Category Archives: General

Nasa fakes moon landing!

Today is the 11th of September

David Harris’ Science News – there’s some great articles here. If you like bottomquark you’ll like this.
Phew! Stadium Ireland won’t be built with Irish taxpayers money. The Berty Bowl will have to wait.

PHP can fork() and has done so since 4.1.0!

If you have xwrits running and you’re on IRC, change your “away message” to tell the people who are waiting on your reply why you’re taking so long!

Google Zeitgeist

comp.graphics.apps.gimp

When writing init scripts using the Red Hat daemon function, if you’re starting up long running scripts that don’t go into the background themselves, use the following to start them:
daemon "script.sh &"
That’ll launch the script using initlog and pass the & along to initlog so that the init script can exit normally.

Via Holy Shmoly, Flat-rate Net access returns to Ireland and more info available on boards.ie and UTVip. It also supports single channel ISDN, and Eircom now charge the same for ISDN lines and phone lines AFAIR.

Sorry for the lack of updates. I’m writing from a web-cafe in lovely Galway! We started with a night in Inish Mor, night in the local “night club” and a 10 mile bike ride up to Dun Aonghus. We’re sun burned! Who’s believe it? Ireland in September and we’re sunburned! hehe.
Lots of pics to post, Dun Aongus lies at the top of 87m cliffs facing the Atlantic, being up there reminded me of Bungy Jumping, but the pics were worth it!

Galway is great, def. worth a visit, wait ’till you see pics of the penthouse apartment we got! Woo!!

More updates at the weekend, we’re off to dinner in a while, the pub after, and then back to Kilkenny tomorrow!

Dave can’t read the text on two websites, I tried them in Galeon and they display perfectly. A small number of popular weblogs don’t display correctly for me. It happens. *shrug*

Corante: The Bottom Line

The Islamic Reformation – parallels between the 16th and 21st centuries.

Gen. Zinni Says War With Iraq Is Unwise – great stuff in here, thanks Mark for the link!

I couldn’t have a job because that would stop my grant. So in one breath, a recent college graduate took up position in the dole queue, right behind another family member who confidently led the way to another generation of State support.
There are pros and cons to a welfare state. I’m in favour of it, as are practically all European countries. A lot of the time it doesn’t work properly though. PRSI and dentists, going back to college, child care, disabled help/care.. These are just some of the issues I’ve come across in the last 2 months, in my own life and in the media.