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	<link>http://www.vftw.com</link>
	<description>because the world needs another blog!</description>
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		<title>Pinging Windows/SMB computers using their Netbios name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can easily set up a linux computer to contact/ping windows computers using their netbios name (computer name set up in windows). This will show you how.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/network/ping-windows-pc-using-netbios-name/</link>
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		<title>Google Chrome - finally, a browser from google!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google have just released their own Web browser.  When they announced it via a set of comic strips, it took some people by surprise especially after the april fool stunt a couple of years ago. The comic strip itself tries to explain how the web has evolved and why we need a new browser to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/browsers/google-chrome-browser/</link>
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		<title>Mozilla Ubiquity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mozilla ubiquity gives you a command line interface to the web, but how useful is it?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/mozilla-ubiquity/</link>
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		<title>Mozilla Snowl: Is there really a gap for it to fill?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are desktop email and feed readers and there are web based feed aggregators. Where does Snowl fit in, and does it provide additional value?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/mozilla-snowl-is-there-really-a-gap-for-it-to-fill/</link>
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		<title>Desktop Applications for GNU/Linux - Part 4: Project Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a fair few project management tools available for Linux that differ in simplicity of use as well as the features they include. Most of them would be suitable for smaller projects, but there are a couple that would be as suitable for complex large scale projects as the commercial solutions such as Microsoft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/gnu-linux/gnu_desktop_apps_4_project_managment/</link>
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		<title>Common Application Installer Interface for Linux Desktops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does the lack of a common interface for applications to register themselves with the OS/Desktop Environment hinder the development of custom and user-friendly installers?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/gnu-linux/common-application-installer-interface-for-linux-desktops/</link>
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		<title>Web development tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m putting up all tools ans scriptlets I make for helping me with web developmet up on my Software &#38; Web Development site at http://t.prosignia.net/
Check &#8216;em out. You might find them helpful.
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/programming/web-development-tools/</link>
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		<title>Windows update blocks internet access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update (11 July): Checkpoint have released a new update for ZoneAlarm that resolves this issue.
If your internet connection stopped working after you installed windows update patches released yesterday, it&#8217;s most probably because you are running Zone Alarm with its security level set to high. One of the patches (KB951748) released yesterday doesn&#8217;t play very well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/tips/windows-update-breaks-internet/</link>
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		<title>View of the googleplex from an ex-employee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have always been stories of how cool google is as a workplace, as well as recent stories of people leaving google. Sergey Solyanik is one of them, who is going back to his previous employer ... none other than Microsoft. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/opinion/view-of-google-from-an-ex-employee/</link>
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		<title>Desktop Applications for GNU/Linux - Part 3: Office/Productivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of office suites as well as a whole host of other productivity software freely available for GNU/Linux. Here you will find an overview of the best free office suites and individual productivity applications.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/gnu-linux/gnu_desktop_apps_3_office/</link>
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		<title>Firefox 3 launches with a world record</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With 8,002,530 Firefox enters the Guiness Book of World Records for “largest number of
software downloads in 24 hours.” All is not great though]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/browsers/firefox-3-world-record-launch/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft: Still &#8220;Brand Bill Gates&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an article over at The Register about Bill Gates' Legacy now that he's stepping down as Chief Software Architect. It's an interesting read that portrays Bill Gates as a visionary in the early days innovating for the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/opinion/microsoft-and-bill-gates/</link>
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		<title>Book Review - Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What will happen to microsoft in the age of google?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/books/microsoft-2-0-post-gates-era/</link>
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		<title>Police, Camera, Harassment!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Would you know what to do if the police stopped you while taking photos in public?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/opinion/police-camera-harassment/</link>
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		<title>Nobody wants Windows Vista</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not even one of their biggest partners ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/apps/nobody-wants-vista/</link>
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		<title>Best Thunderbird Addons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On its own Mozilla Thunderbird is quite a decent email client. However, there are a number of add-ons that add some useful new features as well as ones already present in the competition. Here's a few of the best.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/apps/best-thunderbird-addons/</link>
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		<title>Link: Firefox 3 compatible Firebug 1.2 beta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Firebug 1.2b has been released. It is compatible with Firefox 3 rc1.
If you haven&#8217;t tried out firefox 3 rc1 yet, check out my recent overview of firefox 3 rc1.
