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	<description>Welcome to my world</description>
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		<title>Building RPMs as a normal user</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We often told that building an RPM as root is a bad thing. While this is very true, how do you build it as a normal user?
The trick is to use rpmdev-setuptree. This will create a empty build tree in ~/rpmbuild as well as sort out you .rpmmacro file so rpmbuild knows to use it.
It&#8217;s ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2009/02/05/building-rpms-as-a-normal-user/</link>
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		<title>Yet another Fedora 10 cock-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh poor Fedora, don&#8217;t worry we still love you, even if you do keep cocking up. It&#8217;s been a hard few months for my favourite distro. First we had the security problem with the gpg key for the updates, then we had the evil dbus update which broken F10, and now we&#8217;ve got the odd ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2008/12/18/yet-another-fedora-10-cock-up/</link>
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		<title>Testing mail servers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the good ol&#8217; days of POP3 it was really easy to test a mail server manually you just simply telnet to port 110 issue some 3 command and done! Now that all ISPs support IMAP things are a little more complicated. Here&#8217;s my little guide to manually testing POP3, IMAP and SMTP

Testing POP3
POP3 ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2008/11/07/testing-mail-servers/</link>
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		<title>More mplayer fun!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I have been playing with youtube videos to either extract the sound from the video and converting to MP3 or converting the whole video to mpeg.
I&#8217;ve used the same kind of process to convert RealAudio streams to MP3. Firstly download the youtube video. I use the DownloadHelper addon for firefox. It&#8217;s really easy ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2008/08/06/more-mplayer-fun/</link>
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		<title>WordPress style permalinks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was writing a database driven website, where all the content was within a database and the only real page was index.php.
This is easy enough to do, but of course, you need to tell index.php which page you want so you end up with URL like http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/index.php?PageID=12 or  http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/index.php?PageID=36. Not the most user or ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2008/08/06/wordpress-style-permalinks/</link>
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		<title>Getting BIOS information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently needed to get a load of Dell service tags from some remote servers. Dell very nicely provide a ActiveX component for Windows but nothing for Linux. Fortunately we can use dmidecode. Run it as root and it will output loads of hardware info. If you looking for something specific, then you can run ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2008/07/01/getting-bios-information/</link>
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		<title>The world&#8217;s most neglected blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m planning on entering this blog for &#8220;The World&#8217;s most neglected blog&#8221; Award. I think I&#8217;ve got a pretty good chance. My acceptance speech will include the following excuses:

