Here’s two photos that caught my attention on the SP list. They were taken in Warsaw and posted by Rami: 1, 2
Welcome Ministry of Education in Taiwan!
Yes, welcome to Europe! Someone on your network is slowly spamming us. You’ve been owned I guess!
Type 134.208.8.59 into apnic whois database to find the culprit!
The cheapest phone call in Ireland – Tele2 Vs Vartec
Several months ago I looked at who provides the cheapest calls in Ireland. At the time Vartec and Eircom were the cheapest – Vartec for mobile calls and Eircom for evening local and all weekend calls.
Now TELE2 are here and their tarriffs look great! They beat Vartec on evening and weekend calls and are only more expensive on daytime calls (when I’m not at home!)
Their international tariffs aren’t as good as Vartec’s however.
The minimum call charge of 6.35¢ compares favourably against 15¢ charged by Vartec however.
I had to ring Tele2 to get their mobile tariffs so here they are for ever more..
| Network | Day | Evening | Weekend |
|---|---|---|---|
| 087 | 22.99¢ | 18.99¢ | 10.99¢ |
| 086 | 22.99¢ | 16.99¢ | 13.99¢ |
| 085 | 22.99¢ | 18.99¢ | 14.99¢ |
* Cost per second.
Da Funk and Da Noise
Here’s a tutorial and PS action for removing noise from digital photos. Might try my hand at a GIMP version!
The Joy of Usability
The comic going along with this article really caught my attention – how many times have you taken apart an old joystick to add the auto-fire switch from another joystick, or to repair the plastic struts that broke while you were playing Combat School! 🙂
Must read OK/Cancel: The Joy of Usability too of course!
Auto Generated Passwords
I picked this up via delicious earlier but Simon Willison has a lengthy post about it. Good stuff!
Gmail madness!
Yet another “Anyone-want-a-gmail-invite?” thread on ILUG prompted the following on #linux:
<DoC> I’m not that annoyed over it. It’s just there’s enough cruft to wade though on ilug as it is.
<DoC> And the sender gets added to my ~/.enemies 🙂
<DoC> If you don’t have ~/.enemies, you don’t have character.
<dredg> DoC: excellent. i’m quoting that
<bigbro> A UTF-8 character or some other type of character? 😉
* bigbro runs away now…
<DoC> Nerd.
b2 to WordPress rss feeds
One problem with changing blog software is the fact that URLs change. I’ve provided a redirection rule here so you don’t need to change the settings in your aggregator. Take a look at the feed now if you like!
RewriteRule ^b2rss2.php(.*)? /wordpress/wp-inst/wp-feed.php?feed=rss2 [QSA]