Monthly Archives: November 2006

Bar Camp South East

TomC tells me that Bar Camp Ireland – SouthEast is taking place here in the ArcLabs Research and Innovation Centre. Hopefully I’ll be able to attend and ask some stupid questions, and learn something in the process.

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Does what it says on the Tin!

I’ve had the pleasure to receive a new MacBook Pro for work, though I wasn’t particularly looking forward to the task of migrating all my data. I have to say Apple’s Setup Assistant has to be one of the most … Continue reading

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Antarctica

Spotted on MT Utility World. “Here’s a cool, in fact probably downright cold, Antarctica blog. It’s by David Ruth, a sculptor who has received an NSF grant to study ice textures and forms. He’s a good writer/photographer, and this should … Continue reading

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SEMRA Training Weekend

As part of the requirements gathering process for the GAISS Project (Geograpically Aware Information Support System), which is an Enterprise Ireland funded, proof of concept phase project. Kristian and I spent last weekend as observers (mostly as observers, though the … Continue reading

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IEEE Podcast on Amateur Emergency Communications

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) feature Amateur Radio emergency communications in the October 2006 Spectrum Radio podcast which is available here. Though US focused, it is interesting nonetheless. Personally I’m involved in the Amateur Radio Emergency Network … Continue reading

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GENSO

Towards A Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations, or more succintly GENSO. More information is available here, but it looks like the ESA (and others) want to build a network of satellite ground stations distributed across the plannet. It sounds … Continue reading

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SHIM6

I’ve been working quite a while now on the ENABLE project, specifically, we are looking at mobility protocols and evaluations of them. We have Mobile IPv6 running in the lab, and are currently working on building a Ubuntu LiveCD that … Continue reading

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The Internet Sucks

Thanks Mícheál for the heads up on this link. The story is entitled “Pornography, gambling, lies, theft and terrorism: The Internet sucks”. Its well worth a read.

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Balloon Launch – Pictures available

… here

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links for 2006-11-14

megalithomania.com – Location Convertor Handy Location Convertor from Irish Grid to Lat/Long (tags: maps ireland converstion latitute longitude)

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