Normal Service is resumed

Posted by Ronan on Apr 24, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

The blog went offline for a bit, the reason, I hadn’t paid my bills! All debts are now settled and normal service is resumed. While offline I made some small changes to the site, RSS feed now works, site search enabled and customised. We have a new blogger in our midst – welcome y2kprawn. He posts everything from Carlow to Ubuntu ! Nice.

Ever wonder..?

Posted by Ronan on Apr 21, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Ever wonder what the Sys Rq key on your keyboard does? Not a lot I hear you say!
According to [1]
“There is no standard use for the key. The BIOS keyboard routines in INT 16 simply ignore it; therefore so do the DOS input routines in INT 21 as well as the keyboard routines in libraries supplied with high-level languages. “

Wiki also suggest that.. ” it was intended to be available as a special key to directly invoke low-level operating system functions with no possibility of conflicting with any existing software“

Well here is one super cool feature for Linux when your screen locks up (not often I know) .

hold Alt + Sys Rq while typing REISUB

Typically use this when Alt + F2 etc doesn’t work nor does Crtl + Alt + Backspace
For laptops add the Fn key !

The New School of Rock

Posted by Ronan on Apr 17, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Liverpool John Moores University officially is the new School of Rock.
Brian May the lead guitarist from Queen* was appointed chancellor (taking over from Mrs Blair) earlier in the week. I would love to attend May’s lectures.. I wonder does he teach astrophysics by playing some killer riffs on his Red Special? I wonder.

*Queen isn’t the only band to have PhD’s. SSMH may have been one of the most educated bands in the world with 2 Phds 2 M’Engs and 2 B’Engs (yes Fluffy you’ll be an M’something-or-other soon too but at the time you held a B’Eng). ps Fluffy, when are you going to blog again.. that goes for you too L-Man and Maz!!

Manchester Utd vs Arsenal April 13th 2008

Posted by Ronan on Apr 14, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

The view from our seats..

At 3.55pm the teams came out..

United were very nervous in the first half and kept giving the ball away.

United had a few chances – Ronaldo smashing his free kick into the wall didn’t help to settle the players/crowds nerves.

Like a lot of United players Scholesy had a bad first half ..

And just before the half time, Arsenal were 1 up with a dodgy goal – it was definitely handball!!

The second half was just amazing, United got a penalty and Ronaldo tucked it away into the left hand side..

I didn’t get a chance to take more photos – too busy enjoying the game! Once Hargreaves scored the second goal the place went nuts!

And the final result ? 2:1 to United.. Super win. Super day! Thanks again to the little one!

For google calendar & thunderbird users

Posted by Ronan on Apr 10, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

your Google calendar in Thunderbird. Brilliant.

Here’s the how-to.
I’ve tried it in XP and Linux – works perfectly!

Old Trafford here we come.

Posted by Ronan on Apr 9, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

I got a ticket for Man Utd vs Arsenal as part of my birthday present from the lovely little one. It should be a cracker of a game and we’ll have a great view from our seats in E333.

Photos to follow.