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	<title>Brad-X &#187; General</title>
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		<title>You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You &#8211; Forbes</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2012/02/04/you-will-never-kill-piracy-and-piracy-will-never-kill-you-forbes</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2012/02/04/you-will-never-kill-piracy-and-piracy-will-never-kill-you-forbes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The seven step, ten minute download process (which will be about ten seconds when US internet speeds catch up with the rest of the world) is the real enemy the studios should be trying to tackle. Right now, the industry is still stuck in the past, and is crawling oh-so-slowly into the future. They still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polish Protests Put ACTA ‘On Hold’ &#124; TorrentFreak</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2012/02/04/polish-protests-put-acta-%e2%80%98on-hold%e2%80%99-torrentfreak</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2012/02/04/polish-protests-put-acta-%e2%80%98on-hold%e2%80%99-torrentfreak#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I share the opinions of those who from the beginning said that consultations were not complete,” Tusk said, according to a report in Wirtualna Polska. The 54-year-old prime minister added that a Polish rejection of ACTA is now on the table, and admitted that he had previously approached the agreement from a “20th century” perspective, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software as a social concern</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/12/08/software-as-a-social-concern</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/12/08/software-as-a-social-concern#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our society teaches people to judge programs solely based on practical convenience. To ask: - How easy to use is it? - How reliable? - How efficient? - What does it cost? And to ignore more important, deeper questions, like: - If I use this program, what does it do to my freedom? - What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft to add Antivirus to Windows 8</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/11/21/microsoft-to-add-antivirus-to-windows-8</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/11/21/microsoft-to-add-antivirus-to-windows-8#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a good thing. All current antivirus vendors are snake-oil salesmen. A team of security experts working for the OS vendor itself should be responsible for this. Mind you, it is Microsoft, so the implementation will be horrendous and half baked. But it&#8217;s still a good idea on paper, and it&#8217;ll be as effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day In the Life of Privacy</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/10/16/a-day-in-the-life-of-privacy</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/10/16/a-day-in-the-life-of-privacy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Everyday we Make Compromises in the Face of Privacy, and None of us Have as Much Privacy as we Want.&#8221; This article paints a pretty good picture of the various ways in which new technologies pry into our personal lives in ways most people don&#8217;t suspect. New products and technologies are adopted every day by consumers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-#Occupied</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/10/16/pre-occupied</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/10/16/pre-occupied#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The message behind #Occupy Wall Street, a movement against social inequality which has spawned clones in cities around the world, appears quite multi-tonal. Ask any individual protester and you&#8217;ll receive, seemingly, a different set of reasons this is taking place. There are a lot of reasons, even now, that people would want to get up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GNU Grub 1.99 Released</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/05/17/gnu-grub-1-99-released</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/05/17/gnu-grub-1-99-released#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 20:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GNU Grub 1.99 has been released and includes a long list of enhancements over its preceding version. I&#8217;ve been using its beta and release candidate versions for the past two years to boot my GNU/Linux systems directly with /boot on LVM and MD RAID, and it&#8217;s been flawless at doing that. GRUB is of course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOWTO: Free Up Resources under Ubuntu Server</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/05/08/howto-free-up-resources-under-ubuntu-server</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/05/08/howto-free-up-resources-under-ubuntu-server#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 12:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu Server ships with a few expensive (memory, CPU, disk) periodic processes which are quite unneeded and suck up precious resources on Amazon EC2: apt-get remove landscape-client apt-get remove consolekit apt-get remove update-motd apt-get remove update-notifier-common apt-get autoremove Reclaimed 20% of my RAM right away &#8211; also, CPU and swap usage dropped like a stone. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disabling Ubuntu&#8217;s new Mac-like menubar</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/05/02/disabling-ubuntus-new-mac-like-menubar</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/05/02/disabling-ubuntus-new-mac-like-menubar#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 02:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu 11.04&#8242;s new menubar is a user interface disaster. Here&#8217;s one way I&#8217;ve found to turn it off: echo 'unset UBUNTU_MENUPROXY' &#62;&#62; /etc/X11/Xsession.d/81noappmenu You can also probably remove /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80appmenu, but a package update will put it back.]]></description>
