Category Archives: General

Ximian Evolution 1.2 – good news for Evolution!

AMI Sector One – looks like a good Amiga Emulation Site.

If you’re trying to compile UAE – The UAE Amiga Emulator on Red Hat 8, or any other modern Unix system you may encounter the following bug:
./tools/cpuopti <cputmp.s >cpufast.s
Corrupted assembly file!
This is easily fixed by copying the cputmp.s file over cpufast.s:
cd src; cp -f cputmp.s cpufast.s; cd ..
Now run make again.

I’m also looking at Xfellow but SDL just crashed when I tried to run it so it might take some tinkering to get it to work on my system.

Irish Consumer Boycott, December 2, 2002.
On December 2nd this year there will a boycott by the consumers of Ireland in protest to the excessive and unjust prices that are being charged to the Irish consumer. A similar protest was organized in Greece this year 3rd September where consumers avoided all shops, pubs and restaurants etc. in protest of the prices that were being charged.
The European commissioner for consumer affairs (an Irish man, David Byrne) and the Irish Government have both being entirely passive with this issue when a lot feel something could have been done. Since the Euro change over Ireland leap frogged above France and Germany to become the second most expensive country in the euro zone after Finland. This contention is supported by several leading companies and organisations including Forfas and Price Waterhouse Coopers.
Please advise those you know to support the boycott. The boycott is set to last for one day as in Greece.

Got this in email about 4 or 5 times so here it is for everyone else.
What good will it do? We’ll all go back to buying stuff on the 3rd. It’s also a weekday, if I need to buy my lunch nobody’s getting between me and my food!

Cringely discusses PC upgrade cycles.

Bryan Bell is a very talented designer! Sorry to hear about your grandfather though 🙁

APOD: Leonids vs The Moon, nice picture. I wish Ireland was as cloud-free.

Dublin Bus pilots real-time service – it’s also happening in the UK and elsewhere, but I don’t think it’ll help alleviate the traffic problems in Dublin. We Irish have a “must drive there” attitude, of which I’m guilty of too!

Why Red Hat Owns Linux – no they don’t, but this is still a good overview of where RH are and what might happen in the future. (from a business perspective)

The Register reports on a leaked internal document from Microsoft that touts Unix in Hotmail’s Win2k switch. Of course, that’s presuming it’s real, but the article is an entertaining read anyway.