I was too busy (True, more to come on that later)
Nothing exciting has happened to be recently (Not true &#8211; More to come on that soon)
I haven&#8217;t ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2008/01/25/the-worlds-most-neglected-blog/</link>
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		<title>Sun buys MySQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Didn&#8217;t see that one coming. Blog contains details to what this could mean for both companies. May as well be one of the most important takeovers of 2008 already!read more &#124; digg story
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2008/01/16/sun-buys-mysql/</link>
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		<title>Wedding Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wahoo! I finally got around to doing our wedding website. There&#8217;s not a lot on it at the moment, but more will come later. Feel free to take a poke around www.joandadamswedding.co.uk.
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/12/02/wedding-website/</link>
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		<title>Brotherly Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you probably guessed, I love Linux in all it&#8217;s distros. OK, maybe I have a small hatred for Ubuntu but that because of the fan boy users thinking they invented everything. Anyway, I also know that all Linux users harbour a dark secret. A secret we&#8217;ve tried to keep quite for many years. A ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/09/12/brotherly-love/</link>
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		<title>Aero = Jessica Simpson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about posting a link to another blog, but this made me smile. Aero is the technological equivalent of Jessica Simpson.
http://vistarapedme.com/2007/07/09/aero-jessica-simpson
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/07/16/aero-jessica-simpson/</link>
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		<title>Opera Mini Vs iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As my regular reader will know, I love Apple and everything they do. I especially love the iPhone and it&#8217;s over priced, over hyped shinyness. I actually do love Opera, it works great on my phone, renders all pages perfectly and is small and quick to use. Oh and it&#8217;s free.
I got the following video ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/06/20/opera-mini-vs-iphone/</link>
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		<title>nic.im change their whois search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Probably not the most exciting thing in the world, but I noticed today that nic.im (the Isle of Man registery) has changed the address of their whois looking. If you want to update your jwhois.conf file to use the new URL, replace the current nic.im section with the following:
"www\\.nic\\.im" {
http = "true";
http-method = "GET";
http-action = ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/06/01/nicim-change-their-whois-search/</link>
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		<title>Ban Everything!!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Help the UK government ban everythingread more &#124; digg story
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/05/22/ban-everything/</link>
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		<title>Changing the load order of a webpage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an exciting weekend of writing a wonderful &#8216;webcast&#8217; system. Although it worked fine over the LAN, I found I had a problem when I uploaded it to the internet. The problem as a little weird. The system work by loading a bunch of images then used a version of 1pixelout&#8216;s mp3 flash player ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/04/23/changing-the-load-order-of-a-webpage/</link>
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		<title>Lovely test data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent most of my weekend thinking up names. Am I having a baby? NO! Do I need a killa handle for my next l33t project? No. Am I thinking of running away and setting up a new life for my self living in a tree? Yes, but that not why.
The reason I&#8217;ve been thinking ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/04/17/lovely-test-data/</link>
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		<title>Extreme ASCII Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst procrastinating over yet another dead line, I thought I&#8217;d have a play with libcaca, the completely useless yet completely brilliant Colour AsCii Art library. libcaca is a graphics library that output text rather than images. The genius part of it is that you can use it as a video output in mplayer and display ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/04/13/extreme-ascii-art/</link>
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		<title>whois who?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone noticed that Verisign have changed their whois server recently (or not so recently)? It&#8217;s been bugging me for a while cos when I&#8217;m doing whois lookup, all I get is the abbreviated info form like this:
[adam@dyn89 ~]$ whois -n microsoft.com
[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[whois.verisign-grs.com]
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/03/08/whois-who/</link>
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		<title>Converting Unix time to Time stamps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been busy with a lot of time dependant code this week and working in Unix Time (number of seconds since epoch) has been making my brain go a bit squishy. Here a nice little code snippet for converting unixtime to a proper timestamp
perl -e 'print scalar localtime($ARGV[0]),"\n"' [unixtime] so: perl -e 'print scalar localtime($ARGV[0]),"\n"' ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/02/26/converting-unix-time-to-time-stamps/</link>
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		<title>Recording RealAudio streams and converting them to MP3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently had his 5 minutes of fame of Five Live and asked me to if I could covert the &#8220;Listen again&#8221; to an mp3 so it could be saved for the good of Humanity. Here how I did it:

Finding the name of the stream can sometime be a bit tricky. If ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/02/01/recording-realaudio-streams-and-converting-them-to-mp3/</link>
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		<title>More VMWare problems in Fedora</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh another Kernel update another VMWare problem, great. When you upgrade to 2.6.19, you get the following error
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/userif.c: In function ‘VNetCopyDatagramToUser’:
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/userif.c:629: error: ‘CHECKSUM_HW’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/userif.c:629: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/userif.c:629: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/userif.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6-i686'
make: ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/01/22/more-vmware-problems-in-fedora/</link>
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		<title>Flash player finally out of beta!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wahoo! Flash player 9 for Linux is finally out of beta.
There&#8217;s even a nice RPM version. So ignore my previous instructions and go install now!
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/01/17/flash-player-finally-out-of-beta/</link>
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		<title>Apple fail to Rock my World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really wasn&#8217;t looking forward to the office this morning. Was it because I&#8217;d had hardly any sleep? No &#8211; Was it because of that whoshing sound deadlines make as the fly by? No. So why wasn&#8217;t I looking forward to the office? Because I knew I&#8217;d have to listen to the gushing from the ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/01/10/apple-fail-to-rock-my-world/</link>
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		<title>Switching off the internal speaker in FC6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fedora Core 6 enables the internal crappy speaker by default. I don&#8217;t like this, it makes my sexy machine sound old and cheap. To disable it run the following as root:
modprobe -r pcspkr ; echo "install pcspkr :" >>/etc/modprobe.conf
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/01/05/switching-off-the-internal-speaker-in-fc6/</link>
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		<title>FC6 choses i585 rather than i686</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might remember I had a bit of a nightmare getting vmware to work on a dual core Intel. In the end it turned out that Fedora had chosen the wrong kernel arch (i586 rather than i686). This morning I was having a poke around the FC6 Common bug list (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common) and found the problem. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2007/01/05/fc6-choses-i585-rather-than-i686/</link>
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		<title>Mummy, what&#8217;s Santa doing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a great Christmas card today with a great stamp on it.
Now I might be wrong, but is that not Santa shitting down a chimney?

