For the week that’s in it, The Onion have produced a wonderfully accurate Irish historic timeline.
For the week that’s in it, The Onion have produced a wonderfully accurate Irish historic timeline.
I was glad to read, this morning, on Silicon Republic, an article that highlighted that eircom’s recent bitstream DSL speed upgrades will gloss over the much more important issue of LLU. A lot of journalists are still happy to chew eircom press releases without checking any of the “facts” (and I use that term lightly), even still. Hopefully some of the mainstream media will also pick up on this glossing.. and even more hopefully the High Court will see this case for what it is, a deliberate stalling mechanism, that’s costing the tax payer even more money.
For better or for worse, the campaign to get Broadband to Inagh has begun!!
So I’ve had a couple of weird issues with Skype in the past, but later revisions of the software seemed to have solved all those. All in all, it’s great and has hugely reduced my eircom phone bill (which now only has a handful of short calls every month, not 50-100 euro worth!!
This morning, however, there seems to be an outage preventing many users from logging in. Those reporting it first weren’t believed, but as more users started reporting, it became obvious something was up. Discussion is continuing on this thread
By default, Mozilla Thunderbird uses the reply string of “Joe Soap wrote:” . That is the string that appears at the top of your reply (if you’re using in line replies). You can change that, by editing your prefs.js.
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