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Himself was giving me a hand reinstall a couple of my servers today. As you can see on the monitor behind I’m starting him off relatively lightly with Windows Server 2003. Early next week we will be moving on to the Sun Solaris boxes underneath the Dell Poweredges.

First off I better explain what a WISP , it means Wireless Internet Service Provider. For this sorry tale the WISP in question is OceanTelecom who operate in West Waterford/East Cork.
I got a call the other day from my friend’s wife who was having problems receiving mail from her eircom.net account when using POP to [...]

I’m getting very tardy here lately. 12 days since I last posted something and even then that was mainly a copy and paste job. I could write about the weather but we have been relatively lucky down here. I’m beginning to think the town is radioactive because it was snowing everywhere within a two mile [...]

Apparently just by copying & pasting the quotes below I can be fined up to €25,000 as The Republic of Ireland’s utterly draconian blasphemy law has come into effect just a couple of hours ago.
I’m an equal opportunity offender though so courtesy of blasphemy.ie here is as much blasphemy as I can copypasta.
List of 25 [...]

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines synergy as “a mutually advantageous conjunction or compatibility of distinct business participants or elements (as resources or efforts)”
Anyone with any experience in a workplace will know it as a management buzzword that smacks of horseshit. When asked to define what synergy is you would invariably get the reply “1 + [...]

Lucas is two but some ground rules have been laid out already as to what I cannot buy him for Christmas this year:

A model Tie Fighter.
A model Millenium Falcon or indeed anything related to Star Wars.
Anything to do with Star Trek.
Anything to do with Stargate.
A new MacBook.
Anything to do with guns, weapons and the military [...]

It’s Lucas’s second birthday today but as it’s Monday we had a bit of a party for him yesterday instead. He’s a happy little man with his new tricycle!

As illnesses go the flu is a nasty bugger. I haven’t had it myself in years as I used to get regular vaccinations at work. So for the first time in years and for exactly a week now I have been freezing cold one minute, roasting the next. I’ve been shaking, coughing and wheezing. Unable [...]