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Monthly Archives: March 2009
The speed of heanet, the Irish Ubuntu Mirror
I found out that heanet who mirror Ubuntu in ireland offer a max speed of 20gbs (Giga-bytes a second). For a country of 4 million people that is a lot of bandwidth to go around . Heanet is Ireland’s national … Continue reading
Im on ubuntu-ie planet
Thanks to mean-machine for adding me to http://www.ubuntu-ie.org/aggregator To all that dont know me my name is Shane Fagan. IRC nick Shane_Fagan. On launchpad shanepatrickfagan On my blog I do like 90% ubuntu/linux and other FLOSS stuff. The rest politics.
I love the form emails
I love the form emails that large companies send out. Here is an email from hp customer support, enjoy. >Dear Shane, > >Thank you for writing back to HP Total Care. > >We are glad to know that the issue … Continue reading
What GNU/Linux needs to challenge Microsoft
Five points on what Floss needs to challenge for a place in the mainstream desktop market. I mention below a few points to note about the list. 1. Games simple one everyone complains about this 2. An easy way to … Continue reading
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Balancing stimulus and the budget
What is the government doing? Raising taxes trying to balance the public finances. Is this the correct decision? I hope im not the only one that thinks raising taxes is a bad idea in the long term for private sector … Continue reading
How Ireland can benefit from open source software
A few very simple points about how Ireland can save money and implement strategies to make our education system more competitive. First of all in Ireland the education system is full of windows computers or mac if like my old … Continue reading
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