Author Archives: philroche


Jedit still going strong - increase heap size

May 6, 2008 – 10:40 am

I still use jedit for all my tasks that require a text editor. I’ve been using it for about 4 years now and rarely find fault with it. One thing I did notice was that it slowed down quite alot if I was editing or searching large files. I knew this was down to Java […]

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Monster Commute

April 19, 2008 – 4:18 pm

Late February of this year I started back working for Karova. As I lived in Dublin at the time it meant a monster of a commute every week, staying at a friends during the week and coming back to Dublin at the weekends. I still do the same commute but I now have my own […]

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Good v Bad Customer Service (Dell v EuropCar)

April 16, 2008 – 11:46 am

In February 2007 I bought two shiny new Dell 2007FP monitors for dual monitor love. They’re awesome and £500 well spent. I bought them from RDC and saved a bundle on the Dell prices. Since my move back to Wales one of the monitors developed a small yellow square in the top left corner. I […]

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Moving Email to Gmail with Google Apps

March 11, 2008 – 9:53 am

A third party currently hosts our mail @ karova and I wanted to either host it ourselves or move to gmail with Google Apps. As a proof of concept I’ve moved the mail for the philroche.net domain to gmail. I have to say I am very impressed. I signed up for the 30 day free […]

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IWTC 2008 - resounding success

March 4, 2008 – 12:03 pm

Last weekend I spent Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the Irish Web Technology Conference in Dublin. I’ve only been to one other conference (@media 2005) before and I have to say that IWTC 2008 blew it out of the water. The main reason for this is the focus on technical topics. I enjoyed all of […]

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Livigno 08

February 26, 2008 – 3:46 pm

Last week twenty two of us jetted off to Livigno in northern Italy for a ski/board holiday. It was awesome. I had great fun. Boarding all day and eating/boozing/acting the goat all night. I/We’ve got tons of photos and videos @ http://halfviking.com/livigno08 . Below are a select few to whet your appetite.

Self portrait on the […]

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Another site that annoys me - motortax.ie

February 7, 2008 – 3:37 pm

My motor tax is due for renewal so I phoned them up and requested a tax renewal form with pin number so I could renew it online. It arrived but without the pin of course. I phoned them today and asked if I could have the pin over the phone - no. She said just […]

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Irish Web Technology Conference 2008

February 1, 2008 – 1:59 pm

It’s now official. I am returning to Karova at the start of March. I’ll have more news later on my future role but I am excited to be going back and focussing on Karova’s projects and products.
I have a few days off in between jobs so I’ve decided to go to the Irish Web Technology […]

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Software I’ve paid for

January 29, 2008 – 1:16 pm

Sparked by a conversation on LugRadio about what software you’ve ever purchased. It got me thinking about what I’ve paid for. It’s been recently that I’ve purchased the most

Windows XP - 2 copies of
Acronis Workstation
Visual Studio 2005
Resharper
Suse 7.2 and some other later that version I can’t remember
SkEdit (I think)
Peepcode RoR Screencasts
Various donations to OS projects
I’m […]

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EEEPC - overall thoughts

January 24, 2008 – 11:29 am

Overall - I’m really impressed.
Pros

It’s tiny - meaning very portable
It’s light - under one kilo
It’s fast - Celeron 900MHz with 512MB Ram
It runs Linux - Xandros with a very fast window manager by default
Battery life is good considering the size (3-4 hours)
It’s cheap as hell - I paid about 300Euro
It’s got Wifi and webcam - […]

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