Author Archives: Donncha

I found this entry in a blog interesting. A couple living in the roots of a tree. wow! Unfortunately, I read down and discovered rhetoric straight from a retired member of the US Army. There’ll never be peace in the world.

DRM and hardware – good essay on why it’s bad. Thanks Mark for the link, via Paul Collins.

Even a year on, I still get the same dread feeling reading Scripting News of 9/11 last year.

Joel changed his page today.

Nasa fakes moon landing!

Today is the 11th of September

David Harris’ Science News – there’s some great articles here. If you like bottomquark you’ll like this.
Phew! Stadium Ireland won’t be built with Irish taxpayers money. The Berty Bowl will have to wait.

PHP can fork() and has done so since 4.1.0!

If you have xwrits running and you’re on IRC, change your “away message” to tell the people who are waiting on your reply why you’re taking so long!

Google Zeitgeist

comp.graphics.apps.gimp

When writing init scripts using the Red Hat daemon function, if you’re starting up long running scripts that don’t go into the background themselves, use the following to start them:
daemon "script.sh &"
That’ll launch the script using initlog and pass the & along to initlog so that the init script can exit normally.

Via Holy Shmoly, Flat-rate Net access returns to Ireland and more info available on boards.ie and UTVip. It also supports single channel ISDN, and Eircom now charge the same for ISDN lines and phone lines AFAIR.