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	<title>Alain M. Lafon</title>
	<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch</link>
	<description>code, life and struggles thereof</description>
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		<title>Things a balrog can do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a little Venn diagram that came up during lunch break.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/07/29/things-a-balrog-can-do/</link>
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		<title>0verkill (howto enjoy work properly &#8211; the geeky way)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ever lacked an idea on how to spend your time at work properly, here&#8217;s a fun thing to try: 0verkill &#8211; a multiplayer 2D ASCII art shooter.Hell yeah, an ASCII art shooter, you heard right! To hell with those flashy commercials claiming to be proper games! If you&#8217;re on a Debian box (as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/07/20/0verkill-howto-enjoy-work-properly-the-geeky-way/</link>
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		<title>Hack yourself a webcam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google for inurl:&#8221;ViewerFrame?Mode=&#8221; -inurl -intitle and have fun controlling other peoples&#8217; webcams.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/07/19/hack-yourself-a-webcam/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes I just get this feeling..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As soon as an incompetent manager gets to have only one say during a project, hell seems to break loose and stuff just gets worse. Finally, after many sessions of hardcore reverse engineering, I have concluded the algorithm used by senior management. Hereby, I share it with the world. &#60;pre&#62; def ask_manager(question=&#34;Can I dump Windows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/07/19/sometimes-i-just-get-this-feeling/</link>
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		<title>My grandfather&#8217;s iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My grandfather has always been what I would call an all-around techie. He has built himself three houses in his lifetime, with hard work he climbed the ladder to become head of department (100+ employees) in a company working in the metal industry and he still owns the biggest private workshop I&#8217;ve ever seen. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/07/18/my-grandfathers-ipad/</link>
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		<title>This is how you do it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is how a waitress taught the three IT guys(me and two friends) during lunch break how to enjoy rich video content these days. Kinda crazy, I didn&#8217;t think that such a thing could completely elude me for such a long time. Great surplus: Only downloading is considered legal in Switzerland. Anyways, I will keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/07/18/this-is-how-you-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Screw it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent night, I really, really wanted my Macbook C2D to be less noisy. Even though it is not my primary workstation the permanent high-pitch humming made it near impossible to get any decent work done.Thanks to ifixit.com it took me a mere 2h to disassemble, clean and reassemble my MB. The process taught [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/07/18/screw-it/</link>
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		<title>Doing it consciously</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While running, I realized something today. More often than not I tend to do things as if there was some kind of enforcement of doing them &#8211; even if I especially like doing whatever it is I&#8217;m doing. Sometimes this happens in the strangest of circumstances, for example running in a beautiful forest during lunchtime. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/07/07/doing-it-consciously/</link>
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		<title>Disable Windows auto desktop lock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me start with: &#8220;I hate Windows from the bottom of my heart.&#8221; But there&#8217;s another level of hate. I hate pseudo business proof settings in Windows even more. One of those would be the &#8220;Auto Lock&#8221;. Anyway, if you think that your (clients) VPN &#8211; or bureau for that case &#8211; can keep up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/07/06/disable-windows-auto-desktop-lock/</link>
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		<title>Scaling down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I came to work at 9:25AM today, I was greeted by open doors &#8211; but not our hermetically sealed bureau was breached (at least not this time), but the equally secure &#8216;server&#8217;-farm. Why do I mention the time? Because I was the first developer on the scene. Sitting down on my desk the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/07/05/scaling-down-2/</link>
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		<title>VIM to write mails in Thunderbird</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While at work, I have to use Windows. Since Windows doesn&#8217;t ship with a decent mail/calendar solution (nope, Outlook doesn&#8217;t qualiy &#8211; keywords &#8220;winmail.dat&#8221; and &#8220;ics support&#8221; should trigger your memory), I had to build a custom setup. Thunderbird is a good basis and does the job well. It&#8217;s sleek and has good IMAP support. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/06/30/vim-to-write-mails-in-thunderbird/</link>
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		<title>iOS 4 Mail.app Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do I have to say that neither OS X Mail.app nor Roundcube webmail show me emails from 01.01.70 aka Epoch time 00000000? I cannot open or delete them. That bugs me a bit. And what about this stray email from 01.01.01? Which year exactly is that? First day after Christ?]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/06/26/ios-4-mailapp-fail/</link>
