Archive For November, 2005
If you were watching Top Gear tonight you no doubt took note of the Survey they released results for. They’re on the web but the lads in the studio didn’t have or couldn’t give out the URL. If you followed the suggest Google search, you’d have come across these two beauties: BBC – Top Gear [...]
The original Install-sendmail page is a little fscked up, so here’s another: http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/install-sendmail/ There’s a download link to the newest release, which is probably the last. You should really be looking at Postfix, Exim, or any of the other easier to configure MTAs. Not Qmail, of course. That piece of software is evil.
The Groceries Order in Ireland is over! Big and small stores can now compete on price and consumers will hopefully benefit! Savings per family per year could be anything between 500 and 1000 Euro for the “average” household. Whatever an average household is. The Groceries Order banned the sale of goods below the invoice price. [...]
Google Video Downloader Keepvid.com – nice, lists the last decoded urls too so there’s always fresh content. I may even subscribe to the rss feed! Update traxio.net is taken by a domain squatter, updated URL above.
Éole’s photo reminded me of what Zig and Zag used to ask: Oú est la centre de George Pompideu? It’s strange that there’s so little online about it! Thankfully their other quotes are still making the rounds!
Matt has an excellent idea for how he can make loads of money out of Web 2.0! It’s the perfect match of photography and language! Hey, if he did open source it, or provide an API, it could be worked into a WordPress plugin so people could display their favourite photos and phrases on their [...]
Ray D’Arcy and co are talking about the Hunkey Dorey advert that displays 3 ladies and asks, “Who would you throw out of bed for eating Hunkey Dorey crisps in bed?” Has anyone seen it around Cork? For purely research purposes of course, I’d like to see the advert that would keep a line of [...]
If you use Windows you have to contend with viruses and trojans all over the Internet. Linux and Mac owners are a little luckier being that Linux is getting more secure by default, and both are niche operating systems. makeITsecure is an Irish Government website set up to encourage Irish Internet users to protect their [...]
My new site, In Photos.org, is probably still in the Google Sandbox and unfortunately it seems that it’ll be there for another few months! There’s some good advice here on what new site owners can realistically expect from their sites. The mantra remains, Write Good Content and they will come.
