Published March 29th, 2007
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Like most “web developers” I have courted many hosts over the years, back in 2003 my love affair with Hosting365.ie began. Finally I found a host that
- Had “Irish” IP addresses (thereby allowing entry to Google.ie’s Pages from Ireland only radio button search)
- Had their own IP addresses (not in some other companies data centre and subject to change)
- Had a nice control panel (hsphere)
- Had resonable prices
- Had a good uptime record
but getting to the crux I finally found a host that had a nice control panel, hsphere.
I was just talking to a friend who was trying to convince me to move to Blacknight.ie (probably because he has a referral account there!), but after looking at their control panel for 10 minutes I just couldn’t leave Hosting365’s lovely hsphere. Yet for the importance of the control panel to customers few companies provide screen shots of their panels to prospective hosters.
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Run google search for rdonlyres and it will return over 8,330,000 results.
It seems that rdonlyres is a directory name used on the public side of a Content Management System (CMS) for non html documents. This mostly means pdfs.
A classic url is www.example.com/NR/rdonlyres/6FB9F35B-FADD-44C2-A15F-B145FF9416F6/1392/report.pdf
The experienced web user will know that long URLs are bad, and more so when they contain seemingly random characters that humans cannot remember.
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I currently pay EUR 850 per annum for car insurance. THe price is high because I am young and male, and and thus the favourite customer of the ageist and sexist car insurance industry in Ireland.
Fortunately, the rip-off insurer does have one redeeming feature, they accept American Express! so this year I will pay the premium using my new American Express Blue Credit Card, which will give me one percent money back, a token saving to be sure, but a saving nonetheless.
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Published March 7th, 2007
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Allied Irish Banks plc (AIB) no longer sell travellers’ cheques. The product was discontinued on January 1, 2007. The bank will continue to purchase existing travellers’ cheques from customers after this date.
According to the bank maintains there has been a 95 percent drop in demand for the cheques between 1998 and 2005, as customers have switched from paper to plastic. Additionally the main provider of travellers’ cheques to the Bank is winding down the cheque element of its business.
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Published March 5th, 2007
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