I’ve had backup processes over the years which ranged from copying files between machines to fully automated systems using ATLs. I’ve never been happy with how we did it in Argolon as it was far too haphazard.
It finally bit me badly a few weeks back when I did a bare-metal re-build of a server [...]

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Can’t access my Voicemail or logon to the web-site. Serious whatever it is. Ireland only?
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I ordered a FON router for €17 incl P&P last week and it arrived today. If you don’t know what FON is, the basic idea is that it is a wireless router which you use to share some of your broadband bandwidth with others. You share with two types of people - other FONeros called [...]

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As regular readers know, I used the sxore comment system on this blog from April to September. Whilst the intent of sxore was good, the reality fell far short. It was a big mistake handing over my comment data to a third party where that data was not transparently available to me if I ever [...]

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I’ve tried lots of offline RSS readers over the years and they just don’t feel as comfortable as the online ones. After sticking with Bloglines for the longest time (with the odd foray over to Rojo to discover it was still dog slow), I’ve been giving Google Reader a whirl for the past few weeks. [...]

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Of course I’m sure all of the ISPs will be refunding their customers for the lack of service for the past week.
Fingers crossed broadband stays up for longer than it did yesterday. What finally did the trick for them? The classic “have you tried turning it off and on again?” perhaps?
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It would be faster than this:

Note, this isn’t just home accounts, it is business users too. How much money has Eircom cost the economy in the South West over the past week?
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The eircom donkeys finally figure out how their own equipment works and re-enable BT customers. This is more than 12 hours after they re-enabled their own customers. We now have broadband again. Does BT have an SLA with eircom? A charge of something like €100 per customer per hour of downtime seems reasonable to me. [...]

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I wouldn’t mind if it was free, but these cowboys actually demand payment for this joke they call a service.

Confirmed on boards.ie that there is a widespread broadband performance problem in Cork which appears to be due to an Eircom infrastructure problem as it is affecting both Eircom and BT customers. First reports occurred [...]

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Haydn Shaughnessy started a blog back in May called Mediangler and in a very short period of time it has become a must-read for me. He is attending BarCampIreland and we’ll be badgering him to give a talk.
He did a post about blog.de the other day and it immediately grabbed my attention. This is a German [...]

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I use a bunch of different tools to do my blog posts, none of which I am entirely happy with so I was interested to see that Microsoft have released the Beta of a desktop blog writing tool.
I turned off the Rich Text Editor in Wordpress a long time ago as it was forever [...]

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I’m one of these contrary people who thinks Jason Calacanis is right on the money (literally) regarding the payment of the top Diggers (or Scapers?). For amusement I headed over to Netscape.com and was shocked to discover my Netscape Netcenter login details from about 8 years ago did not work. Well maybe not that shocked. [...]

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I recently passed comment that the Juice podcast receiver could not see the MP3’s embedded in Tantek’s feed. I assumed wrongly that there was something wrong with the feed. But he pointed out that Juice must not support ATOM 1.0 yet. From what I can see, development on Juice has stalled which is a pity [...]

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In my last post I mentioned good old Usenet. For most of the 1990’s it was my main source of technical information and support. As it has been around for a long time, the Newsreaders gained more and more extremely useful features. The good ones allowed you to churn through very high volume newsgroups quickly [...]

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I finally succumbed and installed the latest beta of IE7 to check out the RSS features, or at least I tried to. Six attempts and no joy. I tried everything and more in their troubleshooting document. I went on to the support site and there was a link to the IE newsgroup. And within two [...]

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We are playing around with using sxore as our comment management system in preparation for doing some posts on sxore, sxip and Digital Identity. Bear with us as we iron out some glitches.
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