Tech Support?

I don’t know who to credit for this, I found it in a text clipping while clearing out some old folders on a backup drive.  But it’s worth saving:

You can save your files by using the ‘refresh memory’ command with the ‘real fast’ option:

rm -rf *

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Tags: Support, Don’t try this at home, Pwnage

Flock 1.1.4

I’ve finally found a reason to try out Flock, having a WordPress blog and all that.  I thought this easy one-click blog stuff was just gimmicky but it’s actually pretty sweet.   Write, publish, easy. A Mozilla-based browser engine doesn’t hurt either.  Ok WebKit would be ok too.  IE?  Surely you jest sir!

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Camera + Interwebz = Pwnage

Heh heh heh

Stolen Mac helps nab burglary suspects

Asus Eee PC + DosBox = Pwnage

Have you seen the Asus Eee PC? No, not just “heard about”, have you actually seen it? It’s a small, elegant, inexpensive, basically a very good value Linux mini laptop. It cost €299 here in “De Peoples Republic, like“.

Joining a wireless network, even WPA2, is a breeze. It’s not the fastest kid on the block but it’s light, efficient, and dammit, it’s cool! The dumbed-down GUI, dubbed “Easy Mode” can (and IMHO should be) quickly replaced with “Advanced Mode”, or good ol’ KDE as it’s more widely known.

For more fun and amusement, and a little bit of nostalgia, install DosBox on it, and then install Windows 3.1 on top of that. How’s that for a blast from the past? (or perhaps simply an abomination, if you prefer).

Apparently We’re Everywhere

So I was waxing rhetorical about the meaning of Feen earlier on, and it turns out that we Feens are far more interesting than ye might think! So I (and all Corkmen it would appear) run the gamut of:

• a funny motha f**cker
  (but of course)
• an alpha geek who writes some truly funny stuff
  (Jaysus, more pressure)
• a friend of a friend of Fred’s
  (Lucky man, that Fred)
• soopa shitty
  (Is that good or bad?)
• on the run from some creditors
  (Only bad if yer caught, right lads?)
• credited with originating legislation that governor john rowland signed into law recently
  (no, again?)
  
• used to treat fungal [sic] infections
  (Yes ladies, we’re medically relevant!)

Whassat?

Where does the name “Cyber Feen” come from you say? Pull up a stool and sup on a pint while I divulge:

• Cyber: has an affinity with tech, gadgetry, computrons, all that shite. You know, a geek.
• Feen: a slang term for a man. Used in my home town of Cork. The slang term I mean, not me.

Before you ask, I didn’t go with the obvious first choice for a name, “Geeky Feen”, ‘cos I didn’t want to be confused with this outstanding specimen. So instead I’m sharing my Interwebs tubes with a technical wizard. Brilliant.

Those boffins over at Google translate bring down the tone just a bit further. Oh yes. I found a German phrase here which reads Cyber Feen und Männer mit Röcken. This translates to Cyber fairies and men with skirts. Life’s rich tapestry indeed.

Ok? Mystery solved? Alright so, closing time, get outta me sight. Have ye no homes to go to?

Drumroll Please….

Another new blog in a veritable sea of new blogs launched every single minute of every single day. *yawn*. Welcome to the party…