Author Archives: Donncha

SIGNS YOU’VE BEEN IN IRELAND TOO LONG …, I’m from Cork. ’tis a grand place!

Denny’s Menu – *lol* these flash anims are good!

Microsoft told to ship Java in 120 days – woohoo!

HotScripts.com: PHP/Scripts and Programs/Graphs and Charts – lots of great scripts here!

Joel on Software – Mouth Wide Shut

Should you talk endlessly about your products under development, in hopes of building buzz, or should you hold off until you’ve got something ready to go?

Pretty good English for a foreigner.. must be a troll, please say it’s a troll!

Mobile gaming for all ages!

Microsoft Ireland confirms job cuts

Microsoft Ireland on Tuesday confirmed that about 55 staff would be made redundant, as 113 positions move to locations outside Ireland.

Karlin has more on the Young Scientist winner.

The person I spoke to said that as he understands it, the browser gets the claimed speed efficiencies by starting to download info to one socket. Adnan’s browser then “short-circuits” the socket or breaks that connection and starts downloading other bits of a page, “using fast servers.” It does a number of things at the same time, which makes a page load faster.

Sounds a bit like how mondern P2P applications download. AFAIR the Z-modem protocol could do the same thing or similar but that was long ago in the days of the BBSes..

Todd suddenly feels old

“That’s a Commodore 64!”, I shouted. To which my younger house guests looked at me with bewilderment.

“A what?”

“A Commodore 64. I used to own one. It was a great computer.”