Brian Kenny

Why doesn’t the IEDR but an A record in for ‘iedr.ie’ just like it has for ‘www.iedr.ie’. If this could happen I would be over the moon with joy.
I just don’t like typing www all the time…

Oh ya - daddy’s got his own city

I was searching through the internet for a method of changing Safari’s integrated search box and came across this little gem on alexking.org. If you change a standard:
<input type=”text” />
field to a “search” box like so:
<input type=”search” />
In Safari, it is magically transformed from a standard input field to a “search box”. It can also have […]

This just in, a tux has been spotted falling about the place at an ILUG PoTD….
He was later seen with a Spanish and American (Mountain View) tux in an awful state.

It looks like the piece of shiny muck is coming to Ireland. Yes, I am talking about the iPhone. As if people need to speculate, it’s going to be over priced, it’s going to cost you a fortune with O2 and it’s novelty will wear off within weeks (and you sit there holding your 2 […]

I’ve spent a long weekend in Baden Baden this week. I have been treated by my girlfriend, Lee, to head off from Thursday to Sunday. The Ryanair flights and everything went perfectly. No delays, no hassle. Perfect.
We landed in Karlsrule and took the bus to the city center. We got off at the wrong bus […]

Entropy are holding a Wireless Secuirty Conference at the end of Feburary. I’m actually looking forward to it. I don’t really get to attend many conferences these days.
The venue is the Westbury Hotel and the conference has the following schedule:
8.30-9.00: Registration & breakfast
9.00-9.10: “Battle of the Airwaves” – Introduction by John Ryan, Entropy
9.10-9.35: – “Wireless […]

There’s been quiet a lot of chatter today about levels of service from different hosting providers. One instance outbreaks to a full denial of a customers account, another could not be self contained and ended up in a customer service feud. The question is, how is the most effective method of managing and containing these […]

After god knows how long trying to clear up some database size issues for the CBG website, I finally got a great query that will break down the database tables by name, rows, reserved data allocation, data allocation, index size and the amount unused by the data allocation vs size.
use whatever-database
declare @RowCount int, @tablename varchar(100)
declare […]

I’m finally alive on twitter -> http://www.twitter.com/bkenny