Sean's Blog http://seanmcn.com Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:30:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en © admin@seanmcn.com () admin@seanmcn.com Podcast 1440 admin@seanmcn.com No no Sean's Blog http://seanmcn.com 144 144 ©Society & Culturehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/299950http://www.feedburner.com Five Free Demonoid Invite Codes http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seanmcn/~3/342807862/ http://seanmcn.com/2008/06/06/five-free-demonoid-invite-codes/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:25:47 +0000 Sean http://seanmcn.com/2008/06/06/five-free-demonoid-invite-codes/ Demonoid

For those of you who like torrents or for those of you who are just interested in the website Demonoid and the technology behind it, I have five more invitation codes to give a way. First five genuine comments on this post get it! Interesting comments stand a better chance of not being a bot! :P

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Already with 80 people registered CreativeCamp which takes place in Kilkenny on Saturday March 8th in the Parade tower at Kilkenny castle looks like its going to be another great camp held in Kilkenny. Podcamp which was held in the Ormonde hotel once again in Kilkenny turned out to be a brilliant event  so you can expect the same from this one! You can sign up to register over here.

You can see all the talks over here, personally I’m looking forward to "The Art of Software Development" by Joe Drumgoole. Just because software development interests me but there is loads of talks on, for all tastes.

Either way check it out and I hope to see you there!

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Asked for by Ken! Feel free to republish!

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The website that sparked my thoughts on this is here. It’s a kinda Web 3.0 website, using this I have to admit I got hit by the immediate “this is quiet cool” thought, but after moving the Cow and trees around for a while I realised the whole thing is pointless. Which got me thinking into Web 3.0. With all the operating systems taking flashy over speed and everything just increasing in better design over usability will Web 3.0 be more usable than Web 2.0 or will it just be flashier? Do we really need the Internet having more pointless flash? I’d really like to see some other Web 3.0 proposals!

The founder and CEO of Netflix Reed Hastings said:

Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0.

Going by that comment the answer to my question would be that the internet is going to take flashier over usability.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google has the answer I’m hoping web 3.0 to be:

Web 2.0 is a marketing term, and I think you’ve just invented Web 3.0.

But if I were to guess what Web 3.0 is, I would tell you that it’s a different way of building applications… My prediction would be that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as applications which are pieced together. There are a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the applications can run on any device, PC or mobile phone, the applications are very fast and they’re very customizable. Furthermore, the applications are distributed virally: literally by social networks, by email. You won’t go to the store and purchase them… That’s a very different application model than we’ve ever seen in computing.

Anyone got any thoughts on what they think Web 3.0 will be like, or even when?

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Personally if I think if Ubuntu had some more amazing themes like this the change to linux would be quiet fast. Like just look at why people upgraded to Vista, no other reason than: "Oooh.. shiny!". But if ubuntu had this it’d be like "oooh shiny and secure". Imagine the possibilities! Then again also imagine the amount of errors! ;)

Read about the theme in question here.

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I found a pretty cool tool today, Whoishostingthis.com so I thought what the hell, with all the hosts in Ireland being complained about lets see who uses who!

So of we go:

