*Sigh* OK, the title of this post didn’t turn out quite as I expected. It sounded better when I said it in my head..
Bob’s Yarr blog is the latest blog to take the world by storm. Everyone’s talking about it, the magazines are cooing about the delicate way he handles issues, and concise manner in which he discusses matters.. Muahahahaha!
Sorry Bob! I couldn’t keep a straight face any longer. Your blog has hit a great start and long may you continue!
Go visit his blog, makes for entertaining reading of a late evening.
Author Archives: Donncha
Telephone Survey – Ever heard of Linux?
This survey sounds really strange with “On a scale of 1 to 9, with 9 being very well, how do you think Linux treats its employees?”
As others who replied to this mail commented, I suspect some strange statistics are going to come out of microsoft.ie in a few months time..
Matrix Revolutions Mini Review
Matrix fans may not like what I’m about to repeat here – these are the opinions of a 2FM DJ, so make of it what you will. Flames and complaints can be left in the comments below! 🙂
If you’re reading this on my weblog, then view source to see the review. If you’re watching through an RSS feed, well, here it is..
“I really, really like the Matrix”, “10 minutes into the film, I wanted to stab myself with my car keys”, “Remember all the talking bits from Reloaded? Lots of that in this one too.”, “Huge fight scenes in Zion, but looks like a video game”, “Dreadful, Awful, Terrible”, “If you have fond memories of the first Matrix…”, “World wide release, expected to make $200m in the first 5 days.. just goes to show, you can fool all the people all the time!”
I’m going to see it on Saturday!
Accused In Murder Trial Walks Free
Liam Keane walked free from a court in Dublin yesterday when the 6th witness in the trial “denied making statements identifying the accused as the killer”.The Irish Times has more as does RTE News.
Mr Keane is now wanted for failing to show up in court today over 2 public order offences commited last month.
Scary stuff.
Picture from the Irish Times
Top ten retail ripoffs exposed!
I’ve come across some of the things on this list and like many people been the victim of same. Even some of my friends in sales have explained some of these to me!
The future of b2++
What’s happening? You’ve no doubt noticed updates from time to time on blogs.linux.ie but no new release has been made in a long time, despite the fact that comment moderation and referer tracking is now in.
Spurred by Geoff (finally, sorry!), and others who have mailed I’d like to fill in some of the blanks:
- b2++ will most likely be consumed by WordPress. AFAIK, I’m the only user of b2++ on the WP dev team, so making the transition from b2++ to WP painless might be more trouble than debugging b2++ install problems for Windows users!
- After I released a mod for WP that added Smarty Template support there was a trickle of interest but I got bogged down by trying to do too much at the one time (making WP multi-blog aware) and I burned myself out. That and the fact that my personal life has been in major upheavel for the past 2 months. A few people know why I posted “Nothing Today” a month ago…
- I volunteered to help with WP, but frankly, the prospect of redoing the same work I did for b2++ is daunting and just a little bit uninteresting for me. Note the word, uninteresting – that’s a powerful motivator in a volunteer project. I know things things can be done better in WP as I’ll be able to knock ideas off the heads of the other WP developers.
Will there be another b2++ release? Not likely, fork it if you like, but chances are good that WP will have many of the features of b2++ in the next few months.
If you need a community blog site, then go for b2++. In the future I want to make WP as compatible with b2++ as possible, thus providing for an upgrade path.
Wally – Dave?
Is it just me, or does Wally sound like Dave Winer in this Dilbert comic strip?
Blogs Cleanup
I went through the list of blogs here and deleted inactive ones. I was shocked at the amount of spammed comments on some of those blogs!
Blog owners here have been emailed too, so if you get an email from me requesting you click on a link on this site to validate your email, it’s in your interest to do so!
For some reason, Yahoo mail prints “\n” directly so urls are a bit fscked. Just click on them anyway as the info’ll get recorded in any case.
b2++ blogroll fix
I made 2 minor changes to the blogroll plugin.
- Big blogrolls (such as mine) will be read in correctly now, as I add a check for feof() instead of reading in one big block.
- I added stripslashes() to it to get rid of the annoying slashes.
DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS
Ok, it’s not specifically Linux related, as this DOS emulator has been ported to Windows, BeOS, MacOS X as well as Linux, but I’m excited about it because I may be able to play Syndicate again! I couldn’t even get that DOS game to work in Windows 98 AFAIR. I had more luck running it in Dosemu, but without sound support unfortunately.
Dosbox is available on apt-rpm too, which is where I stumbled across it.