Category: technology

  • Falcooooo!

    Although the 2lmc spool‘s demise has been greatly exaggerated, Blogshares and JenniCAM are both going Falco†. The former is only a wee ickle bairn compared to the seven year controversy juggernaut that is/was Jennifer Ringley’s infamous “always-on” webcam site. No longer will we see JKR sitting watching TV, sitting playing on her computer, sitting doing…

  • /usr/bin/cluckcluck

    For those who think Debian is “hard” to install, let the Chicken Install method dispel a few myths πŸ™‚ I personally have always found Debian fast and easy to install, the new installer should help that become even simpler. The tendency these days is more towards eye candy than actual ease of process. If it’s…

  • .ie: Saving Rented Marea

    Kilkenny in the dark is not fun to navigate round, especially with two really dodgy looking maps! We were rescued by Katherine, Sabrina’s friend in Kilkenny who was putting up with us our contact, guide, assistant, fixer, and general sorter-out of stuff. She took us to meet her partner Joe, who was hosting the Thanksgiving…

  • .ie: Santa or Rush Hour, Hmmm

    Sabrina took Ellie up this random tower/chimney thing beside the hotel, which equally randomly had a Santa at the top. This meant the rest of us could sit back with some drinkies without a small girl running around us and asking for beer πŸ™‚ Before heading off, we nipped into a next-door Spar, grabbed some…

  • From Saturday to Monday in Several Easy(ish) Moves

    saturday > figuring out how to install debian woody over network using pxe netboot / tftp > successfully installed > grab old write-to-serial-lcd perl script to do cool stuff on newly built deb box > remember how to do rc.local equivalent in debian > pack > drive to town > drive past town to PC…

  • Um, Another 3 Phone …

    Looks like I’m going to be deluged in 3G phones … after sending me the handset I knew I was getting, 3 decided to send me another NEC e808 … I think the phone’s OK, but come on, it’s not like I lost the first one — photo attached as proof! πŸ™‚ more 3G geek…

  • One, Two, Three, Four, A Little Bit More

    Finally … finally, finally, finally, finally, finally my 3 phone appeared today … yes, one of those 3G video phone gubbins ones πŸ™‚ I have a couple of mates who work for 3, and as a nice deal to their friends and family, I managed to blag the handset with a sweet 3 months free…

  • onepointoh baby!

    SmoothWall GPL went onepointoh last week … I totally forgot to mention. It’s basically SmoothWall 0.9.9 patched to the gunnels with all the updates and security fixes we’ve applied since we released it on September 15th 2001, and we decided “this is mature enough to be called one point oh.” So we did! Now the…

  • I’m still alive … <promise

    I’m still alive … <promise towhom=”self”> I will update this more often </promise> … cisco have told me that they can’t think about taking me on until August – random hiring freeze time … oh Cisco are posting a few million less dollars profit this year, even though it’s still more than the GNP of…