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I’m a 30 something Irish guy that works in the IT business. Inside the trade I’m interested in Linux, Internet technologies and mobile hardware and services. Outside, I enjoy a good book, a nice beer and decent game of rugby……

P.S. This is a personal blog, and while I do have a professional involvement in a lot of the technical topics I mention in some of my posts, they do not reflect company policy or ethos.

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New toy – Acer Aspire One

I was in PC World the other day and I picked up an Acer Aspire One A110 on sale. It’s getting a bit long in the tooth now, so they

OMG! This is soooooo cool!

OMG! This is soooooo cool!

VW have a flash game to promo their new Golf GTI. They’ve put a camera into a mini Scalextrix version of the car and you get to race it. Not

Gripe of the day

Gripe of the day

Why is it that VMware hide their VMware server downloads behind a password? Like many I run headless Linux servers without a GUI installed. I’d like to be able to

Is it just me or…

Is Dricko moving in to plant a wet sloppy one on Girvin Dempsy’s lips? (Photo from last weekend’s win over Castres)

I upgraded VMware on my home server last night….

Man what a disappointment! I upgraded because of the promise of 64bit guest support, only to find that it only works on CPUs with VT or AMD-V support. Also, the