Category Archives: News

Following the General Election Results Online (#ge11)

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

As I plan my election day geek out (in a suitable pub with good Guinness and good friends), I thought I’d share a few links and create an easy reference for myself. First the obvious: RTÉ: http://www.rte.ie/news/election2011/ Newstalk: http://www.newstalk.ie/ Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/indepth/election2011/ TheJournal.ie: http://www.thejournal.ie/general-election-2011/ … Continue reading →

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Installing FreeBSD on Soekris net4801-48

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Barry O'Donovan

Nick introduced me to Soekris a few weeks ago and some neat little boxes they make. For a current project, the net4801 fit the bill perfectly, especially with the add in vpn1411 which off loads the intensive computational operations for … Continue reading →

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Amazon AWS Keeps Getting Better

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Barry O'Donovan

Amazon’s Web Services have just launched a health dashboard which should prove very useful and can be found at http://status.aws.amazon.com. They’ve also announced paid support services. An eagerly awaited feature for me is persistent EC2 storage which they are trialling … Continue reading →

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Stargate SG1 – Finishing the Story

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Barry O'Donovan

Following up from a discussion on how the series finale disappointed a few people over on Donncha’s blog, Holy Shmoly!, I thought I might point out that a straight-to-DVD movie which actually ends the two-year story arc has just been … Continue reading →

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Blacknight “to IPv6 the Irish Internet!”

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

Over in Blacknight’s blog, Paul tells us how they are going to IPv6 the Irish Internet!. Well done lads!. In Ireland, a lot of the ISPs actually have IPv6 enabled their network edges – this includes imag!ne (aka Gaelic Telecom), … Continue reading →

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