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		<title>Firefox 3.5 Character Encoding Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2009/09/09/firefox-3-5-character-encoding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually upgrade to the newest version of Firefox, currently 3.5.2, as soon as it becomes available. In the last week or so I noticed that certain web forms with text boxes begun to display very odd characters regardless of what I was typing. I could copy this text and paste it into notepad and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Synergy To Clean Up Your Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2008/06/26/use-synergy-to-clean-up-your-desk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synergy is one of those DotCom era buzzwords that you still occasionally hear from an out of touch executive giving a bad presentation. Synergy also happens to be a piece of software that has significantly contributed to the clean up of my desk here at work. I work for a hosting company and need a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Vista</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2008/05/19/goodbye-vista/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 19:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a staunch supporter of Windows Vista since well before release. I&#8217;ve used it for well over a year and defended it&#8217;s use for a long time before arriving at this conclusion. That changes today. As Microsoft would say, my support has gone EOL. For you non-techs out there, EOL stands for End of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) in Vista SP1</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2008/04/25/using-the-group-policy-management-console-gpmc-in-vista-sp1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2008/04/25/using-the-group-policy-management-console-gpmc-in-vista-sp1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you didn&#8217;t already know, consider yourself now informed that installing SP1 for Vista removes the GPMC from Vista. Running the GPMC from a Windows Server 2008 or Vista machine is the only way to access the 700 additional Group Policy settings available for Vista and Server 2008 machines. With the release of SP1, Vista [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Trillian; Hello Pidgin</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2008/03/19/goodbye-trillian-hello-pidgin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no denying the speed or convenience of using instant messaging for communication. Phone calls are good, email is better, and IM is the best. Since about 2006 I&#8217;ve been using Trillian for my IM needs. Trillian uses an XML based client side file to store your buddies and their aliases. The lack of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Just Bought My First Laptop</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2008/02/21/i-just-bought-my-first-laptop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2008/02/21/i-just-bought-my-first-laptop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably rare that someone who has worked in the IT industry as long as I have managed to wait until 2008 to buy their first laptop. I thwarted the evil deed of dropping lots of money to take my computing on the road, but today I gave in and bought the family a nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Product Review: Toshiba HD-A2</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2008/01/08/product-review-toshiba-hd-a2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in November, Wal-Mart was running a few pre Black Friday holiday sales that included an awesome deal on the Toshiba HD-A2 HD-DVD player. As a supporter of HD-DVD, and now both formats, I was lured in based on the $98 price tag. Given that the player had been going for well over $200 just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Bought a Playstation 3</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2008/01/03/i-bought-a-playstation-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2008/01/03/i-bought-a-playstation-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been waiting for a good time to pick up a PS3 since it launched just over a year ago and that time finally arrived. With the almost extinction of the 20GB and 60GB models available for purchase I decided to pick up a refurbished 60GB model from Overstock this evening for about $470, $129 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Downgraded From Vista to XP</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/12/29/i-downgraded-from-vista-to-xp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My home computer isn&#8217;t exactly a smoking machine. For those interested, it&#8217;s a 2500+ w/ 2GB of Ram. After running Vista Business for about 13 months I finally conceded that my machine was just not up to snuff when it came to running Vista smoothly. I was forced to downgrade to XP Pro and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Prosilver Have Profiles on the Left</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/12/14/making-prosilver-have-profiles-on-the-left/</link>
		<comments>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/12/14/making-prosilver-have-profiles-on-the-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[phpBB 3.0 was released this week and the default theme, Prosilver, has the post content on the left and the poster&#8217;s profile on the right. This is reverse from most forum software and the subsilver theme of previous phpBB releases. I&#8217;ve taken the time to tweak the CSS and code to flip the poster profile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Going BluRay</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/12/11/im-going-bluray/</link>
		<comments>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/12/11/im-going-bluray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently blogged about making the jump into the high definition format war with my purchase of a Toshiba HD-A2 player at Wal-Mart&#8217;s special friday sale. Now that I&#8217;ve taken a good hard look at the movies available on each format and the amount of titles that retail stores and online stores are stocking, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SugarCRM &#8211; Installation Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/11/07/sugarcrm-installation-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/11/07/sugarcrm-installation-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently setup the free/open source version of SugarCRM to manage some of my business contacts in the gaming industry. I went with a web based solution so I could open up portions of the data to my staff. After selecting SugarCRM as my tool of choice, I setup space for it and got to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Port Tools &#8211; YouGetSignal.com</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/11/02/open-port-tools-yougetsignalcom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/11/02/open-port-tools-yougetsignalcom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of tools out there for doing basic port scans on your edge devices. These tools are unnecessary if you access to a remote machine outside your network, but they come in real handy if you don&#8217;t. I saw this new tool on LifeHacker.com today and it&#8217;s a very nice simple tool [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Support HD-DVD</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/11/02/i-support-hd-dvd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/11/02/i-support-hd-dvd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when I had a disposable income that would buy more than a pack of chewing gun I used to buy all sorts of expensive gadgets. Those days are long gone. Having a family tends to do that, but I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way. The reality is that having a family keeps things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of a Small Biz Server Upgrade</title>
		<link>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/10/26/the-tale-of-a-small-biz-server-upgrade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.darksideofthecarton.com/2007/10/26/the-tale-of-a-small-biz-server-upgrade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my spare time I am an IT consultant for a remodeling company here in town. They don&#8217;t have a full time tech, so I do all the stuff they need with most of it happening remotely. They run SBS, but I&#8217;ve been putting off their upgrade for too long now. They are (were) on [...]]]></description>
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