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	<title>Cypris' lookout &#187; sysadmin</title>
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		<title>Admin: Linux file server performance boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using a Linux for an office file server is a no-brainer: it&#8217;s cheap, you don&#8217;t have to worry about unmanageable license costs and it just works. Default settings of most Linux distributions are however not optimal: they are meant to be as standard compliant and as general as possible so that everything works well enough [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
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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>Sysadmin: Multiple ISP firewall &#8211; The setup</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/sysadmin-multiple-isp-firewall-servers-and-redundancy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/sysadmin-multiple-isp-firewall-servers-and-redundancy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sysadmin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After suffering broadband trouble for the past 9 months, including interruptions that lasted a few days, I decided to get an additional line installed by a different ISP. I could have bought one of these multi-WAN devices but decided against it for a couple of reasons: I like a challenge and I wanted to achieve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sysadmin: file and folder synchronisation</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/sysadmin-data-folder-synchronisation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/sysadmin-data-folder-synchronisation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sync]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sysadmin]]></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: Recovering deleted Windows partitions</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/sysadmin-recovering-deleted-partitions/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/sysadmin-recovering-deleted-partitions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sysadmin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I made a mistake the other day: I wanted to delete the partition on an external drive and in my haste ended up deleting the partition of a local hard drive instead&#8230; The good thing is when you delete a partition using the Windows Disk Management console it doesn&#8217;t actually delete your files, only the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 2008 / Windows 7 x64: The &#8216;Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0&#8242; provider is not registered on the local machine.</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/windows-2008-the-microsoftjetoledb40-provider-is-not-registered-on-the-local-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/windows-2008-the-microsoftjetoledb40-provider-is-not-registered-on-the-local-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times when the coexistence of 64 and 32 bit code on the same machine can cause all sorts of seemingly strange issues. One of them just occurred to me while trying to run the ASPx demos from Developer Express, my main provider of .Net components (the best supplier I&#8217;ve ever been able to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[mac]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></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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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Linux sysadmin: a short RAID trouble-shooting story</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/linux-sysadmin-a-short-troubleshooting-story/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/linux-sysadmin-a-short-troubleshooting-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sysadmin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had an issue at a remote location (12000km away) where the old multi-purpose Linux server that had been working for the past 5 years wouldn&#8217;t boot again after a nasty power failure. The server was used as a firewall, a local email store, a file server and a backup server, so its failure [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>MS Access: Restarting and compacting the database programmatically</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-restarting-the-database-programmatically/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-restarting-the-database-programmatically/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 03:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous article about changing the MS Access colour scheme I had the need to allow the user to restart the database after the colour scheme was changed. (Article and Code Updated 13FEB2009.) Being able to cleanly restart and compact the application is also useful in other instances: Changes made to the environment Recovering [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/apples-os-edge-is-a-threat-to-microsoft-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>MediaWiki: Formating and colouring Code</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2007/mediawiki-formating-and-colouring-code/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2007/mediawiki-formating-and-colouring-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MediaWiki is the wiki software behind WikiPedia. The issue, when using it as a software development tool, is formatting code in a pretty way. As we did with WordPress before, here are some details to make dp.SyntaxHighlighter work fairly seamlessly with MediaWiki. Install the client-side highlighter Download dp.SyntaxHighlighter. Uncompress its content under a new /skins/common/SyntaxHighlighter [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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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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