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	<title>The ongoing struggle</title>
	<link>http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog</link>
	<description>I'll get there one day.</description>
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		<title>Coping with busy mailing lists with Mutt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on a couple of fairly busy mailing lists which by their nature have loose or no moderation. It&#8217;s natural that some mailing lists work well with tight moderation, even perhaps requiring every post to be approved, but it&#8217;s more common for there to be little or no moderation. This is not a bad thing; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/03/14/coping-with-busy-mailing-lists-with-mutt/</link>
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		<title>Mushrooms stuffed with sun-dried tomatoes, Dauphinoise potatoes and aubergine rolls with pesto, tiramisu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I&#8217;d offered to cook a three course meal that&#8217;s a bit different from what we usually eat.  I virtually never cook and when I do it&#8217;s always just something quick.  I don&#8217;t enjoy cooking, but I thought I&#8217;d give it a go anyway.  Although these recipes were very simple, by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/02/16/mushrooms-stuffed-with-sun/</link>
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		<title>OpenLDAP and md5crypt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got some machines which authenticate their local users against OpenLDAP, and I wanted to reset some passwords from a Perl script.
First I tried just calling modify from Net::LDAP.  That worked but just set the new password as plain text.  My passwords appear to be &#8220;md5crypt&#8221;, and normally look like this:

{CRYPT}$1$fywXcrPC$Uakrx8POGBf1WM9l6mkG6/

I could come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/01/23/openldap-and-md5crypt/</link>
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		<title>Linux software RAID hot swap disk replacement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of BitFolk&#8217;s servers in the US has had first one and then two dead disks for quite some time.  It has a 4 disk software RAID-10, so by pure luck it was still running.  Obviously as soon as a disk breaks you really should replace it, preferably with a hot spare.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/01/17/linux-software-raid-hot-swap-disk-replacement/</link>
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		<title>THING!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always find it adorable when Jenny talks to me in her sleep, especially when my responses obviously provoke a reaction without waking her up.
Out of nowhere just now:

Her: Erm. Erm. If you&#8217;ve separated all the wood stuff how are you going to separate the rest?
Me: What wood stuff?
Her: From my bit.
(voice manages to convey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/01/05/thing/</link>
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		<title>Feltham Airparcs leisure centre FAIL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feltham Airparcs leisure centre has for the last 2 weeks &#8212; and ongoing &#8212; closed at 4pm, instead of 10pm, because the emergency lighting doesn&#8217;t work.
The actual lighting works fine, it&#8217;s just that if the lighting did fail then there&#8217;d be no emergency lights directing the shallow end of the gene pool to safety.
So the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/01/04/feltham-airparcs-leisure-centre-fail/</link>
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		<title>Those Google Chrome Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I happened to be waiting on a tube platform with a non-technical person, and we were opposite one of those new Google Chrome ads, as pictured here.

I&#8217;ve seen a few people comment that they didn&#8217;t think that a non-technical person would understand what they were all about, so I took the opportunity to ask [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2009/12/27/those-google-chrome-ads/</link>
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		<title>Business proposition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m wondering if you could take all the &#8220;fun&#8221; manual jobs like smashing things with hammers, and contract them out to normally-desk-bound people, who do it for minimum wage (for the task at hand).  So then you have a large work force who individually only do the manual work for a small part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2009/12/22/business-proposition/</link>
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		<title>The dark side of Dubai; the dark side of us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a link to this article about Dubai on Twitter today.  Like zts, I found it an extremely disturbing read, stopping at many points to read out loud to anyone who would listen.  I recommend that you read it too.
After having read through it, I suppose my first thought is to wonder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2009/12/01/the-dark-side-of-dubai-the-dark-side-of-us/</link>
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		<title>My root file system doesn&#8217;t show up in &#8220;df&#8221; anymore!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier tonight I had a strange bug report from a customer.  Ever since I&#8217;d moved his VPS from one host to another, he&#8217;d stopped being able to see how much disk space he had free.
At first I thought it was simply because when I had moved his VPS I had taken the opportunity to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2009/11/26/my-root-file-system-doesnt-show-up-in-df-anymore/</link>
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