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  • Fwd: Galway Linux installfest, Sat 17th Nov

    Via Andrew Gallagher: Galway LUG is organising a Linux installfest on Saturday 17th from 10am-noon in the DERI building, Lower Dangan (map). This is a chance for you to bring along your old laptop/desktop and give it new purpose in life! If you have thought about trying Linux, but haven’t…

  • Multiple MediaWikis on Debian

    Spent a few hours today trying to make a “wiki farm” on Debian using MediaWiki. I already had six wikis using separate code directories on the one server, so when I needed to update them all it was a real pain. Having to create a seventh standalone wiki today pushed…

  • Decrypting PDFs for printing, modifying

    I was trying to print out some PDF files today that I had downloaded from a government website, and encountered the encrypted PDF phenomenon (I got a “This operation is not permitted” message or some such). After much frustration, I found a site that said you can use the Ghostscript…

  • iPodLinux, iDoom, Videos / Unwanted Scratches on iPod nano

    I was showing off my iPod nano (won at the Simile ISWC 2005 semantic bank competition) at the Cork geek bloggers’ dinner recently: just got iDoom working yesterday (thanks for the link to it Brendan!) and was watching videos on it today after installing the latest kernel from iPodLinux. The…

  • boards.ie Blogs Now Running WordPress MU

    Wrote some vBJournal to WordPress MU conversion scripts yesterday and today. There is a security exploit in vBJournal, and no sign of it being resolved. We are now running Donncha‘s WordPress MU at blogs.boards.ie.

  • irishblogs.org | Irish Blogs. Organised.

    irishblogs.org | Irish Blogs. Organised. Started another site for free Irish blogs, because I wanted this one to be different: I’d like to allow people to organise their posts by category (using taxonomies) or tag (using folksonomies). I’ve started the taxonomy, which is a hybrid of Yahoo! Directory and the…

  • Thunderbird's RSS News and Blogs Fnality

    I like Thunderbird’s RSS functionality, especially the way you can forward interesting snippets from blogs to your friends via e-mail without copying from one news reader application to your mail client. I’ve only set up a few blogs and news sources in it so far but here’s a screenshot of…

  • Debian on a Thinkpad R40

    To keep track of progress and to help others who may be doing the same, here are some useful resources if you are installing Debian on a Thinkpad R40: http://www.geocities.com/tivarsson/linux.html – I used this guide to partition my default Windows XP installation (with Partition Magic) into four partitions, one for…

  • Windows No More

    I’ve switched from Windows XP to Debian Linux. So far so good; converted mail from Pegasus Mail to Thunderbird, and imported IE bookmarks to Firefox. Looking at the stuff I used to use on Windows, the main thing I’ll miss will be my trusty CorelDRAW, but I can either find…