Tue, 28 Feb 2006

Link(s) of the Day

Stuff what fell off the internet and right into me pocket guv'nor - honest it did...

http://osdl.org/newsroom/studies/EMA: For rather a long time, the dubious statistic of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) has been used by Microsoft to demonstrate that their solutions are cheaper to own and run. This survey is one of the latest that would appear to indicate otherwise.
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~huskerdu/riot/secretweapon0rt.jpg: In keeping with the Chuck Norris theme of yesterday... and the day before... and the week before that... etc. In a way, it's good to see Dublin people already laughing at what was a disgraceful carry-on in Dublin over the weekend.
http://appdev.guildglobal.ie/joke/it-wasnt-me-hofficer.jpg: There's always someone who has to take the bounds of comedy just one little step too far, isn't there? ;-)
http://www.daraghmcg.org/2006/02/28/pat-kenny-caught-out/: It's not often I link to other people's blogs - but this observation by our very own DjMagra as he listened to Pat Kenny this afternoon had me in stitches :-)
http://www.creativeireland.com/forum/ubb/Forum7/HTML/008122.html: And the comedy re the Dublin roits just keeps on coming. Some excellent photo-shopping going on here. Enjoy.

posted at: 15:30 | path: /lotd | permanent link to this entry

Link(s) of the Day

Things people pointed me at that I thought were useful...

http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/: Recovery Is Possible Linux resuce system. I've managed to recover a number of systems from various states of brokenness using Linux distros that boot from CD/floppy/USB key; from Damn Small Linux to knoppix, the ability to get a system up and running if the CPU and RAM work is invaluable for diagnosing other components. This RIP distro includes some useful tools for diagnosing and fixing problems.
http://planet.irishblogs.info/: An aggregator for Irish bloggers and their blogs. As something of a faux Irish person myself, I found myself getting sucked in and spending more time reading than I'd wanted to.
http://www.thesession.org/: If you play Irish music, or just have an interest in it, this site seems to be a growing portal to Irish traditional music, song and styles. The fora are well populated and consist of largely productive (or blatantly humurous and light-hearted) debate. The signal to noise ratio is high - long may it continue. The whole site is a testament how the internet can create and sustain a community. (Can you tell I'm pleased with this website? ;-) )
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi: Yet another version control / management system. This has a numebr of features that mean it's not likely to go away very soon though - http and ssh sync protocols, compression of the dataset, distributed running inherent in the design model, extensible in a controlled fashion with user hooks, etc. This could be the version control system for me (or you!) - I'll write more on this as I get more time testing and using it in anger.

posted at: 10:13 | path: /lotd | permanent link to this entry

Blog aggregator spam...

Apologies to the readers of planet ILUG who have just received a deluge of blog posts from me, now that I have fixed my erstwhile broken RSS 1.0 feed. Now that I've sorted out my issues with RSS and my blog server, I've upgraded the feed to take the RSS 2.0 feed, so this should stop happening.
In fact, I've just noticed that planet has helpfully corrected the timeline of my postings and put them in correct chronological order. How useful :-)
posted at: 01:25 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry