Author Archives: Donncha

I wish I had my USB cable with …

I wish I had my USB cable with me today. It’s a beautiful day out and I took the car to the Anglers Rest to take a few photos.
The Anglers Rest is a pub on the banks of the River Lee and the scenery around that area is breath-taking. Expect some of the photos soon!
I met a man there who told me he swims in the river every day! He’s a taxi driver by trade but makes time to visit the river every day. ‘bit cold for me thanks! Turns out he knows my uncle too, ‘s a small world!

Scott Andrew pointed out that …

Scott Andrew pointed out that the web was silent on the terrorist attack in Bali. That’s true, but the Irish media have had plenty of reports about it. A quick search on daypop shows 91 weblogs mentioned the attacks. (this number is only accurate today due to the way daypop works!)
My own piece on the attack comes in on the 3rd page where I stopped scanning.
The web and especially weblogs are US-centric. Sure, there are weblogs written by people all over the world but we’re a minority I feel. Get used to it, if it didn’t happen in the States then it didn’t happen and it probably won’t get widely reported and commented on. That’s one thing that frightens me about the influence weblogs have over Google, that bias will exist.

On the other hand, the sniper shootings in Washington have received scant attention from webloggers while it makes headlines here in Ireland and talk shows devote air-time discussing it. No matter how we feel weblogs have supplanted journalism for reporting news, if it doesn’t interest us or motivate us enough we won’t talk about it. The same occurs in any volunteer effort and is perfectly normal. (see the open source world for this -> google for “itch a scratch”)

For all European readers, imagine a bomb going off in Ibiza.. That’s what Bali was to Australians. You have my condolances. I hope they track down those murderers.

I found something annoying in …

I found something annoying in my new install of Red Hat 8. I use keyboard shortcuts a lot, and I use CTRL 1,2,3 and 4 to switch virtual desktops. Unfortunately when I do, the application on each desktop with the focus (sometimes) doesn’t accept keyboard input and I have to either switch back and forth between desktops or ALT-TAB between windows a few times to fix it. I asked the ILUG for help and Stephane Dudzinski answered quickly confirming the problem. It’s a fault with Gnome2, and not just Red Hat 8.
This post from gnome.org seems to suggest the problem is harder to fix than it might be because of the number of ways the Panel can be used.
I’ll continue to use Gnome, I actually prefer Nautilaus at the moment to Konqueror, and I’ve gone back to double-clicking again.

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