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		<title>A story about exceptional service</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/a-story-about-exceptional-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I found myself constrained by the puny 200GB of my Mac Book Pro and I bought a 500GB Seagate drive to replace it (a fast 7200 rpm one). The Macbook Pro has no easy access for the drive so you have to resort to dismantling the case to access it. This put me off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sysadmin: SQL server performance madness</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/sysadmin-sql-server-performance-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just lost 2 days going completely bananas over a performance issue that I could not explain. I&#8217;ve got this Dell R300 rack server that runs Windows Server 2008 that I dedicate to running IIS and SQL Server 2008, mostly for development purposes. In my previous blog entry, I was trying some benchmark to compare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technical ebooks: some publishers don&#8217;t get it</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/technical-ebooks-some-publishers-dont-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like buying technical books. Unfortunately, here in Hong Kong, we have less choice: there are not that many technical bookstores that cater for English-language books and the selection is rather limited. So whenever a book isn&#8217;t available here, I buy it online as a PDF. It&#8217;s cheaper, saves postage and I can keep them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sysadmin: file and folder synchronisation</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/sysadmin-data-folder-synchronisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I&#8217;ve struggled to keep my folder data synchronised between my various desktop and laptops. Here I present the tools I&#8217;ve tried and what I&#8217;ve finally settled on as possibly the ultimate answer to the problem of synchronising files and folders across multiple computers: rsync unison WinSCP General Backup tools Revision Control Systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sysadmin: Macbook Pro, after the honeymoon</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/sysadmin-macbook-pro-after-the-honeymoon/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/sysadmin-macbook-pro-after-the-honeymoon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using the MacBook Pro I introduced in my previous blog entry for a few weeks now. Between love and frustration I hang&#8230; Here is a review of our relationship so far. The Great Hardware delight Whether running OS/X or Windows 2008 I&#8217;ve got no major complaint about the performance of the machine. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SysAdmin: Installing Windows Server 2008 x64 on a Macbook Pro</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/mac-installing-windows-server-2008-x64-on-a-macbook-pro/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/mac-installing-windows-server-2008-x64-on-a-macbook-pro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MSAccess]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My trusty old gigantic Sony Vaio is about 4 years old. It served me well and still works but it&#8217;s about to become my main development machine for the next couple of months and I can&#8217;t afford to have it die on me during that time. It was time to get something as gigantic and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Apple&#8217;s OS Edge Is a Threat to Microsoft&#8221;. Really?</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/apples-os-edge-is-a-threat-to-microsoft-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Week has a recent article where the author foresee the demise of Windows in favour of Apple&#8217;s OS. Reading it, I couldn&#8217;t help thinking I was reading one of these overenthusiastic 1925 popular-science article promising us that within just a few years we would all use our own flying car to get to work. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SysAdmin: When your computer becomes forgetful</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/sysadmin-when-your-computer-becomes-forgetful/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/sysadmin-when-your-computer-becomes-forgetful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes your computer crashes without reason. It happens at any time, for no particular reason. Other times you&#8217;re trying to install a new OS on a brand new PC and at some point, it fails, reboot itself or just hangs. A couple years ago I had this really depressing experience with a brand new system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software: Cheap Microsoft Licenses</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/software-cheap-microsoft-licenses/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/software-cheap-microsoft-licenses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not particularly pro -Microsoft but I&#8217;m not against it either. I love Linux, got my RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) a bit more than a year ago and I love Open Source, Linux and all things GNU. The only thing I really dislike about Microsoft is its marketing, its pricing, its Genuine (Dis)Advantage that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All sites won&#8217;t work with IE7</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/ie7-wont-work-with-all-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/ie7-wont-work-with-all-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 01:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="/wp-content/uploads/technology01.png" alt="technology01.png" title="technology01.png" align="left" width="64" height="64" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" />I installed a <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/" target="_blank">beta of IE7</a> last week and was quite pleased at the new interface and tabbed browsing, which has been available to <a href="http://www.opera.com/" target="_blank">Opera</a> and <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/"  target="_blank">Mozilla</a> used and many other browsers for years.
However, looking good and being slick and more standard-compliant hasn't been enough to keep it on my machines.]]></description>
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		<title>SlickRun: Desktop command-line launcher</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/slickrun/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/slickrun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2006 07:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=6</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img width="64" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="64" border="0" align="left" title="technology02.png" alt="technology02.png" src="http://blog.nkadesign.com/wp-content/uploads/technology02.png" />If you feel you often have to interrupt your typing to move your mouse around and click on it to open applications or websites, the SlickRun is the perfect power toy for you.

It's just a small application that can either stay in your tray until you call for it or that can display a small semi-transparent prompt where you can type in configurable commands that it will launch.]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Office 2007 beta 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/microsoft-office-2007-beta-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/microsoft-office-2007-beta-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 12:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<img width="64" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="64" border="0" align="left" title="technology02.png" alt="technology02.png" src="/wp-content/uploads/technology02.png" />I received an email from Microsoft updates this morning and there awas a link to download the latest beta of Office 2007.<br />
After registering, I got a few files including the <em>Microsoft Office Professional Plus</em> package at about 440MB and proceeded to installing the beast.]]></description>
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