Category Archives: General

Must read this article later, although I’ve been meaning to read it for 2 days now!

<donncha>		question… how hard d’you think it’d be to get dialup networking working on a SCO Unix box?
<pron>		donncha: how long is a piece of string ?
<Baud>		donncha: are you mad?
<pron>		donncha: Seriously though … internal or external modem ?
<Zoso>		donncha: dialup to or from the SCO box ?
<Baud>		donncha: take a long period of time, double it, and it’ll be about a quarter of the time required
<Zoso>		donncha: Well I’ve had to (i.e. not my choice) config & troubleshoot uucp dialup connections on SCO boxes 3 or 4 years ago and that certainly wasn’t fun
		* elrond shudders at the very idea of trying to get a sco box doing PPP.
<pron>		donncha: install Linux ?

Guy attaches camera with wireless connection to helicopter and flies. Great videos are the result! zzz has more info on it.

Via IRC, this brief history of squatting in Dublin.

hehe.. Meatloaf is on 2fm right now talking to Ryan Tubridy in another mad interview. Go listen to it, but be quick because his show is over at 9am!

Really busy today at work. Not much to blog.
Still problems installing b2++ for some Win32 users. If you got b2++ working in Windows will you mail me or reply on the above forum to help Candle?
As usual, Tim has some great stuff to read, especially his review of Bob Cringely’s article last week which I responded to too. Tim does a much better job!

I’m a longtime Gnucash user but it’s no harm looking around at what’s on offer. Here’s a review of MoneyDance 2003. MoneyDance is a cross-platform Java finance program the reviewer is quite taken with, while at the same time dissing on Gnucash.
If you have Linux installed, try out Gnucash, you won’t be disappointed!

Bob, first of all, glad to hear your son Channing is doing well. It was a shock to read about Chase a year ago. It doesn’t seem that long at all!
Unfortunately I have to disagree with your arguement against Open Source.
When a project is successful it’s used by people and the maintainers are hopefully motivated to work at it. Even if the project developers lose interest in a project sometimes those projects are taken up by others. The author of b2 disappeared off the Internet (he’s back, sort of now!) and now there’s several branches of b2, including this website, all with enhanced features.
If a project stagnates and isn’t maintained, it’s usually because people aren’t using it. There are many exceptions of course, and some popular tools go unmaintained, but what happens when a company goes bust? What happens when the company won’t support your old version of the software? At least you, or your development team has access to the source of the open source project.

I don’t believe Microsoft can easily subvert OSS projects by simply pumping money into them and leading them off in a tangent. People will notice.
You cite the Apache project. The new Apache 2 has been out for quite a while. How many complex sites are using it? It doesn’t have much support from 3rd party developers. So much for the mighty influence of IBM.
Where’s Ximian now? What have they done in the Gnome world to lead that desktop environment?
They might have a chance if they got a controlling role in Red Hat or some other major Linux distributor, but even then there’s too many people. Alan Cox is quite independent of Red Hat even though they pay his salary.
Open Source will be around for a long time I’m glad to say!

Adam, this dictionary is excellent! Your uncle did a great job! A must read for Corkonians!

The ILUG is a great resource and often it’s great having such a varied and technical group of people on the ILUG. Caolan works on Open Office/Star Office and it looks like my OO problems may be fixed in the 1.1 release!
I love his explanation why bullet points were a bit screwy when exporting to Word format. hehe.