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/uncategorized/link-firefox-3-compatible-firebug-12-beta/</link>
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		<title>Windows running on the OLPC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo of windows on olpc.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/social/windows-running-on-the-olpc/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress and google webmaster tools sitemap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are trying to use your wordpress feed as your sitemap in google webmaster tools, and it looks like there are errors in lines 11 and 12 citing <code>Invalid URL</code>, <code>Invalid XML: too many tags</code>, and <code>Incorrect namespace</code>, it is because you are using your rss2 feed as the sitemap]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/tips/wordpress-and-google-webmaster-tools-sitemap/</link>
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		<title>Changed URL of blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moved the blog from http://blog.vftw.com subdomain to the main domain. The main domain just had a gatway page, which wasn&#8217;t doing my already non-existent search position any favours.
It went relatively smooth, but took a while to change some of the URLs. A general web development tip, that often gets overlooked when blogging I guess: Use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/admin/42/</link>
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		<title>Trying out Firefox 3 rc1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my almost green 1.5GHz VIA computer running linux you can immediately tell that firefox 3 rc1 is a lot more responsive than Firefox 2. The problem is though it doesn't have support for some of the my Web Development plugins, namely Firbug, HTML Validator and Web Developer.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/browsers/trying-out-firefox-3-rc1/</link>
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		<title>OpenOffice as a web based spreadsheet server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OpenOffice is an extremely flexible application. Javaworld has an interesting article on using OpenOffice as the server for a web based spreadsheet like Google Spreadsheets.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/office/openoffice-as-a-web-based-spreadsheet-server/</link>
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		<title>OLPC, is it really?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is OLPC still anything to do with getting computers to the third world children?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/opinion/olpc-is-it-really/</link>
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		<title>Desktop Applications for GNU/Linux - Part 2: Music, Movies &#038; TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of applications in GNU/Linux for playing music or watching movies and TV, and many of them will work perfectly fine on old computers that choke on the simplest of tasks in Windows XP.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/gnu-linux/gnu_desktop_apps_2_multimedia/</link>
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		<title>Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 Quick Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beta 1 of Internet Explorer 8 is out, but does it pass CSS2 tests?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/internet-explorer-8-beta-1-quick-test/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft comes to its senses about IE8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it would appear that microsoft is realising it made a mistake in choosing version targeted quirks mode as the default for Internet Explorer 8. I guess they didn't anticipate the uproar from developers, and so decided to do a U-Turn and enable standard compliance mode by default.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/ie8-u-turn/</link>
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		<title>Installing the UK English OpenOffice in Arch Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Installing the UK English version of OpenOffice.org in Arch linux]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/gnu-linux/arch-linux_openoffice_en-uk/</link>
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		<title>Downright Unethical and Potentially Illegal - BT and Phorm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The guys over at The Register have a story on How BT, Virgin Media, and Carphone Warehouse plan on spying on their customers internet habits using technology from spyware company phorm (formally known as 121 Media - the spyware, malware and rootkit developers).

The hardware from phorm will sit at the ISP intercepting all requests from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/privacy/unethical_illegal_bt_phorm/</link>
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		<title>Desktop Applications for GNU/Linux - Part 1: Web Access &#38; Communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As linux gets more popular, people are asking which applications they can use for browsing the web, office productivity and graphics and video editing etc. Part 1 covers applications Web access and communication.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/gnu-linux/gnu_desktop_apps_1_web/</link>
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		<title>Minimum and Maximum widths in IE6 CSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Setting minimum and maximum widths for a web page in IE6 using proprietary CSS expressions, and adding the stylesheet using Internet Explorer conditional comment tag.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/minimum-and-maximum-widths-in-ie6/</link>
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		<title>Highlighting author comments on Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to highlight comments made by the article author in your blog. This method doesn't use hard coded emails making it flexible and easier to implement. It also uses IDs so the comments can't be faked.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/cms/highlighting-author-comments-on-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Internet Explorer 8: taking quirks and hacks into the future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is choosing quirks mode over standards compliance for Internet Explorer 8. The browser will render in quirks mode unless you add the new meta tag.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/ie8-taking-quirks-and-hacks-into-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress Template Quirks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you edit any of the wordpress system files or even just the functions.php of a template, make sure there are no spaces before the &#60;?php or after the ?&#62;.
