Archive For September 1st, 2003

Irish language – Wikipedia

Fascinating page from the Wikipedia on the Irish Language. Starting from an overview of the different dialects found around the country to the history of the language it finished by discussing the Irish language used today. In spite of all the efforts since Ireland achieved independence (some critics claim because of those efforts) the Irish [...]

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PHP MVC overkill?

John posted a bit about implementing an MVC design in PHP. He quotes a comment stating that MVC is overkill in PHP land, mainly because PHP isn’t Java. I do things in a simpler way, and I really should post an example application soon!

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Good Times with a Mac?

Interesting article via #linux on irc.linux.ie. No Mark, just because I spent some time in 2 Apple Stores, I’m not going to buy a Mac! I was impressed by the different types of people using the machines though, everybody from a Mac geek wearing a ‘Mac Inside’ tshirt to a musician in a corner to [...]

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Mozilla Firebird nightly builds – built with gtk2 and xft.

it would appear that the nightly builds from Mozilla.org of Moz Firebird are now built with gtk2 and xft! woo! I’m downloading the latest build right now and I’ll post again in a few minutes with an update here. Update! Yes, the new build is just as nice looking as the old ones I’ve been [...]

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Radio in Chicago

If you’ve spent any time at all in Chicago you may have come across 103.5 KISS-FM. I listened to this station all the time and now I can listen at home too! They have a streaming media page but it links to a popup full of javascript. If you’re running Linux it probably won’t be [...]

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Microsoft Interview..

Interesting interview here.. LONDON, Aug 30 (Reuters) – This is a test. Please ignore. This is a test. Please ignore. This is a test. Please ignore. This is a test. Please ignore. This is a test. Please ignore. This is a test. Please ignore. This is a test. Please ignore. This Ok, ok, we all [...]

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Back in Cork – again

Here I am, back in Cork. Still suffering slightly from jet lag but at work and sorting through a lot of mail. In the past 10 days or so I received 183MB of mail. That’s over 5300 emails. Over 1400 of them were email viruses (mostly Sobig) which is the largest number I’ve ever captured [...]

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