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		<title>$50 off Dreamhost hosting &#8211; Promo code GIVEME50OFF</title>
		<link>http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2009/07/50-off-dreamhost-hosting-promo-code-giveme50off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had my hosting with Dreamhost now for a little over a and have been very happy with!!! I was previously using Site Ground but converted for the following reasons: Dreamhost allows you to host unlimited domains, databases, email etc under your account Dreamhost allows complete control of your DNS (so you can point a domain/sub domain to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software I couldn&#8217;t live without&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years we all build up our own collections of tools which help us be more productive little soldiers. We realise a need for something to help us to achieve an end goal, or a lot of the time just ask ourselves &#8220;surely there is a faster and easier way of doing this&#8221;. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vistas first 2008 &#8216;reliability&#8217; update blue screens</title>
		<link>http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2008/01/vistas-first-2008-reliability-update-blue-screens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As recommend by the Microsoft crew I had enabled automatic updates&#8230; Big mistake! After my laptop installed the batch of updates released on the 9th of January my laptop began endlessly rebooting. It blue screens as soon as is starts to load Vista. To make things even better even safe mode does the same thing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtualisation: Host only and Internet networking</title>
		<link>http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2007/11/virtualisation-host-only-and-internet-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m running a development server virtual machine on my Vista laptop using Parallels. Trouble is being on a laptop sometimes I&#8217;m on the road so a Host only network suits me, but other times I&#8217;m at home so I want the guest machine to connect to my home network. Up until now there has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cintraAD: Adding SVN and Trac users</title>
		<link>http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2007/09/cintraad-adding-svn-and-trac-users/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adding additional Trac and SVN users is relatively simple. With Trac you can do this under Admin when logged in as an administrator thanks to the WebAdmin and AccountManagerPlugins! For adding a new subversion user just use this command: htpasswd /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd john_smith This user will then have access to all of your subversion repositories because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cintraAD: Setup a new Trac project</title>
		<link>http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2007/09/cintraad-setup-a-new-trac-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To create a new Trac project follow these steps: sudo -s -H trac-admin /var/trac/project initenv trac-admin /var/trac/project permission add admin TRAC_ADMIN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/trac/project Now to setup the new Trac project with the same plugins as the example project. This also uses the same password file. So use unique usernames and users spanning multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cintraAD: Setup a new Subversion repository</title>
		<link>http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2007/09/cintraad-setup-a-new-subversion-repository/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To create a new Subversion repository follow these steps: mkdir /var/svn/project mkdir ~/project mkdir ~/project/branches mkdir ~/project/tags mkdir ~/project/trunk svnadmin create /var/svn/project svn import ~/project file:///var/svn/project -m &#34;Initial directory import&#34; After this you&#8217;ll see the three directories added. rm -rf ~/project chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/project apache2 -k restart Now you should be able to point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cintraAD: Change the SVN and Trac password</title>
		<link>http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2007/09/cintraad-change-the-svn-and-trac-password/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Particularly if you&#8217;re publishing your SVN and Trac over the internet, you should change the defaults passwords for these that were in the VM you downloaded. To change the Subversion password: htpasswd /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd admin To change the Trac password (one file is currently used for all trac projects) : htpasswd /var/trac/trac.htpasswd admin Share and Enjoy:]]></description>
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		<title>cintraAD: Change the root password</title>
		<link>http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2007/09/cintraad-change-the-root-password/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2007/09/cintraad-change-the-root-password/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For security reasons if you&#8217;re using any downloaded VM you should not leave the default root password as provided. To change the password: sudo passwd You&#8217;ll then be asked to enter the original password, then asked twice to enter the new password. Share and Enjoy:]]></description>
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		<title>cintraAD: Setup a static IP</title>
		<link>http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2007/09/cintraad-setup-a-static-ip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2007/09/cintraad-setup-a-static-ip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously it&#8217;s a bad idea to have a server assigned a different IP address by your DHCP server when it comes up. So here are some basic instructions to set a static IP address on this Ubuntu server. sudo -s -H vi /etc/network/interfaces Then change the following line: iface eth0 inet dhcp to: iface eth0 [...]]]></description>
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