Irelands Typical Begining

It all started about 60 years ago. Around this
time England decided it was time to upgrade
their entire phone network. This action involved
replacing the entire wiring system.

Guess what?
Ireland saw an opportunity too good to miss!!!

Lets buy the old network from the Brits!
Rejoice !! Rejoice !!
A telephone system for cheap!!!

WE HAVE BEEN DOOMED EVER SINCE.

And we are starting to feel the effects of the botched
job right about now.

For Instance:

140 phones share 100 lines resulting in no broadband
for 40 unfortunates. (and that is a optimistic example)

Some phone lines in such poor condition that the phone
companies are supprised that voice works through them,
let alone data!!!

Phone system is so bad, the main telecom provider couldn't
be bothered upgrading the network resulting in the
Government having to install 17 MANs (Metropoliton
Area Networks) encircling 17 stragtic towns in the country.
These networks will then be rented out to all the ISPs.

to be continued....

I will probably moan more about this soon enough.
This is really only the tip of the iceberg.

Work

Just back from work.
Absolutely wreaked.
I work in a Nursery by the way, not a
place for babies but a place for plants
and trees and shrubs and .....etc.

Just checking out the hardware tech
sites at the moment. Nothing usually
happens on weekends in the computer
world so I'm not exactly expecting much.
Hopefully someone will be complaining
here about something. : )

My girlfriend

I have just informed my gf about my
new blog.

Will she think its a stupid idea?

Will she be all paranoid that I'm talking
about her on the net? hehe

Feel free to comment hun. : )

and hopefully now the random posting
is allowed.

Settings and Advanced Micro Devices

O.K. the settings are pretty much sorted out.
I'm currently building my homepage at the
moment so all you will see is a Metal Holocaust
logo designed by Paddy( or ned or john).

Yet another fight on anandtech about why Dell
still aren't incorporating AMD processors into
their systems.

Personally I don't see why the enthusiasts are
getting so worked up about this. Many of them
would build their own system anyway so its
almost a waste of time crying about it.

Yet I'm sure many of them (including myself)
would like to see AMD doing well. God knows they
deserve it, with their A64 and Opteron Processors
they have earned the respect of the minority who
actually care.

First Post

Well dont really know what I'm doing at the moment but I'm sure
buy next week I will have this thing up and running.