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	<title>smashedbug.com, tech music and geek news</title>
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		<title>Error Messages</title>
		<link>http://smashedbug.com/?p=321</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cerulean</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Computers and Technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok.. I&#8217;m fed up. I want to notate some music. I need to wear my headphones. My headphone jack does not work. Why does it not work? I don&#8217;t know.
A while back out of the blue my audio driver starting having an &#8220;EAccessViolation&#8221; error. I have no idea what this is. In anycase, since starting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backblaze</title>
		<link>http://smashedbug.com/?p=320</link>
		<comments>http://smashedbug.com/?p=320#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cerulean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: If you try Backblaze, please use one of the links in this post to access and download the software. This will help fund my site. Thanks!
How safe is your data? Do you actively backup? How do you backup? How often do you check your backup to make sure it is working? I found a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FreeBSD: gmirror</title>
		<link>http://smashedbug.com/?p=319</link>
		<comments>http://smashedbug.com/?p=319#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cerulean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve ran into a situation over the past few months that servers I maintain started having their hard drives fail. While I maintain backups of the data, I found that instead of being a &#8220;leisurely&#8221; replacement, I found myself in a stressful situation having to act quickly to acquire new hardware, load the system, load [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Management</title>
		<link>http://smashedbug.com/?p=318</link>
		<comments>http://smashedbug.com/?p=318#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cerulean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a few years since I touched on software management and a recent lively dialog prompted me to write this article to explain some of the benefits of software management (usually called package management). The discussion was a belief that Microsoft Windows needed software management/package management like Linux. I was quite surprised at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Server Reliability</title>
		<link>http://smashedbug.com/?p=317</link>
		<comments>http://smashedbug.com/?p=317#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cerulean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yankee Group released a summary of their 2007 server reliability report. Among the findings:

UNIX systems continue to be near bullet-proof with over 99.99% uptime (IBM AIX lead the survey with 99.994% reliability .. about 30 minutes downtime per year).
Windows 2003 Server was less reliable, about 25% less reliable .. average downtime over 9 hours per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Universe .. Size</title>
		<link>http://smashedbug.com/?p=316</link>
		<comments>http://smashedbug.com/?p=316#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cerulean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching &#8220;The Universe&#8221; on the History Channel .. its quite fascinating to learn about all the recent discoveries in astronomy. It got me thinking .. just how big IS the universe?
With Wikipedia and Google and OpenOffice Calc, I did some calculations to try and grasp the size of the universe using objects I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>812 days, 11 hours, 52 minutes</title>
		<link>http://smashedbug.com/?p=314</link>
		<comments>http://smashedbug.com/?p=314#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cerulean</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Computers and Technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[812 days, 11 hours, 52 minutes. A personal best.. uptime that is. That is how long one of my FreeBSD server&#8217;s stayed online doing what it does best &#8212; serving web pages, receiving and sending mail, checking for spam, responding to DNS queries, monitoring networks, protecting the LAN and hosting databases.
Quite impressive. The server would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Security</title>
		<link>http://smashedbug.com/?p=313</link>
		<comments>http://smashedbug.com/?p=313#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cerulean</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Computers and Technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across an interesting article &#8230;. &#8220;Open Source Code Contains Security Holes&#8221;
The Department of Homeland Security, starting in 2006, audits software for security issues. According to their findings, 1 line in about 1000 contains a security hole. While the title of the article sounds scary, there were some interesting factoids:

7,826 security issues were fixed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>installing software on windows..</title>
		<link>http://smashedbug.com/?p=312</link>
		<comments>http://smashedbug.com/?p=312#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cerulean</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Computers and Technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[how to install software on windows &#8230; dvd shrink example..
find dvd shrink on a website somewhere .. download
install dvd shrink.
realize it needs nero
go to nero website.. download .. wait 30+ minutes for it to download.
then sit through an install, reboot your computer.
then start install again, type in a really long serial number.
then have it puke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu 7 Fiesty Fawn First Impressions</title>
		<link>http://smashedbug.com/?p=310</link>
		<comments>http://smashedbug.com/?p=310#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cerulean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am typing this from the Ubuntu 7 beta. The last time I checked out Ubuntu was back in the Dapper Drake era (5.04). Fast-forward to today and I am quite impressed.
Installation was very interesting. Ubuntu booted to a live CD and had an &#8220;Install&#8221; icon on the desktop. Clicking on this walked me through [...]]]></description>
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