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 education and research network and they offer a great service to the FLOSS community by mirroring [...]
The deskbar applet is like a quick search feature in gnome. There are plugins now for google and yahoo search, for twitter and identi.ca, for opening up files and folders, even shutting down the computer. All of this is located on the top panel of the desktop.
I like to twitter and after finding the functionally [...]
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 that large companies send out. Here is an email from hp customer support, enjoy.
>Dear Shane,
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>Thank you for writing back to HP Total Care.
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>We are glad to know that the issue is resolved and we hope that you are delighted with our service. We thank you for taking time to appreciate [...]
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 share media files to other computers, game consoles etc…(This is native in Windows media player and itunes)
3. [...]
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 companies. Higher taxes means lower spending in retail which means more unemployment which in turn [...]
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 school they have a little extra money to spend. Here is the obvious points.
1. Open [...]
