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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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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 is [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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 with [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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 this article with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxconn A79A-S BIOS update fixes some issues</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/374</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/374#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>

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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 even [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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 fail [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/?p=256</guid>
		<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 original [...]]]></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 potentially [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/?p=195</guid>
		<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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/?p=180</guid>
		<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.

Microsoft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxconn A79A-S: A reprieve?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/155</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/155#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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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>
		<comments>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/124#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jetway J7F5M MiniTIX motherboard is yet another entry in the 17&#215;17cm 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 [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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;)
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		<title>Foxconn motherboard ACPI breakage still not fixed :(</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/113</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to the situation documented here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249, it appears that Foxconn are still shipping motherboards with BIOS which are either intentionally or inadvertently broken under any non-Windows OS.

In fact, the situation is worse &#8211; the ACPI DSDT tables of the Foxconn A79A-S 790FX/SB750 contain, according to the Intel &#8216;iasl&#8216; ACPI compiler, 177 Errors, 8 Warnings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The scan saga&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/109</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or why I vow never to build a PC ever again  

Having last built a new desktop computer (I do have an ever expanding collection of MiniITX servers, but these don&#8217;t count   ) in about 2003, I decided that it was high time to the 256Mb Athlon 1800+ to something more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PC Engines ALIX-based m0n0wall</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/94</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/94#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed recently that when certain house-mates turned on their computers, suddenly my internet connection would become very slow and highly unreliable &#8211; ah, the joys of Bittorrent and P2P traffic &#60;sigh&#62;
Rather than just trying to ban people from using these services (like that&#8217;d ever work&#8230; and anyway, BitTorrent has legitimate uses and they&#8217;re all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reduced updates</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/62</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently, the server hosting this blog (a 300MHz Silicon Graphics O2 with two SCSI discs) is sitting on a shelf in my bedroom, where it&#8217;s been housed since I moved house in December.  This&#8217;d be fine, except the discs are so damned noisy!  So basically, for the past 8 or 8 months, the [...]]]></description>
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