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		<title>SSD RAID considered pointless</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tech Report, one of the best hardware review sites I know of, has just completed a test of a number of different SSDs of differing capacities. One of the most surprising results? A RAID0 setup with matched SSDs has performance on a par with or actually lower than a single mechanical hard-drive. The results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HP TouchPad Review</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/810</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though I&#8217;ve never owned a webOS-based device, over time I&#8217;ve followed with interest the various Mobile OS options out there &#8211; and webOS certainly seems to have some great ideas. In many ways, webOS is significantly more functional than Apple&#8217;s iOS &#8211; but is the HP TouchPad good enough as a consumer product to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-2011 MacBook Air processor comparison: Core i5 or Core i7?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/790</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been promising myself for some time now that &#8211; as my current MacBook Pro has started to fall to pieces after three year&#8217;s perfect service &#8211; I would upgrade to a lighter, much more portable MacBook Air as soon as they received a Sandy Bridge processor update. There is a nice overview of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Heath Robinson contraption&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/673</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This rather Heath Robinson contraption (or Rube Goldberg, to our American readers) is from a picture I took around this time last year, when trying to diagnose a poorly RAID array. It turned out in the end that one of the disks was passing all SMART tests, but yet an area of the surface was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A comparison of Nintendo DSi XL flash carts</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/545</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After succumbing to unbearable pressure (e.g. my Mum mentioned in passing that she was thinking about getting one&#8230;) and buying one of the new DSi XLs, the next task was to find a solution to playing all of the games I&#8217;ve bought since getting my original DS Lite several years ago &#8211; without the hassle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Time Capsule 500GB Tear-down</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/522</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enterprise backup, it ain&#8217;t In December of last year, after only nineteen months of use, my 500GB Time Capsule died of a dead PSU. As documented here (a great graph, sadly lacking a scale on the y-axis&#8230;) the average lifespan of a Time Capsule was, for these first generation units, nineteen months and 20 days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 &#8220;Karmic Koala&#8221; Problems &amp; Solutions</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/487</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having bought a Unibody MacBook Pro and running Mac OS 10.6, I decided to upgrade my Samsung NC10 from running Mac OS 10.5.8 to running the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) from Canonical. Canonical have completely revolutionised the concept of Linux on the desktop by packaging a distribution that is lightweight, fast, attractive, functional, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxconn A79A-S Final verdict: Unfit for use</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/443</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit that I forsook my vow never to build a PC again, and as a result am now more than convinced of its validity than ever&#8230; Read on for a final look at the Foxconn&#8217;s flagship A79A-S AM2+ motherboard, and how it is eclipsed in almost every way by the Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAQ: Should I install the 32bit or 64bit version of Windows 7?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/419</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 17:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or, indeed, on a system with modern 64bit-capable processor(s) is it better to run the 32bit or 64bit version of any given OS? Firstly, a technical aside to help frame the issues: What does it mean to run in 64bit mode, how does this help, and how is Intel&#8217;s x86 architecture different? I&#8217;ll start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxconn A79A-S BIOS update fixes some issues</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/374</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foxconn recently announced a firmware update to BIOS 782F1P06 for the A79A-S. On the positive side, my Corsair 1066MHz DDR2 memory now works (I previously had to use an unreleased beta BIOS) and support has been added for the new Phenom II processors. However, the board continues to have massive problems with USB devices, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fix problems with Vodafone 3G USB modems on Sony laptops</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/336</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At work we have several Sony laptops and have recently upgraded to the latest Vodafone-branded Huawei 3G/HSDPA modems&#8230; and on all laptops we&#8217;ve experienced intermittent connectivity and constant errors. It always seems that (with effort) the Vodafone store-technicians can coax the devices into working, but as soon as they&#8217;re brought back to the office they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Definitive Mac OS X installation guide for netbooks</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/256</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is currently a great demand for laptops which provide the user-friendliness of a Mac without the cost and weight of a MacBook or MacBook Pro, or without the cost of size of a MacBook Air. Given that the ever-increasing varieties of Intel Atom-based netbooks are low-cost and roughly equivalent in hardware terms to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 &#946;eta</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/249</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Windows Vista-running PC decided to implode the other day, crashing with random noise on the screen (or a really strange frosting-type effect, where slightly off-white static quickly encroaches from the edges of the screen) after Windows has been running for a while, for a few minutes after starting a DirectX game, etc. It could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac OS 10.5.6 on the Samsung NC10</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/238</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, good news and bad here&#8230; The good news is that, with the DSDT fix (although in all honesty I&#8217;ve not tried without) the 10.5.6 upgrade does the right thing and reboots correctly. Even better, a modified SystemConfiguration is no longer needed in /System/Library. May be due to this, the screen is also no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated DSDT for Samsung NC10</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/209</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If running Mac OS on a non-Apple laptop, then there&#8217;s a sting in the tail of the forthcoming 10.5.6 update: it appears that the new kernel only wants to run with ACPI HPETs, and will fail on boot if legacy i8254/RTC timers have interrupts assigned to them. To fix this, a replacement ACPI Differentiated System [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac OS 10.5/Leopard on the Samsung NC10</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/195</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Initially I ordered a Dell Inspiron 910/Mini 9, after reading about how easy it was to get Leopard running on these machines. However, after initially quoting 15 days delivery then then, on the 15th day, extended this to 30 days &#8211; at which point I cancelled the order. Instead, due to its looks and frankly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 5000</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/180</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally having built a (just-about) usable PC for the first time in years, I&#8217;m considering performing an equally radical upgrade to my input peripherals: Lacking the desk space for a Wacom Intuos3 A5 Wide tablet, I&#8217;m looking for a new keyboard and mouse to replace my existing Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro and Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxconn A79A-S: A reprieve?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/155</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foxconn technical support finally came through, and sent me Beta BIOS S02 for the troubled A79A-S. This finally allows memory to run at 1066MHz, albeit with greatly increased timings, well above the speed that the memory is capable of. In addition, selecting any of the BIOS memory options which would previously hard-lock the machine until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jetway J7F5M-DVI ACPI DSDT fixes</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/124</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jetway J7F5M MiniTIX motherboard is yet another entry in the 17x17cm small HTPC/low-powered server market. This particular model runs at 2GHz and features Jetway&#8217;s proprietary expansion connector for adding additional network, video, or serial ports. I have a 2xRS232 expansion card on mine, to allow me to fix otherwise broken servers via a serial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxconn A79A-S ignores standards, doesn&#8217;t work</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/116</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read all about it (Additionally, the Contact links from their Support Forum return an ASP error page, as does attempting to post any topic whose text includes an apostrophe! Colour me highly unimpressed&#8230;)]]></description>
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