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		<title>My 802.1X Web Presentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my time working in the Networking Services department at UT Dallas, I gave a presentation for the EDUCAUSE community about the work I did to transition our wireless LAN security from the static WEP security in place at the time to the more enterprise friendly 802.1X based security that it uses today.  I first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nearband.com/2008/05/08/my-8021x-web-presentation/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Pentium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Saturday, March 22, a mere 11 days from now, the Intel Pentium processor will turn a grand 15 years of age.  The Pentium marked a pretty dramatic increase in x86-based processor optimization capabilities, namely the introduction of multiple instruction pipelines.  The optimization gains were so much so, that many software packages don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nearband.com/2008/03/11/happy-birthday-pentium/</link>
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		<title>Zimbra alias domains vs. individual aliases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I love about Zimbra as an administrator is the fact that it includes some decent graphing functionality in the administration interface.  I can quickly see the health of my Zimbra servers and the affects of any configuration updates I&#8217;ve made.
Many companies and other organizations these days have multiple domains, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nearband.com/2008/02/08/zimbra-alias-domains-vs-individual-aliases/</link>
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		<title>Specifying Transports in Zimbra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had occasion today to need to do some &#8220;creative&#8221; email routing for one of my Zimbra servers.  Charter Communications appears to have either blackhole-routed or simply firewalled traffic coming from a block of IP addresses that I recently acquired.  I guess that the last person/company to use these addresses may have upset [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nearband.com/2007/12/05/specifying-transports-in-zimbra/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye Parallels, Hello VMWare Fusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a Mac guy, but, as with many others, my position as an IT support person requires me to use Windows regularly (and know it inside and out, of course).  As such, Parallels was a no-brainer when I got my MacBook Pro.  When Parallels stopped working for me after installing the Mac OS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nearband.com/2007/11/25/goodbye-parallels-hello-vmware-fusion/</link>
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		<title>Where is .Mac for the iPhone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a Zimbra hosting provider, I often get questions from clients about iPhones.  One of the glaring omissions in the iPhone is the lack of any sort of over-the-air syncing capability.  I completely understand the need to plug it in to iTunes so it can check for software updates, sync lots of large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nearband.com/2007/11/21/where-is-mac-for-the-iphone/</link>
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		<title>PXE Booting SpinRite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had reason recently to purchase a copy of Steve Gibson&#8217;s SpinRite utility to try to recover some data on a backup drive that went kaput.  Since all of our workstations in the house are Macs, and I wanted to be able to let SpinRite perform its sometimes lengthy drive analysis without tying up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nearband.com/2007/11/19/pxe-booting-spinrite/</link>
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		<title>Limiting per-client connections in iptables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of our community network management service offering (a mouthful, I know - we manage a number of community WiFi networks), we sometimes have to employ measures to insure that some users don&#8217;t overrun the network with malware infections, peer to peer file sharing applications, etc.  Instead of limiting what people are allowed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nearband.com/2007/11/17/limiting-per-client-connections-in-iptables/</link>
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		<title>Tier 1 Data Center Requirements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe its just me, but I expect any tier 1 data center that I or my clients use to be able to handle a power outage, and I mean a full power outage.  As you may or may not know, Rackspace experienced a severe outage yesterday.  A truck collided with the main power [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nearband.com/2007/11/13/tier-1-data-center-requirements/</link>
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		<title>First Impressions of Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had Leopard fully installed and running now for about 2 weeks, enough time to get to know it pretty well, and I like what I see so far.  Unfortunately, I was one of the unlucky few that preordered and received a defective Family Pack DVD.  This was a quite frustrating experience, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nearband.com/2007/11/12/first-impressions-of-leopard/</link>
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