This shocking report is a result of a myriad of policy failings over the medium term since around 2001, not only in the lack of an overall balanced National Broadband policy but also because our only energy policy is to have the most expensive electricity in Europe, by design. Data Centres are the very heart of any functioning knowledge economy, they are where knowledge and data is stored and and from which the kowledge underpinning the economy is distributed.

Pricing Irish business out of these Datacentres may seem smart and green to some but this smart green policy will have disastrous consequences over the medium term out to 2015, not least to our GDP. Ireland Offline calls on Minister Ryan to address these deficiencies as a matter of extreme urgency. Only 2 data centres have opened in Ireland in the past 8 years, one in Cork and one in Dublin. No more are planned.

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1) Tariff Consultancy Website http://www.telecomspricing.com/ 2)

http://www.telecomspricing.com/news_detail.cfm?item=2592 “The most expensive average Data Centre countries in our survey are Denmark, Switzerland & Ireland (with rates per rack from 1,300 Euro to 1,050 Euro per month), with cage and 50 KVA pricing being significantly less (in Euro per square metre terms).” Ireland led Europe in the quality price and availability of its Data Centres in 2001. We have built only 2 since, one in Cork and one in Dublin. Data centres are huge computer warehouses where ones data is stored, even though we are supposedly a “leader” in the knowledge economy stakes.

ABOUT IRELANDOFFLINE

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Campaigning For Affordable, Unmetered And Broadband Internet Access In Ireland IrelandOffline is a voluntary organisation consisting of home and business Internet users. Its brief is to campaign for the development of high-speed Internet access services and to promote innovation and competition in the Irish Internet marketplace. For more information on the organisation, please visit the IrelandOffline website at http://www.irelandoffline.org or contact us at info@irelandoffline.org. For urgent media enquiries, contact spokesperson Eamonn Wallace at 086 250 6350.

When eircom was privatised 82% had landlines. Now in 2009 66% have landlines in Ireland and 1/3rd of those are paid for by Social Welfare.

Well it can!

content is referring to  the Namespace used.

viz at the start of the Feed is the clue:

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">

This Guy explains it well Here is another good post
The Techtir.ie portal has the “posts” content filled in from Forum Posts via RSS by including content:encoded and CDATA parts in the RSS feeds, using only a fragment of PHP in the “post” via SimpleXMLElement.

Anyway type About:config in address  bar

put browser.download in the filter

This means items stay in window till you press Clear:

browser.download.manager.retention  1

This stops an automatic virus scan which is buggy:

browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone false

That fixed my Download manager Window

Disable Sites seeing your history?

In address bar About:config

layout.css.visited_links_enabled = False

use the Registry on Windows.

Start | Run | regedit

Find in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions

Delete bkmrksync@nokia.com

I told “Regi” once if I started a Blog, to shoot me. However I think of this more as a new Portal Interface to my long running website / web presences dating back to 1996. I’m gradually upgrading my content to a new look and feel suggested by this template.

However so as to not worry too much about backups, most of the content will be built off line and uploaded so that I inherently have a backup of the site content as it’s published. With the Wordpress Content or “Cloud Based” such as Google Docs, you must have a different backup strategy.