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[Bit Defender internet security 2009]

Looks like I will have to switch from my best internet protection (not connected when using Vista), to something else which can monitor 2 way traffic.

I have only ever had to use "Little Snitch", a Mac users indespensible firewall friend. Everyone needs a good snitch.
Now I need some Firewall applic for Vista.
I don't want something which lands like a lorry load of silage tipped onto my OS and moves with the grace of an elephant.

After having a look through the minefield of  protection software available, I am considering to use Bit Defender internet security 2009 and just activate  (if I can) the firewall protection.
Then I am considering  ESET NOD32 AntiVirus security package
as well as Spyware.Doctor.with.Antivirus.6.0, and activating the bits that they say work best from those two.

Does anybody who has used these applications have anything bad to say about them or is there a suggestion to have a look at something else.

The Pirate bay 4 co accused were found guilty in Sweden of the lesser charge of "contributing to copyright infringement and sentenced to one-year prison terms each".
http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/pirate-bay-founders-sentenced-to-oneyear-jail-terms-by-court-1712363.html

However it's not over until they fall off the end of the plank, they will appeal and that is likely to take up to 6 years, meanwhile Piratebay will continue.
In this case, some red faces when it was exposed that the a chief police investigator and witness, Jim Keyzer was found to be an employee of Warners in his previous job.
Warners were one of the plaintiffs in this case.

Irish ISP providers will not block access to Pirate Bay until a court order is granted to one and all.

Only in Sweden 
"The National Museum of Science and Technology (Stockholm) announced yesterday that it had bought a server owned by The Pirate Bay confiscated by police last year. The museum paid SKr2,000 for the server and will display it in its archive of illegally copied material."

SPIRAL (ENGRENAGES) series 1  is being repeated on BBC 4 Monday evenings, 2 episodes a night,
Next monday, April 13  episodes 5 & 6.

for those in the UK there  are 5 days to watch April 6th episodes 4 & 5

French subtitled.

Looks like the French version of The Wire  and about the best such TV drama I have seen since The Wire.


Torrents are hard to find but a Pirate bay search for
"Spiral (Engrenages)"  will give links to the entire series 1,  one torrent per episode , 8 episode in all for series one.

I was thinking that my dog needed some psychiatric care to help restore a healthy dog perspective on strange new events.
We had a 4 month baby in the house for a week.
The dog wasn't the same, always uptight never relaxed and some frantic behaviour.
I don't think it was jealousy because I am the dog's master and I wouldn't relegate the dog for the sake of a baby.
Nevertheless the dog was hyper. She usually gets on great with kids and is very concerned and elegant with them.
But this is the first time there has been a baby around for a period of time.
Late on I suspect that she was distressed because she thought the women were hurting the baby all the time, the baby was crying like babies do and she couldn't figure out why we would be hurting the innocent baby.
Anyway baby is gone and thank fck the dog has gone back to being her normal self again.

Dogs can be such a handfull

That thread title should have scared away a few.

I have set up Mac OS 10.5.5 to function on a home assembled computer using generic pc components. The end product is called a Hackintosh.
It's still not 100% but an ordered firewire card and an external firewire sound card should complete the hack.

I want to install XP Pro on a second drive.
Presently I have set up the Bios for a functioning Mac OS.
My question relates to Bios settings.
For instance, in the Bios set up now, I have onboard ethernet disabled and use a pci ethernet card.
Are those settings imprinted into the computer set before the OS boots up?

In other words, if I start up in XP Pro on a separate drive, is the onboard ethernet disabled and if
I enable the onboard eternet setting for XP Pro does it remain enabled if I reboot into Mac OS?

OR does the motherboard have different bios set ups according the whichever OS you chose to start up with?

