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		<title>Substance.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pretty much what this blog has been lacking as of late. So what&#8217;s new? Well, getting married for one I suppose. May&#8217;s creeping up on me and Liz, and we&#8217;re drudging through the planning of it all. Liz has been amazing handling the catering plans and the cards and stuff. I have to design some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/10/07/substance/</link>
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		<title>Ever annoyed by those &#8220;absolute anonymity&#8221; blogspam comments on every single article that gets on Digg/Reddit?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Prevent identity theft! Protect your email from spammers!&#8221; Really? Well, all it takes is a WHOIS on the domain you&#8217;re not-so-cleverly masking up with free domain redirectors, to see who this genius mastermind is. They&#8217;re all just iframe pages with the main content being hosted at http://www.harleydeals.net/ua/. So let&#8217;s query the WHOIS database and see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/07/03/ever-annoyed-by-those-absolute-anonymity-blogspam-comments-on-every-single-article-that-gets-on-diggreddit/</link>
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		<title>Life: Now in HD.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got a raise at work, to reward myself I bought a huge friggin TV. 42&#8221; Panasonic plasma. 1080p resolution, plethrora of inputs, amazing sound. Only $700 since it was an open box model. There&#8217;s only a few cosmetic issues but unless you&#8217;re an inch from the TV there&#8217;s really no way to tell. It&#8217;s also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/06/01/life-now-in-hd/</link>
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		<title>Oh I turned a year older.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have retired my old-ish laptop, aurora. It served me quite well but I have moved on to a complete beast of a computer. C2D P8400, 4GB DDR3, nVidia9800m GTS 1GB, 320GB HDD @ 7200RPM, 17&#8221; WUXGA display. This baby flies. The only thing I don&#8217;t like is that there&#8217;s only 3 USB ports &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/04/30/oh-i-turned-a-year-older/</link>
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		<title>How to give a chroot&#8217;d FTPd access to outside folders.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For basic security reasons, FTP daemons don&#8217;t let you access folders that are symlinks (aka shortcuts) to folders that are outside of your jailed root, when you have chroot jailing enabled. This is standard practice for most shared FTP servers. So for instance my FTP session is limited to /home/sherl0k and all its subdirectories. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/03/27/how-to-give-a-chrootd-ftpd-access-to-outside-folders/</link>
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		<title>Finally, reliable technology in my hands.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been plagued all my life it seems with piece of junk routers that never work right. Started off with a Belkin that gave extremely bad speeds, moved to a D-Link that would die everytime someone&#8217;s wireless dropped, then to another D-Link that had its wireless drop every 24 hours, then to a Netgear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/03/11/finally-reliable-technology-in-my-hands/</link>
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		<title>Good stuff right here.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working with a client to deploy thousands of Ubuntu images across a network, using (what else) free, open-source software. I&#8217;m pretty stoked about this project, not only because it&#8217;s giving me a chance to prove myself to a bunch of experienced engineers who&#8217;ve been in the field for 15+ years, but also because I get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/03/06/good-stuff-right-here/</link>
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		<title>I HAVE A DREAM&#8230;CAST.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$45 for the DC, two controllers, and a memory card. Not pictured: 377 Dreamcast games sitting on my external harddrive, ready to burn and play.]]></description>
		<link>http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/03/01/i-have-a-dreamcast/</link>
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		<title>Hooray for Valentine&#8217;s Day.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[sherl0k voodoo dolls exist, now let&#8217;s see how Liz will control my life. Had some awesome Thai food, went to Wegmans for some delicious desserts, and now we&#8217;re drinking and watching the Blade movies. Out of order, because we&#8217;re awesome like that. Also went into the office for a few hours this morning, went to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/02/15/hooray-for-valentines-day/</link>
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		<title>Fun fun at work.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welp, they gave me a desk, I&#8217;m (supposedly) getting a company laptop I get to take home with me, and a dash of oversight. We&#8217;ll see where the pay raise comes into play here. Today I imaged over a hundred thumbdrives, labeled them (until the labeler ran out of tape), moved hundreds of gigabytes of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/02/05/fun-fun-at-work/</link>
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