Russell Beattie once again comes up with the goods. I had downloaded an ebook reader already but ReadM looks so much better. Go over to Russell’s site to get the lowdown on it!
BTW – the ReadM site is down because it’s too busy, you can download the program here though.
Author Archives: Donncha
Simon Plays Quasar.
Simon Willison played Quasar for the first time! Ah, this brings back memories!
It used to be quite easy to play a decent game of Quasar in Cork City where I live. 2 places in town offered it and for a few years they even maintained their guns and arenas. Not so now. Guns were too expensive to maintain, half the time they didn’t work, and the rest of the time they worked but didn’t fire straight.
I haven’t played a game of Quasar in years! The ducking and running^h^h^h^h walking fast and twisting your body around so your opponent couldn’t hit you. You wouldn’t believe how fast an experienced Quasar player can instinctively twist around so they only present a profile to an attacking opponent! (Limiting the area you can be shot – front, back and gun).
Before I started working fulltime (and sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day) I was a reasonable Quasar player, and saw the look of disbelief on newcomer’s faces when their gun is suddenly telling them they’ve been shot. Of course I was at the receiving end of shots more often than not..
I dread to think how I’d feel after a game of Quasar now, sometimes I could barely stumble out of particularly tough games..
PHP News Sites
I really have to actively look for more PHP development websites. Here’s another: PHP Developer
A Look at PHP5
Here’s a review of the upcoming PHP5. *Loads* of new stuff and it’s going to practically be a whole new language to learn. I can’t wait to start working with the new OO features it’ll have. It should make implementing patterns much easier. I wonder what effect it will have on the “home grown” self-taught PHP industry that’s out there? Those that will learn, will stick with it. The others? They’ll spend their time maintaining their PHP4 applications!
DivX Digest – Movies – Misc Movies
Nice list of movies.
darkstat – network traffic analyzer
After a brief search of freshmeat.net I found darkstat, a nice, easy to install package. It listens on a port for a browser, and displays nice graphs and other information in a web page. Well worth a look!
new site, modified b2 -> Smarty & multi-blog support
Here’s my blogs.linux.ie announcement in the b2 forums.
Linux.ie Weblogs & Userlist
In Praise of Netscape 4.7 Mail
Netscape 4.7 was never praised for it’s browsing abilities, and the email client was (and still is) widely trounced and disparaged.
But, any time a mailbox goes wrong here at work I fire up Netscape mail to sort it out. Simply copy the offending mailbox into the nsmail of a local user and load up Netscape. It’ll handle mbox files too large for ipop3d (or Outlook) to handle. I just deleted 3 mails from one account that reduced the mbox from 1.5GB to 1.2MB!
It also handles the missing “F” from the word “From” when a procmail script bombs out (happens when Spam Assassin dies sometimes)
Then simply “cat” the file back into the spool directory. Make sure you use: “cat mbox >> /var/spool/USER” to append the data on at the end. You may want to stop Sendmail while you do that in case incoming mail overwrites your “cat” operation.
Netscape Mail gets my thumbs up for fixing things!
Tech spending slump ending – survey
Tech spending will increase this year? Unforunately, it’s only companies upgrading/maintaining their equipment.
Routine infrastructure upgrades will dominate projects, taking up almost half of all spending in 2003, IDC said.