last weekend

Last weekend was a laugh. Friday night we wen’t bowling. We brought my sister. She is 30 something .. 34/35 ish … Usually uber narky and not the kind of person you bring somewhere.

Anyway we had a good laugh, post bowling we had a few beers and a laugh. Odd, but grand.

Saturday was mad. Up at 9am to get ready for breakfast in leixlip of all places. There is a reason for this and I’ll get to it. So off we went, Niamh had invited us, but low and behold she was off shopping in lifey valley .. so her sister (whos b-day it was aswell as mine) made us breakfast. Mairead is the good sister, Niamh is the bad one.

Saturday night so .. after much driving around Ireland … we hit the Point for WWE!!!! OMFG ROFLAMO .. etc and othert such sayings. It sucked. I’ve watched it a few times on TV, its funny. But live its pants. Well I thought so, others didn’t.

Then we went to Mac Turkles and drank a shed load of booze and much fun was had by all. Met some people I’ve not seen in a while and one particular person I’ve not seen for what we think was about 8 years. And we used to be good mates back then so it was GREAT seeing her again. (Hi Siobh! :-) )

After much drinking and eating (burger stand type thing) we got a taxi home, well after waiting 2 hours in the cold we got a taxi home. Which was just enough time for Doc to loose his wallet which to his dismay wasn’t apparent until sunday morning :) – oh well, he did find some burds ATM card ..

Sunday we ventured to leixlip again, 2 days in a row breaky made for us? Bad sisters??? There not really bad, think they are more mad. So a lot of fun was had, a lot of fscking about etc.

Much enjoyed the weekend.

unpacking a rar on ubuntu

I’ve recently found that more and more files/apps etc come in .rar format. Usually this isn’t a problem, espeically if you are a unix user.

In ubuntu i simply installed unrar-free. “Grand” I thought to myself this will do what I need. But nope, it didn’t work. Right so that was a pain. Reboot into windows, unpack the file, copy to a fat32 partition and then boot back into linux. Painfull.

I then simply downloaded the this, unpacked it.

$ cp makefile.unix Makefile
$ make
# cp unrar /usr/bin/

then simply do unrar e $filename, handy as pie.

— UPDATE —

You can simply add multiverse into your sources.list and do apt-get update; apt-get install unrar-nonfree and hey presto you can unpack newer rar files. Both methods work fine, the later is obviously handier!

CCNA on going

I started doing a CCNA course in carlow IT in the evenings. Its pretty fast paced as it happens, but we’re getting plenty of hands on access to routers and switches.

Tonight we were working on Cisco 2950 switches. We’ve actually got a few of these in production, it was pretty cool looking at vlaning etc. Myself and Jim setup a vlan with trunking on two seperate switchs. We managed to get traffic to go between the vlans on two seperate switchs. lots of fun :)

This weekend

This weekend, WWE is at the point in Dublin. I wasn’t planning on going, but Joans dad can’t make it so it looks like kelly boy is gona be there.

We’re planning a big birthday bash around the whole weekend. It’s Mairead and my birthdays this week so we’re going to have loads of friends gather. Someone mentioned down under, which is an auzzie bar, for pints. Jim has it in his head to drink carton cold, this I can’t wait to try as they never shut up about it.

26?

My 26th birthday was yesterday. I don’t blog very often, but the whole buzz in the industry around blogs has me thinking about maybe doing it more.

I recently broke up with my girlfriend of 4 years, so I’ll have a lot more time on my hands to do the things I want to do, when I want to do them.