Author Archives: Donncha
Phoenix is very nice! …
Phoenix is very nice!
Over on Skipping Dot Net they' …
Over on Skipping Dot Net they’ve taken the decision to use qmail instead of Sendmail. I have absolutely no problem replacing Sendmail on a server with something else, but qmail? I get the shivers at even the thought of configuring it.
I’ve used Sendmail for years (see my install-sendmail script to the right) and if I was going to replace Sendmail on a server, I’d probably go for Postfix. I’ve used that MTA before and it was a doddle to configure and I’m told it’s great performance wise too.
A photo of the lifeboat on th …
A photo of the lifeboat on the Endevour when she docked in Cork Harbour. Lots more photos to follow!
A long essay on Ownership and …
A long essay on Ownership and the consequences of ceding ownership to others. Good read.
John Tierney, friend and class …
John Tierney, friend and classmate, died in 1996 in a car accident in Limerick. I debated long and hard with myself all day whether I should post this or not. I searched extensively on various Irish news sites for reports on the crash but to no avail. Their archives just don’t go back that far. A search on ireland.com found an article about it (second link on that page), but it’s subscription only so I can’t link to it. It seems so meager and little to do but hopefully if my classmates google for details about the accident they’ll find my webpage and this commentry.
The photo below is a detail from the college newsletter of the week following the accident. I found it while cleaning up at home and took a photo of it with my digital camera.
If you’re reading this and you write a weblog, please link to this commentry with John’s name in the link, I want there to be something to find..
Brussels to spend €250k on Lin …
Penalty Points – For the past …
Penalty Points – For the past week a Word document has been winging it’s way around Irish email accounts. I have no idea if it’s legitimate or not but here’s the html equivalent, converted using Open Office and extensively cleaned up by me.
Heard on IRC today..<lbedfo …
Heard on IRC today..
| <lbedford> | time to go to ork |
| <– | lbedford has quit (ork time) |
| * diamond looks up ork on the map | |
| <niall> | diamond: ork is the inland part of Cork (not near the C) |
*groan*
My 1.2 GHZ PIII Commodore SX-6 …
My 1.2 GHZ PIII Commodore SX-64 – on the day I threw out 2 C64s. *sob* I still have the 1541 drive so I’ll be moving my collection of 300 5 1/4 floppies onto the PC in the next few weeks and there on to several backup CDs.
Oh yeah, I remember seeing the SX64 in a computer shop here in Cork a few years ago. It is HUGE! I also had reviews of it from way back in the 80s and they weren’t impressed by it’s portability either then.
Roll on Vice.