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		<title>Pondering storage options</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2011/06/01/pondering-storage-options/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blu-Ray]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=2131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The combination of curiosity and a little spare time had me browsing online computing technology stores recently. A spot of CD and DVD burning brought on by a flurry of Linux distribution testing reminded me of the possibility. Because I have built up a sizeable library of digital photos, ensuring that I have backups of [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Booting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[disk partition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distributions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hard Drives]]></category>
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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>Solving an upgrade hitch en route to Ubuntu 10.04</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/05/04/solving-an-upgrade-hitch-en-route-to-ubuntu-10-04/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2010/05/04/solving-an-upgrade-hitch-en-route-to-ubuntu-10-04/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 17:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[10.04]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9.10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Content Management Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fstab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GNOME]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GRUB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hard Drives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ImageMagick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kernel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[machine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operating System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palimpsest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAID Arrays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Root Drive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SIL]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spare PC]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After waiting until after a weekend in the Isle of Man, I got to upgrading my main home PC to Ubuntu 10.04. Before the weekend away, I had been updating a 10.04 installation on an old spare PC and that worked fine so the prospects were good for a similar changeover on the main box. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best left until later in the year?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/01/26/best-left-until-later-in-the-year/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2010/01/26/best-left-until-later-in-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASUS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crucial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crucial memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dvd writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[external hard drive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[external hard drive enclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[external hard drives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gigabyte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard drive enclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hard Drives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laptop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mainboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Novatech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sony dvd writer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of last year, my home computing experience was one of feeling displaced. A combination of a stupid accident and a power outage had rendered my main PC unusable. What followed was an enforced upgrade that use combination that was familiar to me: Gigabyte motherboard, AMD CPU and Crucial memory. However, assembling that lot and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rough?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/11/11/rough/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2009/11/11/rough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brasero]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GNOME]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hard Drives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ImageMagick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPlayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[K3B]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Format]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palimpsest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RealPlayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Was it because Canonical and friends kept Ubuntu in such a decent state from 8.04 through to 9.04 that things went a little quiet in the blogosphere on the subject of the well-known Linux distribution? If so, 9.10 might be proving more of a talking point and you have to wonder if this is such a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A case of double vision?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/11/04/a-case-of-double-vision/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2009/11/04/a-case-of-double-vision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9.04]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hard Drives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palimpsest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PATA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SATA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SIL]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the early signs that I noticed after upgrading my main PC to Ubuntu 9.10 was a warning regarding the health of one of my hard disks. Others have reported that this can be triggered by the least bit of roughness in a SMART profile but that&#8217;s not how it was for me. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still able to build PC systems</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/10/25/still-able-to-build-pc-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2009/10/25/still-able-to-build-pc-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4 GB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASRock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CPU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crucial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dvd writer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Phenom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Release Candidate]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1098</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend has been something of a success for me on the PC hardware front. Earlier this year, a series of mishaps rendering my former main home PC unusable; it was a power failure that finished it off for good. My remedy was a rebuild using my then usual recipe of a Gigabyte motherboard, AMD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Booting from external drives</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/09/16/booting-from-external-drives/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2009/09/16/booting-from-external-drives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Booting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CrunchBang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dual booting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[External]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[external hard drive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hard Drives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operating System]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sticking with older hardware may mean that you miss out on the possibilities offered by later kit and being able to boot from external optical and hard disk drives was something of which I learned only recently. Like many things, a compatible motherboard and my enforced summer upgrade means that I have one with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anquet and VirtualBox Shared Folders</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/07/18/anquet-and-virtualbox-shared-folders/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2009/07/18/anquet-and-virtualbox-shared-folders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graphics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virtualisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anquet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chgrp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chmod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hard Drives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mapping data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photoshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shared folders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Machines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Windows XP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while now, I have had Anquet installed in a virtual machine instance of Windows XP but it has been throwing errors continuously on start up. Perhaps surprisingly, it only dawned upon me recently what might have been the cause. A bit of fiddling revealed that my storing the mapping data Linux side and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A restoration of order</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/07/12/a-restoration-of-order/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2009/07/12/a-restoration-of-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtualisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4 GB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[64-bit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dual core]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dual core cpu]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[external hard drive enclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[external hard drives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard drive enclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hard Drives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ImageMagick]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Machines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VirtualBox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Digital]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=952</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, I finally put my home computing displacement behind me. My laptop had become my main PC with a combination of external hard drives and an Octigen external hard drive enclosure keeping me motoring in laptop limbo. Having had no joy in the realm of PC building, I decided to go down the partially built [...]]]></description>
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