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		<title>Rant: USB hard drives and warranty</title>
		<link>http://www.tim.id.au/blog/2009/10/30/rant-usb-hard-drives-and-warranty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking of buying a USB hard drive? Obviously you&#8217;re gonna go for the one with the longest warranty &#8211; three years will surely see you through your CompSci degree, yeah? Hold on for a minute. There&#8217;s a point I&#8217;d like to make. Hard drives are reasonably equal beings, nowadays; some tend to fail more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two times two is five</title>
		<link>http://www.tim.id.au/blog/2009/05/23/two-times-two-is-five/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 06:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In fixing a computer, you must narrow the problem down to being one of two types: hardware and software. A software problem is a genuine bug in a program, where clicking something ordinary produces an unexpected and often inexplicable result, like incorrect output or a funny error message and a crash. These problems are often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They don&#8217;t want my Australian money.</title>
		<link>http://www.tim.id.au/blog/2009/04/06/they-dont-want-my-australian-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I decided to finally bite the bullet, and actually pay for some music. Back in 2005 or thereabouts, I wrote on another blog somewhere I wouldn&#8217;t do so unless I could give some website a very small amount of money for some very high quality, DRM-free mp3s. I had no intention of being forced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>in which tim yells at bios programmers</title>
		<link>http://www.tim.id.au/blog/2009/02/25/in-which-tim-yells-at-bios-programmers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dell have used F2 for their BIOS key practically forever. Any Dell laptop or desktop, it&#8217;s F2 to get into the BIOS. Compaq? F10, but you&#8217;ve gotta be on the ball or you&#8217;ll miss it. For most whiteboxes, it&#8217;s either F2 or delete. Although I&#8217;ve seen control-F2 on a laptop before. Sometimes it&#8217;s F1 (isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the disk drives of the future</title>
		<link>http://www.tim.id.au/blog/2008/12/26/the-disk-drives-of-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USB flash drives Nobody uses floppy disks for anything regular and important anymore. They&#8217;re slow, they&#8217;re physically huge yet hold so little, and they wear out and die too easily. CDs and DVDs have their place, but today people mostly use USB-attached flash drives to cart their files around. This is my newest flash drive. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>emergent behaviour</title>
		<link>http://www.tim.id.au/blog/2008/12/03/emergent-behaviour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lead a child to a sandbox and he&#8217;ll dig a hole in the sand. Bring him a playmate and they&#8217;ll throw the sand around, put it in their pockets and drive trucks through it. You get the same scary effect from putting two scripted AI characters in the same room, and making them interact. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>and now, the truth</title>
		<link>http://www.tim.id.au/blog/2008/11/29/and-now-the-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not really into RPGs. Every time I try my hand at one, I get about a third of the way through the game and then irretrievably stuck because I forgot to pick up a swirly purple potion from the 3rd room on the left as you walk in the 2nd door on the 5th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tim demands modern nomenclature.</title>
		<link>http://www.tim.id.au/blog/2008/10/24/tim-demands-modern-nomenclature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tim.id.au/blog/?p=518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting at my desktop computer. Before me are my keyboard, my mouse, my monitor. Behind me sits my broadband modem, my backup hard drive, my wireless access point, and my laptop computer. My printer&#8217;s over there *points* and there&#8217;s a stack of compact discs on the floor just *points* there. I am completely bored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>don&#8217;t you have one?</title>
		<link>http://www.tim.id.au/blog/2008/10/15/dont-you-have-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tim.id.au/blog/?p=493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a common conversation at work: Customer: Hi, my laptop has a problem, can you look at it? Me: Sure&#8230; oh, it&#8217;s a blue screen of death? That could be hardware. We&#8217;ll need to book it in and look closely at it&#8230; did you bring the power adapter for it? Customer: The what? Me: &#8230;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>how old computers die</title>
		<link>http://www.tim.id.au/blog/2008/10/01/how-old-computers-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plenty of older computers die not because of overheating, or power surges, or your nephew fiddling with them, but because of faulty capacitors. Wikipedia dubs the phenomenon the &#8220;capacitor plague&#8220;; at work, we just point into an open PC and say &#8220;blown caps&#8220;. Here&#8217;s a video card I pulled from a machine at work today. [...]]]></description>
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