Archive for the ‘Comms’ Category

2
Dec
2008

Someone should tell Nokia Ireland about the new N97

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Somebody should tell Nokia Ireland about the N97 because a search of their website for ‘n97′ reveals no results despite the internet being awash with coverage of the major Nokia release.

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23
Oct
2008

Updated .ie domain-only price comparison

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Rather than blog posts for each .ie price comparison update I do, I’ve moved it to a permanent home at http://cgarvey.ie/blog/ie-price-comparison/ where you’ll find the latest update from now on.

 

19
Aug
2008

Emergency services digital radio spectrum licence applications now being accepted, but at a price!

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The 8-year old trial of the new digitial radio system for the emergency services (not just the GardaĆ­) has come under some fire for its delay in provisioning, with GardaĆ­ having to use their own mobile phones, at their personal expense, in many cases where sensitive communications is required, or in an area not served by the existing analouge system.

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15
Aug
2008

New mobile “top up” facility from An Post is not so easy

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An Post have issued a press release on their new mobile phone top up facility available from Monday. Now aside from the fact that you won’t see any details on An Post’s own website for some time yet (even though press release has been released and is already getting media coverage), you can find details on the PostPoint website.


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29
Jul
2008

Remotely applying IPCop patches from the command line

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IPCop has a built in (although sometimes broken) download/apply UI for patches / security updates. However, it is broken sometimes, and there are times where it’s easier do it over SSH (slow, or unreliable connectivity, for example). Having Googled a bit, there wasn’t an immediate or obvious solution, so I dug around in the CGI scripts to see how it’s done.

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