If you do, it&#8217;ll just cause you grief. Some pages will be visible while others will have the following error:
Cannot modify header information - headers already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/programming/wordpress-template-quirks/</link>
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		<title>Linux Audio Setup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your (onboard) sound hardware doesn&#8217;t seem to be working even after you&#8217;ve made sure the correct modules are loaded and the system can see the relevant hardware, you probably just need to run alsaconf, to setup alsa to use it.
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/gnu-linux/linux-audio-setup-with-alsa/</link>
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		<title>Link: Creating JDBC connection to Open Office Base ODB file</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/07/java-creating-jdbc-connection-to.html
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/link/link-creating-jdbc-connection-to-open-office-base-odb-file/</link>
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		<title>Constrained Fluid Layout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to have a fluid web layout, and still have control over the layout width.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/constrained-fluid-layout/</link>
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		<title>Selecting fonts for the Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While it would be nice if there was a cross-browser cross-platform font downloading system for the web, the current system of Cascading Style Sheets isn’t too bad. It does allow you to select a number of fonts that the browser can cascade through.
This gives you the option to select fonts that fit the look you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/selecting-fonts-for-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Common fonts list</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve collated a list of common fonts available in different operating systems as well as other free fonts. This will help you select the fonts you should use for your web site without having to limit yourself to verdana!
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/common-fonts-list/</link>
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		<title>CSS Style Comparison Utility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written a the Style Comparison Utility to help compare different fonts and styles to help me while trying out different designs.
This utility lets you compare a paragraph of text using two different styles, fonts and colours. It has an advance font selector that lets you preview your fonts. You can layout the comparison panes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/css-style-comparison-utility/</link>
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		<title>Redirect using PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tutorial on PHP redirection.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/redirect-using-php/</link>
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		<title>connecting to openoffice.org base from a form via macro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to access your openoffice.org base database within a form.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/programming/connecting-to-openofficeorg-base-form-macro/</link>
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		<title>Using Apache httpd with Glassfish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have a working instance of apache and a working instance of glassfish, you can get them working together, i.e. have apache handle all the incoming http and let it forward any jsp or servlet calls to glassfish.
You&#8217;ll need to dowload and setup mod_jk for apache.
Then you&#8217;ll need to follow the instructions in
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2006/03/running_glassfi_1.html
As per [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/web/glassfish-and-apache-httpd/</link>
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		<title>Comparison between the Nokia N810 and N800 specs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/platforms/maemo/index.html
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/gadgets/comparison-between-the-nokia-n810-and-n800-specs/</link>
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		<title>$499 Denon Ethernet cable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Would you spend more than the price of a computer on a cable?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/wtf/499-denon-ethernet-cable/</link>
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		<title>Linux fonts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Article on Linux fonts
http://www.linux.com/articles/39513
Describes the various types of fonts available, and has a brief section on configuring the fonts.
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/gnu-linux/link-linux-fonts/</link>
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		<title>Arch Linux Pacman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[before using pacman to get packages for the first time, you need to synchronise your local package database with that of a server:
pacman -Sy
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/gnu-linux/arch-linux-pacman/</link>
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		<title>Trying Out Arch Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparantly Kernel 2.6.20 and above now name all ide hardrives as sd* devices rather than hd*. eg. sda1, sda2, sdb1, sdb2, etc. That threw me off for a while.
Also, if you if you use XFS as your root filesystem, you have to specify it as a module when you are configuring the kernel. The default [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/gnu-linux/trying-out-arch-linux/</link>
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		<title>Programming Practices for Web Developers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best Programming Practices For Web Developers
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-cranky76/?ca=dgr-btw01BetterWebpages
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/link/web-dev-best-practices/</link>
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		<title>Drupal post setup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You need to create a files directory in the drupal root, once installation is complete. Would&#8217;ve been nice of them to mention it in the final installation step.
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/cms/drupal-post-setup/</link>
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		<title>Drupal needs mysql table lock rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At first glance it seems drupal is more for servers where you have complete control. Especially since you need to have table locking rights in mysql, and the ability to run cron jobs.
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vftw.com/view/cms/drupal-table-lock/</link>
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