CGarvey.ie - The personal website of Cathal Garvey

Having read someone’s signature on Boards.ie, I Googled “digweb metro”, not realising the typo in Digiweb.

I was greeted with Digiweb and Perlico having some sort of ISP ads war in the sponsored links:

However, if you don’t mistype Digiweb in your Google search, all appears to be friendly again:

The .ie domain-only retail price comparison now has a new permanent home at http://cgarvey.ie/blog/ie-price-comparison/!

If you have multiple monitors, and use UltraMon to make life a little easier, and you happen to use Sony Ericsson Update Service (SEUS), then you may have come in to the same problem as I (and many other users of UltraMon and WindowsBlinds it seems).

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So, we’ve new laws on email spam, and a general consensus to try and reduce, or eradicate, the problem. What are we to do with junk snail mail spam? Well, Damien Mulley talks up a recent Indo piece which highlights an under-performing service by the IDMA to allow users logged out. He raises very valid points about how ineffective it is, but stops short of the bigger problem, in my opinion.

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No.

Why? Because bandwidth costs money. If current broadband users were sold products that guaranteed bandwidth availability, they would not be paying the €20-60/month they currently do.

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