Category Archives: General

On IRC, So all that Quartz Extreme hype boils down to ‘stuff fades in’?
hehe.

I, Cringely – on Everquest and stupid Eulas.

Linus Torvalds answers 10 goofy questions – Some questions are naff, but others will make you smile!

Geramik Reduces KDE/GNOME Style Differences – it’s a Gnome theme that’ll make Gnome look like KDE. Good for the newbies, and everyone else. Just wear flame-retardent clothing if you tell a Gnome developer/user about it!

Tablet PC: First Impressions

ReasonablyClever.Com: Christopher Doyle Presents the Mini-Mizer! This is really strange!

78 spams last night. That must be a record, or close to it for one night. Normally I’d get that many over a whole weekend. Thankfully Spamassassin caught all but 1 of them.

RTÉ News: McCreevy publishes Book of Estimates and announces plenty of cut-backs for the Irish public. As expected the opossition have slammed the the estimates. 2002 is a tough year but 2003 will be worse.

Linux Gazette #84 – I haven’t read LG in a long time but it’s still around!

Tips For Linux – How and when to use the dd command? – I’m trying to configure a diskless machine as a dialup server at home and found this page via Google. Lots of historical info and examples of dd usage.