Author Archives: Donncha

iPod as Digital Photography Storage

Here’s an interesting review of a Belkin Media Reader that will plug into an iPod. (Thanks Mark for the link!) Great idea for a music player to do, and it looks like it’s been done well.
The lengthy time required to copy files over is worrying, as I shoot 5MP images to 256MB memory stick. Going by the time quoted in the article it would take 15 minutes to copy over one memory stick (and yes, I can easily fill that much space taking pictures of even one scene!)
There are other options out there, and many have been reviewed on dpreview and other photography sites. Here’s an overview of some of those options.
Maybe I’ll invest in the next year or so. The deposit on my house purchase was paid last Monday so I’m slightly cash strapped right now!
Oh yeah – great photo of a kite surfer on photosig!

Santa on IRC!

<donncha> anyone heard the “real santa claus” argument on Joe Duffy’s show? was comical 🙂
— allmanj is now known as alllunchj
<radagast> donncha: go on?
<donncha> some shop is advertising that they have the real santa claus. Someone complained, they even argued about “what makes a real santa claus” !!
<donncha> even got the advertising standards people on!
<donncha> hehe
* aj is back (gone 00:03:10)
<aj> I am Santa, really I am
<thomasb> donncha: I think the consensus was you either had to be a fat man in a red suit in the north pole, or a 6th century bishop
<donncha> thomasb: *nod* I’m listening to some mp3s now 🙂
* aj crosses off thomasb for not believing in me.
<longword> !seen abbot
<donncha> !seen santa
<donncha> no, I mean aj..
— aj is now known as santa
<donncha> someone ring up Joe!
— abbot (bloot@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) has joined
<longword> abbot, where have you been?
<abbot> out drinking with the bots.
<thomasb> !shot santa
<diamond> lol
<thomasb> !shoot santa
* abbot blows santa away with a wand of fireballs

Disclaimer – No Santa, elves, reindeer, or any Christmas characters were harmed in the making of the above script. I do have to admit that the sanity of the Irish Linux Community could be called into question however.

Incoming Spam

Here’s what my daily spam count likes like as of about an hour ago:

The time covered goes from Oct 10th to Dec 1st, and, as you can see the spammers were very busy at the end of November!
They are still busy in fact, but I removed several system addresses from our server – email to them is going directly to /dev/null. Spammers must be getting desperate. None of those addresses would have been listed on *any* website yet they received half of my spam. that’s the result of getting hit by Rumpelstilskin attacks so often.
Hey Americans – notice the amount of spam on Thanksgiving? *argh*

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