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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/12/21/mummy-whats-santa-doing/</link>
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		<title>Creating shadows with Imagemagick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I needed to create drop shadows on around 200 images. I didn&#8217;t really like the idea of doing it with Gimp as that would have taken hours! It is really simple to do it using Imagemagick
convert
 \( +clone  -background black -shadow 80x3+5+5 \) +swap -background white   -mosaic 
I needed to convert a ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/12/21/creating-shadows-with-imagemagick/</link>
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		<title>HSBC &#8211; Make the right choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I received this e-mail from HSBC earlier today telling me that I&#8217;d given HSBC my e-mail address but not the permission to use it. Yes that&#8217;s right HSBC. I haven&#8217;t given you permission to use my e-mail address.. SO DON&#8217;T FUCKING USE IT!
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/12/19/hsbc-make-the-right-choice/</link>
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		<title>When you&#8217;re alone, and life is making you lonely, You can always have downtime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wahoo, I&#8217;m back! You&#8217;ve probably noticed that Deaconsworld has been down for the last few days. I&#8217;m really sorry about that, but everything back and working now.
Pipex have upgraded my line from 1Mb to 2Mb but things didn&#8217;t go well as they allocated me a new IP range. All sorted now though. Thanks to Suzanne ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/12/06/when-youre-alone-and-life-is-making-you-lonely-you-can-always-have-downtime/</link>
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		<title>noneofmp3.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the US have finally got their way and closed allofmp3.com. For those of you who have been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years, allofmp3 is a Russian site that sells very cheap, none DRM&#8216;d MP3s. This was great for consumers, but not great for the RIAA as Russian law allowed ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/29/noneofmp3com/</link>
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		<title>How to play an instrument the easy way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I promise I&#8217;m not just going to post videos to this site but I had to do this one for all those struggling musicians out there. Stop playing with your instruments and start learning to edit video  

Wait till the piano comes in before you get bored!
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/28/how-to-play-an-instrument-the-easy-way/</link>
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		<title>My theory is true!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my theory on the Internet. There are 3 (and only 3!) types of internet user. You are either 1) A Terrorist, 2) A Pedo or 3) A 14 year old girl. Just to prove it, here is the funniest FUD videos you&#8217;ll ever see.

