Has Ireland’s property market gone mad?
€200,000 for a derelict auld cottage and calling it derelict is praise for the condition it’s in: http://www.mattosullivan.com/prop_display.php?id=305 But, browsing for other properties turned up a...
View ArticleUbuntu & Hibernate
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/105490 Had the same problem but replace the UUID in /etc/fstab with the actual device. Looks like I needed to also update...
View ArticleGnome-screensaver is a bit of a pain in it simplicity
One of Gnome’s main philosphy is simplicity but in this endeavour, some things are a pain! For instance, Gnome’s pictures screensaver doesn’t let you specify what directory to look for pictures or...
View ArticleGPU
Nice deal on a Nvidia 8800GT for $235: http://dealnews.com Dell Home offers the XFX GeForce 8800 GT 512MB PCI Express Video Card, model no. PVT88PYDF4, for $234.68. (Search for “A1350995″ to find it.)...
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Iceweasel browser identification
Debian replaced Firefox with Iceweasel which is a version of Firefox committed to all the Open Source freedom goodness stuff. However, some sites check the browser identification string and will refuse...
View ArticleMore about Ireland’s property market.
David’s usually got some insights: Back to basics for Ireland Inc Cowen’s crocodile tears blurring economic vision And an editorial at the Indo about the property market: Instead of ripping off...
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Evolution e-mail client & gnome-keyring
Recent updates on Debian for Novell’s (formerly Ximian’s) Evolution E-mail programme added support for gnome-keyring. When you start Evolution for the 1st time after the recent updates Evolution will...
View ArticleR&B, Jazz, Motown in Toronto
Was up in Toronto for a couple of days visiting family. On Friday night a couple of us went to Zemra a bar/cafe around the corner for a drink, and there was a pretty decent band & singer playing....
View ArticleGnome theme problems.
Wow, major problems with Gnome and trying to change themes. Ended up the issue was some weird conflict with the gtk-qt-engine package. A simple: apt-get remove –purge gtk-qt-engine solved the problem....
View ArticleTango Theme for N73
Neat, a Tango theme for my N73 Nokia Mobile phone! http://wiki.sukimashita.com/Tango_Symbian60_Theme Grab the Symbian60 3rd Edition (Regular, FP1) one for the N73.
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kde4 and ubuntu
Follow the instructions at the link below to install KDE 4 for Ubuntu: http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.php Screenshots follow! KDE 4’s Show Desktop Grid, use Ctrl-F8: Pick running app, use...
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Time to upgrade my Internet connection!
This is using Verizon 1.5Mbps/384Kbps DSL service:
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connection speed!
That’s better! And on Feb 9th: Looks like fairly consistent speeds, not quiet 3mb/s download but pretty close.
View ArticleConfused about PSU’s?
Confused about power supplies for motherboards? Me too. This will help: http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2003/08/30/power-supplies-become-increasingly-expensive ATX = 20 pin plug, your...
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kde4 & debian!
Works great! Following the instructions here: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html However, if you install the KDE4 kdeartwork package, any remaining kde3 packages, such as k3b &...
View ArticleWaving frog waves for the last time
Sad: The Panamanian golden frog communicates with other frogs by semaphore in the form of gentle hand waves. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7219803.stm What’s is amazing is that they took...
View ArticleDell BIOS updates using Linux
Dell provides Ubuntu support for updating the BIOS of Dell systems: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/05/37446.aspx … be sure the Universe section is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, then...
View ArticleWar
Is always bad. And this is a very sad, graphic picture: http://www.photojournalism.org
View ArticleHow’s Eddie?
Eddie’s fecking dead because he was illegal alien and was scared to go to hospital: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/31/a_toast_to_an_irishman/ This just feckin’ sucks: Eddie died in...
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