Copacetic

I downloaded Hamachi today. What is hamachi? A very simple, secure way to connect a group of PCs together in a shared, private network. Its very slick, has good installation help and works just as expected.

Now we can all connect together and also connect with our (small number) of PCs and servers that live in the office.

You create a network, members join the network by entering a password and once they are on the network you have as access to their machine in an identical fashion to a machine on the same subnet. You can also access a web-server if they happen to have one running.

Its another piece of the jigsaw that includes hosted subversion, hosted servers, hosted email and calendar and hosted DNS management.

Via SiliconRepublic.com, news that you can check if you are registered to vote in Ireland with www.checktheregister.ie.

It allows you to enter you details and it searches the register for your council area. If your not found you can either fill in a,

• Application for Registration (cunningly called an RFA form) if you have never registered before
• Application for Change of Address (an RFA3 form) if you have registered previously but changed address since then (that’s me)

Full Details of the process can be had at Dublin city council voter information page. There are similar sites reachable from www.checktheregister.ie for the other councils scattered around the country.