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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/27/my-theory-is-true/</link>
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		<title>Flash player 9 for linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE &#8211; Adobe have finally released Flash player 9 for Linux. Read more
If you&#8217;re still struggling on with Flash player 7 for Linux, you might like to know that Adobe have released Player 9 for Linux. It&#8217;s still in beta, but I&#8217;ve been using it for a while and haven&#8217;t had any problem. The installer&#8217;s ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/24/flash-player-9-for-linux/</link>
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		<title>Give me sympathy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Continuing my love/hate relationship with Tesco, I think they must have something against me!  I&#8217;ve now found I can do the splits, providing I have a escalator and it&#8217;s been raining. I know it doesn&#8217;t look much, but it bloody hurt!
It did make me think; at what age do you get the pain threshold ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/24/give-me-sympathy/</link>
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		<title>Warning: do not search Yahoo! for &#8216;franchise&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NSFW!
Hmmm, If you&#8217;re bored then don&#8217;t search yahoo images for the work &#8216;franchise&#8217;. Why not? You&#8217;ll learn!
read more
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/23/warning-do-not-search-yahoo-for-franchise/</link>
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		<title>How to increase my ego</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to &#8216;popular&#8217; demand, I&#8217;ve created a little about me page. Come and have a look and make me feel loved  
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/23/how-to-increase-my-ego/</link>
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		<title>The best way to destroy your company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may know, I&#8217;m getting married soon and one thing that really annoys me is that when any company (like printers or caterers) hears the word &#8220;Wedding&#8221; their prices immediately treble. So, it was with great pleasure I read this story on The Register.
Apparently a Kiwi couple decided not to go ahead with a ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/23/the-best-way-to-destroy-your-company/</link>
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		<title>Blackhatters 1, Whitehatters 0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The government have today published the new Police and Justice Act, which makes it an offense to &#8220;supply or offer to supply any article believing that it is likely to be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, [a hacking offence]&#8220;. The word &#8220;article&#8221; is defined in the Act to include &#8220;any ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/22/blackhatters-1-whitehatters-0/</link>
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		<title>Internet Explorer on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
If you want to run IE on linux, take a look at IEs4Linux. It&#8217;s very easy to install, just type the following as a normal user:
wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux

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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/19/internet-explorer-on-linux/</link>
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		<title>Tesco beat Reid to compulsory ID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a party last night, nothing huge just some friends over for a Chinese. Me and another of our friends we given the truly exciting job of going to Tescos to buy drinks.
So off we trot to Tesco. We get to the till with our 3 items, a bottle of Sprite, a bottle of ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/18/tesco-think-31/</link>
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		<title>Big Machines!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friend and colleagues laughing at you? Feel inferior? Need a really big machine?? Of course you do!
http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/11/biggest-and-hungriest-machines.html

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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/17/big-machines/</link>
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		<title>Fedora looking damn healthy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Max Spevack (Fedora Project Leader) yesterday announced some interesting stats about FC6.  According to Max, since its release about 3 weeks ago, 300,000 unique IP addresses have checked for any updates to FC6. Wow! That&#8217;s at least 12,500 new installs per day!! Kinda pisses on DistroWatch&#8217;s stats! Oh and on a personal note&#8230; Take ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/17/fedora-looking-damn-healthy/</link>
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		<title>Yum&#8217;s eating my diskspace!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at this!
[root@dyn89 yum]# pwd
/var/cache/yum
[root@dyn89 yum]# du -sh *
1.8M    atrpms
6.1M    core
5.3M    development
11M     extras
36K     flash
84K     jpackage-fedora
2.2M    jpackage-generic
192K    jpackage-generic-nonfree
848K    livna
2.8M    updates
176K  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/16/yums-eating-my-diskspace/</link>
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		<title>Rebuilding your RPM database</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It nice to see something are just buried and not forgotten, Like corrupt RPM databases. A few years ago this was a common problem (common to me anyway!). The problem occurs either when two rpm process try and write to the rpm database in /var/lib/rpm or an impatient  operator (like me) hits ctrl-c too ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/16/rebuilding-your-rpm-database/</link>
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		<title>VMware on Fedora 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve used VMware on Fedora since it because free. It&#8217;s great, No more rebooting to switch between Windows and Linux to use one application that just won&#8217;t work with WINE. Since upgrading to FC6, I have a problem running vmware-config.pl. Each time I ran it, I&#8217;d get error about config.h not being found. The simple ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/13/vmware-on-fedora-6/</link>
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		<title>Firefox 2 on Fedora Core 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quicky for anyone that was a bit pissed that FC6 didn&#8217;t include Firefox 2:
yum --enablerepo=development install firefox
Have fun!
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/13/firefox-2-on-fedora-core-6/</link>
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		<title>Argghhh!!! They&#8217;re coming!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEWS FLASH!!!

Giant stripes are taking over the world. Our only defense is to chew&#8230; Chew for your lives!!!!!!
Be especially wary of the sour one!
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		<link>http://www.deaconsworld.org.uk/2006/11/10/argghhh-theyre-coming/</link>
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