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Fifteen Web Principles
Friday, February 9th, 2007Creating Your Own Disk Images – Why And How
Friday, February 9th, 2007My old system has been sitting unused on my desk for the last couple of months. Part of the reason that I wasn’t using it was that I had installed Windows Server 2003 on it with the intention of using it as a web and backup server for my home LAN. The problem was that I had never used Windows 2003 before, so I was spending more time reading about configuration options, rather than actually configuring it.
Previously I had tried installing Linux on it but found that trying to get Samba, Apache, PHP and all the other pieces I needed to work was also too much hassle. Eventually I gave it up as not so much a bad idea, but just an idea that I didn’t have time to fully research and implement. I’d love to have the time to delve further into the Linux idea, but for the time being it’s not to be.
Wikipedia Entry: Steve Staunton
Friday, February 9th, 2007Following the disgrace that was the San Marino match, Wikipedia has seen some “unusual” edits on Steve Stauntons bio.
Irish Soccer Management – In a Class of Their Own
Friday, February 9th, 2007Apparently the latest opinion from the FAI is that we have a world class management team in Steve Staunton and Bobby Robson. In what sport? I’d say tiddlywinks, but that would be an insult to professional tiddlywinks players.
Here we have one man who most of the time can’t string two coherent words together, and then we have Bobby Robson. When was the last time you saw him at an Irish game? Where was for the post-match press conference? In fact where was he for the preparation of any of our qualifying games?
I know that he’s been quite seriously ill, but does that not suggest that he is not the right person for this position? I have a lot of respect for Bobby, what he has achieved in the game is second to none, but he should have realised that it was time to retire several years ago and stick to the TV punditry.
San Marino vs Republic of Ireland
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007What a disaster. Ireland may have won 2-1, but in all fairness, it’s a Phyrric Victory. We been humiliated by a team ranked about 150 places below us in the world.
The Irish team must have thought that all they had to do was show up and the win would be theirs. Fair play to San Marino though for pushing so hard for the win, and if there was any justice, they would have gotten the draw. Given that the winner wasn’t scored until the 5th minute of injury, Ireland certainly didn’t deserve to win.
This game just raises more questions about the Irish soccer setup. Why was a manager with virtually no management experience appointed to be the manager of an international team? Where is the pride in representing your country? Where was the leadership, both on and off the field? When was the entire board of FAI struck with selective blindness? It was obviously a gradual event, as the first symptoms first appeared when they were searching for a manager, and since then it has worsened dramatically. And of course the most important question, when is Steve Staunton going to be shown the door?
If you have any answers to the above questions, please direct them to:
The Football Association of Ireland
80 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: +353 1 7037 500
Fax: +353 1 662 4630
www.fai.ie
Broadband Issues – Decision Made
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007After all my problems, I’ve decided to bite the bullet and stay with my original provider. While they cannot guarantee my upload connection, at least it is a connection. With the new provider, I was dependent on the goodwill of my neighbours to even get a connection, so I’ve given it up as a bad idea.
Hopefully my provider will resolve the problems with my upload speed. In the meantime, I need some sort of working internet connection, so I’ll live with it.
Windows Vista is Released
Monday, February 5th, 2007Microsoft’s new operating system Windows Vista was released to the general public during the week, and already a security issue has been discovered. I wouldn’t call it a remote exploit as such, more of a “that might be funny to mess around with” kind of issue.
Still it doesn’t surprise me. Vista was released to businesses a couple of months ago, and release candidates have been available to beta testers for several months before that, so the people who are interested in finding flaws have had plenty of time to do so.
Even though Vista was released a couple of years later than originally envisaged by Microsoft, and even though it is the latest and greatest home OS available, I won’t be rushing out to get it. Like any new product, it’s better to wait a while until the major bugs are found, patches released and rolled into a service pack.
Book Review: Hannibal Pride of Carthage
Monday, February 5th, 2007Over the last few months I’ve developed a fascination with ancient history: Ancient Greece, the city states of Sparta & Athens, and most of all Ancient Rome. Specifically anything to do with the Roman Republic and it’s transition to the Roman Empire. I’ve been devouring any and all books I can get my hands on. On one hand it’s amazing to read about real people such as Pompey, Julius Caeser, Cicero, Scipio, Cato, etc., and on the other hand it seems almost too fantastic to be true. These events which shaped Western Civilisation happened in a time so removed from human memory, that they’ve become legends.
A New Provider: Is Now Not A Provider
Monday, February 5th, 2007The saga that is my broadband connection continues. I am now staying with my old provider, as I am unable to get the written permission that I need for my new provider to perform the installation of the aerial on my neighbours chimney. Having just read that last sentence, I think a recap is called for:
In 2005, I had broadband installed in the house I rent and share with a couple of friends. Because we couldn’t install a phone line, we went with a wireless provider. For €36 a month they provided a 1Mbps connection with a static IP address. The connection is synchronous – i.e. the download and upload speeds are the same. There was no download cap, so you could transfer as much data as you liked without fear of being penalised.
Subscribe to Comments Updated to v2.1
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Mark Jaquith has released version 2.1 of his “Subscribe to Comments” plugin. If you’re using a previous version of this this plugin, I recommend upgrading. It features changes to the subscription manager that allows you to see at a glance the email addresses used to subscribe and the posts that your users are subscribing to. The new version also allows you to remove readers subscriptions with a couple of clicks. Very handy for removing spam email addresses.
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