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		<title>True story &#8211; Software Engineering fail (follow up)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Funny thing &#8211; or should I say: True story! In my most recent blog post&#160;&#8220;I want to work in a company which&#8221;&#160;I wrote about some issues of a random company. I published this article three days before news of this particular company struck me again in agony. While reading this, keep in mind that this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/06/26/true-story-software-engineering-fail-follow-up/</link>
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		<title>I want to work in a company which (or &#8220;Yet another random business rant&#8221;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be a random rant on a random companys&#8217; policies and employees &#8211; there is no direct connection to me whatsoever, of course. I want to work in a company that doesn&#8217;t abuse its SCM as a file server. If you can&#8217;t do full backups anymore, because your file system can&#8217;t handle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/06/22/i-want-to-work-in-a-company-which-or-yet-another-random-business-rant/</link>
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		<title>posterous &#8211; a first glance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For quite some time my blog has been drained of new posts. Instead I was working harder on the Twitter/Facebook timelines, which in itself brought new trouble: Information is not always(altough often) at its best when squeezed into 140 characters. Even when combined with Twitpic and the like those make a poor substitution for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/06/22/posterous-a-first-glance/</link>
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		<title>The Apple Insider Myth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A co-worker just walked up on me and told me the great success story of his new Apple product: The Apple Mybook NAS. Probably you are now wondering like I did. Let me re-tell you the story. It went like this: &#8220;Yesterday I bought the the Mybook NAS (*cough* Mybook? Why didn&#8217;t I get the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/05/12/the-apple-insider-myth/</link>
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		<title>C# 4.0&#8242;s dynamicity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just found an article ranking highly on Hacker News (my favourite read) concerning the release of C# 4.0 &#8211; you can find it on blogs.msdn.com. On this blog Microsoft claims a couple of highly sophistacated new features. Being the spoiled guy I am, they just seem natural to me. Since they started their article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/05/10/c-40s-dynamicity/</link>
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		<title>Python&#8217;s binascii &#8211; hexlify() and unhexlify()What the heck?</title>
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		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/12/09/pythons-binascii-hexlify-unhexlify/</link>
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		<title>BacklogOne step ahead aka my new Mini Cooper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s finally time to announce at least some news: I&#8217;ve got myself a new means of locomotion &#8211; no more procrastinating and slacking, because there&#8217;s just no train when I need one(; More importantly no more driving on Swiss ice on only two wheels! Pictures will do the proper talking, even though I have not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/11/10/backlogmini/</link>
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		<title>Disable Mail-Forwarding for Lotus Notes programmatically</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lotus Notes has a nifty feature to lull managers into false safety: for volatile/unsafe e-mails (or users), it let&#8217;s you disable printing/forwarding and copying to clipboard. This can be done using rules, on the SMTP server and on a per e-mail basis. When writing somebody you really don&#8217;t trust with some information (but in his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/06/29/disable-mail-forwardin-for-lotus-notes-with-python/</link>
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		<title>pTwittery.com releasedConvert your Twitter timeline into a diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just released my newest program &#8211; pTwittery.com It&#8217;s now online, but still in beta stage. With pTwittery.com you may export all your tweets (aka timeline) into a diary. Your personal diary will then be sent to you via e-mail. Enjoy, everyone(; If you liked this article, please feel free to re-tweet it and let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/06/25/ptwittery-release/</link>
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		<title>Server outage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately my SUN Fire 280R has left me for good last friday. Let&#8217;s all give it a silent two minutes.. After a couple of dear years &#8211; spent configuring a nice little Solaris 10 setup, all I have left are a couple of zip files and sql dumps that were supposed to be my backup. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/06/25/server-outage/</link>
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		<title>VIM as Python IDE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finding the perfect IDE for Python isn&#8217;t an easy feat. There are a great many to chose from, but even though some of them offer really nifty features, I can&#8217;t help myself but feel attracted to VIM anyway. I feel that no IDE accomplishes the task of giving the comfort of complete power over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/05/24/vim-as-python-ide/</link>
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		<title>Juno on Solaris 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Juno is an incredibly lightweight webframework. Using Python as backend, it fullfills my very need for just about every small application I want to deploy against the web. It has no need for big runtimes on the server, no files to configure a great many files and most importantly: there&#8217;s no coding overhead &#8211; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/05/18/juno-on-solaris-10/</link>
