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I have always been a fan of great creativity. I have been sent this advertisement today and find it to be one of the few that have really caught my eye. Today’s market focuses to much on getting the brand name across and not dwelling to much on the fact that a good, creative ad can sell your product better.

Ever wonder how to get your full directory tree into a text file in Mac OS X or any unix or linux env for that matter.

Paul from irc.linux.ie came up with a great way of doing it from one simple command:

find / > ~/tree.txt

Last Saturday my wonderful and amazing girlfriend organised a brilliant birthday bash for me. It involved, heading up to johnny foxs, meeting all my closest friends. Drinking lovely guinness and chatting and having lovely muscles.

Then into a disco bus, everything getting smashed against windows and drinking champagne etc. Off the disco bus and into club 92 for more drunking dancing. Brilliance!

If I had one video to remember the night by, it definitely would be this one:

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After using PC’s all my life, I am very familiar with their habits of breaking and general annoyances etc. So - I finally decided to do something about it and move to the dark side. Last Thursday, I picked up my brand spanking new Macbook Pro. Boy is this thing pretty.

From the moment I took it out of the box to now, I’ve been nothing but completely happy with it. I know I’m starting to sound a little like Steve Jobs here - “We’re really excited about this” - but it’s the truth. It’s completely perfect in every respect.

However, the only one problem I have found with it so far - only 2 USBs. I have alot of external storage and other devices in work that I use via USB. My old dell had 4 USBs. I have managed to overcome this by picking up one of the new keyboards today, and my monitor has an extra 2 ports also.

I have a feeling I won’t be turning away from Mac moving forward

I previously brought www.menupages.ie the ability to be served out via IPv6. There was plenty of support for the task from the guys at blacknight. A range was associated to Page 7 Media and now we have www.menupages.ie up and running correctly and full time.

What happened previously?
The answer is not one I’m proud of, but basically, I did not maintain it correctly. There were versions of the website being uploaded to our production environment but not moving across to the new IPv6 server. Apologies for this and I promise to maintain this version correctly.

Whats the next step?
Why stop with www.menupages.ie ? The next step is to move the major websites across to the IPv6 servers. Starting with www.cbg.ie - www.farmandplant.ie - and finally www.indublin.ie Keep looking.

The proof in the pudding
Pinging menupages.ie [2a01:a8:104:1::15] from 2a01:a8:104:1::15 with 32 bytes of
data:
Reply from 2a01:a8:104:1::15: time<1ms
Reply from 2a01:a8:104:1::15: time<1ms
Reply from 2a01:a8:104:1::15: time<1ms
Reply from 2a01:a8:104:1::15: time<1ms

Ping statistics for 2a01:a8:104:1::15:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

I found this over on Damian Mulley’s blog. A definite must listen. Thanks for the heads up Damian.

Ever wonder how the Google Street View maps & photos are generated? By these little nifty numbers…

I recently found a site called www.braindumps.com and I’ve found it amazing. I am currently studying for the Cisco CCNA exam. I have the books that Cisco have told me are the ones to read, know and understand. These books are the CCNA ICND1 and ICND2.

The books are quiet big and I do already know quiet a bit of the material. For the most part it’s revision. I would prefer to have all the content filtered out that I know throughly. This is where www.braindumps.com step in.

These are all the people who have sat the exam and would like to share their two cents on the pieces to study and past papers etc. I have found it a great learning tool. I recently downloaded the CCNA past papers (all of which are scored by how effective they are) and took the exam and found where I have failed and where I need to improve on etc.

Not only does the site have all the Cisco examination brain dumps, but a vast amount of other technology related exam dumps also.

Found this guy the other day. His music is pure brilliance:

I spent last weekend in Mayo with my family. I managed to get a lift from Dublin to Mayo with my cousin on Friday which was perfect. We stopped a little more than we should have and it actually took over 4 hours to get down. (The joys of your mind wanting foodzies when you hungover).

About 20 pints and a Chinese later, it was Sunday and time to go home. I hadn’t organised a way home yet, so I was considering my options. Train, Bus etc. The train was leaving at 3PM and was aprox €24, this was top of the list. Then I though about Aer Arann and flying home!

For the price of €70 I decided to go for it, I logged on and reserved my seat, perfect. I landed at Sligo airport and man was that a shock to the system. The place was tiny! Seamus and I were about 40 minutes early so we decided to hit the bar. It was amazing, ran by this old lady who was brilliant crack.

I hop on the flight at 5.30PM and land by 6PM. Safe to say, this is now my new method of transport.