4basra.org - Softlayer
Arandomwalk.com - Dreamhost
Adammaguire.com - Godaddy
Alexiablogs.com - Bluehost
Americanhell.com - Bluehost
Anthonymcg.com - Blacknight
Askdirect.ie - ANU
Insideview.ie - Six Apart
Bifsniff.com - Blacknight
Bocktherobber.com - Blacknight
Branedy.net - Protocol
Dogg.ie - Bytemark
Briangreene.com - Droop Design
Cabogue.com - Blacknight
caricatures-ireland.com — Blacknight
Gingerpixel.com - Bluehost
Colmisainmdom.com - Blacknight
conoroneill.com - Powweb
Conorpower.com - Hosting365
CormacMoylan.com - Blacknight
Currychips.com - Hosting365
Iwillnothold.com - Digiweb
Damienblake.com - Blacknight
Daverants.com - Hosting365
DavidCochrane.com - DreamHost
Tinyplanetblog.com - Hosting365
OCaoimh.ie - Linode
Overacupoftea.com - GoDaddy
EoghanMccabe.com - Hosting365
FashionFilosofy.com - Blacknight
IrishFlirtySomething.com - Blacknight
Fustar.info - Blacknight
Headphoneland.com - UK2.NET
GavinsBlog.com - DreamHost
Headrambles.com - Blacknight
Irishkc.com - Internetnamesforbusiness
Politicsinireland.com - Digiweb
Jaffacake.eu - Apple Computer
JamesGalvin.com - Blacknight
Jason-roe.com - Blacknight
JohnBreslin.com - 1 & 1
handelarr.org - The Planet.com
JohnMrRyan.com - Digital Media Internet
McAWilliams.com - EasySpeedy
JbWan.com - Hosting365
Grizi.net - Hosting365
Techno-culture.com - Hosting365
Talideon.com - Hosting365
Kenmc.com - GoDaddy
LearnIrish.ie - RackSpace
Lifewithouttoast.com - HostDime
LimerickBlogger.org - Blacknight
Logon.ie - Digiweb
Macblogger.net - Blacknight
Madeforone.com - Hosting365
Mneylon.com - Blacknight
Returntopearse.com - Hosting365
Niallok.com - Hosting365
OfftheMeatrack.com - Blacknight
Peerside.com - Hosting365
PhiloKanePhotography.com - IH Networks
Iced-coffee.com - IH Networks
PKellypr.com - Hosting365
Poetryireland.ie - Blacknight
Quovadis.ie - The Planet
Redflymarketing.com - Blacknight
Richardwaghorne.com - Digiweb
Rsynott.com - Hetzner
Seanmcn.com - Servage
Sineadgleeson.com - Blacknight
nologin.net - Bytemark
Stephendowney.net - The Planet
Strandhillonline.com - Liquid Web
mamanpoulet.com - Blacknight
Firstpartners.net - RimuHosting
Infactah.com - Hosting365
TheSemiFinalist.com - Blacknight
Thinkingoutloud.biz - Blacknight
lotas-smartman.net - NTL
timstimes.net - One.com
TomCosgrave.com - Hosting365
Tomrafteryit.net - Beecher Networks
Twentymajor.net - SMV ?
Windsandbreezes.com - Blacknight
Todayswomeninbusiness.com - Six Apart
Lexferenda.com - Fast Hosts
Cearta.ie - Blacknight
Tjmcintyre.com - CERFnet
tuppenceworth.ie - Blacknight

Blacknight come in first with 26 blogs. Interesting stuff yes?

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Twittershare offers Twitter users a web interface and a OS X dashboard widget with drag and drop capabilities to combine the typical SMS-style messages with individual file uploads. Uploaded files are hosted at Phoreo.com and links to these files are then posted on Twitter. The maximum file size is ten megabytes.

These guys gave Pownce a try but didn’t like it so made this handy program for twitter. Nice or what?

Check it out here!

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Nearly wrote 11-02-07 there, it always takes me a while to get back on track with the year!

First up, 68 Linux related free e-books. Everything from KDE 2.0 Development to a BASH guide for beginners.

I’ve been interested in making a game for a while, eventually made a text based online game and then got rid of it, but my next project will be graphic based, and the Game Programming wiki will help me!

The 10 most notorious “convicted” hackers of our time.

Lastly a video, why a geek will steal your girlfriend in 2008

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On Friday openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2 was released to the public.

Here are the changes since Alpha 1:

  • KDE 4.0.1 replaced KDE 3.5.8 as the default K Desktop Environment;
  • GNOME 2.21.90 was integrated in this release;
  • Linux 2.6.24;
  • OpenOffice.org 2.4 Beta;
  • Alsa 1.0.16 RC2;
  • D-Bus 1.2 RC2;
  • X.org 1.4.1 Pre.

Overall its looking amazing. Here’s to Alpha 3 on March 18th! If you want to test the Alpha 2 which has some known bugs get it here.

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You’ll never meet worse fanboy’s than Mac fanboy’s. Well okay, you could get those creepy Star Trek ones that speak the language, but seriously.. Mac fanboy’s take it to a whole new level!

Now you can buy a t-shirt for $17 that supports Steve Jobs for the president of American in 2012. I seriously hope that the person who thought up making this t-shirt only did it to get some money of the Mac fanboy’s, but more than likely its a Mac fanboy too.. Do they get any crazier?

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