I ordered a DVD writer and HD from komplett.ie yesterday morning. Earlier I checked the tracking page and saw that my purchases were shipped from Norway last night and arrived in the DHL depot this morning. They arrived a few minutes ago!
This is my second purchase from komplett and I’m very happy with them so far!
Good! Looks like my favourite CD burning software, gcombust supports DVD-r burning!
It looks a bit more complicated if you want to use DVD+RW though. 🙁
Monthly Archives: September 2003
Mozilla Firebird tip
In Mozilla Firebird. when using the find-as-you-type feature always go to the top of the page before you start typing. On a big page my browser hung for several seconds while doing the search.
So, hit the ‘Home’ key before you search!
For those who don’t know, start typing on this page, (try ‘ILUG’) and a link with the characters you type will be highlighted. Press ‘/’ and your search and it’ll match any text, not just links! If a link is highlighted, even partially, just press return to go to that link. It’s a wonderful feature!
Busy, busy, busy
Just when I think I have a project finished and sorted out a spanner is thrown into the works clogging everything up and requiring fixing. *bah*
Science quotes
These quotes are good! I especially like the second last one about the biologist, statistician, mathematician and the computer scientist. 🙂
Linux. The future is open.
The latest IBM Linux advert is crap. Oh well, they’ve produced better in the past. (Here’s a link to the quicktime version.)
Welcome to RipOff^H^H^H^H^H Ireland
Are you thinking of visiting Ireland? You should take a look at RipOffIreland.org before you do. It’s a sad state of affairs but Ireland is one of the most expensive places to live in Europe. There’s no denying that, but don’t believe everything you read online too. This site was mentioned on Red FM last night and some of the stuff said was simply speculation and opinion.
Also of interest is Irish Fuel Prices.com, ‘a site which monitors fuel prices from around the country.’
Lots of other good links via Google too.
DAG: Apt RPM repository
I just found another apt repository: DAG: Apt RPM repository
This has Epiphany, a browser based on Galeon. Should make it dead easy to try out! 🙂
New Release of the Procmail Email Sanitizer
There’s a new release of this email security tool out now. This is a recommended upgrade as it has filters for some of the newer exploits out there.
Busy weekend for the spammers
I was sick and out of the office on Friday, but this morning I was shocked to discover 40 spam emails in my inbox! After moving them into my ‘SA training folder” I checked my spam folder – 577 emails! wow! Almost half of them were from Thursday night and Friday.
Then I checked my CorkLUG mail queue. 289 emails. Lots of them were viruses, but the majority were spams.
How much personal mail did I get? (outside of mailing lists, automated bug reports, crontab output..) 5 emails.
Add on to that 841 viruses, or 125MB of email caught by my mail server..