I wonder if Salam is going to be back to update his blog. I haven’t heard anyone talk about him recently, but given the liberation of Baghdad last night, and the fact that he hasn’t updated his site since March 24th, you have to wonder if he survived the war…
Browsing Posts published in April, 2003
With all that was going on today, I never got round to posting anything about the excellent SAGE-IE meeting that I was at last night. SAGE-IE for those who don’t already know are the System Administrators Guild of Ireland, the Irish branch of SAGE, a professional body for System Administrators. Donal Cunningham is trying to [...]
I decided on a naming convention for my home network this morning, and from now on I am going to use beer as my guide for naming machines. I’ve seen it used once or twice on networks I’ve seen, although I can never recall seeing it in a production network. So, in the next few [...]
Oh, it’s been a nightmare here the day! We have received complaints from some of our customers for the past few days that they were having problems accessing certian sites hosted with a certian ISP located in Northern Ireland. I started investigating this yesterday along with our own Networks Ops, and we found that there [...]
Following on from what was an amazing, yet heartbreaking F1 Race on Sunday for me, as a huge Jordan fan, I’ve just been reading a very interesting story on itv-f1 about how perhaps Fisichella should have been awarded the race, or more to the poing, how Kimi should not have been awarded it, courtesy of [...]
Ok, I am not impressed this morning, I was walking into work from the train station, a walk that takes no more than 10 minutes, and during that period, my iPod crashed 3 times! That means that so far this week I have had more crashes (five) than I’ve had since I got the machine [...]
I went along to Trinity College last night for both the Doolin Technology Talk and also Jon ‘Maddog’ Hall’s talk. I enjoyed the Doolin talk by Mark Jason Dominus on Perl and the Unix OS, although I admit some of it was slightly over my head! Then Maddog came up to give his talk. I [...]
I have the most irritating problem with my oterwise flawless laptop (its a Dell Inspiron 8100), and that is that it makes the strangest noise from time to time. It’s not a mechanical noise, it sounds like the speakers are transmitting some sort of electrical interference, and I have to say the only time I [...]
I hear on the news that Intel have announced that they are expanding their operations in Lexlip with a $200 million dollar investment. This along with SAP announcing yesterday that they are going to create a further 300 jobs in their Irish operations in their near future finally bring some good news to the Irish [...]
I managed to survive April Fools day yesterday without being fooled (I think!). Makes a change, normally we get some good gag’s going in work, mind you, I wasn’t really up to it having had a seriously dodgy meal in work on Monday and suffering for it all Monday evening and all day yesterday. Finally [...]
