Archive for December, 2008

December 31st, 2008

Happy new year in 2009

10 Comments, Donncha, by Donncha.

Happy new year! May 2009 be even better than 2008!
PS. I shot this with my Canon 50mm 1.8 and it…

December 29th, 2008

VirtualC64 for Mac OS X

No Comments, C64, by Donncha.

VirtualC64 is a new Commodore 64 emulator for Mac OS X. It’s a promising project, let down by the fact…

December 25th, 2008

Christmas Day Ten Years Ago

No Comments, Donncha, by Donncha.

I’ll always remember Christmas Day 1998. Ten years ago on the night of Christmas Eve we returned from the Regional…

December 20th, 2008

Recession in Cork

6 Comments, Donncha, Ireland, by Donncha.

The world is in recession, and it’s even affected Cork. The city was busy but it’s been much busier in…

December 19th, 2008

Wizball live at the church

10 Comments, C64, by Donncha.

This blew me away the first time I heard it. The title tune of classic C64 game Wizball recreated by…

December 12th, 2008

Me and my Santa hat

2 Comments, Web, by Donncha.

Thank you Walter for my Santa hat! Walter has created a simple Pixenate app that adds a Santa hat to…

December 11th, 2008

Backups save the day

7 Comments, Linux, by Donncha.

A few weeks ago I blogged about my backup system. How I have two 1TB Iomega external drives and…

December 10th, 2008

How to fix ssh timeout problems

13 Comments, Linux, by Donncha.

If you use ssh a lot, you may have noticed that your ssh session times out and you’re logged out…

December 8th, 2008

Fixing Ubuntu 8.10

17 Comments, Linux, by Donncha.

I suppose you could say I’m a long time Debian/Ubuntu Linux user, but the recent upgrade to 8.10 completely messed…

December 1st, 2008

2 candles and an apple pie

16 Comments, Donncha, by Donncha.

So, I enter my 33rd year on this planet. Highlight of the day was our lunch in the Castle Hotel…


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