Monthly Archives: September 2004

Bollox!

Apparently, Colm Meaney said, “Bollox!” on Star Trek! He said it after being beamed down somewhere according to the man himself while he was, “Hanging With Hector”. He told the production crew that, “It was one of those things an Irish person would say in this situation”.. hehe.

Digital Camera Myths

Megapixel Myths is an introduction of digital cameras, probably useful for someone new to the genre and looking for a new camera.
This Megapixel Myths site is a lot more involved – the author goes over many aspects of digital vs film photography, including the costs of each..

Let’s look at two scenarios to see how the cost of digital and traditional photography balance out over the first year. Notice that I said cost, not value. Cost is the total amount of money you spend. Value is what you receive in return. Cost is empirical; value is subjective.

My camera has probably halved in value in the year that I’ve owned it, but if I had a nice 35mm film camera it may not have gone down in value so much! (That said, film cameras are getting cheaper as digital becomes more popular!)

Stand up and be counted: Edinburgh's 50 best jokes

The Independent lists the 50 best jokes at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival. Considering Bono’s appearance at the Labour Party Conference yesterday I thought this was appropriate:

How many members of U2 does it take to change a light bulb? Just Bono… he holds it and the world revolves around him.

(thanks Donal for sending those on!)

Linux.ie – a Wiki?

In a heated discussion about the grand vision that people have for the Irish Linux Users Group, Justin Mason suggested (sorry! no link, the archive is broken again!) that we use a Wiki to keep the information on the site current and uptodate. He outlined his own ideas and suggestions in his post, How to have turn a stale project site into a useful Wiki and it’s not a bad idea at all!
I’m in favour of it, who’s with me? Why use a wiki?

Niall Sheridan writes:

>> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:50 +0000, Niall Walsh wrote:
>> [snippage]
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>>> > The website contains lots of out of date information.
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>> Update it then. From what I hear, the webmaster happily will accept
>> contributions.

A good tip — moving to a wiki helps a *lot* here. We found that our stale old SpamAssassin website has become the main source of live, up to date info now that we wiki-ized it.

(It turns out that vandalism and people throwing up crappy info isn’t a serious problem at all. See http://taint.org/2004/09/28/191712a.html for details.)