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		<title>Relentless resourcefulness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What good is a weblog if one doesn&#8217;t keep track of the most important changes in life, at least? A great many things unfolded recently, so here we go. First of all, it&#8217;s time to propagate that I&#8217;m writing using a new domain. The name gefechtsdienst.de was a remnant of old times and doesn&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/05/03/relentless-resourcefulness/</link>
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		<title>IT geek fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder what kind of IT consultants are employed in the movie industry. The particular incident is taken from the  CBS series Jericho that I just started watching. This series tells the tale about nuclear bombs going off in the US and how a small town copes with the aftereffects. The scene I want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/04/13/it-geek-fail/</link>
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		<title>Webscraping with Python and BeautifulSoup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently my life has been a hype; partly due to my upcoming Python addiction. There&#8217;s simply no way around it; so I should better confess it in public. I&#8217;m in love with Python. It&#8217;s not only mature, businessproof and performant, but also benefits from sleekness, great performance and is just so much fun to write. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/03/15/webscraping-with-python-and-beautifulsoup/</link>
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		<title>On competence #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strange things do happen. They just do. But not all of them are strange bad, some are strange good. For example, I just wept like a baby. It was the end of season 4 of Dr. House &#8211; well.. in this respect I&#8217;m not quite sure whether it&#8217;s a good thing. To be alone with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/03/14/on-competence-2/</link>
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		<title>On competence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was a day of competence &#8211; in its pure and inconceivable form. The first 8 hours of my 5.5 hours working day I have spent with a &#8220;Senior Consultant&#8221;. To shorten the story: after four months working overtime, I have finally reverse engineered enough information to be certain that the product we bought just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/03/12/on-competence/</link>
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		<title>Where to live &#8211; Week #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time is drawing nearer by the day; I should better hurry and secure me my dream mansion to live in. Unfortunately I&#8217;m lacking a major component for seeking one of those &#8211; time. Last week I bookmarked close to two dozen apartments, but just about each night I couldn&#8217;t go and attend visiting hours, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/03/03/where-to-live-week-1/</link>
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		<title>Not quite there yet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not where I wanted to get to; not at all. And it even got worse. Stats 2009 as of today: Completed runs: 0 Completed other workouts: 0 Engaged in other sweaty activities whatsoever: 0 Overall accomplishment: 0 At least some of those stats I should be able to do something about, shouldn&#8217;t I? At the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/02/10/not-quite-there-yet/</link>
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		<title>Last man standing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days I find myself most often to be the last guy coming to work &#8211; but I would like to think that this somewhat correlates with the circumstance of me being as often a subset of the last people to leave the bureau in the middle of the night later hours of the day. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/02/10/last-man-standing/</link>
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		<title>Still seeking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Probably one of the things on my list on what I really dislike is working.. inefficiently. All my life I have been striving to improve myself, my skills, social relations, work(-load^^), [..] &#8211; and while I certainly cannot say that I reached perfection, the path taught me one thing or another. On the other hand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/02/06/still-seeking/</link>
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		<title>On student life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[tonight, around 00:05AM, I came to realize that there might be a resource conflict coming up &#8211; I was still sitting in the bureau; not quite finished yet, but catching the last train on the other hand had a pretty exciting touch to it as well. So I left early. Coming home, I powered down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/02/06/on-student-life/</link>
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		<title>Closing in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[on so many things at once, I&#8217;m having trouble to keep track of what matters most. Well, at least it kept me from writing any dedicated posts &#8211; long enough to feel a lack of new information. One important change is that I won&#8217;t be a tutor in my favourite living place Pfaffenhof anymore. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/02/04/closing-in/</link>
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		<title>Open letter to &#8220;the headQuarters&#8221;(in German)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to &#8220;current events&#8221; in in-house restaurant &#8220;the headquarters&#8220;, I felt an obligation to write a little something and send it to the responsible people. For those of you who won&#8217;t be able to read the German text, let me sum up what&#8217;s in it. Normally, I am very satisfied with service and quality of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/01/28/open-letter-to-the-headquartersin-german/</link>
