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	<title>Random Musings</title>
	
	<link>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk</link>
	<description>Thoughts and ideas on Linux, Open-Source and other things that spring to mind...</description>
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		<title>Penguins, Theatres and Shoes – Automated Build Systems with Puppet &amp; Cobbler</title>
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		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2009/11/penguins-theatres-and-shoes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=49</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I&#8217;m not the first to blog about this, however I&#8217;m using cobbler and puppet to automate the creation of VMs on my laptop for testing/staging purposes so I thought I&#8217;d blog about it here.
The aim is to use Cobbler to setup the base operating system and install puppet, then let Puppet take over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TWITTER – #Iranelection</title>
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		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2009/06/twitter-iranelection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter has the latest updates on safe-proxy servers for those inside IRAN wishing to get out and publish about the current events.
Current list is as follows (19:48 on Monday 15th June 2009):
218.128.112.18:8080
218.206.94.132:808
218.253.65.99:808
219.50.16.70:8080
WHOIS reveals that these IP addresses are NOT inside IRAN and therefore are unlikely to be shut down as part of the signal jamming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethernet over Powerline – not as good as I had hoped!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/juTi71wK8NQ/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2009/04/ethernet-over-powerline-not-as-good-as-i-had-hoped/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Automation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=44</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post&#8230;
In the last two parts of this series I stated I&#8217;d be using Ethernet over Powerline (aka HomePlug) as the backbone for my media system.
I currently own two 14Mbps units and tests have rapidly shown that this is nowhere near good enough.  Looks like I&#8217;ll have to upgrade to the 200Mbps units [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whole-house networking without honeycombing walls</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/KyPAupy7iJM/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2009/04/whole-house-networking-without-honeycombing-walls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Automation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[networking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=41</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In part one of this series, I outlined LinuxMCE and how amazing it was providing Home Cinema, VoIP Telephony, CCTV and home automation in one system for the price of a download and a few hours work.  This article will help those who, like me, live in rented accomodation or cannot ask their local electrician [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Automation and whole-house media on the cheap…</title>
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		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2009/04/home-automation-and-media-streaming-on-the-cheap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Automation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[home theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linuxmce]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=37</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing around with Home Automation and trying to get my audio/video around the house without honey-combing the walls for the last few years with varying degrees of luck and in this time I&#8217;ve looked at a number of solutions including proprietary hardware (too expensive!!), Microsoft Windows Media Centre Edition (expensive and it runs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gendarmerie switch to open source</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/7f6TBBE2wrA/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2009/03/gendarm-switch-to-oss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=35</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The French national police force, the Gendarmerie Nationale, has spoken about their migration away from the Windows platform to Linux. Estimated to have already saved the force 50 Million Euros, the migration is due to be completed on all 90,000 workstations by 2015. Of the move, Lt. Col. Guimard had this comment: &#8216;&#8221;Moving from Microsoft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Issues Upgrading from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny</title>
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		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2009/02/issues-upgrading-from-debian-etch-to-debian-lenny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open-Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trouble shooting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I tried to run the upgrade last night and I&#8217;ve ended up with a few issues.  This could be my fault, however I did follow the instructions found on the debian website and had to resolve multiple dependencies.
The minor issues I&#8217;ve encountered:

slocate appears to have been removed and replaced with mlocate.
Apache is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BackupPC and SVN</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/hhNNeKDFAHM/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/11/backuppc-and-svn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open-Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trouble shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backup linux using rsync]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backuppc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debian etch backups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linux rsync]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remote backups]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using BackupPC for the last year to securely backup servers to a remote location over Rsync and SSH, however I recently stumbled across an issue with backing up the SVN root directory on an SVN server.

The error in the logs was as follows:
2008-11-11 06:04:09 full backup started for directory /var/svn
2008-11-11 06:04:11 Got fatal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing Puppet from GIT on Debian Etch.</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/UH_UglOcX2g/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/11/installing-puppet-from-git-on-debian-etch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open-Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trouble shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[configuration management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debian etch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puppet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=20</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my previous posts concerned how to install Nagios3 from source on Debian Etch.  One of the comments I recieved was that you should generally use the packages available for install.  I agree with this entirely, however there&#8217;s no challenge in just using the packages and I&#8217;ve found myself getting lazy when it comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logging PHP sessions to a database</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProfsRandomMusings/~3/SdAdLLZ4jZM/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/2008/09/logging-php-sessions-to-a-database/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Professor Falken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open-Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linux-ha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maintaining sessions across cluster nodes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multi-master replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php sessions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php sessions in database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[session_mysql]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/?p=15</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently configuring a cluster to provide high availability web-hosting.
The main issue we&#8217;ve experienced is with ensuring that PHP sessions are maintained across the web-servers without having to recode all the sites that are contained on them.
The answer appears to be session_mysql &#8211; this is a php module that replaces the &#8220;file&#8221;session manager with a [...]]]></description>
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