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Eurovision post videos of the technical blunders that happen during the live shows (some related to set changes) with side-by-side comparisons of what should have happened. An inte…

Most of Garmin's smart watches use MIP transflective displays but that's slowly being phased out for AMOLED

There isn't a single grid, but there is a large synchronous grid covering most of continental Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...

The process of removing a chips encapsulation is called Decapping if you're looking for a search term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapping

I wish there was some sort of scoring system for product packaging that would take into account the quantity and environmental impact of the packaging. Like, if the product comes i…

More like "Uaimh na gCat" (If my, admittedly, fairly rusty Irish is anything to go by).

The AN-225's little brother the AN-124 was once used to fly a diesel locomotive from Canada to Ireland. It worked out cheaper for the train manufacture to pay to have it flown over…

This is similar to the Oak Island treasure pit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island

I'm working on a PHP based solution for some personal projects ATM. Feel free to check it out: https://github.com/diarmuidie/ImageRack The big difference between ImageRack and most…

I thought the same thing. It seems like it would have been a better idea to bring the cables/ropes in through the hole at the bottom of the wall, rather than over the top. The late…

One interesting side effect of this capping is that it is cheaper for me to phone a number on my home network while roaming, than it is when I'm in the country on the same network!…

You can see Ireland's real time wind generation here: http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/wind... and total demand is here: http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/sy…

I should point out that it was only for a few hours in the early morning on a windy summers night (low base demand, no AC or heating demand). On average though 2013 renewables prov…

One of the big problems with PV and wind power is that they don't offer any inertial load on the grid. This means that once the percentage of these sources increase the grid freque…

What Google is doing is not illegal (immoral maybe). They have an obligation to their shareholder to maximise their profits through all legal means. If they were to turn around tom…

I use it to keep incremental backups of my VPS. It lets you use S3 as your backup destination and uses GnuPG to encrypt all files.

According to the Whois info it is registered to ZeptoLab UK Limited as a Registered Trademark. Not much of a link to Ireland there!

Anyone know why they are using a .ie (Ireland) domain? Just curious.

http://ip6check.com/ A small weekend Project I built a while ago to check which of your favorite websites are ready for IPv6. Would appreciate any feedback/comments. Thanks for che…