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		<title>Command line setting of Windows file attributes</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2012/02/11/command-line-setting-of-windows-file-attributes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aside from permissions that can be set using the cacls command, Windows files have properties like read only, archive and hidden. Of course, these are not the same or as robust as access permissions but they may have a use in stopping accidental updates to files when you don&#8217;t have access to use of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Widely differing approaches</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2012/01/28/widely-differing-approaches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=2478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The computer on which I am writing these words is running Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment, a fork of GNOME Shell. This looks as if it is going to be the default face of GNOME 3 in the next version of Linux Mint with the MGSE dressing up of GNOME Shell looking more [...]]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=2354</guid>
		<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>A little look at Windows 8</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2011/11/06/a-little-look-at-windows-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a little while but I have managed to set up a VirtualBox virtual machine in order to take a look at the Developer Preview of the next version of Windows, something that I and others continue to call Windows 8 though Microsoft has yet to confirm the name. When I tried the [...]]]></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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		<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>Restoring the MBR for Windows 7</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/25/restoring-the-mbr-for-windows-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my explorations of dual-booting of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10, I ended up restoring the master boot record (MBR) so that Windows 7 could load again or to find out if it wouldn&#8217;t start for me. The first hint that came to me when I went searching was the bootsect command but this only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manually adding an entry for Windows 7 to an Ubuntu GRUB2 menu</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/21/manually-adding-an-entry-for-windows-7-to-an-ubuntu-grub2-menu/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/21/manually-adding-an-entry-for-windows-7-to-an-ubuntu-grub2-menu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent endeavour of mine has been to set up a dual-booting arrangement on my Toshiba Equium laptop with Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 on there side by side. However, unlike the same attempt with my Asus Eee PC where Windows XP coexists with Ubuntu, there was no menu entry on the GRUB (I understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A cautionary tale regarding Excel spreadsheet sharing</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/11/10/a-cautionary-tale-regarding-excel-spreadsheet-sharing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I encountered a reason to be wary about create shared Excel spreadsheets when one ballooned in size. It ended up growing to around 130 megabytes before I tried turning off sharing to see what happened and the size shrunk to under 200 kilobytes. From this, it would appear that the version control information was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One reason why you cannot merge cells in Excel</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/10/23/one-reason-why-you-cannot-merge-cells-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2010/10/23/one-reason-why-you-cannot-merge-cells-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One handy thing that I didn&#8217;t realise that you could do with Excel until the last few months was the ability to share an open workbook between users and collate any changes that are made (it seems that a form of version control is behind this). From what I have seen, Excel seems to manage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Outlook usage habits</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/08/02/changing-outlook-usage-habits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given that I have been using it for so long, I shouldn&#8217;t be discovering new things with Outlook. However, there is one thing that I have been doing for years: leaving messages set as unread until I have dealt with them. Now that I look at it it seems a very bad habit compared with [...]]]></description>
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