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		<title>Windows 7 Upgrade with a Clean Installation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directing your attention to the current promotion Microsoft has in place for people to purchase an upgrade to windows 7, I had a few questions and began to search around. After much reading I along many others, from my findings on the internet, still have one question left answered. It on the surface a simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LSISAS3442E-R BIOS and Firmware v1.28.02.00 and ESXi 3.5u5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[esx]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is partly a continuation of a previous post which I described my Esxi 3.5u5 I/O problems. Since that post I&#8217;ve searched google and read in the vmware community forums for any known performance issues with Raid 1E in a four drive configuration compared to Raid 10, checked if there was a known problem with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you want BusLogic or LSI Logic?  Choose wisely.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESXi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been setting up a new home server to host a few vm&#8217;s and noticed along the way the poor performance I was seeing from the server.  For an initial rundown of the specs: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L CPU: Penryn E8200 2.6GHz Memory: A-DATA 8GB DDR2 800 Storage: LSI SAS3442E Network: gigE At this time the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing a New Keyboard &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dell latitude d620]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[docking station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[format]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyboard installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laptop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logitech]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 keyboard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[windows drivers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To continue on from an earlier installment, Installing a new keyboard &#8211; Part 1, I had time to look into this further and every turn I took it became more and more bleak until I succumbed to what I was ultimately hoping to avoid. I made a complete backup and formated the laptop with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using VMWare ESX 3.0 in a SATA drive environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lsi logic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I wanted to setup a VMWare ESX 3.0 server to test out their new (at the time) release, unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t have the funds needed to setup a true production environment with it. I was able to find a fantastic alternative that is great to learn off of at a much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VitalStream/InterNap the brand you can&#8217;t trust</title>
		<link>http://www.beinguseless.com/index.php/computers/2007/10/26/vitalstream-internap-the-brand-you-cant-trust/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=vitalstream-internap-the-brand-you-cant-trust</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cdn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[company to avoid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content delivery network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flash streaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inter nap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to write up a short and sweet review of an experience we had with VitalStream (www.vitalstream.com), now part of InterNap (www.internap.com), in case someone is doing searching about their CDN (Content Delivery Network) and streaming services before they sign up. During the spring of &#8217;07 a company I&#8217;m affiliated with began to offer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email Branching &#8211; It&#8217;s time to put an end to the madness</title>
		<link>http://www.beinguseless.com/index.php/computers/2007/10/17/email-branching-how-to-keep-a-proper-email-chain/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=email-branching-how-to-keep-a-proper-email-chain</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[frustration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miscommunication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[operation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respond to all]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[version control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One pet peeve of mine that has been increasing over time is when an email is sent with all the various information and someone in the list of people that received it decides to respond to the second or third latest to the chain, thus throwing the flow of the conversation out the window. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing a New Keyboard &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.beinguseless.com/index.php/computers/2007/10/16/dell-d620-usb-keyboard-install-part1/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dell-d620-usb-keyboard-install-part1</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[format]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[laptop]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Couple months back I picked up a new Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 keyboard to replace my current one. I&#8217;ve used it at work for quite a while and thought it would be a good replacement. Being familiar with technology and having assembled a few computers over the years I didn&#8217;t give installing it a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who moved my&#8230;website?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enlightenment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I began thinking about starting a blog, about a week and a half ago, I&#8217;m finding more and more things related to them and RSS that I haven&#8217;t paid much attention too. What comes to mind at the moment are things like the feature&#8217;s I&#8217;ve seen in WordPress from the ease of adding a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare: Watch out for those snapshots</title>
		<link>http://www.beinguseless.com/index.php/computers/2007/10/12/vmware-esx-30-delta-snapshot-redo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=vmware-esx-30-delta-snapshot-redo</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delta file]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[esx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server administration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vmware]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I consider myself to be fairly cautious when implementing a new server level application, especially so for the level in which ESX runs and how much depends on it to be stable. Something escaped my attention, or perhaps it wasn&#8217;t talked about much in the docs I read. Either way it&#8217;s too late now and [...]]]></description>
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