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		<title>Having your own printer is so last century: online printing services</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/07/15/having-your-own-printer-is-so-last-century-online-printing-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We needed to send a couple of small documents by post and realised &#8211; while we are in the &#8216;No Fixed Abode&#8217; phase of our Keep-It-Simple-Stupid plan to move back to the UK &#8211; that another thing we don&#8217;t have in our luggage is a printer. We&#8217;re currently using a friend&#8217;s house in a beautiful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BrickOS on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/04/27/brickos-on-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BrickOS was an integral part of some work I did many years ago and I&#8217;ve been trying to dig the code up recently. It seems as though it fell out of the Ubuntu repositories some time ago (in as legos before the name change), so I&#8217;m currently installing the source package from the BrickOS sourceforge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 on Pentium MMX 233MHz (very old PC!)</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/02/15/ubuntu-on-pentium-mmx-233mhz-very-old-pc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the old computers that end up on my desk is a Pentium MMX 233MHz PC from &#8230; I don&#8217;t know, the dawn of time, probably. It can&#8217;t have been made any later than late 1990s. I use it for testing code behaviour on low-resource systems. It did have Slackware on it, but I found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD player died, Ubuntu / NVIDIA TV-Out saves the day!</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/01/05/dvd-player-died-ubuntu-nvidia-tv-out-saves-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The complaints from the kids were finally overwhelming. Their VCDs and DVDs kept &#8216;sticking&#8217; and restarting, but seemed to play OK in our PCs. I couldn&#8217;t bear the thought of replacing the DVD player, I can&#8217;t help thinking it&#8217;s next week&#8217;s antique. We have an old LG TV for the kids. We&#8217;re not confident about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correct response for wrong Host: field in HTTP request header</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/09/25/correct-response-for-wrong-host-field-in-http-request-header/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Still frantically trying to get Spinneret into shape for a first open-source release. I&#8217;m also working on a new project that I&#8217;m quite excited about, which is providing plenty of examples of where Spinneret could be improved! The new project is hosted on a VPS at VPSLink (recommended, so far!). Today&#8217;s curve ball was Google&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet on Canvey Island. How hard can it be?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/06/16/internet-on-canvey-island-how-hard-can-it-be/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/06/16/internet-on-canvey-island-how-hard-can-it-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m an eternal optimist. I went to the UK a few weeks ago for a party with some old friends in Lancaster, but stayed first with my parents on Canvey Island. Canvey Island has its detractors, but I grew up there and have very fond memories of it. I always make sure I get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>64 bit Java on slamd64 (64 bit slackware)</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/04/05/64-bit-java-on-slamd64-64-bit-slackware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[slamd64 is Fred Emmott&#8217;s 64bit Slackware project. I installed it on a couple of servers that provide the bulk of the processing power behind spider.my recently. Just like installing Slackware, installing slamd64 on a server is a matter of downloading the first CD ISO in the set, and following the instructions. The only real difference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybank2u Agent M with Pidgin on Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/03/30/maybank2u-agent-m-with-pidgin-on-ubuntu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Malaysian web can be a frustrating experience if you&#8217;re not using any Microsoft products. Maybank2u have an &#8216;online banking buddy&#8217; to help their customers ask questions and avoid giving them answers. We were recently wondering about changing online merchant payment processors, and considered giving Maybank a go. We like to try out new stuff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Streamyx down in the Port Dickson area</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/03/05/streamyx-down-port-dickson-area/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that didn&#8217;t take long. From 1pm today (0400 GMT), our phones are dead. I walked around to the neighbours &#8211; their phones were dead. I popped into the local Internet cafes, their phones are dead too. At the 3rd Internet cafe, the staff looked surprised to find that their phones were dead, but knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old parallel printer, new laptop. Linux + old PC to the rescue!</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2008/12/13/old-parallel-printer-new-laptop-linux-old-pc-to-the-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My brother-in-law had the worst Acer TravelMate laptop (a 528TE) in the world. It wasn&#8217;t a bad set of hardware, it was just that the plastic case had so completely degraded that he had to carry the laptop around in a cardboard box to keep all the pieces together. The Windows Me installation on it [...]]]></description>
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