A very good TG4 documentary on Ernie O'Malley transmitted last night,
made on a budget of approx €180k. Very well directed, edited and with a nice music score.
I came upon it by accident just as Ken Loach was being interviewed, saying he based a character on him in the WTSTB.
It was said that Ernie came up to Monaghan to help organise an active unit and led a successful raid, the first capture of an ric barracks in the war. Probably the highlight of rebel activity in Monaghan during the war years, it was downhill after that.
In no time the documentary was finished with the WOI and into the civil war years.
It struck me that the man's life is worthy of about a 3 hour long series of documentaries divided into three parts.
1916 - 1921; 1921 -1924; 1924 -1953.
At present, the children of the protagonists are reaching advancing years.
in this documentary Ernie's son, who was very well acquainted with his father's role, clearly collaborated with the makers.

A titbit, Ernie was sued by an IRA man who he had accused of cowardice in his first book Another Man's Wound.
Ernie stood by by his evident photographic recollection of the event and refused to back down. Nevertheless he lost the case and £400.

I downloaded the first series of The Wire.
I watched the first part of thirteen.
It looks interesting, is it worth getting hooked on it?  (I don't mean the smack)

I have just finished watching 13 parts of "Damages" and was left totally underwhelmed with the way the thing panned out in the end.

It deserves a thread of it's own.

On the back of a decent performance before an impressed Trap in the recent kickabout with Not Forest
Darron Gibson has been handed a sensational starting debut for Ireland in Midfield partnering Glen Whelan

http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3705

The torture never stops

BBC NI Mon 21.00  Patrick Kielty and A Night in November
Blurb:
"A behind the scenes look at the 2007 production of Marie Jones  one-man play, based on events surrounding the 1993 WC Qualifying match."

I'm glad to hear that they are behaving themselves these days. Fortunately throughout those bad old days (before that atmosphere was totally transformed) the good reputation of the Republic fans never suffered by (name) association. Rather, it was enhanced by comparisons.

["Save Ulster from Sodomy"]

Could be an  interesting campaign, a few names might provide some alternative perverse pleasure.

How does a gay man 'out a member'?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/09/northernireland.northernireland

David Allison, a spokesperson for OutRage!, condemned the DUP for its "Bible-belt politics" when it came to gay issues.
"We have always supported the protection of people's privacy who lead a double life, where they are gay but maybe still have a family. However in circumstances where you are a member of a political party which openly espouses homophobia than we think it is entirely justifiable that members of that party be outed.

"That is certainly so with the DUP. It's already happened to them before and they still have learned no lessons," he said.
Allison was referring to a scandal that rocked the DUP three years ago when one of its rising stars, Paul Berry, was accused of having had gay sex with a male masseur at a Belfast hotel.
Berry always denied he had had sex and claimed he was looking for a sports massage.


"Save Ulster from Sodomy"

I just use this option all the time now on iTunes and Ipod.
Otherwise I would never get around to listening to most of my stuff at home and in the car.

What's upcoming?

What's New - John Coltrane Quartet
Terrapin     -   Phish     1993
Lonesome Valley  - The Fairfield Four
The Blackbird - Kevin Burke
Scotia -   Ron Kavana
Texas Cowboy Blues  - Bert Jansch
One More Saturday Night -  Grateful Dead Paris 1981
Lending Money  - Chris Rock
The Jam Part 2 - Roy Buchanan
You Don't Love Me - Allman Brothers  live 1973
Just You - Solas
Up On Cripple Creek - Bob Dylan & The Band
I Got Stripes  - Johnny Cash  at folsom

[Any person holding apermanent nationalitythat is not dependenton residence in a certaincountry is eligible to playfor the representative teamsof the Association of thatcountry]

You couldn't script this drama, it just encapsulates Unionist mind set to a tee.

FIFA came out with a rewording of the Eligibility rule Article 15, and added in 3 new articles  nr 16 17 and an 18.

FIFA stated that there would be no change to the legality and that they were just bringing different bits of eligibility legislation together together.

Essentially  there is no change,

Irish footballers born in the North fall under Article 15

New Article 16 is about the conditions for  one nationality who can play for different countries, like the UK British passport holders.

Article 15 has been reworded as

Any person holding a
permanent nationality
that is not dependent
on residence in a certain
country is eligible to play
for the representative teams
of the Association of that
country.

