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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 17:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<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>Command Line Software Management</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/12/02/command-line-software-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the nice things about a Debian-based Linux distribution is that it is easy to pull a piece of software onto your system from a repository using either apt-get or aptitude. Some may prefer to have a GUI but I find that the command line offers certain extra transparency that stops the &#8220;what&#8217;s it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you just need a web browser?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/11/21/so-you-just-need-a-web-browser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Google announced that it was working on an operating system, it was bound to result in a frisson of excitement. However, a peek at the preview edition that has been doing the rounds confirms that Chrome OS is a very different beast from those operating systems to which we are accustomed. The first thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consolidation</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/11/19/consolidation/</link>
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		<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>A multitude of operating systems</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/10/27/a-multitude-of-operating-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like buses, it seems that a whole hoard of operating systems is descending upon us at once. OS X 10.6 came first and it was the turn of Windows 7 last week with all of the excitement that it generated in the computing and technology media. Next up will be Ubuntu, already a source of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never undercutting the reseller&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/10/23/never-undercutting-the-reseller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quite possibly, THE big technology news of the week has been the launch of Windows 7. Regular readers may be aware that I have been having a play with the beta and release candidate versions of the thing since the start of the year. In summary, I have found to work both well and unobtrusively. [...]]]></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>
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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>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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		<title>Alt-Click problems in Ubuntu-hosted VirtualBox Windows guests</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2008/10/24/alt-click-problems-in-ubuntu-hosted-virtualbox-windows-guests/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2008/10/24/alt-click-problems-in-ubuntu-hosted-virtualbox-windows-guests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Alt-Click keyboard.mouse combination is a very common way of working with various flavours of Adobe Photoshop. So it was with some frustration that I couldn&#8217;t use it while working in Photoshop Elements (still on version 5, by the way; the temptation of newer versions has not struck) on a Windows XP guest in VirtualBox [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things that I like about VirtualBox OSE</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2008/09/06/things-that-i-like-about-virtualbox-ose/</link>
		<comments>http://technologytales.com/2008/09/06/things-that-i-like-about-virtualbox-ose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that VirtualBox 2.0 is out with its 64 bit operating system support among other things, the version included in Ubuntu 8.04, OSE 1.56, is looking that bit older. Nevertheless, there remains a lot to like about the version that I have been using. For one thing, its shared folders functionality doesn&#8217;t trip up Photoshop [...]]]></description>
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