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		<title>ATI Radeon 5870, where art thou?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to buy. Can&#8217;t click button. Starcraft II is running pretty nice in my current rig (MacPro4,1 + ATI Radeon 4870), but I&#8217;ve read that the 5870 is substantially faster &#8211; double the VRAM, too.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=181</link>
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		<title>Why I closed my facebook account</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing this so I have something to link to, so I don&#8217;t have to keep answering the question over and over. Starting yesterday, I began to receive emails from various facebook friends, wherein they warned me that perhaps my fb account had been hacked. It seems my fb friends were getting invites for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=179</link>
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		<title>Somniac and a UI scripting quickie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just about every time I want an AppleScript to wait a second or two during script execution, I instinctively insert a &#8220;sleep x&#8221; statement, where x is some small number of seconds. Every time, I&#8217;m surprised when I test the script and my computer promptly&#8230; goes to sleep. The command to use is delay, not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=175</link>
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		<title>GNU screen and white space, holy crap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GNU screen has been a key player in my workflow for a long time, and I&#8217;ve been putting up with a strange and very much undesired screen behavior for just about that long. I don&#8217;t fully understand the problem, but at least now I have a fix. The problem is that when in screen, some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=161</link>
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		<title>SSL Passphrase in Mac OS X Server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a one-liner (spread across two lines for the 80 column internet) for mining Mac OS  X Server&#8217;s SSL passphrase out of Keychain: security dump-keychain -d /Library/Keychains/System.keychain &#124; \ grep '"svce"&#60;blob&#62;="Mac OS X Server certificate management"' -A 3 &#124; tail -n 1 Typically this is most useful right before you say something like the following, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=158</link>
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		<title>CalendarServer on Ubuntu 10.0.4 Desktop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why should I read this silly article when I can just install the CalendarServer .deb?!&#8221;, you might be thinking. That&#8217;s easy. That deb is release 1.2, which is like a million years old or something. Lots of great stuff has been added since then, such as shared calendars and the integration of the formerly separate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=153</link>
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		<title>VMWare Fusion 3.1 is way faster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check this out. I ran the &#8216;openssl speed&#8217; benchmark in Ubunto Desktop 10.0.4 in Fusion 3.0.2 and again in 3.1. The difference is pretty impressive.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=151</link>
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		<title>Of logs and non-boot volumes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a beautiful Sunday morning, and as you wait for the coffee to start working, you figure it&#8217;s probably about time that you started on those benchmark results that have to be done by Monday. You&#8217;re sitting there thinking &#8220;MAN I wish I&#8217;d provisioned a larger boot volume for these Mac Minis, I keep filling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=142</link>
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		<title>Automator: Variable stacking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after discovering the existence of variables as real drag-n-droppable objects in Applescript Studio, I ran smack into a big limitation: the linear flow of an Automator workflow does not seem to allow for storing and recalling multiple values at once. Fortunately I was mistaken, as I discovered by accident while examining the &#8216;results&#8217; view [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=124</link>
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		<title>LDAP client: local static and variable mappings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently discussing Mac OS X / Active Directory integration with a friend, and one of the things I mentioned was the local static / variable mappings feature of the Mac OS X LDAPv3 plugin. After some fairly extensive internet searching, it appears that the only reason I know about that feature is because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=102</link>
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		<title>php 5.3: short_open_tag default has changed!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Snow Leopard Server includes an upgrade of PHP to version 5.3. This version has a changed default for the &#8220;short_open_tag&#8221; option as compared to the version that shipped in Leopard server. The difference is that short_open_tag is now disabled by default, which means that the following will not work: &#60;? phpinfo(); ?&#62; The problem is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=95</link>
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		<title>eggdrop1.6.19+ctcpfix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not exactly new, but since I&#8217;m the eggdrop maintainer for macports, and since I haven&#8217;t updated this port for almost 3 years&#8230; here ya go! Macports users may sudo port -d selfupdate to retrieve the updated Portfile (and new patch file). Details: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/20198]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=91</link>
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		<title>4870: why aren&#8217;t you supported on MacPro1,1?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: This is no longer a mystery. If you want the punchline, please proceed directly to the comments at the end of this post. The ATI HD 4870 video card is a nice upgrade from the NVidia 8800 GT (my current card), however it&#8217;s not supported on the first generation Mac Pro (my current Mac [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=84</link>
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		<title>The Problem With Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Problem With Twitter is that the concept of &#8216;signal to noise ratio&#8217; is an intensely personal thing. It varies greatly with mood, activity level of people being followed, current political events, weather, appetite, what&#8217;s on sale this weekend, presence of television &#8216;marathons&#8217; of popular shows, etc, etc, etc. Even that one sentence has nearly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=81</link>
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		<title>When your seagate 1.5 TB hard drive begins to fail&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[you might say to yourself, &#8220;yes, that&#8217;s definitely busted up. I can tell by all the fsck failures, and how sometimes it&#8217;ll spin up and down a bunch of times all anxious-like, right before a nasty kernel panic.&#8221; perhaps you look into it, carefully examining logs, and suspect that this is probably related to time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Cross-application URL cache searching!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was out taking a (filesystem) walk, and wandered into /var/folders. Not remembering where / when this came from, I was pleased to find that the hier(7) manpage is aware of this directory, describing it as &#8216;per-user temporary files and caches&#8217;. More research reveals that this directory structure is created as defined by some code [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Instamapper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Instamapper is kinda nifty. Upload GPS coords from a mobile device to a web service, plot them on google maps. Simple and fun! Here&#8217;s my bike ride home from coffee: Â  They have an iPhone app called GPS Tracker that pushes the coordinates up.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=70</link>
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		<title>get notified!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mac OS X makes extensive use of a variety of event notification mechanisms, as described here. One such mechanism is documented in the notify(3) man pages, and it is these types of libnotify notifications that are the focus of this post. Notifications can be posted and observed in a global namespace across all processes (with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Hacking Time Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s &#8220;hack some shit up&#8221; Friday. Everybody ready? Have a Time Capsule or Mac OS X Server configured to provide network time machine backups? Of course you do! Let&#8217;s examine the client / server interaction. The Time Machine preference pane provides a list of available backup volumes. This list includes local volumes as well as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Applied Kerberos troubleshooting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is an IRC transcript taken from #afp548, irc.freenode.net. It chronicles the troubleshooting process of a fairly well-hidden edge case of Kerberos configuration in Mac OS X Server. pastebin.ca was used to relay larger hunks of textual information; I&#8217;ve made local copies of the results since the pastebin pages expire in 1 month. Pastebin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dreness.com/blog/?p=43</link>
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