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		<title>FreeBSD tips#1: Turn back time, with automated filesystem snapshots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 13:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a sysadmin, but I do have to administer a number of systems.  This inevitably involves learning many bits of obscure arcana, which are all too easily forgotten once the heat of battle has passed.  So, I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;d do well to make notes for myself, and if any of them end up being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voidstar.wordpress.com&blog=711046&post=65&subd=voidstar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Misfeatures #1</title>
		<link>http://voidstar.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/misfeatures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/extensions-to-ansi.html:
MySQL Server understands the                 &#124;&#124; and                 &#38;&#38; operators to mean logical OR and AND, as in the C     [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voidstar.wordpress.com&blog=711046&post=55&subd=voidstar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NO2ID &#8211; *Really* saying NO to the database state</title>
		<link>http://voidstar.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/no2id-really-saying-no-to-the-database-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous post reminded me of another screengrab I caught back in 2006.  I&#8217;m all for the NO2ID campaign, but perhaps they were taking it a bit far on this occasion:

Date: 2006-02-27, 22:24
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		<title>Net Neutrality</title>
		<link>http://voidstar.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/net-neutrality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to laugh when I took a look at Wikipedia&#8217;s entry for Editor War last month. I saved the screenie for future amusement value (and in case they ever do resolve the dispute. Yeah right&#8230;)

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		<title>Nerdy but amusingly matter-of-fact statements #1</title>
		<link>http://voidstar.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/amusingly-matter-of-fact-statements-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first in a throw-away series of matter-of-fact statements about incomprehensibly large or improbable concepts:
 #1 &#8211; From Wikipedia&#8217;s entry on NTP  (Network Time Protocol)
Background &#8211; NTP will soon represent timestamps using two 64bit numbers; one for the whole number of seconds, and one for the fractional part of the second:
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		<title>It&#8217;s a joke alright, but no April Fool</title>
		<link>http://voidstar.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/its-a-joke-alright-but-no-april-fool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I saw the timestamp on the tech press articles I hoped against hope. April 1st 9:43am.  Draft International Standard DIS 29500, more commonly known by the wonderfully double-speak name of Office Open XML (it&#8217;s neither Open, nor XML), is about to became IS 29500.
It would seem that Microsoft have been successful in fast-tracking their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voidstar.wordpress.com&blog=711046&post=30&subd=voidstar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PostgreSQL 8.3 &#8211; on its way</title>
		<link>http://voidstar.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/postgresql-83-on-its-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PostgreSQL 8.3 is now in Beta2 and judging by the change log it&#8217;s going to be a good&#8217;n. There&#8217;s one new feature in particular which comes along at just the right time for me &#38; phuser.com, plus some other very welcome enhancements.
&#160;
More on those headlines features in a moment.  The word is that v8.3 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voidstar.wordpress.com&blog=711046&post=29&subd=voidstar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In defence of walls</title>
		<link>http://voidstar.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/in-defence-of-walls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Danah Boyd comes to the defence of the Walled Garden &#8211; the notion that certain parts of the web be protected from external gaze.  It&#8217;s certainly a relief to hear someone question the prevailing orthodoxy (open==good, closed==bad).
To reiterate some of Danah&#8217;s ground, the very notion of a &#8220;wall&#8221; has somehow acquired an inherently negative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voidstar.wordpress.com&blog=711046&post=15&subd=voidstar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brave New Worldwideweb2.0</title>
		<link>http://voidstar.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/brave-new-worldwideweb20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst the clamour and frenzy that surrounds whichever star currently shines brightest in the web2.0 firmament (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace et al), it seems that some old-fashioned principles have fallen by the way-side.
 
Long before the WWW, in the dark years of WW2, our governments took pains to warn us of the perils of spilling our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voidstar.wordpress.com&blog=711046&post=12&subd=voidstar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sanity-saving tip for database-upgrade-migration hell</title>
		<link>http://voidstar.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/quick-tip-for-database-upgrade-migration-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a web app in beta, phuser.com is still evolving rapidly. This means that I am often faced with the trauma of migrating a dataset from one version to another, sometimes with substantial changes in the database schema.  I&#8217;ve developed various tricks for this &#8211; some are ugly but effective and involve things like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voidstar.wordpress.com&blog=711046&post=10&subd=voidstar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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