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		<title>I android (apologies to Issac Asimov)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to [http://imranchaudhry.com/?p=163 Imran] for the neat tip. Now everyone can see what I have installed on my phone. The keypass program is a nice new addition found by looking at Imran&#8217;s list. Hmm &#8211; this isn&#8217;t actually the complete list, for example aNetShare isn&#8217;t listed in this widget, but it is installed. What a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/07/06/i-android-apologies-to-issac-asimov/</link>
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		<title>I want a hero (v2.1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long time awaiting I finally succumbed to impatience and upgraded my Hero phone to v2.1. I mostly followed [http://forums.hexus.net/mobile-phones-accessories/186335-htc-hero-custom-rom-guide.html this guide] but followed step 1 from [http://sites.google.com/site/roothtchero/step1 here]. In short: * use [http://www.htc.com/uk/SupportViewNews.aspx?dl_id=675&#038;news_id=261 this program] to flash the phone to 2.73.61.5 * copy an &#8220;Amon Ra recovery image&#8221; to the root of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/07/01/i-want-a-hero-v21/</link>
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		<title>HMRC PAYE Linux support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve received my &#8220;New employers&#8221; CD-ROM through the post &#8211; and it claims to support &#8220;major Linux distributions&#8221; (they really should list the ones they&#8217;ve tested). 64-bit doesn&#8217;t appear to be tested at all &#8211; it&#8217;s a pure 32-bit application. However let&#8217;s see how far we can go &#8211; these instructions are for 64-bit Debian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/05/03/hmrc-paye-linux-support/</link>
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		<title>Questions?  We don&#8217;t need so many questions.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I performed an (alternative CD) install of Ubuntu Lucid. The installer doesn&#8217;t ask many questions &#8211; in fact, I&#8217;d argue that it didn&#8217;t ask enough since there was no choice in which bundles of packages to install. During the install, I had a thought which would allow some defaults to be accurate rather than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/05/01/questions-we-dont-need-so-many-questions/</link>
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		<title>Planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A large part of system administration is planning at one level or another: * strategic planning * tactical planning * contingency planning Strategic planning is a fancier way of saying &#8220;long-term planning&#8221;. This is important as you need to know where you are going so that you can take steps along that route and not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/25/planning/</link>
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		<title>Flexible working</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About five months ago I left my old job and started my own [http://bitcube.co.uk Linux infrastructure consultancy]. It&#8217;s been a nice ride, the freedom and control is fabulous. One benefit I particularly like is the ability to be really flexible with my hours. Whilst I used to take the odd hour out to cook a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/21/flexible-working/</link>
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		<title>Dumbing down and choices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or perhaps more contentiously, &#8220;Why Mark Shuttleworth is wrong&#8221;. Before I get flamed to death, I should point out the &#8220;[http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/why-mark-shuttleworth-is-right-ubuntu.html Mark Shuttleworth is right]&#8221; post. I believe that what he says is actually correct &#8211; there is too much [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding bikeshedding] &#8211; having a strong leadership is a good thing, even if they occasionally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/20/dumbing-down-and-choices/</link>
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		<title>Sanity restored</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just bought a new toy &#8211; a Canon Pixma 250 MFP (Multi Function Peripheral). Basically a colour inkjet printer/scanner/photocopier. £35 from Argos which seemed pretty good, I had to wait a whole minute or two for it to arrive after I ordered it &#8211; very impressive. I did some research and found that new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/16/sanity-restored/</link>
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		<title>Scripting, dying?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read way too much, sadly I came across a post this morning about data storage technologies that [http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/management/features/article.php/3867506/Top-10-Data-Storage-Technologies-That-Coul will die]. Most of those I think are fairly obvious, however some are just wrong and some lack an explanation. I&#8217;ll start with the biggest error: Scripts Firstly, scripts aren&#8217;t anything to do with data storage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/16/scripting-dying/</link>
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		<title>Every cloud has a Linux lining</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few days I&#8217;ve spent playing with [http://open.eucalyptus.com Eucalyptus] &#8211; the open source [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_EC2 EC2] equivalent. Several times I&#8217;ve been tearing my hair out &#8211; particularly with some image issues (why oh why can&#8217;t it use an external database rather than the noddy internal one &#8211; that way when it&#8217;s confused I can fix [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/12/every-cloud-has-a-linux-lining/</link>
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