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		<title>Fridge Schematics/Wiring Diagram</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn't find these schematics online anywhere. They came from the behind the front panel of my Kenmore Coldspot refrigerator, model number 106.9555923. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/fridge-schematics-wiring-diagram/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/fridge-schematics-wiring-diagram/</link>
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		<title>How to get fsaclctl off your Leopard install DVD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leopard came with a program called <tt>fsaclctl</tt> that let you turn on and off ACL control for a filesystem. Here's how to get it off your Leopard (10.5) install DVD. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/how-to-get-fsaclctl-off-your-leopard-install-dvd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/how-to-get-fsaclctl-off-your-leopard-install-dvd/</link>
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		<title>How to find out what Mac OS X system is installed on a random disk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so you have a random disk lying around and you plug it in and it looks like it has Mac OS X installed on it. How do you tell what version it is without booting into it?
 <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/how-to-find-out-what-mac-os-x-system-is-installed-on-a-random-disk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/how-to-find-out-what-mac-os-x-system-is-installed-on-a-random-disk/</link>
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		<title>CentOS (RHEL) 5.4 kernel source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Say you want to build the source tree for a <a href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.src.rpm">RHEL/CentOS 5.4 kernel (2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 in my case)</a> and you are running a recent Debian or Fedora system. You might get patch failure errors.
... Just add this to fix it:
<tt>%define _default_patch_fuzz 2</tt> <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/centos-rhel-54-kernel-source/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/centos-rhel-54-kernel-source/</link>
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		<title>Cool things about Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) that no one but me will care about</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I admit, I am easily amused. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/cool-things-about-snow-leopard-os-x-106-that-no-one-but-me-will-care-about/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/cool-things-about-snow-leopard-os-x-106-that-no-one-but-me-will-care-about/</link>
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		<title>What I had to do to get Snow Leopard to install on my MacBook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was getting this message:"Mac OS X cannot be installed on "silver", because this disk cannot be used to start up your computer."
...
The problem turns out to be that the Mac OS really wants 128MB of unused space after your main Mac OS partition.
 <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/what-i-had-to-do-to-get-snow-leopard-to-install-on-my-macbook/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/what-i-had-to-do-to-get-snow-leopard-to-install-on-my-macbook/</link>
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		<title>All My Stupid Man Pages Are Out Of Date</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So at some point the system installed new, nicely gzipped man pages but somehow failed to remove the old ones. And it turns out the man give the non-gzipped version precedence. Giving me old out of date documentation when I ask for it. Weak.
...
I had about 4500 that I was able to delete, and now my ls and chmod man pages have up-to-date info again. Aaaahhhhh. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/all-my-stupid-man-pages-are-out-of-date/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/all-my-stupid-man-pages-are-out-of-date/</link>
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		<title>PC &#8211; Perl Calculator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years I was  GUI calculator fanatic. Desperately searching for that perfect calculator that did all the things I wanted it to do... At some point I decided to write my own. Finally one day it hit me that Perl's eval() was really what I wanted. And so "<code>pc</code>", Perl Calc, was born. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/pc-perl-calculator/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/pc-perl-calculator/</link>
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		<title>Upgrading from Debian 32 bit to 64 bit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a new Intel core i7 computer and migrated my Debian server over to it. Here's how to do it without installing from scratch. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/upgrading-from-debian-32-bit-to-64-bit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/upgrading-from-debian-32-bit-to-64-bit/</link>
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		<title>The Bloop in Real Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's my slowed down version of the famous "Bloop". You won't be able to hear it with tiny little computer speakers. Either find a subwoofer or some nice over the ear headphones and crank the Cthulu Bloop. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/the-bloop/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/the-bloop/</link>
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		<title>Cordoba: The Small Chrysler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was rearranging my bookcase and happened across a 1976 Readers Digest. I saw this ad and just had to laugh! <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/cordoba-the-small-chrysler/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/cordoba-the-small-chrysler/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Kharma&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sheila Jones sends us a lost phone and a piece of her mind. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/kharma/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/kharma/</link>
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		<title>All my menu extras are gone!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For most of the day today I've been missing all the OS X menu extras in the top right of my MacBook screen, including my clock, airport and volume controls. I never knew how much I used that stuff until it suddenly wasn't there. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/all-my-menu-extras-are-gone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/all-my-menu-extras-are-gone/</link>
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		<title>Why is there no process viewer in Firefox?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What I need is a plug-in that monitors all the javascript and plugins that are running and keeps track of how long each runs. Then I want a unix top-like view of all the pages open and how many resources each is consuming (how much memory, how much cpu time their javascript is taking, etc). <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/why-is-there-no-process-viewer-in-firefox/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/why-is-there-no-process-viewer-in-firefox/</link>
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		<title>Time Machine and a Linux server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting Time Machine to work with my Linux server was annoyingly hard--the default Debian server doesn't support Leopard out of the box and Time Machine itself doesn't support non-apple file shares. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/time-machine-and-a-linux-server/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/time-machine-and-a-linux-server/</link>
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		<title>Leopard Permissions Going Crazy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So a couple days ago I noticed I had no permission to access one of my directories... <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/leopard-permissions-going-crazy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/leopard-permissions-going-crazy/</link>
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		<title>Selling out: How a Free Software advocate ended up releasing a shareware program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I write computer programs for a living though quite often I end up writing code for myself at home... When I quit my job and started consulting I lost the security that comes from a steady paycheck... So when I needed to write a piece of software to scratch my own itch I started thinking about selling it instead of releasing it as free software. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/the-road-to-shareware-how-a-free-software-advocate-ended-up-releasing-a-shareware-program/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/the-road-to-shareware-how-a-free-software-advocate-ended-up-releasing-a-shareware-program/</link>
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		<title>Polling is always wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read <a href="http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&#38;thread=214782">this article</a> on <a href="http://reddit.com">reddit</a> and while I thought the author was correct that RSS is really a bad design, I think he missed the real underlying reason why. That reason is that polling is always wrong. Always. Really!
 <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/polling-is-always-wrong/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/polling-is-always-wrong/</link>
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		<title>The iPhone is not expensive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every review I read about the iPhone whines that the price is high. So let's see how high it really is. <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/the-iphone-is-not-expensive/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/the-iphone-is-not-expensive/</link>
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		<title>Tivo Desktop on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tried out TiVo Desktop on my Mac and it was kind of cool... I found some articles and discovered the TiVo Desktop is just a http daemon plus some mdns stuff. Sounds easy enough! <a href="http://porkrind.org/missives/tivo-desktop-on-linux/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://porkrind.org/missives/tivo-desktop-on-linux/</link>
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