Author Archives: Donncha

Stop Smoking Now

In New Zealand the price of cigarettes are forced up by a law that says they must increase with the consumer price index. There have been reports in the newspapers lately claiming that children in poorer families are going without food, as the price of cigarettes becomes more of a burden for families on low incomes.

Here in Ireland cigarettes have come under attack too. The price has been increased and now sits somewhere around 5 Euro for 20 (I think). Smoking will be banned in restaurants and pubs on January 1st next year and it’s looking good for the 75% of the Irish population that are non-smokers. I for one can’t wait to go into a night club and not come away reaking of smoke..

Just noticed a new feature of Galeon. It remembers the zoom setting on any particular visited page! Excellent!

Linux at Windows World/e-XPO – How did I forget to move this over to the new layout on CorkLUG? Ah the memories. Long train journeys, tshirts, vendor junk^H^H^H^Hmemorabilia..

Cork LUG – Fish, ftp over ssh using mc – oh yeah, this is cool! This works in the version of mc shipped with Red Hat 8, and will probably work with older versions too. Don’t forget to copy your sshed virtual directory location to the directory hotlist too!

Pyrotechnic Antics in Cork
Last night I saw two women swinging lit torches around in the air outside the Society Bar as part of some promotion or stunt by the bar.

A small crowd had gathered to watch but since that crowd included children I doubt the pub made much money out of the exercise. And of course they very nearly hit me with a torch as I walked past and they got off the road to let a car go past!

Mozilla, Gecko, Netscape, and the future in AOL.

Linux to power most Motorola phones.

Formulating Formatted Fractions with PHP

Inspiration Through Inebriation – don’t look if you have a weak stomach!

Annick Cojean

We all now know what Americans think of the French. Here a leading Paris journalist bites back.

Another via IRC. If you’re in favour of the coming war get online on irc.linux.ie and join #linux and argue your opinion.

Via IRC.
North Korea is wondering what it has to do to attract American military attention.

“What does it take to get a few F-16s or naval warships deployed to the Yellow Sea?” North Korean president Kim Jong Il asked Monday. “In the past month and a half, we’ve expelled U.N. nuclear inspectors, withdrawn from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty..”

RTÉ News: N Korea warns it is capable of US strikes

Defence analysts have suggested that North Korea has long-range Taepodong-2 missiles which could be capable of reaching parts of the US.

I’ll be seeing you at the anti-war march on Saturday

You – yes, you – who’ve never even said the word “placard”, let alone held one, can see yourself walking in line with some rather frightening women carrying hundreds of the things saying “Mums Not Bombs For the Sake of Palestine”.

An Obsession with Food

When I first started this blog, it was because I had just been laid off, and wanted my savings to last as long as possible. So I undertook this project, trying to stretch leftovers in creative new ways. Just reheating was a cop-out. But now I’m re-employed, so it’ll have to be a bit different. The cheap meals will more likely be lunches from now on, but I still intend to keep up my old habits. More money for the expensive dinner parties we like to throw!