Listening to a piece on Newstalk about the barrier-free M50 tolling, I decided to lookup http://nra.ie. However, as with a lot of sites still (in this day in age, yada yada), that address doesn’t work, and you need to use www.nra.ie.
However, if you visit the former, you’ll be prompted for a username/password for bfcnet.into.ie. www.into.ie is the website of the INTO (Irish National Teachers Organisation).
Sites not working unless you use the www. are annoying enough, but sites that use the root domain (nra.ie in this case) to point to a non-public website, or a website of a different meaning altogether are far more annoying.
Both are hosted with Novara (now a part of Digiweb), but I’m not sure who is responsible for the sites.
I’ve just been listening to a snip on Newstalk 106 about AirTricity, and the savings (ethical, and financial) to be had when you switch over.
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Hi, I’m Cathal, and I hail from Inagh, in Co. Clare, Ireland, but currently live in Dublin / Kildare.
I love to code, I love exploring new frameworks, platforms, and technologies. I don’t know if I’m a nerd, a geek, or neither!
My day job is software development, full life-cycle services, and process engineering, for my company, Apperrific. Nothing more satisfying than offering a solution to a small business of hard-working people, and waiting for the “penny drops” moment. I mainly do iOS (iPhone/iPad) apps, and web app backends.
This post serves to highlight just how awkward my setup is, and as a guide to help with anyone with a similar setup (all 3 of you, worldwide).
I’ve recently started using Synergy to control my Macbook from my Ubuntu (10.04, if that turns out to matter!) desktop. However, I use the slim Apple USB keyboard on my Ubuntu desktop (a subject of previous posts here). They key mappings for Alt and Command on my Mac were reversed when I was controlling the Macbook. I.e. the Apple keyboard wasn’t being reported as such to the operating system. Here’s a snippet from the synergy configuration file showing the swap to make the Apple keyboard work as expected on a Mac Synergy client. If you use QuickSynergy, the config file is in ~/.quicksynergy/synergy.conf.
section: screens
ubuntu-synserver:
macbook-synclient:
alt = super
super = alt
end
By default, Ubuntu has plenty of Irish keyboard layouts which will let you type a fada on your vowels. However, if you’re using an Apple aluminium USB keyboard, like me, your layout options are restricted. I have the UK variant of the keyboard, which does have a corresponding layout in Ubuntu (under United Kingdom > Macintosh), but that doesn’t provide support fadas (acute accents).
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