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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
1024 x 768
1280 x 1024
We hope you like them 
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:
Linux and some of its friends in the enterprise
Linux and its Gnu/other friends in the enterprise, introducing several ways that this flexible system can be exploited within the enterprise. Here there will be a talk on the use of databases, email, appropriate content on the network be that servers or on the desktop. This space is so broad but we have managed to extract from the field just a few gems.
So you can expect to hear about a very wide range of topics crammed into a very short period of time
At Blacknight we use a combination of both Open Source solutions and proprietary ones to run not only our core systems but many aspects of our business interaction with our clients. As a business we do not have the luxury of making decisions based purely on philosophy. We have to make the right choice in order to deliver the best solution to our clients and partners at all times.
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!
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 hosting at the same price. For the duration of this offer we have slashed the pricing on all our Windows 2003 based hosting plans, so that Windows hosting is now actually cheaper than Linux!
If you combine our starter hosting plan (Soho) for € 30 ex-VAT with a .com domain you can be up and running for under €50!
That's less than 13 cents a day for a full website and email solution backed with our professional technical support!
So what are you waiting for?
You can signup securely online 24/7/365
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 seen, but one thing is certain .eu is attracting a lot of media coverage.
So, should you register a .eu?
If you are serious about protecting your brand name online and already own the corresponding .ie,com,net,org,info and .biz then I would say that it makes sense to get it (if you can!).
While it is possible to initiate proceedings if you feel that someone is "squatting" on your domain it is a lot more cost-effective to register the domain before anyone else does.
While you are at it, you might also want to consider protecting your brand in other European countries
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.
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 Canter, Robert Scoble, Michael Arrington, Steve Rubel, Shel Israel and many others.
