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		<title>Uniqueness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something we&#8217;ve been ruminating on at work recently is uniqueness.  We&#8217;d quite like everything in our system to have a unique identifier, usually referred to as a GUID or Globally Unique IDentifier.  This way you can access any entity from any place, and the display method of said entity is determined by the place of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Register&#8217;s guide to Linux Distributions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, we&#8217;ll tell you how to get them, burn them and set them up to dual-boot with Windows and on Wednesday there will be a guide to tweaking your new setup and getting it ready for use. Three days to set up and have a Linux desktop ready to use.  Yep, that about tallies with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/the-registers-guide-to-linux-distributions</link>
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		<title>Security Hacking for kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Five hacks you can explore with your kids (Wired) The thrill of getting a root shell using a well crafted buffer overflow is a joy few non-geeks will ever know. Security cracking is skill that requires an in depth knowledge of networking, operating systems and programming. Helping your kids build these important skills without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/security-hacking-for-kids</link>
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		<title>Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d forgotten what a time consuming, involving and generally ill thought through process updating a copy of Windows is.  On the Mac you use a desktop application, on Windows a flaky looking web app.  On the Mac you select things like &#8220;QuickTime Update 7.6.2&#8243; which kind of makes sense, on Windows you select &#8220;Critical Update [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/updates</link>
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		<title>The march of progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I received my lovely new Sony Ericsson C902 couriered straight to my desk.  It was very painless: Orange rang, I&#8217;m a valued customer, they offer me a new piece of kit and a sexier calling package for less money.  I wasn&#8217;t expecting much, just a new, smaller, shinier phone and it is just that.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/ktm/the-march-of-progress</link>
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		<title>Flashpaper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adobe have despatched Flashpaper to the same grave of irrelevant products as FreeHand and ImageReady.  Considering Flashpaper was made by Macromedia before their assimilation, it was kind of on the cards due to it&#8217;s competition with PDF. From the article the CEO a doomed startup whines: What about all the websites that have been storing all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FlashCommand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this excellent command line tool to compile Flash movies the other day. It works like this: flashcommand -p -s /path/to/fla The -p switch means &#8216;publish&#8217; and &#8216;-s&#8217; specifies the path to the source .fla file. It works by opening Flash CS3 in the background and instructing it to compile the movie, consequently it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/flashcommand</link>
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		<title>UK communications database</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest krazee plan from the Home Office&#8217;s policy department seems to be a massive database containing the details of every phone conversation and email sent in the UK. Assuming it works (it won&#8217;t) then at least they&#8217;ll realise just how bad the spam situation is.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/uk-communications-database</link>
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		<title>Running FMS 3 on Gentoo Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to install Macromedia Adobe Flash Media Server 3 on my local development box and have run into some problems. To help out anyone else trying to do the same thing, here&#8217;s how I did it. First you need to install nspr emerge -uDv dev-libs/nspr Add a user/group for it to run under: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/running-fms-3-on-gentoo-linux</link>
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		<title>Vista SP1 sales video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really hope this is a spoof as it makes me want to stab myself in the eye with a fork.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/vista-sp1-sales-video</link>
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		<title>Prototype String.toQueryParams() weirdness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came across this while using Prototype: &#34;section=blo%g&#38;id=45&#34;.toQueryParams&#40;&#41;; To save you the trouble of running it yourself, I&#8217;ll tell you what happens &#8211; the unescaped percent symbol causes a URI malformed error to be thrown. Very odd. The Prototype documentation for toQueryParams says: Parses a URI-like query string and returns an object composed of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/prototype-stringtoqueryparams-weirdness</link>
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		<title>Code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted here for a while, mainly due to the time sink that is Facebook, but I have been writing code in my spare time, honest.  I thought I&#8217;d have a little skim through what&#8217;s on my machine and share a few choice nuggets. Recently I&#8217;ve been trying to get into programming applications for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/code</link>
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		<title>Brain IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to version 4 of Aching Brain. It&#8217;s been an awfully long time, but I promise to post more often. The major change is that I&#8217;ve switched from a custom back end to pre-written blog software as maintaining it became a bit of a nightmare. I say maintaining &#8211; what I mean is writing new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/brain-iv</link>
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		<title>Button, button, who&#8217;s got the button?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From an article on the Wall Street Journal about Steve Job&#8217;s button phobia. When the company introduced the iPod in late 2001, the most common calls to Apple&#8217;s technical support lines for a time were about how to turn the device, which lacked a clearly defined power button, off and on, says a former Apple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/button-button-whos-got-the-button</link>
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		<title>Apache2 and OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is more a note to myself than anyone else, but to compile Apache2 on OS X, use the following configure: ./configure &#8211;with-included-apr &#8211;enable-so &#8211;enable-mods-shared=most When Apache starts whinging about &#8220;dlname not found, assuming libtool archive&#8221; and shit, and refuses to produce .so modules instead kicking out a bunch of .a and .la files in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/apache2-and-os-x</link>
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		<title>Orwellian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC &#8230; has always taken a platform agnostic approach to its internet services. And then a little later: It is not possible to put an exact timeframe on when BBC iPlayer will be available for Mac users. &#8211;bad, indeed. The corporation&#8217;s governing body asked the BBC to ensure that the iPlayer could run on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shouty Shouty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adverts that shout work. I like them. &#8220;Bang and the dirt is gone.&#8221; They weren&#8217;t lying and if I hadn&#8217;t been so entertained by the shouty antics of Barry Scott I wouldn&#8217;t have bought what can only be described as the most potent chemical concoction available to buy (legally) in a supermarket. My latest favourite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/ktm/shouty-shouty</link>
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		<title>Warranty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the little booklet in the box: Off road riding extracts a severe toll on footwear. On and off the pedals thousands of times, lots of walking, days of 150 degree heat rotting the shoes in your trunk all means these shoes will eventually wear out. When the rubber is worn smooth off the bottoms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achingbrain.net/alex/warranty</link>
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		<title>Glastonbury tickets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alex is currently wondering if the Glastonbury ticket website is run off of a beige box in the corner of someone&#8217;s flat with a cat chewing on the network cable. Honestly, what with all the pre-registering bollocks it&#8217;s not like they were unaware of the demand. Why can&#8217;t they design a server infrastructure that can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whither Wii?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe just how difficult a Nintendo Wii is to acquire. I made a vague stab on release day, trawling the electronics drags on Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street. Everywhere I was greeted with smirks, and laughter accompanied by pointing and other gesticulation. The guy I spoke to in Virgin Megastore looked [...]]]></description>
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