Archive For September, 2003

How Cork are you?

Discover how suitable you are for living in Cork by answering this questioneer on PRC. Q10 (bonus point question) Would you..? A) “Hell, why not!” B) “It really depends on the earning potential.” C) “I would yeah!”

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We want your soul!

WWYS WWYS® has been formed by a consortium of international companies – including leading financial and genetic research institutions – to create a product that gives you an actual CASH VALUE for your soul.

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Fire units battling Cork city blaze

I just heard on IRC that there’s a fire in Blackpool! I looked out the window but didn’t expect to see anything as we’re more than 8 6.25 miles (Thanks Christian!) away here in Ballincollig… Fire in Blackpool

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Hard to debug this..

Glad I don’t work where this bug was submitted. It’s a Visual C++ bug but I’m not convinced that the steps to reproduce are valid. What if someone from marketing walks into the room just as the compilation finishes? They’re not a developer but if they hear the sound, it might be the microwave dinging.. [...]

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The 2003 Minigame Competition!

I’d love to enter this competition with a C64 entry, but it’s about 10 years since I’ve done anything on the that platform! *sigh* Reading the FAQ at the bottom of the page was an entertaining read and reminded me of the days when every byte (or bit!) mattered.

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Parents Television Council 1999-2000 Top 10 Best and Worst shows on Network TV

Bah! Family Guy is no. 2 on their list! Great show, pity it was canceled

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Digital Photography FAQ

Excellent FAQ here. Ah yes, good discusson on #linux about photography!

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Genuine Fractals? Blow up your pictures!

There’s a distinct difference between fractal and raster images. Raster images are the jpeg and gif files you see all over the place. These don’t resize very well. Fractals are made up of mathematical descriptions of the objects in a scene or picture. Using these descriptions it’s possible to resize an image without losing any [...]

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Ford Sportka | The Evil Twin

I saw this short film at www.the-eviltwin.co.uk on “The Panel” on Network 2 the other night. Unfortunately, the site is an awful flash site. To watch the “Evil Twin” movie, click on “View Highlights”, and then click on “Clip one”. It’s a tiny box, and I can’t see any download link for a sane version. [...]

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Spamassassin – scoring on DSL lines

Since upgrading to Spamassassin 2.60 yesterday I’ve noticed a (small) increase in false positives. There were only 4 out of 132 spams caught overnight, but almost all were from dsl or dynamic IP addresses. The default score for this test is 2.5, but if you add the following to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf you can change the score: [...]

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