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Got shitty looking fonts on your LCD monitor (or possibly on a CRT too)?

Go here and follow the instructions. It worked for me, and now Ubuntu’s fonts look sexy.
Also, Ubuntu is the first Linux distribution that I’ve gotten ATI drivers to work properly on, I am impressed.

Three little teenage knackers in Cork robbed a Honda Civic and crashed it. One of them died and the other two got injured.

The car, a Honda Civic, had been stolen a short time earlier at Ballintemple. It hit a barrier and a number of trees after it went out of control.

Full story from RTE

So one scumbag-in-the-making is dead, and two more are injured. What a pity someone had to sacrifice their car for it.

I’ve tried a good few Linux distributions, but I seem to have had the most success so far with Ubuntu 5.04. It is the only one I’ve managed to get VLC working on with both sound and video. And as a bonus I managed to get my MS Explorer 3.0 mouse’s side buttons (for flicking backwards and forwards in web browser) working – never experienced that in Linux before either.

It took a bit of googling to get VLC to work, so, for your convenience, here’s how:

1. Make sure you’ve got synaptic configured to use the universe and multiverse repositories. There’s lots of info on Google on how to do this.
2. Run Synaptic
3. Search for “vlc”
4. Select the following packages: vlc, vlc-plugin-esd, wxvlc. You might need vlc-plugin-alsa if you’re using ALSA sound drivers
5. Click Apply

And you’re done. You’re probably best off associating common video filetypes with VLC now.

DNS Stuff.
Invaluable for me anyways.

The Gardaí will be wearing their sexy new uniforms from Friday onwards, according to this press release on the Garda website.

*cough*cough*

Looks quite… I dunno, French?

The new uniform includes:

Gortex operational safety boots, manufactured to E.N. 345 Safety Standard
A new 55 m.m utility belt to hold handcuffs, baton and other items of equipment
A Two tone navy and yellow high visibility flourescent jacket
A Blousson Jacket, waterpoof and lined with tabs to hold the utility belt
An Inner windstopper fleece, zip detatchable from Blousson Jacket
A Leather Belt with brass buckle with Garda Crest
A new type shirt with chevrons on right sleeve (for Sergeants)
A new Cap badge which contains corporate colours

I’ll just use my bat-cuffs from my bat utility belt.

I saw this on Cloud’s blog a while back. I find it quite amusing to see what weird tags it pulls from the shite I post here.

Feckoff.net TagCloud

CNET bought popular TV site, tvtome.com a few months ago. TVTome was like the IMDb of television. It was functional, informative and easy to use. For a few months after they bought it they left it pretty much as it was, with just a link to some of their other sites at the top of the page. Until now. I visited the site for the first time in a couple of weeks today, and CNET have now rebranded it (As TV.com) and turned it into a horrible, ad-ridden piece of shit. Well done, assholes.
I’m not linking because they don’t deserve the traffic or pagerank.

Here’s one of many unflattering definitions of “CNET” from urban dictionary:

Evil people who take over loved message boards and websites and piss people off.

Their business model seems to be something out of Wayne’s World:

Thursday: Take over feeble cable access show and exploit it.
Friday: Take over much loved community built website and sodomize it.

These assholes have done it before with gamefaqs.com and mp3.com.

So I bought one of those Aldi head units I mentioned in an earlier post. Beats the shit out of the old Ford unit I had, even on the stock Ford speakers. It was awkward to install because I drive a Ford. If I had a car with standard ISO connections it would have been a five minute job. But as it is a Ford with their weird wiring and non-standard size head units, I had to buy a fascia adaptor (which come with an adaptor to connect the aerial), and a Ford->ISO wiring adaptor.
Then it was just a case of pulling out the old radio, fitting the fascia adaptor, connecting the wiring and slotting everything in.

Here’s a picture

Plays CD-R/RW with regular CD audio or MP3s, sounds great, with digital equalizer. Not bad for €79.99, if you ask me.

Looks like my employers had a change of mind, I’m not getting moved up north any more.
Can’t say I’m too disappointed.

Someone in work has a crazy frog ringtone. Despite the carpet bombing advertising exposure, because of which I’ve heard the god damn thing 500,000,000 times, until today I hadn’t actually heard the piece of shit emanating from a mobile phone.

Urge to kill… rising…

Fuck you Jamster, fuck you in your stupid asses.