Author Archives: Donncha

The Drip Project – DVD Transcoder for Unix. Convert your DVD collection to avi/divx movies in Linux. May give it a go.

One reason telecoms in Ireland is in such a bad state.

Latest photo: Old Cork.

You’ve probably seen this already, how one college is dealign with bandwidth issues.

POP vs IMAP

Doctors can grow new teeth.

Blondes disappearing?

VNC is back!

Hits and misses in technology.

Will it be Linux 2.6 or 3.0?

Are we due an ice age?

Red Hat 8.0 is out. I’m downloading right now..

Zeldman’s Daily Report looks terrible in Linux. *ouch*

Via Cam: War Cry made me wonder…

Did you have a good weekend? I saw Mundy in concert last night. Good show, I took over 100 photos, so expect a gallery soon! Thanks Owen for inviting me along!

RTÉ News: Flood report says Burke got corrupt payments – after 5 years and EUR31m spent (I think). Of course, Bertie Ahern welcomes the report despite the fact that he initiated the tribunal only under severe pressure from the opposition 5 years ago.. ‘s funny that *his* ministers were found to be corrupt..

Just because I link to lots of motorbike photos doesn’t mean I want one Owen.. 😉

Support for the Irish Government has plummeted! Is that unexpected? No, they lied outright to the voting population by saying there “wouldn’t be any cutbacks”, instead Bertie calls the current round of cuts “adjustments”. I’m sure the people on the poverty line who were deprived of more medical care because of these adjustments appreciate that.

Inside The Demise of 3dfx – My first 3d card was a 3dfx and I remember being blown away by it in a way no card has done since. Maybe it’s because Quake suddenly became a whole new game with the openGL version. *sigh*

Flirting With Mac OS X – Mark, must call up and see this amazing OS for myself some time!

i2 wiki/on us foreign policy –
“Iraq: incredible weapons – incredible weapons.”
How do you know that?
“Uh, well… We looked at the receipts Haar.”