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		<title>Getting editing to work in msysgit</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/06/29/getting-editing-to-work-in-msysgit/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/06/29/getting-editing-to-work-in-msysgit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=981</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love the flexibilty that git provides, and the way it fits into distributed development.  That&#8217;s the only reason I&#8217;ve been able to tolerate the hackery that is known as msysgit, the &#8220;official&#8221; Git release for Windows. msysgit basically dumps an entire linux distribution on your Windows box when you install &#8211; ported versions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amarok enjoys hazing you</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/06/09/amarok-enjoys-hazing-you/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/06/09/amarok-enjoys-hazing-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ampache is basically a webservice that will remotely serve up the media on your mediacenter. This is a fundamental component of my long-term plans for world domination (or rather world subterfugation). You can play your music (yes, ALL of your music) through a browser once you have ampache set up. It&#8217;s a typical LAMP setup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synergy server on Windows 7 and client on Macbook Pro with OSX</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/03/13/synergy-server-on-windows-7-and-client-on-macbook-pro-with-osx/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/03/13/synergy-server-on-windows-7-and-client-on-macbook-pro-with-osx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been dual-booted into Windoze for some gaming, and it just wasn&#8217;t right without synergy letting me slide over to the Macbook to get some work done while waiting for those wonderful Windows progress bars.  It took a little futzing to get synergy working right. Basic steps I took before it worked for me: Set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kicking the tires of the Recess RESTful PHP toolkit</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/02/05/kicking-the-tires-of-the-recess-restful-php-toolkit/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/02/05/kicking-the-tires-of-the-recess-restful-php-toolkit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This toolkit was written by a guy down the road over in Chapel Hill, it seems. The idea seems to be to generate and configure MVC-structured PHP code with RESTful web access. Supports multiple apps with one installation. Works for me. I grabbed the 0.20 release. It comes with a web-based front end that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troubleshooting Apache mod_rewrite</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/02/05/troubleshooting-apache-mod_rewrite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[mod_rewrite is essential if you&#8217;re going to write RESTful web services. Here are the steps I went through to troubleshoot my installation: Ensure you included mod_rewrite in your apache installation. For gentoo, you can use [eix www-servers/apache] &#8211; Gentoo&#8217;s apache2_modules_rewrite flag is enabled for apache, looks good. Test to see if it is being loaded. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Add strace to your linux swiss army knife</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/01/20/add-strace-to-your-linux-swiss-army-knife/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/01/20/add-strace-to-your-linux-swiss-army-knife/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Cyrus IMAP mail server is my very own 20-headed hydra.   It&#8217;s mostly well-behaved, but once in a while I have to jump back in the ring with the bitch and wrestle her back into submission. This is not fun, and if you can structure your life in such a way as to avoid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Alarm bug</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/01/15/iphone-alarm-bug/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/01/15/iphone-alarm-bug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When an unacknowledged text is displayed, alarms stop working on the iPhone. The workaround for me is to turn off texting while I&#8217;m sleeping, which is prolly a good idea anyway.]]></description>
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		<title>iTunes: from sucking hard to being tolerable to sucking hard again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/12/04/itunes-from-sucking-hard-to-being-tolerable-to-sucking-hard-again/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/12/04/itunes-from-sucking-hard-to-being-tolerable-to-sucking-hard-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[iTunes sucks.  I have much higher ambitions for my own software, but alas I haven&#8217;t hit the lottery quite yet.    Anyway, the latest chapter of suckitude is iTunes&#8217; pee-poor handling of remote files on a media file server.  What a $(*#@ basic need.  I can set up a samba share and see all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7: Microsoft makes it hard, Apple makes it easy</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/11/22/windows-7-microsoft-makes-it-hard-apple-makes-it-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/11/22/windows-7-microsoft-makes-it-hard-apple-makes-it-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I bumped up a Windows 7 release candidate install to the retail Windows 7 today.  Microsoft decided it was too much trouble to support an upgrade from the final Windows 7 RC, forcing you to do a completely new installation.  Blow-by-blow: Fire up the Macbook Pro Select System Preferences-&#62;Startup Disk-&#62;Windows on BOOTCAMP, Restart&#8230; Uninstall Bootcamp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using regex in PHP</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/10/28/using-regex-in-php/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/10/28/using-regex-in-php/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the &#8220;why-do-I-need-Perl-any-more&#8221; department&#8230; PHP now provides perl-like regex functions, and writing websites has never been so much fun! I have always loved Perl for text parsing of any kind, and I realize that was because of its powerful regex functionality. During some recent PHP contract work for my friend John, I discovered that PHP&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transferring contacts from Palm Treo 755p to iPhone using Vista</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/10/18/transferring-contacts-from-palm-treo-755p-to-iphone-using-vista/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/10/18/transferring-contacts-from-palm-treo-755p-to-iphone-using-vista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The easiest way I came up with was to use Vista&#8217;s &#8220;Windows Contacts&#8221; as a gateway. Sync your Treo with the Palm Desktop. Export contacts from the Palm Desktop as a CSV file, keeping track of the exported columns and names (yuck). After exporting, I had to open the CSV file and remove all question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backing up an entire linux system</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/09/30/backing-up-an-entire-linux-system/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/09/30/backing-up-an-entire-linux-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nightly]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have used adhoc scripts that do nightly backups of my important files. I zip up critical directories into huge tarballs &#8211; not too pretty but gets the job done. I wanted to back up an entire linux system so it could be easily recreated, and decided it was time to get a little more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bumping server to new version of roundcube (0.3)</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/09/10/bumping-server-to-new-version-of-roundcube-0-3/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/09/10/bumping-server-to-new-version-of-roundcube-0-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Server]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I now have a shiny new RoundCube 0.3 install, thanks gentoo! And I bumped up the server with an [emerge -Davu world] as well. A glorious new day. :> The gory details follow. I had to do this before roundcube, mediawiki, etc. would emerge. Also emerged a PHP extension used by roundcube&#8230; emerge -av webapp-config [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So I joined the Mac cult today&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/09/01/so-i-joined-the-mac-cult-today/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/09/01/so-i-joined-the-mac-cult-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ordered and received&#8230; Macbook Pro 17&#8243; with 3.08GHz, 500GB-7200RPM, anti-glare-screen iPod Touch 8GB OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Next I&#8217;ll get&#8230; iPhone 3GS Here are all the notes on setting these puppy dogs up&#8230; Macbook Pro ordered the day Snow Leopard came out, so the install disc was in the box; upgraded by selecting &#8220;Install [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free fully-functional SSL encryption for your websites via StartSSL</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/08/30/free-fully-functional-ssl-encryption-for-your-websites-via-startssl/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/08/30/free-fully-functional-ssl-encryption-for-your-websites-via-startssl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are instructions for setting up fully-functional SSL encryption using a free SSL certificate from StartSSL.]]></description>
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