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		<title>Geek Odyssey &#8211; Online Filesystem Expansion using the Linux Storage Stack</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/04/29/geek-odyssey-online-filesystem-expansion-using-the-linux-storage-stack</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/04/29/geek-odyssey-online-filesystem-expansion-using-the-linux-storage-stack#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[/dev/mapper/vg01--vol1-storagepool1                      2.7T  2.0T  579G  78% /export root@localhost:~# mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/sdf1 root@localhost:~# mdadm --grow /dev/md3 --raid-devices=4 root@localhost:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md3 : active raid5 sdf1[3] sdi1[2] sdg1[0] sdh1[1] 1953519872 blocks super 0.91 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] [&#62;....................] reshape = 0.2% (2396040/976759936) finish=1458.9min [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dropbox Dupes.</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/04/18/dropbox-dupes</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/04/18/dropbox-dupes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[https://www.dropbox.com/terms#privacy Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement Requests; Protection of Dropbox&#8217;s Rights. We may disclose to parties outside Dropbox files stored in your Dropbox and information about you that we collect when we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with a law, regulation or compulsory legal request; (b) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Screengallery Re-Awakens</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/04/18/the-screengallery-re-awakens</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/04/18/the-screengallery-re-awakens#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a hiatus and some neglect I&#8217;ve put some love back into the screenshot gallery &#8211; now hooked up to facebook (maybe twitter soon) so friends can see. For those unfamiliar, what&#8217;s the point? Everyone&#8217;s got a favorite new computer, phone, wallpaper, widget, app or Internet moment they&#8217;d sometimes like to share, so why not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Maher On UN Murders: Islam Is Only Religion That Kills When You Disagree With Them</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/04/13/bill-maher-on-un-murders-islam-is-only-religion-that-kills-when-you-disagree-with-them</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/04/13/bill-maher-on-un-murders-islam-is-only-religion-that-kills-when-you-disagree-with-them#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-maher-koran-un-murders-sullivan-video-2011-4 &#8220;To react in such a violent way is not normal.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to Skype</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/04/04/ode-to-skype</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/04/04/ode-to-skype#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skype has lots of users, especially in the business world, but a lot of other folks seem to have strong opinions on it. Adverts, user interface design, bandwidth usage, privacy, the critiques seem to run the gamut. Seems to me its the only IM service with an official client that actually looks like a Windows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Thoughts on Ubuntu 11.04 Beta</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/03/31/quick-thoughts-on-ubuntu-11-04-beta</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2011/03/31/quick-thoughts-on-ubuntu-11-04-beta#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Played with Unity, the new desktop shell in Ubuntu. It places a notification bar along the top of the screen from left to right, and an application dock / taskbar down the left side of the screen. Clever looking on first boot. Some thoughts: In almost all apps, the menu bar is hidden by default, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More fun with VPS&#8217;s &#8211; Amazon EC2</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2010/10/02/more-fun-with-vpss-amazon-ec2</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2010/10/02/more-fun-with-vpss-amazon-ec2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the introduction of Amazon EC2 micro instances I&#8217;ve decided to move my personal server from Burst.NET into an EC2 instance. Huzzah! Amazon provides a rather interesting service with EC2, giving an account holder the ability to spawn numerous virtual machines on demand for experimentation, deployment and migration purposes. Impressed!]]></description>
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		<title>On Privacy Issues Surrounding Facebook.</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2010/05/08/on-privacy-issues-surrounding-facebook</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2010/05/08/on-privacy-issues-surrounding-facebook#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 23:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good talk by Eben Moglen on the implications things like Facebook have on our privacy and personal security. Particularly interesting This speech was made before Facebook newly updated its privacy policies and extended its reach to sharing your personal information with almost every major media outlet online. Worth a watch &#8211; skip ahead to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows NT &#8211; Changing hardware without reinstalling</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2010/04/24/windows-nt-changing-hardware-without-reinstalling</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2010/04/24/windows-nt-changing-hardware-without-reinstalling#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of my ongoing exploration and mastery of the Windows command-line, here&#8217;s a tip on how to change motherboards without having to reinstall or repair Windows. This article is for advanced users only, and will render your computer unbootable if you do it wrong. You get one shot at this. The fate of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some sensible defaults for Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2010/04/18/some-sensible-defaults-for-ubuntu</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2010/04/18/some-sensible-defaults-for-ubuntu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among Linux distributions, Ubuntu is the undisputedly most well-known for its user-friendliness (with a tip of the hat to Fedora, though Red Hat aren&#8217;t spending as much time advertising it as Canonical, Ubuntu&#8217;s parent company, does). In most cases when I&#8217;m not being a gearhead with Gentoo, and want to use Linux as a sensible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good utility for HTML &gt; PDF conversion: wkhtmltopdf</title>
		<link>http://www.brad-x.com/2010/04/11/good-utility-for-html-pdf-conversion-wkhtmltopdf</link>
		<comments>http://www.brad-x.com/2010/04/11/good-utility-for-html-pdf-conversion-wkhtmltopdf#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this on Google code while working to convert 400+ HTML files as saved by Mozilla Firefox. Firefox creates an HTML file and an associated directory containing the stylesheets, images and other content, so it was easy enough to run this against all the HTML files and get a good rendering of all the items [...]]]></description>
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