SSH bouncing – connect 2 boxes behind natted firewalls. This would have been handy when I was in Chicago!
Hey! that site runs on WordPress too!
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Three hands, one sliotar….
Eoin Hennessy snapped a great photo at the recent Tipperary vs Kilkenny Senior Hurling Semi-Final in Croke park.
If you use spamassassin..
If you use spamassassin you should disable Osirusoft as it shut down last week and now returns true on all requests! Thanks Kasia!
Photo archiving
Bah! This summer I’ve had 2 drives die on me at home. The first was a drive I used for many years so it was no surprise it died. Unfortunately it died just after I came home from the USA in July. Thankfully I had backups from last November done, and was able to recover the photos from 2003 up to the end of June before the drive died permanently. The second drive was the one I brought back from the States so I’m not surprised it died after a plane journey.
I’ve backed up all my photographs twice now. There’s 2 CDR copies of each backup, just in case.
Now this article from The Register throws some doubt on this strategy. No premium brands were tested but cheaper CDRs become unusable after a few months. I can confirm that this does happen as quite a few CDs I burned in the past are now unusable.
I’d like to look at DVD burners now. It’ll be a lot easier to reburn 2-4 DVDs rather than 12-16 CDs every year. Liam on #linux suggested the Pioneer 106 and I’ll look around, so if you’ve used a DVD burner with Linux I’d like to hear about it in the comments below.
Irish language – Wikipedia
Fascinating page from the Wikipedia on the Irish Language. Starting from an overview of the different dialects found around the country to the history of the language it finished by discussing the Irish language used today.
In spite of all the efforts since Ireland achieved independence (some critics claim because of those efforts) the Irish language is in rapid and perhaps terminal decline… The death of the Gaeltachtaí would make a break forever between Ireland’s cultural past and identity and its future. All sides… …agree that such a loss would be a cultural tragedy of monumental scale.
PHP MVC overkill?
Good Times with a Mac?
Interesting article via #linux on irc.linux.ie.
No Mark, just because I spent some time in 2 Apple Stores, I’m not going to buy a Mac! I was impressed by the different types of people using the machines though, everybody from a Mac geek wearing a ‘Mac Inside’ tshirt to a musician in a corner to a middle aged couple fiddling with a desktop machine.
Mozilla Firebird nightly builds – built with gtk2 and xft.
it would appear that the nightly builds from Mozilla.org of Moz Firebird are now built with gtk2 and xft! woo! I’m downloading the latest build right now and I’ll post again in a few minutes with an update here.
Update! Yes, the new build is just as nice looking as the old ones I’ve been using! yummy!
Radio in Chicago
If you’ve spent any time at all in Chicago you may have come across 103.5 KISS-FM. I listened to this station all the time and now I can listen at home too! They have a streaming media page but it links to a popup full of javascript. If you’re running Linux it probably won’t be very useful. However, here’s the url you should feed to mplayer, xine, or your favourite Windows Media player..
Microsoft Interview..
Interesting interview here..
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Ok, ok, we all mess up from time to time 🙂