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	<title>Random Musings</title>
	
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		<title>BackupPC and SVN</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/453797222/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[backup linux using rsync]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using BackupPC for the last year to securely backup servers to a remote location over Rsync and SSH, however I recently stumbled across an issue with backing up the SVN root directory on an SVN server.

The error in the logs was as follows:
2008-11-11 06:04:09 full backup started for directory /var/svn
2008-11-11 06:04:11 Got fatal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing Puppet from GIT on Debian Etch.</title>
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		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/11/installing-puppet-from-git-on-debian-etch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=20</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my previous posts concerned how to install Nagios3 from source on Debian Etch.  One of the comments I recieved was that you should generally use the packages available for install.  I agree with this entirely, however there&#8217;s no challenge in just using the packages and I&#8217;ve found myself getting lazy when it comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logging PHP sessions to a database</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/382651397/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/09/logging-php-sessions-to-a-database/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[linux-ha]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[maintaining sessions across cluster nodes]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=15</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently configuring a cluster to provide high availability web-hosting.
The main issue we&#8217;ve experienced is with ensuring that PHP sessions are maintained across the web-servers without having to recode all the sites that are contained on them.
The answer appears to be session_mysql - this is a php module that replaces the &#8220;file&#8221;session manager with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Escape the police state…locate your data elsewhere.</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/382651398/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/08/escape_the_police_state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=14</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/ukgov_uber_database/ has details of a possible &#8220;data silo&#8221; that contains all of our data.
This blog-post is meant to be a list of potential sites that will enable british citizens to escape the police state that we are rapidly becoming by moving their data outside teritorial waters.
For those of you who honestly believe &#8220;those who have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take part in the next series of the IT Crowd</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/382651399/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/08/take-part-in-the-next-series-of-the-it-crowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/be-my-hive-brain/

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		<title>Hillarious…</title>
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		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/06/hillarious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fail Blog - that is all&#8230;

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		<title>The perfect email plugin?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/382651401/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/06/the-perfect-email-plugin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=11</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just had an idea for the perfect email plug-in for all email clients.
It would monitor the number of posts in a thread and, when it reached a given threshold, automatically invoke Godwin&#8217;s Law  and post to the appropriate list.
/me searches for the &#8220;Claws development manual&#8221;&#8230;

]]></description>
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		<title>42 - is it really the answer to life the universe and eveything?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/382651402/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/06/42-is-it-really-the-answer-to-life-the-universe-and-eveything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Diane Abbott&#8217;s 42-days speech
The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP&#8217;s speech last night was hailed by the Tory who followed her, David Davies, as &#8216;one of the finest speeches I have heard since being elected to the House of Commons&#8217;.
David Davies has since resigned over the same issue.
Diane Abbott&#8217;s speech can be found here and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing Nagios3 on Debian Etch</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/382651403/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/06/installing-nagios3-on-debian-etch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Please note these are more notes for me than a finished write-up, however I hope to document this on the Nagios WIKI in due course&#8230;

Install the dependencies
aptitude install build-essential gcc libgd2-xpm-dev libglib2.0-dev make
accept defaults for the dpkg-config
Create the users and groups that are required:
/usr/sbin/useradd nagios
passwd nagios
/usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd
/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd nagios
/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd www-data
Change to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Microsoft…</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/382651404/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/06/goodbye-microsoft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just found Goodbye Microsoft! - a site that gives you a windows program that then talks you through installing Debian GNU/Linux onto your computer.
For those of you not brave enough to install direct to disk, Wubi can install Ubuntu Linux onto a Windows disk and give you an icon on your desktop to try it out.
I&#8217;d recommend using both - Free your PC today! :o)

]]></description>
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