Was pointed at jdshelp.org yesterday, which is already starting to build up a nice little collection of rpms for JDS. What with that and the awesome blastwave project for Solaris, there’s quite a little community starting to build up around Sun desktop products at the moment, which is really cool.
Dublin’s long-awaited and massively over budget tram^H^H^H^H light rail transit system, aka Luas (the Irish word for “speed”) finally got rolling last week. Despite coming in for heaps of criticism for as long as I’ve been living here, it does look kind of cool, and the offer of free travel for the first week has seen queues of up to 1000 people at some stops.
Within the first few hours, though, one of the trams had already hit a car…
The broadband revolution finally caught up with me yesterday when IOL activated my free three month trial account. (Since the lease on our apartment expires in about three months, this seemed like a good way to try it out without having to sign up for a year, as ISPs are wont to do.)
Been getting average download speeds of around 490kbps so far, which isn’t bad on a 512kbps link I suppose, particularly given Eircom’s wet string approach to the telephony infrastructure here.
News finally broke today of one of another major JDS deal… Allied Irish Bank will transition 7500 desktops in its branches in the UK and Ireland to JDS over the next year.
Of course this is a great win for Sun (the competition was extremely stiff), and since AIB are HQ’d in Dublin it’s a doubly-pleasing one for your friendly Sun GNOME team. But of course we couldn’t have done it without the GNOME community at large… YOU ROCK!
After a decidedly average steak (which took a decidedly longer-than-average time to arrive) at the Big Horn Steak House in Kristiansand last night, we headed up the road to the equally un-parochial Paddy’s to quaff a few more ales. For an Irish theme pub it was surprisingly understated, although the fact that none of the Irish contingent were going anywhere near the Guinness was a bit of a giveaway.
Getting hungry again now so looking forward to tonight’s barbie– provided Jeff doesn’t feel the need to do the cooking to show everyone how it’s supposed to be done…
This quote made me chuckle:
“They should stay out of this,” said [named employee], a Sun Microsystems employee who attended the rally, who said he depends on money from stock options to pay his mortgage.
Ah, what it must have been to be part of the IT boom… the money from *my* Sun stock options wouldn’t buy a bag of penny caramels 
Keep practising those pennos, lads
Okay, I know this is an old article now, but I’ve just been reading it again and think it’s still worth a mention.
I need to find another Nike t-shirt just like this one, but that particular design seems to have vanished off the face of the earth in the past four weeks. If anyone knows where there might be one hiding, please drop me a note…
Want to know how/where/when/why? Andy Tucker‘s looks like the blog to watch…
