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	<description>"Oh my, what's all that glass doing on the floor!"</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Companies and products I actually like</title>
		<link>http://www.asty.org/?p=22</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrisa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I (and many other people) spend a lot of time complaining about companies that I don&#8217;t like, I thought I might spend some time pointing out things I do like for once. Some of these will be completely unsprurising if you spend any time at resellerratings
Electronic items - I tend to use a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verizon, how badly does your account system suck?  (Answer: very badly)</title>
		<link>http://www.asty.org/?p=21</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrisa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, being a lover of the concept of FIOS, I decided to forego my satellite internet service and try one of their bundles.  &#8220;It&#8217;s a no brainer&#8221;, I thought.  How could they screw this up on me?  Ha ha ha, I am so naive.
Well, the service works great: high speed internet access, check.  Nice TV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing grub tab completion on ubuntu x86_64, the &#8216;easy&#8217; way</title>
		<link>http://www.asty.org/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrisa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>

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sudo su -
apt-get install automake1.9 autoconf autotools-dev texinfo libc6-dev-i386 gcc-multilib texi2html debhelper ia32-libs lib32ncurses5-dev
apt-get source --compile grub
dpkg -i grub*.deb

Wow that was easy.  There is a known bug in grub with x86_64.  it&#8217;s currently broken on x86_64, and not only is tab completion broken in the current version (9.04), it seems that when you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STATUS!</title>
		<link>http://www.asty.org/?p=19</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 06:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrisa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just checking in.  I&#8217;m still alive, and even happy usually.
On the health front it&#8217;s been up and down; the battle with Meniere&#8217;s has been hard recently.  In late spring and fall when the temperature (and more importantly it seems, the barometer) swings up or down rapidly I can still have a multi-hour attack and need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey MSNBC!  What&#8217;s up with your lineup after midnight?</title>
		<link>http://www.asty.org/?p=18</link>
		<comments>http://www.asty.org/?p=18#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrisa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, too much negative&#8230; Let me try and be more positive here.  So as a good little liberal I do watch a lot of MSNBC (along with any good late model GenXer the  Daily Show/Colbert combo) but I do enjoy Olbermann and Maddow&#8217;s shows.  However after midnight  rolls around, what do they put on? &#8220;Nightmare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do not order computer parts from dell.com ever.</title>
		<link>http://www.asty.org/?p=17</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrisa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry Dell, you want to continue to employ either incompetent or outright lying customer service staff who tell you your order is cancelled and then don&#8217;t really cancel it, you&#8217;re going to get badmouthed on blogs.  When a customer calls you and says they want their order cancelled (especially when you say an item [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Status!</title>
		<link>http://www.asty.org/?p=16</link>
		<comments>http://www.asty.org/?p=16#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrisa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve been silent because there hasn&#8217;t been that much to write.  No news is good news when you have three kids.  Monique, Bree and Joey are all in good health, and although I had a two hour Meniere&#8217;s attack at work yesterday, I was still able to recover in time to go out to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux on the Asus EEEPC 1000H</title>
		<link>http://www.asty.org/?p=15</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrisa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes I loved my original 4G 7&#8243; eee netbook but boy it is hard on the hands when working on nano or work stuff for more than short burts.  The 1000H however, in spite of coming with WinXP out of the box, looks like the perfect travelling companion for the coder/sysadmin on the go/on call.
First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not-OSS software for iPhone users but still worth donating to</title>
		<link>http://www.asty.org/?p=14</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrisa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I strongly prefer Free Software where possible, but sometimes no source solution exists, so you have to settle for free as in beer.
Let&#8217;s say you have a phone which claims to solve all your problems for you (yes I mean the iPhone), except syncing your calendar app over the air with something useful like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give until it hurts</title>
		<link>http://www.asty.org/?p=13</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrisa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So being the great and selfless (did I mention modest?) person I am, I decided to donate to the Red Cross to help with the earthquake relief effort.  This time, I used my relatively new bank card which I had maybe used once, and certainly had not yet used online.  I go to their spiffy [...]]]></description>
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