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		<title>Installing OS/2 Warp in a Virtual Machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had OS/2 running in a virtual machine for years; specifically, a Virtual PC one. But I&#8217;ve always known that OS/2 has idiosyncracies, such that it won&#8217;t run in VMWare (although it&#8217;s getting better in VirtualBox). By change I stumbled on the excellent site OS/2 Museum. The whole site is fascinating, and if you&#8217;re interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why can&#8217;t you call a Windows folder &#8216;CON&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading this quite interesting &#8211; and entertaining &#8211; list of 25 things you didn&#8217;t know about Windows to celebrate Windows&#8217; 25th anniversary, I got to wondering&#8230; Number 23 says you can&#8217;t name a Windows folder &#8220;CON&#8221;. Try it. Create a folder on the desktop and call it CON, it&#8217;ll rename to &#8220;new folder&#8221;. Why? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Getright as download manager in Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/07/linux-getrigh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Applications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, GetRight.  The Windows-only, paid-for, shareware download manager.  Running on Linux.  But before you ask - why?]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble With ClearType (and WPF)</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/05/the-trouble-with-cleartype-and-wpf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 19:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whinges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[.Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleartype]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=512</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who&#8217;ve been reading here a while will know I used to be a huge fan of ClearType. Huge fan! I thought it made fonts really readable. Then, about two years ago, I started to get headaches. Big, nasty headaches. So I tried fiddling with display options – upped the refresh rate (sort-of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 rules for effective computing</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/04/7-rules-for-effective-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AMD]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Norton Ghost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My own personal rules for effective computing: 1. Don&#8217;t buy anything with &#8216;Norton&#8217; written on it, unless the next word is &#8216;Ghost&#8217;. 2. Don&#8217;t buy any program without consulting osliving.com. Open source is often faster, more effective, and doesn&#8217;t provide features you don&#8217;t need. 3. Half the computer companies are brands of another. Check who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First images of Google&#8217;s Chrome OS?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/08/first-images-of-googles-chrome-os/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An Indian site called Techno 360 has published what are apparently leaked screenshots of Google&#8217;s Chrome OS. Well, maybe &#8211; the site is sceptical as to their provenance due to the sleek look of them, and Google&#8217;s famed indifference to visual polish. However I&#8217;m not so sure. With the recent upgrades to Gmail and others, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naughty Windows 7&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/05/naughty-windows-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 release candidate feels a bit more like a proper version of Windows &#8211; it says &#8220;Windows 7 Ultimate&#8221; on it and everything. However, it&#8217;s back to the naughty step with Microsoft, as it overwrote the MBR. Now to be fair it is a 64-bit OS overwriting a 32-bit OS. But an &#8220;overwrite MBR&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kubuntu 8.10</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/03/kubuntu-810/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/03/kubuntu-810/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Playfish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never having tried Ubuntu (or at least, got it working), I decided to take the plunge and "borrow" a few gig of space from another partition to install Kubuntu on (I've always been keen on KDE and wanted to play with KOffice)...]]></description>
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		<title>First fail for Windows 7&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/03/first-fail-for-windows-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/03/first-fail-for-windows-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upcoming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[beta]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and it&#8217;s a Microsoft product, of course. Actually, it&#8217;s the setup for Visual Studio 2008 Express. Everything works fine, other than SQL Server Express 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008. Given that VWD was what I was really interested in, it looks like back to 2005&#8230; Update: you can use VC++ 2005 Express to generate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 is here</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/02/windows-7-is-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I've finally got my PC back, and have now installed the Windows 7 beta (sorry, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/">downloads aren't available any more</a>).&#160; It's the AMD-64 version, so it really can't be compared speed wise to either XP or Vista, but it's performing pretty quickly compared to XP, and quicker than Vista - although I haven't yet installed everything I usually use yet.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/08/interview-with-andrew-tanenbaum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/08/interview-with-andrew-tanenbaum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amoeba]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How prescient. After talking about Amoeba, Orca and other fluffy Vrije Universitat stuff, PC World just interviewed Andrew Tanenbaum. And MINIX was next on my left for OS of the week, too]]></description>
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		<title>The (late) Thursday OS » Amoeba</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/07/os-amoeba/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/07/os-amoeba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for being late this week. A plethora of problems, networks that not work, kaput hardware and self-corrupting operating systems seem to have been bugging me this last week. So, a bit late, but here we are: Amoeba Licence:XFree86 style Status:dormant(?) Version:5.3 (1998) WWW:Homepage Professor Andrew S Tanenbaum has had a significant impact on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>µTorrent is the r0x0rs</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/04/utorrent-is-the-r0x0rs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/04/utorrent-is-the-r0x0rs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BitTorrent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, so here I am, trying to install PHP and MySQL so it works on IIS. Except, of course, it doesn&#8217;t.  At all.  Or at least, not that I can work out. And the solution?  A Linux installation under Virtual PC, of course, what else? So, which distribution? Well, I started on Slackware.  So off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vista SP1 &#8211; the case for the defence</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/04/vista-sp1-the-case-for-the-defence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/04/vista-sp1-the-case-for-the-defence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ll remember, a while ago I had a bad experience with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, release candidate 1. Well, it certainly seems that Microsoft did quite a bit of work following that release candidate. Since SP1 isn&#8217;t yet available via Windows Update, so I had to go through the standalone installer route (I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vista SP1</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/01/vista-sp1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whinges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I downloaded and installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate. Big mistake. What had been a very reliable, happy computer, turned into a crash-prone bug monster.  Windows Explorer didn&#8217;t start properly (no response from the start menu, system tray or task bar); when killed and restarted with Task Manager the system [...]]]></description>
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