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		<title>Bought some gum &#8211; for the week to come</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just couldn&#8217;t resist. I saw them, I needed them. All! Actually I only went shopping after lunch, because the former CD-case ice scraper of my dear friend Falko just wasn&#8217;t up to the job of repeatedly removing the Arctic Swiss nights remainder from his car and he wanted to buy a new one. Accidentally Migros [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/01/26/bought-some-gum-for-the-week-to-come/</link>
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		<title>A new world&#8217;s selfishness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have come to realize that a great many people are very different than me in somewhat fundamental ways. There are people who claim they cannot and will not understand that there is another person whose primary goal in life is to comfort them, to make them feel special and needed. They say it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/01/26/a-new-worlds-selfishness/</link>
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		<title>Mr. Overtime strikes again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I have written my first Excel sheet ever &#8211; and I think I don&#8217;t lie when I say &#8220;ever ever&#8221;. As a person dedicated to computers, there&#8217;s always a guy who will come up to me and ask some question concerning Office &#8211; and my answer has throughout been: &#8220;I&#8217;m into computer science, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/01/25/mr-overtime-strikes-again/</link>
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		<title>New record paycheckSwitzerland is the greatest country in the world #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday my life finally made a turn &#8211; even if in silence, but I want to stay focused on what matters right now. I received the first paycheck working as application programmer. It looked pretty neat, but just didn&#8217;t feel how I wanted the experience to feel. I began raising my own money with 15 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/01/24/new-record-paycheckswitzerland-is-the-greatest-country-in-the-world-3/</link>
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		<title>Crossing the 5am mark again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[while I should be getting up at somewhere around 6am &#8211; or even better right now. At least if I wanted to nurse my morning workouts, which I probably should &#8211; thinking of my carelessness of the past month. It&#8217;s been a couple of days since I gave myself the chance to post; merely because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/01/23/crossing-the-5am-mark-again/</link>
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		<title>How long can you go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my 13th consecutive hour working on three projects at once &#8211; each of which has to be deployed tomorrow while my perception of the applications/daemons/tools is somewhere between post-alpha and beta. Therefore I will face an interesting day tomorrow &#8211; even more so, because it will be the first day in weeks that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/01/16/how-long-can-you-go/</link>
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		<title>Frozen Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything began with a bad conscience concerning my decision to stay at home this weekend &#8211; for the sake of me finally getting rid of the flu as well as my bad throat.. Friday started out somewhat bad; it was the first day in years that I forgot my iPod which I could have lived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/01/12/frozen-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Some doctors like to commit assault</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I called my grandmother, because she should have received surgery on her eyes yesterday. Four months ago she went do a specialist, because her eyes started to produce tears all the time while they felt sore and her eyesight decreased rapidly. After a first try of some drops that didn&#8217;t work she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/01/08/some-doctors-like-to-commit-assault/</link>
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		<title>Recap of just a very normally crazy day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several things were more interesting today than any normal day would be. The first thing to mention is that today is the first day of my life to work for 39chf net(35US$, 26€) an hour which should have probably been the most exciting part of my day, but actually it has been far from holding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/01/06/recap-of-just-a-very-normally-crazy-day/</link>
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		<title>p_pagination&#160;A plugin for sortable tables with pagination on any database for Ruby on Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been working on several projects that condemn me to use Microsofts SQLServer, which has led me to believe that there is something missing in the RoR core to make it really a sound inclusion for business applications. Whilst there are very good implementations for pagination and sortable tables at hand, these won&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/11/24/p_paginationa-plugin-for-sortable-tables-with-pagination-on-any-database-for-ruby-on-rails/</link>
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		<title>Switzerland is the greatest country in the world #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I discovered some more reasons on why Switzerland really is the greatest country of them all; it ranks nicely in the following statistics: 6th on the Human Development Index(HDI) 6th on Gross Domestic Product per Head(GDP/per capita) 3rd on the BigMac Index(1st in 2006 and 2007) That said, I want to point out that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/14/switzerland-is-the-greatest-country-in-the-world-2/</link>
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		<title>Switzerland is the greatest country in the world #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doing what ppl do  in the morning, I just &#8216;membered that one of my very entertaining conversations from yesterday was worthy to commit to the worldwide community that has not yet found it&#8217;s courage to move entirely to Switzerland. I&#8217;ll make it short and let the words talk for themselves. Knowledge to have in advance: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/07/switzerland-is-the-greatest-country-in-the-world-1/</link>
