General: November 2004 Archives
A warm welcome to users of phdweblogs.net. My site is now being linked by phd weblogs which is great as its a growing community with ideals that I endorse.
I have been quiet busy the past few days researching some RISC issues, the implementation of bit masking has proven to be very challenging.
The Register reports that after 25 years of selling VCR's Dixons are to stop selling them before christmas. Dixons said the machines will be out of its shops before Christmas. Sales of DVD players at Dixons are currently outstripping sales of VCRs by 40 to 1.
I had to visit the University of Limerick today, I drove into the pay car park and drove around it for 10 mins trying to find a parking spot, I eventually had to leave it and pay 2 euro for the experience.
I eventually found parking opposite the UL concert hall, they are digging up the whole area at the moment, so I'm hoping the road I drove in on will still be open. At least in Tipperary Institute students do not have to pay for the priviledge of parking their car.
I am considering upgrading the graphics card on the home pc, one of my benchmarks is that it should be capable of playing half life 2. The other is that I shouldn't have to take out a second mortgage.
Some websites have done some benchmarking of half life 2 apparently it needs direct x9 support and 256 mb of ram. It seems that the geforce cards are being forced to run in direct x8 mode. So far the best contender is the radeon 9800. Its still pricy (EUR 154)
Stormweb.ie offer the lowest domain name pricing in Ireland. They have been in business for the past 6 years and recently transferred their offices from Dublin to Nenagh in Tipperary. They offer .com domains for EUR 7.50 and Linux hosting from EUR 60 + VAT.
So if you can at all buy Irish! Visit www.stormweb.ie for more info
Google are hiring again for the Irish operation in City West. This is part of growing recovery of IT in Ireland.
This time they are looking for
# Contracts Administrator
# Cluster Systems Administrator
# Head of Inside Sales
# HR Generalist
# IT Field Technician
# Network Engineer
# Oracle Applications DBA, Financials
# Online Sales and Operations Coordinator
# Online Sales and Operations Director
# Online Sales and Operations Manager
# Online Sales and Operations Team Lead
# Recruitment Specialist
# Site Reliability Engineer
# Site Reliability Manager
# Tax Accountant
Dave Pentecost is one of a number of volunteer filmmakers who worked with Michael Moore to document election day conditions at polling sites throughout Ohio. Dave sent BoingBoing a short movie comprised of excerpts from footage they captured on November 2, 2004. Much of it was apparently edited on laptops in the back of a bus.
The short film highlights some of the problems people had voting as well as some questionable tactics employed by republican campaigners at voting. These campaigners shyness to video cameras is also very noticable.
The website is back online, we had a problem with a NIC I believe but now everything should be back to normal
