I remember the view in this photo well. I’ll be back there someday!
Author Archives: Donncha
New Photography Articles
Nature Photographers Online Magazine has been updated with the February issue. I’ll get stuck into it later tonight. Looks like some good reading!
Is digital ready for the wilds? Fascinating article about bringing a digital camera into the wilderness for 3 weeks. I don’t think I’ll be following in his footsteps any time soon however!
CSS on mouseover Drop-down Menu
Here’s a nice example of a drop down menu using nothing but CSS styling. The author has tested it in several browsers and it works fine in Mozilla Firebird 0.7 here. Lovely!
How To Survive IKEA
Here’s a very good walk through for those of you heading to IKEA next weekend. We in Ireland are lucky, legislation doesn’t allow such large stores to open here yet, but I guess it also applies to Woodie, Atlantic Homecare and other DIY shops too!
One to print out and take with you.
Morning Ireland piece on MyDoom virus
In a radio interview (realaudio link) this morning an “expert” told the nation that the DDOS attack on SCO was orchestrated by “people who are promoting a thing called open system software where by you can have competitors for the Microsoft products which are essentially free.” Peter Aherne provided a brief transcript of the interview and it looks shocking in it’s ignorance of the facts!
There’s a lengthy thread on the ILUG about it including links to articles debunking the interview.
The serious accusations in this interview need an answer and sooner rather than later!
Update! Nils posted a cleaned up transcript of the interview, and Gavin McCullagh posted one too.
Netcraft: www.sco.com is a weapon of mass destruction
This is so funny! 🙂 Go read it and wait and see if SCO slashdots Slashdot!
Much of the commentary on the SCO distributed denial of service scenario, including our own, has been based on the premise that SCO badly wants to keep their web site running. This may not be the case: unlike Microsoft, which has a real business to run and a real need to keep its web site operational, SCO Executives may not strongly care about the availability of www.sco.com. After all, Michael Doyle’s half a billion dollar patent win against Microsoft scarcely hinged on the response times of the Eolas web site.
In fact, the author of the MyDoom virus has delegated control of the most enormous volume of http traffic that the Internet has yet seen to hostmaster@sco.com. On a whim, SCO can direct that Tsunami at an object of their choosing, simply by changing an A record in named.conf in time for the change to propagate by Sunday.
Cube – Open Source FPS for Windows and Linux
Cube – This looks like an interesting game. It’s got some pretty screenshots and the blurb makes it look appealing.
Cube is an open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail on most machines.
I won’t pretend to know what all that means but I’ll give it a whirl over the weekend!
Here’s the linuxgames.com review that pointed me towards this game.
CD-R Failures, are labels safe?
Further to my previous post on this topic, Liam on #linux pointed me at this report.
I really need to store my backup DVD-Rs standing up and in a dark place instead of having the jewel cases lying on an old PC in my room..
Independent consumer guide to mortgages
I switched on the radio this morning to hear Gerry Ryan mention the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority. He gave a phone number and the above URL saying they had published a guide to mortgages. Obviously I had just missed a conversation on mortgages but at least I found the guide available as a 122kb pdf document at the above URL. It looks like a good read for anyone buying a house in Ireland (and perhaps in other countries too).
Format C: on a Nokia 7650?
So I finally managed to get the “Nokia Suite” software working in Windows (it doesn’t seem to like an almost fully patched WinXP!) and I have my phone backed up over Bluetooth.
Now, how do I go about deleting 827 texts? I could go through them and pick out the ones from the ex but that would take too long, and by using p3nfs I hoped to do grep -r "ex's phone number" /mnt/psion/C:/Mail/| xargs rm -f but I don’t think p3nfs is stable enough to handle that much traffic. It certainly fell over when I tried to backup my phone using it. I’ll give it a go tomorrow, it might work! Anyway, deleting her number from my contacts is a lot easier! 🙂
If you know of any 7650 app for doing mass-deletes of text messages please leave a comment!
Update! Just figured out that I can “Mark All”, and I then delete the texts with a few clicks of the Option button. Sorted!