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		<title>Early final version</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished revising my interim layout. But still.. there will be a lot more work to be done in the future. Right now I probably won&#8217;t have the spare time to write a lot of interesting techie-articles, since I&#8217;m working fulltime as application programmer/intern and having trouble on a couple of personal matters. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/07/early-final-version/</link>
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		<title>New blog site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since my established lifestyle forced me to change jobs to optimize my income, there will be no more nice http://blogs.sun.com/preek Fortunately I still have my own little Fire 280R / Solaris / 1GBit Server in the basement(; In the days to come I will migrate relevant data from my old blog, since I don&#8217;t want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/06/new-blog-site/</link>
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		<title>TexLive on Solaris 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TexLive is a very decent Latex implementation, however if you want to write DIN conformable letters using g-brief you might get an error message like that: ! LaTeX Error: Command \Telefon already defined.Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.Type H for immediate help. ... [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/04/texlive-on-solaris-10/</link>
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		<title>Sun RAY with PS2 Keyboards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SUN Ray with PS2 keyboards If you want to hook up a Sun Ray at home, you might want to use your favourite old PS2 keyboard attached via some USB connector. Depending on your keyboard layout you might be disappointed by the result, because it will be standard US. That&#8217;s because the PS2 keyboard isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/04/sun-ray-with-ps2-keyboards/</link>
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		<title>Postfix and MySQL (Debian)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Integration of Databases in the Postfix SMTP server in Debian GNU/Linux Why would somebody want to let postfix connect to a SQL-database? There&#8217;s no need to create a real local user for each e-mail account SQL-databases can be kept in RAM, so if you have excessive mailing on your server, there will be reduced harddisk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/04/postfix-and-mysql-debian/</link>
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		<title>NVIDIA TV Out (Solaris)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solaris Express in any recent version will have out of the box NVidia support if you install the Developer Edition or the Community Release. This driver doesn&#8217;t differ (at least as far as I know) from the Linux device driver, so setting up secondary screens and tv-outs is quite the same. There even is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/04/nvidia-tv-out-solaris/</link>
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		<title>Multiple IP addresses on one interface (Solaris)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like we mentioned earlier we are in the middle of configuring a Fire 280R server for our needs. Yesterday we finally were able to patch some real Internet addresses on the NICs, as well as new local addresses, so now we finally are online^^ While configuring we figured that there are at least three potential [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/04/multiple-ip-addresses-on-one-interface-solaris/</link>
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		<title>Migration from /etc/aliases to MySQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a small shellscript which converts existing mail relays in /etc/aliases to a SQL database. It worked for me in this simple form but I can take no responsibility whatsover for any other setup. The usage is pretty much straight forward &#8211; simply give the script the needed information as to where the aliases [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/04/migration-from-etcaliases-to-mysql/</link>
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		<title>Maradns on OpenSolaris(Sparc)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In order to compile Maradns (http://www.maradns.org) on a Sparc machine you have to edit the Makefile. I changed line 19-36 to following: # Uncomment the following three lines to get this to compile on Solaris LDFLAGS=-lxnet CC=cc $(LDFLAGS) -DSOLARIS -DNO_FLOCK M="CC=$(CC)" # These are currently unused, but will be needed again if we use flock() [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/04/maradns-on-opensolarissparc/</link>
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		<title>First installation troubles (Solaris)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Various small problems VIM / Cursor Keys If you wonder why VIM keeps writing &#8216;A&#8217;, &#8216;B&#8217;, &#8216;C&#8217;, &#8216;D&#8217; on your screen when it is supposed just to move the cursor in writing mode, the answer is that the cursor keys are not being mapped the right way. The solution is to extend your favourite .vimrc [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/04/first-installation-troubles-solaris/</link>
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		<title>AMP stack in Solaris 05/08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most webservers do have a need for a decent AMP stack, but Solaris 05/08 doesn&#8217;t quite offer a solution out of the box, but if you know where to look you&#8217;re not far away from having a fine implementation. MySQL5I have made good experiences using MySQL5 from blastwave. Unfortunately it doesn&#8217;t run out of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dispatched.ch/2008/10/04/amp-stack-in-solaris-0508/</link>
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