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Some of the regulars from geocachingireland.com were featured doing what they do best on RTE’s Nationwide TV Programme tonight. The 7 minute clip from the programme is on the Nationwide website.

When I did an interview for my current job in Sun I was asked what I didn’t like about the company. Having been the sysadmin for some machines in college I hated Suns security patching policy. A vulnerability would be posted to bugtraq and the students would soon start trying to exploit the vulnerability. Some

The Patch System Test lab, like many other labs, has a mixture of different machines, some with different means of connecting up the serial console to them. The older Sun boxes have 25 pin connectors, some others have 9 pin serial connectors, and newer machines have RJ45 connectors. For the most part people will use

Ah the participation age! Here (live!) at the IFAS stand at the Connacht Star Party we have nearly live 3D images from Mars. Midnight Mars Browser is  Java application that can download images from the two Nasa rovers on Mars.  So we downloaded images from the surface for the past couple of days, some of