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		<title>Microsoft threatens a $44.2bn hostile takeover of Yahoo!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live under a rock, and you havent heard yet, yesterday Microsoft sent Yahoo an offer of $44.2bn. The &#8216;offer&#8217; values the shares at more that twice the previous days share value, is set to become the largest hostile takeover in technology history. Microsoft chose the same week that Yahoo! cut 1000 (23%) jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unable to install IIS in XP Pro</title>
		<link>http://www.modeblue.co.uk/blog/archives/44</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[staxmem.dll]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to install IIS on Windows XP Pro SP2 box today caused the below error messages: Copy error: Setup cannot copy the file staxmem.dll. Please insert the &#8220;Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 CD&#8221;.Ã‚Â Setup could not copy one or more files. The specific error code is 0x4b8 However hard I tried, setup couldnt find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheesey Time Management</title>
		<link>http://www.modeblue.co.uk/blog/archives/43</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[team management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine, who happens to be a dutch cheese maker, made an interesting point about time management&#8230; His response to my complaints about how busy I have been recently, was the old time management categories of &#8220;not important&#8221; &#8220;important&#8221; and &#8220;urgent&#8221;. &#8220;Other than the emergencies, how do you split out what is urgent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This site goes Green!</title>
		<link>http://www.modeblue.co.uk/blog/archives/39</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[infrastructure management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon Neutral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MoveNeutral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MoveNeutral.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offset]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are all responsible for our carbon footprint &#38; with the recent press around Green-IT and reducing our carbon footprint, the issue of energy output is a priority for all of us. After a very pleasurable dinner with the CEO of MoveNeutral (see http://www.moveneutral.com) I decided to offset the carbon output of this website. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My laptop runs on Perpetual Motion.</title>
		<link>http://www.modeblue.co.uk/blog/archives/36</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[battery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D620]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laptop Battery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perpetual Motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have found that my laptop will run without any power! See Screenshot below, batteries =Ã‚Â not installed Ã‚Â AC Adapter =None This is proper &#8220;Green IT&#8221;, surely it wont be long before manufacturers are offeringÃ‚Â huge sums of cashÃ‚Â for the secrets of perpetual motion.]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco ASA 5500 series</title>
		<link>http://www.modeblue.co.uk/blog/archives/29</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[5500]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[5505]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[5520]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adaptive Security Appliance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASDM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cisco ASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firewall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Router]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After upgrading the firewalls in our organisation, I have gotten to grips with the new Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances quite well. Here&#8217;s my thoughts on the new kit. Well, I say new &#8211; they&#8217;ve been out for a couple of years now, but since the PIX reached eol last year, the ASA has only become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cost of downtime vs Risk of downtime vs Cost of fault tolerance</title>
		<link>http://www.modeblue.co.uk/blog/archives/26</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[infrastructure management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[downtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mtbf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mttr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[single points of failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPoF]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.modeblue.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/10/30/cost-of-downtime-vs-risk-of-downtime-vs-cost-of-fault-tolerance/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the risk of an outage occuring? How many are acceptable? And what are the most effective ways to reduce them? There are two types of outage, planned and unplanned. A planned outage can be achieved out of hours, communicated to users/customers and have work arounds designed where necessary. When the marketing dept are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 2003 blocks web users.</title>
		<link>http://www.modeblue.co.uk/blog/archives/23</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial of service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DoS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows server 2003]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On a busy Windows 2003 web server, users can sometimes get blocked by the windows DoS filter. This will kick a user off &#38; block them for 10minutes, not what you want, especially on an image server or front end server. I found this solution from Microsoft: From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898468 : SYMPTOMS The following event is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server 2005 Security</title>
		<link>http://www.modeblue.co.uk/blog/archives/22</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ms sql server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mssql]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sql]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sql 2005]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sql server 2005]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows authentication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SQL Server 2005 has the same 3 types of logins as earlier versions of SQL Server. It also adds logins mapped to certificates and asymmetric keys. SQL Server Login The original type of login to a SQL Server. SQL Server stores the username and a hash of the password with the master database and verifies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remote Desktop error in data encryption</title>
		<link>http://www.modeblue.co.uk/blog/archives/21</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data encryption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[error in data encryption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rdp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remote desktop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remote desktop error]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server 2003]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday after fixing a mess with its active directory account I got a nasty error on a windows server 2003 box. Whenever you tried to connect via Remote Desktop, it threw the following error: Ã¢â‚¬Å“Because of error in data encryption, this session will end. Please try connecting to the remote computer again.Ã¢â‚¬Â Searching google only [...]]]></description>
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