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	<title>A life without &#039;Not Responding&#039;</title>
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		<title>Cowon iAudio D2+ and Linux &#8211; First impressions</title>
		<link>http://vimalkumar.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/cowon-iaudio-d2-and-linux-first-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wichien Maat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After countless efforts to make my Sony NWZ-A816 work the way I wanted, I decided its time for an alternative. I do like the Sony devices for their quality but they want me to use WMP to sync my music which I am not willing to do and never will. What&#8217;s worse, is there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vimalkumar.wordpress.com&blog=780702&post=122&subd=vimalkumar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I still like &#8216;Kangal Irandaal&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://vimalkumar.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/why-i-still-like-kangal-irandaal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wichien Maat</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s been a while since the movie is released. This is still one of my favorites though I listen to A.R.Rahman a lot
Reasons&#8230;

has a feel of ilayaraja&#8217;s music in the 90&#8242; s or before&#8230;
the music &#8211; James Vasanthan has done a really good job
excellent lyrics&#8230;
excellent voices of Belly Raj and Deepa Mariam

the movie had a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vimalkumar.wordpress.com&blog=780702&post=115&subd=vimalkumar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VLC for screencasting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wichien Maat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking for a way to create screencasts of my desktop. I tried the following options but was not completely successful(yet) in getting a video out of it.

xvidcap
recordmydesktop
istanbul

Today, I found out that it is possible to do a screencast using VLC!(1, 2) I have known about VLC for a long time and its capability [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vimalkumar.wordpress.com&blog=780702&post=112&subd=vimalkumar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Making of Linux Revolution video</title>
		<link>http://vimalkumar.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/the-making-of-linux-revolution-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wichien Maat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;for &#8216;We are Linux&#8216; video contest held by the Linux Foundation
My entry is here

I came to know about this contest mid-february and wished to participate in it. I have been a Linux user for almost 10 years now and know very well about its strengths. After thinking for a couple of days, I got the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vimalkumar.wordpress.com&blog=780702&post=100&subd=vimalkumar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SSHFS on SLES 10 SP1</title>
		<link>http://vimalkumar.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/sshfs-on-sles-10-sp1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wichien Maat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SLES]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1. Download SLED-10-SP1-x86-DVD1.iso from Novell (registration required). Mount the iso using mount -o loop
mkdir /mnt/sles
mount -o loop /path/to/SLED-10-SP1-x86-DVD1.iso /mnt/sles
cd /mnt/sles
2. Install the RPM
rpm -ivh suse/i586/fuse-devel-2.5.2-12.2.i586.rpm
3. Download sshfs from
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/src-oss/suse/src/sshfs-1.9-38.1.src.rpm 
Note: (can&#8217;t use latest version due to bug https://www.scientificlinux.org/bug.feature/bugs/20/)
4. rpmbuild as user (Refer: http://dag.wieers.com/howto/bits/rpm-build-user.php)
rpm -i sshfs-1.9-38.1.src.rpm
cd ~/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bb sshfs.spec
5. Install the RPM
rpm -ivh ~/redhat/RPMS/i586/sshfs-1.9-38.1.i586.rpm
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		<title>Serve an NFS mount as an NCP volume accessed via Novell client</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wichien Maat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Mount the NFS share to a directory on the server
2. Use Remote Manager to create an NCP share
3. Use iManager, view objects to assign trustee rights to the NCP share or subdirectories under it
&#8211;details&#8211;
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		<title>Sync files&#8230; the Python way!</title>
		<link>http://vimalkumar.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/sync-files-the-python-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wichien Maat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What it does

copies missing files/modified files from source to target
does not copy if file is newer at target
use -r for a report mode and -s for the actual sync mode

Why?

I could not use rsync or other solutions for this situation
needed a scriptable solution. too much directories to sync

Note: It worked for me but might not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vimalkumar.wordpress.com&blog=780702&post=93&subd=vimalkumar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preventing unauthorized SSH access using Denyhosts</title>
		<link>http://vimalkumar.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/preventing-unauthorized-ssh-access-using-denyhosts/</link>
		<comments>http://vimalkumar.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/preventing-unauthorized-ssh-access-using-denyhosts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wichien Maat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once when I was doing a regular tail -f /var/log/messages, I came across a number of messages like these.
sshd[29924]: PAM_NAM: User donk unknown to the authentication module
sshd[29924]: Failed password for invalid user donk from 'IP address here' port 63410 ssh2
My SSH was under continuous attack! . Hmm.., until I found DenyHosts that is..
DenyHosts is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vimalkumar.wordpress.com&blog=780702&post=61&subd=vimalkumar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GPRS with AirTel MobileOffice(INDIA) and Sony Ericsson W200i</title>
		<link>http://vimalkumar.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/gprs-with-airtel-mobileofficeindia-and-sony-ericsson-w200i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wichien Maat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony Ericsson W200i

W200i comes under the Walkman series.The best thing about this phone (apart from the fantastic music capability and other features) is that it comes along with a data cable. Previously I had a Nokia 6020 and had trouble connecting it to the laptop. The data cable has to be brought separately.
When connected to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vimalkumar.wordpress.com&blog=780702&post=7&subd=vimalkumar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OpenSuse on Acer Travelmate 4152NLCi</title>
		<link>http://vimalkumar.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/opensuse-on-acer-travelmate-4152nlci/</link>
		<comments>http://vimalkumar.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/opensuse-on-acer-travelmate-4152nlci/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wichien Maat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiences]]></category>
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I bought this laptop in the beginning of 2005. It was preloaded with a basic version(no X/GUI) of Linux &#8211; known as Linpus linux. A long time fan of fedora, I was shocked to see that my new laptop would not boot from the Fedora Core 4 DVD. The other choices I had was SuSE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vimalkumar.wordpress.com&blog=780702&post=6&subd=vimalkumar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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