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		<title>OpenBSD and PF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the first day of the UKUUG Spring Conference I attended the OpenBSD and PF tutorial. I was asked to write a short review of that tutorial for the UKUUG newsletter. I’m posting what I wrote below:
The superiority of OpenBSD  when it comes to security is legendary. The OpenBSD community continuously  do security [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2008/04/24/openbsd-and-pf/</link>
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		<title>UKUUG Spring Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a member of the UKUUG, and I just came back from their Spring Conference, which was held in Birmingham this year. It was a great conference! I met lots of other Unix/Linux people and learned a lot simply by chatting with people in the corridors! I will try my best to make it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2008/04/02/ukuug-spring-conference/</link>
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		<title>I updated the About page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to update the “About me” page, go take a look, I think it’s quite interesting …
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		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2008/03/10/i-updated-the-about-page/</link>
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		<title>Fix for strange white borders with Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just installed Compiz Fusion on my 3-year old ASUS laptop which is running Ubuntu Feisty. I&#8217;m quite pleased at how stable it is. I tried Beryl a few months ago and it was not usable at all on the same hardware.
I did run into one problem, though and I couldn&#8217;t find any solution to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2007/08/30/fix-for-strange-white-borders-with-compiz-fusion-on-ubuntu-2/</link>
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		<title>Such an insightful essay &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Graham has impressed me time and again with his stunning insight. Whenever I read his writings, it&#8217;s as if he plucked his ideas out from my own head and then put pen to paper. His latest, Holding a Program in One&#8217;s Head, contains several gems that I personally have experienced several times at work.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2007/08/28/such-an-insightful-essay/</link>
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		<title>Some writing tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the past 2 weeks on and off reading &#8216;Bugs in Writing&#8217; and have definitely learned about some mistakes to avoid in writing. In order to fix these mistakes, it is best to do a lot of your own writing so you can find them and eliminate them. I will try to write a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2007/08/23/some-writing-tips/</link>
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		<title>Been too long &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I haven&#8217;t updated this blog for a while &#8230; in fact I frequently abandon it for a few months while I carry on with life&#8217;s struggles. Keeping up with my job, finding time to spend with my beautiful wife, all the while attempting to keep current with the fast pace of technology growth.
Starting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2007/08/06/been-too-long/</link>
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		<title>Links for June 3, 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fedora 7 is released!: I really liked the last Fedora release, but I believe it was slightly plagued by problems with some of it&#8217;s package management utilities. I have already installed this release and am quite impressed. Wireless now works with WPA out of the box and their new re-spinning feature is something I will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2007/06/03/links-for-june-3-2007/</link>
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		<title>Some web links for today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to occasionally post links here that I find particularly insightful, interesting or geeky.
Three things that caught my interest today:
PowerTOP: Released by Intel, this utility builds on work done by kernel developers to make the Linux kernel power-efficient. PowerTOP gives you a snapshot of what apps are consuming the most power. Turn off these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2007/05/17/some-web-links-for-today/</link>
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		<title>Switzerland Trip</title>
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We have just come back from a brilliant trip to Switzerland! The weather was awesome throughout our trip.  We spent most of the time in Lucerne, where we stayed at the Hotel Drei Koenig. On our first day we decided to wander around Lucerne&#8217;s Old Town and see as much of it as possible. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2007/04/05/switzerland-trip/</link>
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		<title>Passed my driving test!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I finally passed my driving test about after 3 or 4 tries! It is quite difficult to pass in this country, they can fail you for very simple mistakes like forgetting to turn your indicators off when stopping or taking off.
In any case, I&#8217;m glad I finally passed, now I need to learn about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2007/03/31/passed-my-driving-test/</link>
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		<title>GLLUG Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I helped out yesterday at the Greater London Linux Group&#8217;s meeting, held at my old alma mater, the University of Westminster in New Cavendish street. It was a blast going back after so many years, I met one of my best teachers, Sean Tohill who always had an open mind and a keen intellect. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2006/11/12/gllug-meeting/</link>
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		<title>LinuxWorld 2006</title>
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LinuxWorld started yesterday here in rainy London and I had a great time! It was the first time ever that I wasn&#8217;t a visitor, but was helping out at the Jokosher stand. I did several demos of the app to tons of people and we managed to distribute more than 130 Jokosher flyers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2006/10/26/linuxworld-2006/</link>
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		<title>Surrey Street, Croydon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since we moved to Croydon in July I have grown particularly fond of our Saturday morning food shopping. Surrey street is not very far from our place and hosts a farmers market every day, except Sunday. There are a great variety of fruit and vegetables available, plus a fishmonger that sells freh fish everyday. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2006/10/18/surrey-street-croydon/</link>
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		<title>Wierd Java error on my Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I turned my computer on today to get some work done, started Eclipse and started coding. When I tried to use the command-line though, I got this strange error:

Error: no known VMs. (check for corrupt jvm.cfg file)

I couldn&#8217;t run 'java' or 'javac' from the command-line at all! I immediately went to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework and looked for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2006/10/16/wierd-java-error-on-my-mac/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress finally supports WXR imports!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been waiting for so long now to import my old WP blog from my old web server to this site. The problem has been that until now, wordpress.com blogs did not have an &#8216;Import Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog&#8217; option so I couldn&#8217;t move my older blog across. The only option I had was to spend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2006/10/13/wordpress-finally-supports-wxr-imports/</link>
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		<title>Always buy RAM from Crucial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I needed some extra RAM in my 512MB laptop to do some Java heavy lifting (Eclipse, Netbeans, JBoss, Profilers, etc). Those things can take up a lot of RAM, not leaving much for Firefox and other apps. Seeing that my laptop does not cover upgrading RAM under the warranty (very strange) unless done by authorised [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2006/05/02/always-buy-ram-from-crucial/</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Boot Camp &#8211; easily install XP on a Mac!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow this is unbelievable! Apple has officially released a public beta of Boot Camp which allows anyone to take a Windows XP CD and install it on a Intel Mac complete with dual-boot! I haven&#8217;t seen this discussed anywhere today as yet, but in just a short while this is going to be huge. Ars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2006/04/05/apples-boot-camp-easily-install-xp-on-a-mac/</link>
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		<title>Scoble&#8217;s Dashboard Spy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the April Fools jokes flying around, The Scobleizer Dashboard has got to be funniest thing I&#8217;ve seen in a while. It would be great if someone actually came up with something like this so a blogger can instantly monitor what&#8217;s being said about him all over the web. Kind of like web stats [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2006/04/02/scobles-dashboard-spy/</link>
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		<title>Doing quick tasks in Python</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of the time at work I have to come up with quick solutions to various programming problems, and I mean *real* quick. There is usually very little time for finding the right library or open source toolkit that has already solved the problem or some part of it and then to figure out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kerneljack.com/2006/03/31/doing-quick-tasks-in-python/</link>
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