You would think that is clear, that it could not be clearer that that is written as if they were thinking of Irish citizenship.
That the state of Ireland grants unconditional permanent citizenship to (almost) all people born in Ireland

BUT the the Belfast Telegraph
screams out   "Northern footballers to face tougher rules if they want to play for the Republic"

The IFA are in a cloud cuckoo land and think that FIFA have all of a sudden out of the blue ruled in their favour.

The BBC are kissing the arses of the IFA and think that FIFA have ruled in the IFA favour

The IFA and 99.99% of the OWC  are creaming themselves.


The FAI know that there has been no change.

Hand Pass Goal, is it legal?

I thought I heard on RTE sports this evening that he has just officially retired from inter county football.
I can't find any confirmation of this news.
If true it is a football tragedy.

I missed last nights one on De Valera and Churchill.
I hope they repeat these programmes. Probably the best run of docu dramas RTE have managed to put together (with other peoples money hopefully).
Last weeks for those who did not see it was called "The Catalpa Rescue" about the extraordinary rescue of the 6 Fenians from Freemantle jail.
It was stirringly documented and well acted out.
John Devoy in the US the brains behind the 2 year escape, the support cast of the  World Brotherhood of Fenians not least the bold John Breslin the executor of the escape, the ship captain George Anthony. Plus a host of other "funny" incidents  as Breslin bumps into another escape operation in Freemantle
I wonder what else they could have done with the "good citizen" they encountered on the beach?

The programme wasn't shy to pump up the significance of the escape to subsequent Irish history. The Fenian Brotherhood ploughed so much money and energy into this venture at the behest of Devoy, his position was elevated and secured, ensuring full support for the Fenian descendents.

Any idea how to remove a lot of crayon (ugly cheap greasy) scribbles from a portable TFT screen?

I tried water, screen cleaner, alcohol (as in that poly proprynl something or other),  no impact at all.

Not that I would think its going to change anybodies opinion. I found this to be very interesting.
The author is well qualified and demonstrates originality of thought. He has come up with previously unknown scientific rationale for
an engineering-related event that clearly puzzled some engineers.
The researcher Dr. Keith A. Seffen, has impressive credentials in precisely the relevant field. Besides a load of
academic diplomas he is an engineer who specializes in structural design, particularly
steelwork (and not a biologist or a conspiracy theory writer, for example).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6987965.stm

"The study by a Cambridge University engineer demonstrates that once the collapse of the twin towers began, it was destined to be rapid and total.

After reviewing television footage of the Trade Center's destruction, engineers had proposed the idea of "progressive collapse" to explain the way the twin towers disintegrated on 11 September 2001.
This mode of structural failure describes the way the building fell straight down rather than toppling, with each successive floor crushing the one beneath (an effect called "pancaking").

Resistance to collapse
Dr Keith Seffen set out to test mathematically whether this chain reaction really could explain what happened in Lower Manhattan six years ago. The findings are to be published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics."

5iveTimes posted in the IFA thread

http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=4602.msg157853#msg157853

"create a new range of public order offences at sports events.

These would deal with unauthorised pitch invasions, offensive chanting, missile thowing, bringing bottles and flares to grounds and ticket touting."

Not much there for Ulster GAA to worry about, except maybe pitch invasions. But aren´t GAA pitch invasions authorized?

A shame that tens of thousands of ticket holders did not take their seats for this game and provide that extra athmosphere that these teams deserved.
A thoroughly entertaining flowing game with some outstanding skills. It reached a climax with a class goal by a class player, Laois nr 7 Zack?. Well done to Laois for getting the replay.

It looks like the IFA has had an Ego overflow

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/irish/6958874.stm

Boyce, a highly respected figure in international football, has been told to stay away from a dinner with members of the Liechtenstein FA.

Kennedy said he would be "overshadowed" if Boyce attended the function before Wednesday's friendly international.

"I am hurt and disappointed and cannot understand why certain things are being done to me," said Boyce.

Kennedy
"If Jim attended he would overshadow me. I might as well sit in the car park.

"This is not a long-term thing - just for say, six months."