Aha, but `Biddy Early's brewery is about 20 miles away in Inagh. Stout, Lager and a very yummy ale. All brewed in the back of a pub (not a brewpub per se, just a pub that has been there for donkey's years where someone decided that they should make their own beer)
And good guinness is like nectar. Not that cold, thin, bitter piss they sell everywhere else. Pulling a pint of porter is a fucking art - soft pints, half and half, the barrel under the counter so it's at room temp... Fuck it lads, I'm off to Nelly's. Anybody coming?
Wait till ye all get over here. There ain't no broadband. ADSL is in 35 exchanges in Dublin, and has been stalled at that for 12 months. 128k isdn is all you're gonna get until you start paying thousands a month for E1s
BUT... Gus O'Connor's is a great pub. I think there's some connection to the Irish Embassy bar in Boston - Same guy owns/owned them both, I think. I live in Clare, so Doolin is a regular haunt.
Been using it for years. It's a file and print server (Samba), email server (Qmail, with Imp webmail), web server (Apache, for internet and intranet), database server (MySQL), and it's all run from a handy web interface. It installs in 30 mins max, and it just works.
They have some value-added features that you can pay for, like support and antivirus and stuff, but the ISO itself is a free download.
Look. If we're all going to be that picky about it, then it is actually COMDEX's, as COMDEX is an acronym. Put periods in after every letter if you like.
and I'm doing a degree. I recently applied for a job and didn't even get called for an interview, solely because the ad stated "Degree" and my CV didn't.
I live in Ireland, so I am doing a Bachelor of Science in Information Texhnology by Distance Education through Oscail (it's Irish for Open). 8 saturdays per year per module for tutorials. Seems pretty good, the degree comes from Dublin City University. Work load is quite heavy at times, and the organisation sometimes sucks (missed my first tutorials cause they lost my application this year) but all in all worthwhile.
I had an idea the other week about space stations. Instead of bringing them up piecemeal, take an iron rich asteroid and attach a foundry to it, extruding arc-shaped tubes that could be attached to form a large wheel (of the type seen in 2001, but probably not that large). You would then have a living area made of cast steel - probably a lot stronger and more puncture-proof than anything that could be brought up in the back of a space shuttle. You would just need to bring up interiors and electronics and stuff, to be attached in orbit.
I originally dismissed this out of hand, because you would have to bring a whole foundry up into space - probably heavier than half a dozen space stations.
But then this appears. Could you make a giant microwave? Electricity is easy - just get big solar panels. Are there limitations to the size of a magnetron?
0) "And in the news today, Electronics Boutiques all over the country were forced to throw everybody out and close their doors as hundreds of geeks came in at the same time asking for the linux games section."
It's sad to see Atari's legacy being abused by yet another company who just lives on Atari's fame.
JUST LIVES ON ATARI'S FAME? Infogrames has been around and making bloody great games for nearly 20 years! I had Infogrames games on my old Amstrad CPC464, back in 1986-89!
I posted this to another story a week or so ago, but since I live in Ireland, most stories go up overnight, and the thread was well dead by the time I got there. But anyway:
How about periodicals?
You walk past the newspaper stand and your bluetooth enabled reader downloads the latest editions of the Wall St Journal, Maxim and Sports Illustrated. Then when you sit down in the bog, you get a message that you have 3 new publications waiting to be read. You couldn't be buggered with the WSJ at all today, so you delete it. Sports just ain't your bag on the bog baby, so you ignore that and leave it for later. But Maxim is the mag for the man having a shite, so you open and start reading that.
Next time you pass any newsstand, the reader tells their server that you downloaded 3 periodicals from the corner of 1st and 5th, discarded the WSJ, read Maxim and haven't decided on Sports Illustrated yet, so you get charged for Maxim, with the profit going to the original newsstand. That way, newsstands don't go out of business, and magazines publishers get to control the distribution and payment.
You walk past the newspaper stand and your bluetooth enabled reader downloads the latest editions of the Wall St Journal, Maxim and Sports Illustrated. Then when you sit down in the bog, you get a message that you have 3 new publications waiting to be read. You couldn't be buggered with the WSJ at all today, so you delete it. Sports just ain't your bag on the bog baby, so you ignore that and leave it for later. But Maxim is the mag for the man having a shite, so you open and start reading that.
Next time you pass any newsstand, the reader tells their server that you downloaded 3 periodicals from the corner of 1st and 5th, discarded the WSJ, read Maxim and haven't decided on Sports Illustrated yet, so you get charged for Maxim, with the profit going to the original newsstand.
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My bad - it's not O'Connors that is linked to the Irish Embassy, it's McGann's
Except that pints of local ale are available in County Clare - Biddy Early's Brewery is in Inagh, about 20 miles away. Good stuff too.
And good guinness is like nectar. Not that cold, thin, bitter piss they sell everywhere else. Pulling a pint of porter is a fucking art - soft pints, half and half, the barrel under the counter so it's at room temp... Fuck it lads, I'm off to Nelly's. Anybody coming?
