get several with OS X?

Reiter – another wireless weblog.

I found this wireless product listing on the Scan website last night. I may buy something on Monday. There’s an effort to get a wireless lan in Cork running but it’s slow going.

The following courtesy of Dangerous Meta.

News Is Free – Looks interesting. Must sign up for it next week.

The webreference newsletter links to various css layout sites.
http://www.zeldman.com/daily/faq.html#csslayout
http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/
http://www.glish.com/css/
http://webnouveau.net/

KRSS didn’t work. It reported a bug reading a config file. I’ll mail the author in the morning. I’m just looking at Ampheta Desk now.

Here’s a strange survey! – How many days do you spend online a week then?

I missed this: Smart 2 is out. Smarty is a PHP templating system I would love to have time to try out.

KRSS, a KDE RSS feed client. It looks good. I’ll have to fix libstdc at work first though. It got screwed up in an upgrade of something. Screenshots look good too! Just found a list of RSS readers and KRSS doesn’t seem to be there.

IBM takes Unix server crown from Sun – for the first time in years!

‘Always on’ Internet plan for 19 towns – The government will fund 90% of the cost “to connect homes, businesses and schools to existing broadband networks.” I like how they say, “existing.” They haven’t been able to do this in the major cities so far, so why do they think they can do it where the infrastructure isn’t as well developed? Of course, they probably mean Eircom hi-speed aka ISDN. *sigh*