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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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No photos allowed

There’s a big fuss in the US right now over amateur photographers being blocked from taking pictures of public buildings because they might be terrorists. If you whip out a

SiliconRepublic.com: Irish Stock Exchange firms not tracking web visitors

Yawn! Yet another press release masquerading as news. This time StatCounter, an Irish provider of web bugs are bemoaning the fact that the majority of Irish publicly quoted companies aren’t

Seize drunk drivers cars

Jazz Biscuit is advocating taking cars off people who get caught for drunk driving. I like the idea. Maybe take it one step further and crush the car in front

VMware Server on Debian Etch 64 bit

Once I got Debian installed it was time to install VMware Server on the box. There’s two gotchas however. While the application is fully 64 bit, the installer isn’t quite,

Intel 64 bit CPUs and Debian

I’m repurposing an old-ish Dell PowerEdge 850 as a VMware Server development & test box at the moment. It’ll be replacing an even older PowerEdge SC400 (where “SC” stands for