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		<title>Setting &#8216;User Cannot Change Password&#8217; using Python</title>
		<link>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2011/07/04/user-cannot-change-password-using-python/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nye</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[active directory]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Adding users manually to Active Directory can be a chore, especially if you have a lot of users to add and/or you need to remember to set several options. Fortunately AD is readily scriptable. I generally use Python for this purpose, and there are numerous examples for how to do things like add a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Packaging</title>
		<link>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2011/04/08/packaging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nye</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the new computer case I received in the post today: Alongside the box it came in: And the box that came in:]]></description>
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		<title>ZFS: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error</title>
		<link>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/04/05/zfs-one-or-more-devices-has-experienced-an-unrecoverable-error/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/04/05/zfs-one-or-more-devices-has-experienced-an-unrecoverable-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nye</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m using ZFS (via ZFS-FUSE), and at one point a zpool status gave me this rather scary report: zpool status pool: srv state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Visual Git Reference</title>
		<link>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/03/20/a-visual-git-reference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nye</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This page gives a good visual overview of numerous Git operations. If you understand Git in principle, but are unsure about the exact meaning of certain commands, then this may be useful; for each operation covered it gives a description and a block diagram of how it changes the state of the repository. If you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DreamPie</title>
		<link>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/03/05/dreampie/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/03/05/dreampie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nye</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/?p=88</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This graphical Python shell appears to be an excellent tool for interactive Python use, possibly supplanting IPython. From the announcement: * Has whatever you would expect from a graphical Python shell - attribute completion, tooltips which show how to call functions, highlighting of matching parentheses, etc. * Fixes a lot of IDLE nuisances - in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automating Debian security updates</title>
		<link>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/03/04/automating-debian-security-updates/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/03/04/automating-debian-security-updates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nye</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[automation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[updates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/?p=45</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to &#8216;foom&#8217; on LWN, comes a neat recipe for automatically installing critical updates on a Debian system with minimal risk: http://lwn.net/Articles/374542/. It&#8217;s explained in some detail, but in brief it uses (optionally) a separate sources.list into which you can put only critical sources, and makes dpkg/apt choose the default responses to any questions. Fortunately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mintty</title>
		<link>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/03/03/mintty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nye</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/?p=94</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How did I not know about this? &#8220;Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin. It is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.&#8221; Previously I&#8217;ve been using PuTTYcyg which is a version of PuTTY with Cygwin support added. It&#8217;s good, but mintty seems a lot neater &#8211; rather than being a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement</title>
		<link>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/03/02/apple-sues-htc-for-patent-infringement/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/03/02/apple-sues-htc-for-patent-infringement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nye</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evil empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[htc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawsuit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/?p=81</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported by just about everybody, those litigious bastards are at it again. The BBC has a reasonable summary, but Gizmodo seems to have the best coverage so far, including the list of (20!) patents, the full filings, some links to Apple&#8217;s related issues with Nokia and Palm, and a brief response from HTC. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting a screen session to ssh-agent</title>
		<link>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/03/01/connecting-a-screen-session-to-ssh-agent/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/03/01/connecting-a-screen-session-to-ssh-agent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nye</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bash]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ssh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GNU screen is an excellent way of keeping a persistent multi-terminal session for console based programs. It shines when connecting to a remote server &#8211; ssh in, run screen to create a session, then do whatever you want in it. At any point you can detach from the session and it will keep running in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using physical disks with VMWare server</title>
		<link>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/02/28/using-physical-disks-with-vmware-server/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/2010/02/28/using-physical-disks-with-vmware-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nye</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtualisation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.steamsprocket.org.uk/?p=46</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason (product differentiation? simple oversight?) VMWare Server 2 has no option to create a VM using a physical disk. Fortunately, that doesn&#8217;t mean that it can&#8217;t use them; you just need to import a predefined VM and tell it to use that. It&#8217;s possible to create a VM in the right format using [...]]]></description>
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