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	<description>Yet another web log of personal junk.</description>
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		<title>Western Digital Caviar Green == junk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ordered three hard drives from Amazon, Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB models (WD15EADS).  They were inexpensive and I talked to people who used them in their desktop setups.  It turns out that Western Digital, at some point, changed the drives they were making so that they no longer work under a RAID [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2010/01/08/western-digital-caviar-green-junk/</link>
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		<title>Enlarging a VirtualBox disk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since most of what I found on the web was either wrong or more complicated than needed, here is what worked for me.  (My drive image file was old.vdi and I wanted a new copy of that disk, new.vdi, which was 24 gigabytes (give or take).

cd ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks
vboxmanage createhd &#8211;filename new.vdi &#8211;size 24000
vboxmanage clonehd old.vdi [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2009/12/17/enlarging-a-virtualbox-disk/</link>
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		<title>Moonbow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Casey for the phone call tipping me off about the weather conditions.  Click to embiggen.


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		<link>http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2009/12/09/moonbow/</link>
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		<title>Google Gears + Linux 64 bit + Firefox 3.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick note for anything trying to get Gears to work with Firefox 3.5 and 64-bit Linux: follow the steps in this post.  The post is for gcc 4.3.3, but it worked just fine with my gcc 4.4.1.  Beware: the svn checkout step will take many many minutes.
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion m4
svn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2009/12/01/google-gears-linux-64-bit-firefox-3-5/</link>
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		<title>Neckfest 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diann and I spent a lovely Memorial Day weekend up in Kinsale, VA.  Paul referred to the event as &#8220;Medium-Sized Dog Fest&#8221;:





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		<link>http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2009/05/26/neckfest-2009/</link>
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		<title>New phone: HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since my new job will have me working from different places, I needed to bite the bullet, buy a mobile phone, and move into the 21st century.  I bought an Android Dev Phone 1, an HTC Dream (a.k.a. a fully-unlocked T-Mobile G1).  Getting it on T-Mobile service proved a little tricky, as they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2009/05/26/new-phone-htc-dream-t-mobile-g1/</link>
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		<title>Nearest Book Meme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with Jono&#8217;s meme:

Grab the nearest book.
Open it to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the closest.

My result (while at work): &#8220;DeviceRect must compute these values from those supplied.&#8221; &#8212; Design [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/11/12/nearest-book-meme/</link>
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		<title>Super busy, looking for a job, will post soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To folks who are wondering if I&#8217;ve dropped off the face of the earth, a quick note:
Sorry for the lack of interesting updates, but a few things have gone down in the past couple months that have kept me from keeping in touch.  My company is closing down our office and moving the product [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/11/11/super-busy-looking-for-a-job-will-post-soon/</link>
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		<title>svndiff &#8211; handy function</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trivial but handy utility/function to give you a subversion diff with paging and syntax coloring:
svndiff ()
{
  svn diff $* &#124; colordiff &#124; less -r
}
Pass it anything you&#8217;d pass to &#8220;svn diff&#8221;: e.g., &#8220;.&#8221; for the current directory, a list of filenames, or options like &#8211;no-diff-deleted.
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		<link>http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/09/21/svndiff-handy-function/</link>
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		<title>Computer name meme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in the underground bunker we have computers named after fruits:

lime
lemon
mango
cherry
indigo &#8211; not a fruit, but replaced &#8220;indulgence&#8221;
oreo &#8211; my wife has convinced me that Oreos are definitely a fruit

All machines run Ubuntu server or Kubuntu, and several dual-boot and/or virtualize XP.
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		<link>http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/09/13/computer-name-meme/</link>
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