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	<title>McFang - Exercising Futility &#187; Hardware</title>
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		<title>Rockbox 3</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/12/10/rockbox-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portables]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sansa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rockbox &#8211; the Open Source Jukebox Firmware &#8211; has finally released a &#8220;stable&#8221; release with Rockbox Version 3.0. Rockbox solved all the annoyances I had with the Original Sansa firmware. The only major feature outstanding form Rockbox is USB support for disk access and charging (currently have to boot into the OF for USB access). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to jump start a PSU</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/06/14/how-to-jump-start-a-psu/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/06/14/how-to-jump-start-a-psu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motherboard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently one of my PCs has developed a resistance to powering up. I have not been able to single out whether it is the motherboard or the PSU that is the problem &#8211; at worst case it could be both. However because the PC is running mostly 24/7 it has not been a big enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graphics makers fail at decoding</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/06/11/graphics-makers-fail-at-decoding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Codec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Both nVidia and ATi tout &#8220;hardware decoding&#8221; support in their graphics cards for various video formats (including DVD and h264). Both these vendors have working implementations, nVidia with PureVideo and ATi with AVIVO, however with one major drawback: you have to buy third party software. What I don&#8217;t understand is why at this time neither [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Love DTS INTERACTIVE</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/06/09/i-love-dts-interactive/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/06/09/i-love-dts-interactive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DTS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using the digital audio output from my PC to my Receiver/Amplifier for about 10 years now. The sound quality is excellent for normal audio because there is no loss or noise between the PC and Amplifier. DVDs and videos are also excellent because the multi-channel AC3 or DTS can be sent directly to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocketraid prevents booting</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/06/07/rocketraid-prevents-booting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gigabyte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Highpoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RocketRaid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcfang.com/blog/?p=14</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My new GA-EP35-DS4 System would not boot with both RocketRaid and Intel IHCR Raid enabled. If disabling the Intel SATA is not an option, this following solution will allow the system to boot by disabling the Rocketraid BIOS from loading at startup (bolding mine): Answer: Some motherboards may be unable to load the card&#8217;s BIOS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacBook vs AsusBook</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/02/17/macbook-vs-asusbook/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/02/17/macbook-vs-asusbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comparison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago Asus produced an &#8220;ultralight&#8221; notebook computer called the S5N. The most prominent features were the relatively tiny dimensions and a sub-3lb weight (under 1.36kg). Jump to the present and Apple announces the &#8220;worlds thinnest notebook&#8221;. Well upon comparing the specs &#8211; apart from a few obvious upgrades such as the RAM &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wishlist for the Sansa Portable Audio</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2007/04/26/wishlist-for-the-sansa-portable-audio/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2007/04/26/wishlist-for-the-sansa-portable-audio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portables]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sansa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love my Sandisk Sansa portable audio device, but after a few months I have noticed there are plenty of things I would love to have more control over: customise the scroll speed of titles remember volume when restart multilanguage font always show the clock allow user to browse files (rather than just the database) [...]]]></description>
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