April 2003 – Something Odd!

SCO Unix and PPP

<donncha>		question… how hard d’you think it’d be to get dialup networking working on a SCO Unix box?
<pron>		donncha: how long is a piece of string ?
<Baud>		donncha: are you mad?
<pron>		donncha: Seriously though … internal or external modem ?
<Zoso>		donncha: dialup to or from the SCO box ?
<Baud>		donncha: take a long period of time, double it, and it’ll be about a quarter of the time required
<Zoso>		donncha: Well I’ve had to (i.e. not my choice) config & troubleshoot uucp dialup connections on SCO boxes 3 or 4 years ago and that certainly wasn’t fun
		* elrond shudders at the very idea of trying to get a sco box doing PPP.
<pron>		donncha: install Linux ?

Wireless Video with Logo

Guy attaches camera with wireless connection to helicopter and flies. Great videos are the result! zzz has more info on it.

The hidden history of squatting in Ireland

Via IRC, this brief history of squatting in Dublin.

Saddam's mouthpiece 'seeks surrender'

It looks like the Americans Won’t arrest Comical Ali!

US President George W Bush has admitted that he enjoyed Mr Sahhaf’s briefings so much that he used to interrupt some of his meetings just to watch him.

His son is working in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, where he’s earned the nickname “Surgical Ali”.

‘My father is a good guy. He is a very friendly guy,’ he said. ‘He knows he is responsible for his own decisions but, as a father, he is a very good man.’

New release last night! This one fixes more install bugs, adds plugin support and with the plugins I’ve been talking about here over the last few days! It’s probably better if you download the src and data packages, as there’s been a few updates to the templates. Go download it!

Google Search: zs Spam Art xv Nathan cz McCoy xz vc

And in honour of all the search highlighting going on here, This guy had way too much time on his hands when he posted this message!

Search term highlighting on my site

Keith posted about his efforts to highlight Google search terms. This is interesting! I may be able to create a b2-prefunction that does the same for b2++.
Update! I modified my original highlightsearch() function, adding in most of the code found on textism.org which also fixes the problem of highlighting text inside html links! Woo!
Here’s a Google search for you to try. Hit the Holy Shmoly link to see the highlighted text!
Again, if you want to add this to your own blog, just edit post.tpl add add the highlightsearch modifier around $the_content:

{$the_content|highlightsearch}

You’ll then have access to lots of highlighted search results!

Ram Doubler for Linux!

Kernel Traffic reports that some people are working on compressing RAM instead of swapping it out. This is like the old Quarterdeck RAM Doubler on Win95 so long ago. Results are mixed however, and I even remember on Win95 the technique didn’t make much of a difference either in “real life” situations.

Phoenix / Firebird – the new Mozilla

Prompted by Simon’s posting last night I tried the nightly build of Phoenix. It’s nice, very nice in fact. It feels a lot more responsive than Mozilla or Galeon, but in the latter case, that could be because I have a dozen tabs open..
Fonts don’t look as nice, but maybe there’s ways to force it to use the nice new sans fonts Galeon’s been using on my machine? I don’t know, and haven’t got time this morning to check. Worth a look at though!