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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>Disable Mac OS Lion&#8217;s &#8220;Zooming Windows&#8221; feature</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/845</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Terminal.app &#160;defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO That&#8217;s all folks!]]></description>
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		<title>Disable Mac OS Lion&#8217;s &#8220;Restore windows&#8221; setting on an individual per-application basis</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/839</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;General&#8221; PreferencePane in Lion&#8217;s &#8216;System Preferences&#8217; windows contains a &#8220;Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps&#8221; item. However, sometimes this behaviour does&#8217;t make sense &#8211; after a reboot I found, for example, that the OS X Installer had re-launched and was asking for a package to install! This can be prevented on a per-application [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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>AirPlay support for Logitech Squeezebox devices</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/762</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday 8th April, ShairPort was released. Containing the private key from a reverse-engineered Apple AirPort Express, this allows unlicensed/homebrew devices to act as AirPlay target speakers &#8211; e.g. allows iTunes, iPods, iPads, and iPhones to use them as an output device. Immediately, the obvious thought is to add AirPlay support to Logitech/Slim Devices&#8217; Squeezebox [...]]]></description>
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		<title>e-mail autoresponder using procmail</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/741</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may have taken way too many hours, and may have descended into a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, but after fighting various permissions issues and procmail&#8216;s general intransigence (I still can&#8217;t work out what determines whether procmail will perform variable-interpolation on shell commands, or why it doesn&#8217;t like even multi-escaped square brackets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More fun with NSStrings in Objective&#160;C</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/735</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, it&#8217;s the simple things which can be the most handy. Here&#8217;s a quick category on NSString to allow all characters within a set (NSCharacterSet *illegalCharacterSet or NSCharacterSet *symbolCharacterSet, say) to be easily and efficiently removed. This fills a gap in between the stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet: and stringByReplacingCharactersInRange: withString: &#038; stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: withString: methods, which only act upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding UK Distance Selling Regulations</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/724</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been looking to purchase a piece of equipment online which is not available from big-name suppliers, only from a limited number lesser-known websites. Having no reputation on which to base a purchasing decision, I decided that a viable method to choose between a reliable site and a potentially bad site would be to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;blog spam :(</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/719</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has someone worked out how to reliably game Akismet? I&#8217;ve just had to clear out 45 spam posts all within a few minutes around 6:30pm, then a few every 10 minutes to half an hour or so, until another bunch appeared around 11:15pm. Quite how desperate for praise and/or attention to these spammers think bloggers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working around the lack of an RTC battery on ALIX system boards&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/710</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ALIX 2c3 system board the forms my traffic-shaper has one irksome weakness: it lacks an on-board CMOS/RTC battery to maintain the time when the system is shutdown. This is a more significant problem than it sounds since, for starters, the fsck tools for the ext2 filesystem, by default, treat a timestamp in the future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALIX USB support</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/707</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a PC Engines alix2d3 single-board computer &#8211; a really nice compact system with an AMD Geode processor, 256MB RAM, compact flash storage and three 10/100MB network ports &#8211; acting as my traffic-shaper and network gateway. Since this machine is extremely reliable, always on, and has spare USB ports it seemed like a sensible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing Terminal.app window titles where directory names contain extended characters&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/699</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one may be a little esoteric, but I&#8217;ve always configured my ~/.bashrc to set $PS1 in bash to a simple &#8216;$ &#8216;, but show all relevant information in the terminal (or screen) window title. This is generally fine but, on OS X at least, if a directory name contains an extended character such as [...]]]></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>Fun with Google Instant</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/662</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second mention of Billy Joel on this blog&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Directories under /tmp/.private can&#8217;t be deleted?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/648</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an irksome problem which I&#8217;ve encountered on a few Linux boxen recently, whereby directories under /tmp/.private, such as /tmp/.private/root, simply cannot be deleted &#8211; even as root, nothing seems to be able to shift them! This may only be an issue on installations which make use of the PAM &#8216;mktemp&#8216; module&#8230; However, it turns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shuttle time-lapse</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/637</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 23:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just incredible&#8230; The part where they pick up the shuttle and then turn it on it&#8217;s end is mind-blowing &#8211; this thing is almost 40m long by 25m wide, and weighs at least 78 metric tonnes!]]></description>
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		<title>Installing Steam on Mac OS with a Case-sensitive boot partition</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/626</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 23:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Steam has now been released for the Mac. Whilst this is a massive step forwards for the Mac as a platform &#8211; finally giving Apple a credible position regarding gaming (after the 2007 deal with Electronic Arts, which didn&#8217;t even promise Mac native games but merely wrappers around Windows titles*, apparently went nowhere) &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look Ma, I&#8217;m on TV!</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/620</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 12:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other weekend I spent Sunday at RAF Upwood, an abandoned RAF base near Peterborough, on a photo-shoot organised by Alex Beckett. Alex has put together a video of the event, featuring some of the most striking photographs taken. If you keep your eyes peeled, you might even spot me in a couple of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit host&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/615</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having tried m0n0wall and pfSense without much success (I basically need a filtering bridge: with m0n0wall bridging WAN to OPT and with LAN disconnected, everything is fine until I enable traffic shaping, at which point the throughput reduces to almost nothing; with pfSense, I gave up on the third attempt at configuration because it had [...]]]></description>
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