General: April 2007 Archives
I was delighted to here the news about the 151 jobs announced for Limerick this week. I worked in Limerick for several years and experienced the dot com boom and burst while being employed in the private sector.After the dot com bubble burst a number of my friends had to leave Limerick to find tech and sw jobs else where. For a number of years Limerick was in the doldrums from and R&D perspective, but slowly over the past 18 - 24 months it has experienced a turn around.
100 jobs with electronic payment systems software firm ACI Worldwide - R&D, software, tech support and finance.
30 jobs for Masters graduates with Rovsing - software development centre in Limerick specialising in the creation of specialist software tools for satellites and ground systems for spacecraft.
21 jobs with AR Corporate’s new European distribution headquarters - The company develops, manufactures and distributes high-power broadband radio frequency (RF) amplifiers.
Wood-Pellet-Ireland was recommended to me by a renewable energy expert colleague. The author chooses to remain anonymous as he has the tendency to speak his mind and expose rip-off pricing practices.
The author of this site is technically competent and certainly knows the ins and outs of boilers/burners. He is of the opinion however that the current wood pellet boilers are similar to the 1940s oil burners
He also lists 11 reasons as to why you shouldn't opt for wood pellet heating just yet.
If you are looking for a detailed review of the Benekov boiler I would recommend reading his blog as it includes detailed correspondence with supplier and clarification on the difference between the Irish and European versions.
Yesterday I told my students that if they are serious about providing a DNS service they should use Linux. Today I received some justification for this choice..
Microsoft have issued a severe warning about a serious issue for DNS servers that runs on Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4, and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. The flaw allows a buffer overflow attack on the DNS remote procedure call interface, this means that the hacker can run code within the context of the security rights of the DNS service.
It would be nice if they would fix the update PTR record bug while they are at it.
Network World - Microsoft warns of dangerous flaw in DNS server
