lolcat 12-05-2008
more cat pictures
1 comment May 12th, 2008
Grand Theft Auto Coca Cola
Brilliant new Coca-Cola Ad I saw on TV yesterday.
5 comments April 21st, 2008
Success M1530
Just got all of my hardware working on my new laptop under KUbuntu, fingerprint reader logins, Webcam, sound, media buttons, remote control, microphone everything. Also stopped the dreaded media button from overwriting Grub everytime it’s pressed.
I am disappointed that the sepakers and the microphone on the laptop are such terrible quality, especially for a “multimedia” laptop.
I’ll post the steps I took to get everything working as soon as possible. But when KUbuntu comes out in a few days with KDE4 I don’t know how much will be relevant. Maybe I’ll just wait until then.
3 comments April 18th, 2008
New Laptop
Got my new laptop today! A very shiny Dell XPS M1530. It looks good so far. Click here for a good look at it.
It came with Vista (yuck) pre-installed. Seems wicked fast so far. The only thing I am still trying to get the hand of is the finger print reader. It doesn’t like me. Oh and it has no modem so when I am back in Millstreet it looks like surfing the net is out of the questions.
I think I am going to leave Vista on a partition so I can play games and maybe use some of the Media Centre functions but as all of my Music and Videos are going to be in a soon to be install KUbuntu partition I don’t know how useful that is going to be. Maybe there is a way Vista can read ext3 so I can use them. We’ll see.
I am going to install KUbuntu on it soon and I’ll update the blog with any issues I have in the hope it may help someone else.
7 comments April 9th, 2008
ESX - Find large files in the Service Console
Got a few cases in work over the last few week where people are finding the root file system full in VMware ESX Server. This causes lots of issues with connectivity to VirtualCenter etc. The problem is that often it is difficult to find the large files that are causing the file system to fill up. I’ve been sending people this handy little script to help them so I thought I’d share it with everyone.
find / -path '/vmfs/*' -prune -o -size +10240000c -exec du -h {} \;
This searches the ESX ignoring the VMFS file system. For standard Linux you can put whatever you want in place of VMFS and it will ignore that folder.
Add comment April 9th, 2008
Mugabe for Taoiseach
Why do we need to elect a new Taoiseach who has no experience when a leader with a proven track record and 27 years experience?
Add comment April 3rd, 2008
Recruit Ireland looking for new Taoiseach
Someone put an ad up on Recruit Ireland looking for a new Taoiseach.
Screenshot here if it has been removed
1 comment April 2nd, 2008
Environmental Improvements in Work
Got one of these in work today. Is going to save a huge amount of electricity in the Server Room and will really help the environment. It’s a Rockwell Retro Encabulator. We got the newest version with the drawn reciprocating dingle arm integration.
Here is a promotional video from Rockwell Automation.
Add comment April 1st, 2008
Funny Linux Beep Prank
Here’s one for Aprils Fools. install the “beep” program on your Linux box and then run this while you are out to lunch. It will play a series of random beeps over random intervals and will drive your co-workers mad!
while true; do sleep $(($RANDOM/1000)) && beep -f 2000 -l $(($RANDOM/100)) ; done
2 comments April 1st, 2008