ROFL
Not THAT Irish music. REAL irish music - the stuff that goes diddly-di and has lots of "WHUP"s in it
Wait till ye all get over here. There ain't no broadband. ADSL is in 35 exchanges in Dublin, and has been stalled at that for 12 months. 128k isdn is all you're gonna get until you start paying thousands a month for E1s
BUT... Gus O'Connor's is a great pub. I think there's some connection to the Irish Embassy bar in Boston - Same guy owns/owned them both, I think. I live in Clare, so Doolin is a regular haunt.
repeatedly that I'd not be making an endorsement.
It's ok dude, they don't need you, because look here:
> On Monday at 10am in SF, Eric Raymond, Bruce Perrins, Brian Bellendorf
> etc. will all be attending a press conference with Real Networks
They got one of your Slashdot imposters to do it!
Been using it for years. It's a file and print server (Samba), email server (Qmail, with Imp webmail), web server (Apache, for internet and intranet), database server (MySQL), and it's all run from a handy web interface. It installs in 30 mins max, and it just works.
They have some value-added features that you can pay for, like support and antivirus and stuff, but the ISO itself is a free download.
How right he was...
10 print chr$(7)
See? Easy.20 goto 10
As Linux is affiliated with Communism, you can only play as the Red Army in the game ;-)
Just noticed that this story had 665 posts attached to it.
Six-hundred-and-sixty-sixth post!
Yay me.
Look. If we're all going to be that picky about it, then it is actually COMDEX's, as COMDEX is an acronym. Put periods in after every letter if you like.
and I'm doing a degree. I recently applied for a job and didn't even get called for an interview, solely because the ad stated "Degree" and my CV didn't.
I live in Ireland, so I am doing a Bachelor of Science in Information Texhnology by Distance Education through Oscail (it's Irish for Open). 8 saturdays per year per module for tutorials. Seems pretty good, the degree comes from Dublin City University. Work load is quite heavy at times, and the organisation sometimes sucks (missed my first tutorials cause they lost my application this year) but all in all worthwhile.
or would that be comdii?
I think you're looking for Comdices...
Sometimes I have these ideas...
I had an idea the other week about space stations. Instead of bringing them up piecemeal, take an iron rich asteroid and attach a foundry to it, extruding arc-shaped tubes that could be attached to form a large wheel (of the type seen in 2001, but probably not that large). You would then have a living area made of cast steel - probably a lot stronger and more puncture-proof than anything that could be brought up in the back of a space shuttle. You would just need to bring up interiors and electronics and stuff, to be attached in orbit.
I originally dismissed this out of hand, because you would have to bring a whole foundry up into space - probably heavier than half a dozen space stations.
But then this appears. Could you make a giant microwave? Electricity is easy - just get big solar panels. Are there limitations to the size of a magnetron?
Eh. Probably talking through my arse.
nothing new to see here. This discussion has already been had.
but she'd never leave Fred, man.
Ya. Think fig leaf. On CowboyNeal...
0) "And in the news today, Electronics Boutiques all over the country were forced to throw everybody out and close their doors as hundreds of geeks came in at the same time asking for the linux games section."
He killed (and was killed by) the balrog in the end, though.
Heh. Guess who only saw the film, never read the books...
I've got one too, and redhat goes on like a breeze...
Yep. And a little further back, about 1988 I think, this unknown software house published a little game that enjoyed a minor cult success.
SIM CITY!
I dunno, I feckin give up.
It's sad to see Atari's legacy being abused by yet another company who just lives on Atari's fame.
JUST LIVES ON ATARI'S FAME? Infogrames has been around and making bloody great games for nearly 20 years! I had Infogrames games on my old Amstrad CPC464, back in 1986-89!
I smell a troll...
I posted this to another story a week or so ago, but since I live in Ireland, most stories go up overnight, and the thread was well dead by the time I got there. But anyway:
How about periodicals?
You walk past the newspaper stand and your bluetooth enabled reader downloads the latest editions of the Wall St Journal, Maxim and Sports Illustrated. Then when you sit down in the bog, you get a message that you have 3 new publications waiting to be read. You couldn't be buggered with the WSJ at all today, so you delete it. Sports just ain't your bag on the bog baby, so you ignore that and leave it for later. But Maxim is the mag for the man having a shite, so you open and start reading that.
Next time you pass any newsstand, the reader tells their server that you downloaded 3 periodicals from the corner of 1st and 5th, discarded the WSJ, read Maxim and haven't decided on Sports Illustrated yet, so you get charged for Maxim, with the profit going to the original newsstand. That way, newsstands don't go out of business, and magazines publishers get to control the distribution and payment.
How about bluetooth?
You walk past the newspaper stand and your bluetooth enabled reader downloads the latest editions of the Wall St Journal, Maxim and Sports Illustrated. Then when you sit down in the bog, you get a message that you have 3 new publications waiting to be read. You couldn't be buggered with the WSJ at all today, so you delete it. Sports just ain't your bag on the bog baby, so you ignore that and leave it for later. But Maxim is the mag for the man having a shite, so you open and start reading that.
Next time you pass any newsstand, the reader tells their server that you downloaded 3 periodicals from the corner of 1st and 5th, discarded the WSJ, read Maxim and haven't decided on Sports Illustrated yet, so you get charged for Maxim, with the profit going to the original newsstand.