Need to install an Ubuntu package on a system that is not directly connected to the Internet? Well, if you have a HTTP proxy nearby, you can do it as follows:
# cd /etc/apt/apt.conf.d
# vi proxy
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://x.x.x.x:80";
Just edit/create the file above and add the line shown (substituting the IP address or hostname of your proxy server) and use your apt-get command(s) as normal. No need to restart any processed.
If you are fan of the Flickr photo sharing website, then you will enjoy Tag Galaxy. When you visit the site, just enter a tag (i.e. keyword, town, city, item) and it will show draw you an interactive galaxy representing related photos from the Flickr website. Here’s the galaxy for my home town of Tramore, Ireland:
You can then click on any one of the stars/planets/moons shown and it will draw a globe using the pictures from the associated tag. Here’s the globe for my home town:
Source: Joe Cashin
I’ve always found it a real pain to quickly and easily insert Irish/French/Hungarian (or other) language characters (i.e. vowels with fadas over them) into documents on Microsoft Windows, then let there be pain no more. A simple matter of pressing the Alt Gr key whilst also pressing the desired vowel does the trick very nicely.
I’m sure this may be well known to some/many of you but it was news to me and will save me a good bit of time as a number of colleagues have names with Irish/Foreign letters in them.
Credit goes to John Mernin for alerting me to this.
As a long suffering purveyor of the merits and delights of Waterford’s most famous delicacy, the humble Blaa (a square-shaped yeast roll), it was with an enormous sense of pride, delight and downright, “I told ‘ya so”, that Waterford celebrated international recognition for the Blaa earlier this week in the form of a Euro-toques award.
In particular, four stalwort Waterford bakeries, Hickey’s and M&D of Waterford City, Harney’s of Kilmacow and Barron’s of Cappoquin were commended for their continued traditional production of the famous roll.
Related Articles: Irish Times, The Munster Express
Part of what we do here at the TSSG is to attempt to raise awareness about emerging technologies such as IPv6, whenever the opportunity arises. To this end, in its capacity as a member of the Irish IPv6 task force, the TSSG is helping to organise an IPv6 Summit which has been specifically designed to raise awareness of IPv6 in the public and private sector.
So, if you have even the remotest interest in the Internet technologies, you should try to make it along.
Related Posts: Irish IPv6 Summit by John Ronan
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