Neil Grogan

Well I think so!

Open Source star of the blogging world…

Well one month in Summer 2008!

I had a trip in to the faire capital city of Ireland today: Dublin.

It’s been all over the tech news world lately; apparently Google is muling over taking Skype off of Ebay’s hands.

I recently read a Slashdot article “EU Commissioner proposes 95 year copyright”.

I just purchased an Amarok hoodie andt-shirt; and I couldn’t be happier supporting one of my favourite open source projects!

I last discussed the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet in October; when details were only starting to filter out.

Nokia have announced an upgrade to the N800 Internet tablet, called the N810.

Apple does it again: explosive growth in the computer market, no doubt in part to its Macbook/Macbook Pro line of laptops.

So I read the news Novell and Red Hat are being sued for patent infringement.

Planning to build a computer can be fun also.

I found a new pastime: dismantling pc’s.

Is the much beloved Apple the new Microsoft?

This is the guy who runs Stanford University Undergraduate programme.

The Ubuntu Book (2nd Edition) is a nicely put together book for dealing with the Linux operating system in a number of clearly laid out and well presented chapters.

I have got a place in a 4 year Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computing, or more commonly known as Computer Science (or comp sci as I am lazy and like to abbreviate).

Microsoft has settled with Eolas over a number of patents regarding browser plugins which chicago based Eolas filed patents for in 1998.

I just tried Herd 5 of Gutsy Gibbon, a beta release which will be Ubuntu 07.10 released in October.

As many of you know I am a Linux and Mac aficionado.

I come into contact everyday with people asking how to fix their machines due to the inevitable spyware and viruses found on a Windows machine.

I recently read a very insightful article on 7 factors every company should seriously consider about Microsoft Windows, here they are summarised: Licensing Costs Everyone in the IT industry today knows that proprietary operating systems and the applicatio…

HP it seems is responding to Dell’s initiative to sell Ubuntu on their computers.

After reading a nice article written by Jeff Jones, a security researcher for Microsoft.

After reading about Tom Cruise being banned from filming at certain German military sites because of his belief in Scientology, I was a bit outraged at first, despite my abhorrence of their beliefs, which I think are crazy and nonsensical.

If you haven’t heard of Apple’s latest Operating system, have a look at Wikipedia Article on Mac OS X Leopard.

I just bought a HP Photosmart R927, an 8 Megapixel camera from Hewlett-Packard.

Hard to believe really, Mr.Gates lists Windows Vista ‘innovations’.

Dell Computers has started selling Ubuntu Linux 7.04 on consumer machines in the United States.

Unbeknownst to me, with my quick thinking on the positive developments regarding CBS releasing democratic debates under a permissive license in the United States has caused quite a few Irish bloggers to echo my call on RTE’s stance on releasing the Irish…

Well this is not a technology related post, but I get asked about it alot and people have sketchy details about what it is (ie. they know my vision is messed up).

This is the text of an email I sent to RTE.

I got inspiration over this past Easter holidays, being bored, I gave Linux Gaming a shot.

I heard the news one hour before it was announced: Apple and EMI are going Digital Rights Management (DRM) free, albeit at a slightly higher cost and quality.

Here’s a few items I’d like to share with everyone as I find them extremely useful, hopefully you will too, thats if you have never used them!

I recorded a tutorial, showing people how to extract YouTube (and other flash based sites videos’) and get them onto your iPod.

Tor, (or The Onion Router) is a service which connects people all over the world with one aim: privacy.

Just like software. it can be really useful to open source other things in life, collaboration is nearly always a good thing.

I found this doing a search for Domino Records DRM.

Just a note on the new look, hope you like it.

I have one of those new Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, as many of you know I was one of the first to buy its predecessor, the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.

Well as I write this it is a few days after Vista’s launch, and it has yet to set the software market alight.

I am embarking on a journey I believe everyone should: digitise as much photo, video and documents you can.

BBC are putting together a Mac, Windows and Linux user, to debate the pros and cons of being a users for each operating system.

Just a quick blurb about some things Microsoft like to say: Don’t believe it, well at least not it all anyway.

Just a quick post on Google Sketch UP for Mac (also available for Windows), it is a very nice application.

Thanks to Dashcode, the tool for making dashboard widgets, there is now an RSS one for this site!

Well I guess you can call me a hardcore Apple Computer fan, I have a Macbook, an iPod Nano (1st Gen 4GB) and now a 80GB iPod Video!

AOL, the longtime dialup king, who esperate to keep customers at its’ site who have switched to broadband, is offering free dot com and dot net domains.

Well apparently I am a new kid on the block, according to the Irish Blog awards blog).