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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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Door Number Three

Robert Cringely has an interesting column today @ I, Cringely. He talks about the inability of IT staff to fit in today’s corporate structure. He’s been fired from every job

The shame…..

I’ve tried to make sure the rugrats have a head-start when it comes to computers. #1 son has been playing with my PCs since he was 4 and has had

The Linkup just folded….

Consumer online backup provider The Linkup, formerly known as MediaMax, formerly known as StreamLoad just shut up shop and are telling people to go to box.net instead. Streamload split in

Look what the guys in Heise managed to do….

I’m in the trade, so I am biased, but this is too big not to comment on. Researchers at Heise (publishers of German IT magazine c’t) have cracked the security

Aaaaggghhhh!

A friend of mine has a successful small company. He’s realised that he needs “backup” because he knows he’ll go out of business if he loses his data. He claims