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		<title>Adding Software to Arch Linux from the AUR</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2011/12/03/adding-software-to-arch-linux-from-the-aur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are packages absent from the Arch Linux repositories that could come in useful. When you are after one of these, then it&#8217;s time to search the Arch User Repository (AUR). In here, I have found the likes of Microsoft Core Fonts, Adobe Reader and Dropbox. There may be others but these examples are what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorting out MySQL on Arch Linux</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2011/11/05/sorting-out-mysql-on-arch-linux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=2302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seeing Arch Linux running so solidly in a VirtualBox virtual box has me contemplating whether I should have it installed on a real PC. Saying that, recent announcements regarding the implementation of GNOME 3 in Linux Mint have caught my interest even if the idea of using a rolling distribution as my main home operating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Change?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2011/09/19/all-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=2183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Could 2011 be remembered as the year when the desktop computing interface got a major overhaul? One part of this, Windows 8, won&#8217;t be with us until next year but there has been enough happening so far this year that has resulted in a lot of comment. With many if not all of the changes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we need to pay for disk partitioning tools anymore?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/29/do-we-need-to-pay-for-disk-partitioning-tools-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/29/do-we-need-to-pay-for-disk-partitioning-tools-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My early explorations of dual-booting of Windows and Linux led me into the world of disk partitioning. It also served a another use since any Windows 9x installations (that dates things a bit&#8230;) that I had didn&#8217;t have a tendency to last longer than six months at one point; putting the data on another partition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look at Slackware 13.0</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/06/05/a-look-at-slackware-13-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some curiosity has come upon me and I have been giving a few Linux distros a spin in fVirtualBox virtual machines. One was Slackware and I recall a fellow university student using it in the mid/late 1990&#8242;s. Since then, my exploration took me into Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake and eventually to Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You always can install things yourself&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/11/26/you-always-can-install-things-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With Linux distributions offering you everything on a plate, there is a temptation to stick with what they offer rather than taking things into your own hands. For example, Debian&#8217;s infrequent stable releases and the fact that they don&#8217;t seem to change software versions throughout the lifetime of such a release means that things such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choices, choices&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2007/11/10/choices-choices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/2007/11/10/choices-choices/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Choice is a very good thing but too much of it can be confusing and the world of Linux is a one very full of decisions. The first of these centres around the distro to use when taking the plunge and there can be quite a lot to it. In fact, it is a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware and ZoneAlarm</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2007/01/30/vmware-and-zonealarm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to appearances given by this blog, I am not exclusively a Windows user. In fact, I have sampled Linux on a number of occasions in the past and I use VMware to host a number of different distributions &#8211; my Ubuntu installation is updating itself as I write this &#8211; as I like to [...]]]></description>
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