Archive | April, 2006

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Brighten Up Your Desktop!

By on April 30, 2006 in Marketing

Whether you are using Windows, Apple or some flavour of linux on your desktop, wouldn’t a nice background image / wallpaper brighten things up? Alan in Spoiltchild design came up with what we think is a nice attractive desktop image for us to use and give away. We’ve made three versions available: 800 x 600 [...]

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ICT Expo with Open Ireland / ILUG

By on April 28, 2006 in Email, Events, Hosting, News

I’ll be giving a talk on Open Source software in business at the ICT Expo next Friday, 5th May, 2006 in the RDS. The talk is part of a series being organised by Open Ireland in collaboration with ILUG that will run over the course of the two day event. The talk is officially entitled: [...]

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Happy Easter!

By on April 14, 2006 in News

This weekend is a long weekend for Easter, so our offices will be closing until Tuesday morning. If you have any support queries over the weekend please use our helpdesk – support@blacknight.ie and have a good weekend!

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Windows Hosting Special Offer

By on April 11, 2006 in Hosting, News

The last few weeks have seen a lot of activity chez Blacknight, so we may have forgotten to tell you all about some of our new additions, such as our latest special offer We’re currently running a special offer on Windows server 2003 based hosting Up until now we’ve been offering Linux hosting and Windows [...]

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EU Domains – The First Few Days

By on April 11, 2006 in Domains

As of Friday last, April 7th 2006, the .eu domain, which is intended to be the domain name for Europe has been open to everyone resident in the European Union. To date there have been nearly 1.5 million domains actively registered. Whether the rate of registrations will continue at the current rate remains to be [...]

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David Sifry Interview on Podleaders

By on April 6, 2006 in Podcasting

Tom’s interview with Technorati’s David Sifry is now available online. You can either download the mp3 sound file or use software, such as iPodder to subscribe to the RSS feed.

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Podcasting Channel Launched

By on April 1, 2006 in Hosting, Marketing, News, Podcasting

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new podcasting channel on ENN in association with PodLeaders. Tom Raftery, who has built up a reputation as one of Ireland’s foremost podcasters, has been running a series of high profile interviews on podleaders.com for the last few months. Past interviewees have included Vint Cerf, Marc [...]

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