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		<title>A little more freedom</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2011/12/10/a-little-more-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=2403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I decided to address the fact that my Toshiba laptop have next to useless battery life. The arrival of an issue of PC Pro that included a review of lower cost laptops was another spur and I ended up looking on the web to see what was in stock at nearby [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>A bigger screen?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/02/23/a-bigger-screen/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2010/02/23/a-bigger-screen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Commodore 64]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent bit of thinking has caused me to cast my mind back over all the screens that have sat in front of me while working with computers over the years. Well, things have come a long way from the spare television that I used with a Commodore 64 that I occasionally got to exploring the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consolidation</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/11/19/consolidation/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2009/11/19/consolidation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while, the Windows computing side of my life has been spread across far too many versions of the pervasive operating systems with the list including 2000 (desktop and server), XP, 2003 Server, Vista and 7; 9x hasn&#8217;t been part of my life for what feels like an age. At home, XP has been [...]]]></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>
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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>Evoluent Vertical Mouse 3 Configuration in Ubuntu 9.10</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/10/31/evoluent-vertical-mouse-3-configuration-in-ubuntu-9-10/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2009/10/31/evoluent-vertical-mouse-3-configuration-in-ubuntu-9-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On popping Ubuntu 9.10 onto a newly built PC, I noticed that the button mappings weren&#8217;t as I had expected them to be. The button just below the wheel no longer acted like a right mouse button on a conventional mouse and it really was throwing me. The cause was found to be in a [...]]]></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>
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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>A spot of roughness with VirtualBox 3.02 on Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/07/20/a-spot-of-roughness-with-virtualbox-3-02-on-ubuntu/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2009/07/20/a-spot-of-roughness-with-virtualbox-3-02-on-ubuntu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=978</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the various things that I needed to do on Saturday, I got to looking at why VirtualBox Windows guests could not shut down and the processes killed. Though it wasn&#8217;t clear at the outset, my suspicions began to centre on the sound hardware emulation and how it interacted with the host&#8217;s sound capabilities. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A case of the reverse Midas touch?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/05/18/a-case-of-the-reverse-midas-touch/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2009/05/18/a-case-of-the-reverse-midas-touch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 11:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, a power cut put my main home PC of of action. It may have been recoverable if that silly accident of a few weeks back hadn&#8217;t happened but a rebuild is progress. That hasn&#8217;t been going so well but I somehow am managing to remain hopeful that an avenue of exploration will yield [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu upgrades: do a clean installation or use Update Manager?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/04/09/ubuntu-upgrades-do-a-clean-installation-or-use-update-manager/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2009/04/09/ubuntu-upgrades-do-a-clean-installation-or-use-update-manager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of some recent &#8220;fooling&#8221; brought on by the investigation of what turned out to be a duff DVD writer was a fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.10 on my main home PC. It might have brought on a certain amount of upheaval but it was nowhere near as severe as that following the same sort [...]]]></description>
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