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	<title>McFang - Exercising Futility &#187; Software</title>
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		<title>SSH Proxy</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/11/30/ssh-proxy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proxy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PuTTY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SSH]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that OpenSSH includes function to act as a SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 host? (I didn&#8217;t) It is as simple as creating a &#8220;Dynamic forwarded port&#8221; in PuTTY or using the -D switch with the SSH client. Tunnelling just became a whole lot easier. References HOWTO: Secure Firefox and IM with PuTTY]]></description>
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		<title>Comparison of Twitter clients</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/11/04/comparison-of-twitter-clients/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/11/04/comparison-of-twitter-clients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comparison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Echofon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peoplebrowsr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seesmic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tweetdeck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitterfox]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mcfang.com/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Echofon (formally known as Twitterfox) Pros Cons Easy to favourite, reply, retweet Shortcut key for open and paste in current page&#8217;s url Automatically shrinks urls Uses browser&#8217;s dictionary Easy to open selected tweet&#8217;s owner&#8217;s page in browser Compact user interface Preview destination of short urls before clicking Only loads subset of recent tweets, not all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deleting in Gmail IMAP</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/10/27/deleting-in-gmail-imap/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/10/27/deleting-in-gmail-imap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GMail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thunderbird]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Getting &#8220;Delete&#8221; to work as expected in Gmail IMAP was surprisingly complicated. The default action when a client deletes a message is to archive it (ie: move it to &#8220;All Mail&#8221;). I didn&#8217;t like this because then if I accessed the account from POP the deleted mail would still be downloaded. Recommended IMAP settings tells [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disable WordPress Autosave</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/10/20/disable-wordpress-autosave/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/10/20/disable-wordpress-autosave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annoyance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mcfang.com/?p=85</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress&#8217; Autosave feature was getting on my nerves. Often I make several revisions of a page before I save and WordPress was saving intermediate drafts that I didn&#8217;t want to keep. I was surprised to find that there is no option in WordPress core to disable Autosave. Thankfully though it is incredibly easy to disable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenSSH escape characters</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/10/19/openssh-escape-characters/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/10/19/openssh-escape-characters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lunux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SSH]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mcfang.com/?p=68</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SSH has tilde (~) as an escape character by default. Make sure that the last you typed in was nothing or a newline, then type one of the following sequences: ~. - terminate connection ~B - send a BREAK to the remote system ~C - open a command line ~R - Request rekey (SSH protocol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safe reboot a crashed Linux</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/08/11/safe-reboot-a-crashed-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/08/11/safe-reboot-a-crashed-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Originally seen here as Skinny Elephants, this sequence of keys allows you to safely reboot a Linux system that has blocked &#8211; avoiding hitting the reset button. Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring Here is how you &#8220;raise the elephant&#8221;: Alt+SysRq+r ( The LEFT Alt key ) ( SysRq is on the same button as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PowerPoint vs OpenOffice</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/08/04/powerpoint-vs-openoffice/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/08/04/powerpoint-vs-openoffice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comparison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OpenOffice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PowerPoint]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Comparing PowerPoint 2007 vs OpenOffice 3.1.0 vs GoOo 3.1-10. There is one crucial feature I use in PowerPoint that has prevented me from switching to OpenOffice: the Presenter View. Microsoft PowerPoint PowerPoint 2007 has further improved the presenter view from previous versions: it can now no longer hogs your primary display and can even be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows shutdown mindnumbingly slow</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/07/24/windows-shutdown-mindnumbingly-slow/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/07/24/windows-shutdown-mindnumbingly-slow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WindowsXP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seemed that shutdown in WindowsXP was taking excessively long, with it taking several minutes at the &#8220;Saving Your Settings&#8221; screen. Surprisingly(?) I found a tool at Microsoft that provides a solution to get shutdown times back to only a few seconds: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service The User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firefox&#8217;s XML Slowdown</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/07/01/firefoxs-xml-slowdown/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/07/01/firefoxs-xml-slowdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regmon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For many months a buglet had been niggling at me. Anytime I opened an XML document in Firefox the entire browser would freeze for several seconds. If I was trying to debug a RSS feed or an XML settings file this would quickly become extremely annoying. Today I fixed it. First I tried a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP/IDE Comparison 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/05/25/phpide-comparison-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/05/25/phpide-comparison-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 08:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comparison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.mcfang.com/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Eclipse PHP Development Tools all-in-one edition, Version 2.0 Pros: Show Syntax Errors/Warnings in a Tab Show &#8220;Tasks&#8221; in a Tab (matches @TODO texts) Subversion plugin includes repository browser Cons: Slow No visual editor for HTML Slow No wordwrap Slow Cannot disable code folding Slow Syntax Errors/warnings cannot be customised or disabled for specific files NetBeans [...]]]></description>
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