Archive for the 'Tech stuff' Category

Cool new Add-on for Firefox

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

This is goin’ to be great, lads! A new Add-on for Firefox users: A spell checker which runs while you are filling in forms. A must for all bloggers and blog-commenters. See the image below. It underlines incorrect spellings and with a right-click you get suggestions for corrections.
Eh, it doesn’t recognise Firefox, blog, and [...]

Another Thick Support Call

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

I was sitting in the kitchen day dreaming of my up coming trip to Spud World when the phone rang. Ferdie. A neighbour not unlike the Pádraigh lad from a few weeks ago. At least Pádraigh has broadband. Ferdie reckons it’s too dear so the last time a crucial update was [...]

Thick support call

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

- Howya, Primal. Listen, that Internet ya put on the computer for me is useless.
- How so, Pádraigh?
- There’s nothing on it. You’ll have to come over here again and put a different Internet on it.
- There’s only one Internet, Pa. Settle for a minute. Tell me more. You were using Google [...]

Addicted to the Internet

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Two days ago my ISP’s main mast was the victim of a lightning strike. The backhaul transceiver was fried at a cost of €34k. Repair or replacement will take days yet. After a lot of hard work and a lot of technical innovation a temporary link to the backbone was up and running last night. [...]

Try this for the craic … (it won’t mean much to non-techies)

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Which OS are You?
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I.T. Literacy in Ireland - Measuring the wrong skills

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

A 2006 study of I.T. literacy in Europe by Eurostat used the following criteria to assess ability:

use a mouse to launch programs such as an Internet browser or word processor;
copy or move a file or folder;
use copy and paste tools to duplicate or move information on the screen;
use basic arithmetic formulae (add, subtract, multiply, divide) [...]