Archive For July, 2003

BlogShares tip

Ha! almost a day gone without updates! It’s busy here at work. I picked up my tickets and I’m heading back to Chicago on Saturday! Anyway, for all your BlogShares users, here’s a tip I’ve noticed other players doing. Buy all the stock of a blog. If you like, buy the last 250 in more [...]

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Linux & POS

Owen Kelly just called from a POS show here in Cork. They suffered a power cut for a few minutes. As the lights and machines came on again Owen spotted some weighing scales booting up. At closer inspection he noticed Linux boot messages and mentions of Red Hat scrolling up the small screen! When booted, [...]

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Xwrits again

I’m using Xwrits again. My hands are falling off me by the end of the work day and I need to force myself to take regular breaks.

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PHP5: Coming Soon to a Webserver Near You

harry Fuecks has written a very long article on PHP5 at sitepoint. It’s been a very busy day so I haven’t had time to look at it, but after a quick scan it looks like a good read.

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The Parking Lot is Full

Lots and lots of cartoons here. I have to admit I never came across this site while it was still active.

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Strange photos and images

This image and this this one are very likely to make your eyes water. You’ve been warned!

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GIMP 1.3.17 is out

I read this on the GIMP-Users mailing list but as their archive is broken now, here’s the scoop via gnomedesktop.org (and thanks to Feedster for finding it for me!) The next major release will be 2.0, not 1.4. Unfortunately this means that some features slated for a 2.0 release won’t make it until later. All [...]

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I'd love to test Mozilla Thunderbird except..

I’d love to give Thunderbird a spin for a few days but there’s a problem. It doesn’t support the Maildir format! Currently I’m very happy with Kmail and lots of my mail folders are in Maildir format. I’ve over 1GB of mail (yes Mark, I still keep almost all my mail!) so having an easy [...]

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teergrubing referrer spammers

Justin Mason posted a message to the ILUG complaining about referer spam on his blog. I replied with a few ideas, and hopefully we’ll get more ideas on that thread. Unfortunately I forgot to include a link to a useful feedster search on the matter but JM will see it here I’m sure. Load up [...]

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Mars at the Moon's Edge

Amazing photograph on APOD today. It looks like someone was flying over the moon to take it with mars rising over the horizon. Wow!

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