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	<title>McFang - Exercising Futility &#187; Fix</title>
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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>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regmon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcfang.com/blog/?p=56</guid>
		<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>Default Interface for Multicast on Windows (IPTV)</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/05/05/default-interface-for-multicast-on-windows-iptv/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/05/05/default-interface-for-multicast-on-windows-iptv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 11:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multicast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WindowsXP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcfang.com/blog/?p=54</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Third time lucky, as the saying goes. Having given up trying to get IPTV to work twice before I didn&#8217;t hold much hope for a third and final attempt. Again I had no luck on my desktop PC, however I fired up a browser on a different PC and to my surprise it worked immediately. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux open file limit</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/01/07/linux-open-file-limit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2009/01/07/linux-open-file-limit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcfang.com/blog/?p=44</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I discovered some error logs that indicated I was hitting the limit for concurrent open files. Increasing the limit is actually very easy. Check the current system-wide limit: $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max To increase this to 65535 we would do (as root): $ echo "65535" &#62; /proc/sys/fs/file-max If you want this new value to survive across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Documents opens at startup</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/12/24/my-documents-opens-at-startup/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/12/24/my-documents-opens-at-startup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcfang.com/blog/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This was becoming a nuisance, explorer would open a new window every time I logged in (and if I didn&#8217;t close them they would continue to compound after each reboot). A support article suggests a minuscule change in the registry is the cause: Navigate the Registry to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Win­dows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Find the value Userinit. This value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Updates Hate</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/12/10/windows-updates-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/12/10/windows-updates-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After &#8220;updating&#8221; to IE7, shared drives are treated as internet zone &#8211; prompting you to confirm every single time you try to copy a file. This knowledge-base article describes the problem, however the &#8220;fix&#8221; does not work. This registry hack appeared to work: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\YOUR_SERVER] "file"=dword:00000001 Then obviously reboot after update the registry, because Winblows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing VirtualBox</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/12/10/fixing-virtualbox/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/12/10/fixing-virtualbox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VirtualBox]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcfang.com/blog/?p=29</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been testing VirtualBox OSE in Ubuntu, but found that every time a kernel upgrade comes out the VirtualBox kernel drivers are left out of the upgrade. The solution is quite simply to add the &#8220;ose-source&#8221; modules for VirtualBox: sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-source sudo module-assistant auto-install virtualbox-ose-source sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start Now every subsequent upgrade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bittorrent can&#8217;t load fastresume data</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/06/20/bittorrent-cant-load-fastresume-data/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/06/20/bittorrent-cant-load-fastresume-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bittorrent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcfang.com/blog/?p=20</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Testing the Bittorrent CLI client I noticed an error &#8220;can&#8217;t load fastresume data&#8221;. This was forcing it to rescan the entire data before resuming the torrent &#8211; even if nothing had changed since the previous run. A bit of searching found this solution: change file /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/BitTorrent/Storage.py modify line 216 str(os.path.getmtime(filename)) + '\n') to str(int(os.path.getmtime(filename))) + [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems adding SP3 to WindowsXP</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/06/18/problems-adding-sp3-to-windowsxp/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/06/18/problems-adding-sp3-to-windowsxp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcfang.com/blog/?p=19</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was unable to upgrade WindowsXP to SP3, given an access denied error. It was not hard to find a relevant kb article from Microsoft: kb949377: When you try to install Windows XP Service Pack, you receive the error message &#8220;Access is denied&#8221; or &#8220;Service Pack installation did not complete&#8221; The only given solution that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firefox save-as for unknown mime-type</title>
		<link>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/02/18/firefox-save-as-for-unknown-mime-type/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.mcfang.com/2008/02/18/firefox-save-as-for-unknown-mime-type/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcfang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annoyance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcfang.com/blog/?p=12</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If Firefox 2.0 does not recognise a mime-type it forces you to jump through hoops every time you wish to save a file of that type &#8211; never giving you the option to make a default action (eg. save-as) for the type. Getting tired of this I eventually did some research to find a solution, [...]]]></description>
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