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		<title>Synchronizing Thunderbird e-mail filters using Dropbox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two words: Use symlinks. If you already know what a symlink is then you don&#8217;t need to read the rest of this article. If you want a better explanation, read on&#8230; I use the Thunderbird e-mail client to read mail stored on my company&#8217;s IMAP mail server. I have a lot of filters set up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://earlruby.org/2011/12/synchronizing-thunderbird-e-mail-filters-using-dropbox/</link>
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		<title>Fixing the &#8220;broken horizontal scrollbar&#8221; problem in LibreOffice Calc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This problem affects people using the KDE4 desktop with the &#8220;Oxygen&#8221; style and a recent version of the LibreOffice suite. (I&#8217;m running LibreOffice 3.4.2 on OpenSUSE 11.4) The horizontal scrollbar in Calc just doesn&#8217;t work, so if your spreadsheet is wider than your screen you can&#8217;t use the scollbar to view the right hand side. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://earlruby.org/2011/11/fixing-the-broken-horizontal-scrollbar-problem-in-libreoffice-calc/</link>
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		<title>Work-around for a locked-up Gnome 3 screen saver in Ubuntu 11.10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gnome 3 has a screen saver (or more accurately a screen blanker &#8212; there are no pretty pictures) which is turned on by default and which password-protects (locks) your desktop by default when it activates. Unfortunately it&#8217;s been known to be buggy since it was released as part of Gnome 2, often refusing to unlock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://earlruby.org/2011/10/work-around-for-a-locked-up-gnome-3-screen-saver-in-ubuntu-11-10/</link>
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		<title>Adding a task bar to Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.10 start up a terminal and type: sudo apt-get install gnome-shell To use Gnome 3 instead of Unity: when you log in, click the &#8220;gear&#8221; above your password. Select &#8220;Gnome&#8221;, log in. After you get tired of &#8220;click Activities, find the window you want, click the window&#8221; every time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://earlruby.org/2011/10/adding-a-task-bar-to-gnome-3-on-ubuntu-11-10/</link>
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		<title>How to turn off smart quotes in Libre Office Writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To turn off smart quotes in Libre Office Writer, so that the double quote character is shown in the document as &#8221; &#8212; exactly as you typed it &#8212; and doesn&#8217;t get converted into something curly: Go to Tools &#62; Autocorrect Options Select the Localized Options tab Click the button under Start Quote. If you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://earlruby.org/2011/08/how-to-turn-off-smart-quotes-in-libre-office-writer/</link>
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		<title>Recovering from a lost connection when upgrading Ubuntu via ssh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to upgrade my desktop machine at work to the latest version of Ubuntu, but since it takes several hours to upgrade an Ubuntu host, and I have work to do during the day, I figured I could log into my workstation from home in using ssh and start the upgrade remotely. So I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://earlruby.org/2011/05/recovering-from-a-lost-connection-when-upgrading-ubuntu-via-ssh/</link>
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		<title>A Quick Guide to Understanding the Actual Dangers of Radiation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick guide to understanding what people should and should not be concerned about with the partial meltdowns in progress at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Complex in Japan.]]></description>
		<link>http://earlruby.org/2011/03/a-quick-guide-to-understanding-the-actual-dangers-of-radiation/</link>
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		<title>Turn off trackpad pinch-to-zoom on Firefox on Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you browse the web using Firefox on a Mac laptop you&#8217;ve probably brushed the track pad the wrong way and accidentally zoomed in on content. I&#8217;ve never used the pinch gesture to zoom in on purpose, it always happens by accident, then I have to press Command-0 to reset the screen back to normal. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://earlruby.org/2010/10/turn-off-pinch-to-zoom-on-firefox-on-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<title>Increasing the size of an LVM Physical Volume (PV) while running multipathd &#8212; without rebooting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to enlarge a physical volume (PV) within an LVM volume group on a SAN running multipathd without rebooting.]]></description>
		<link>http://earlruby.org/2010/10/increasing-the-size-of-an-lvm-physical-volume-pv-while-running-multipathd-without-rebooting/</link>
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		<title>Eliminating PXE Boot &#8220;Missing parameter in config file&#8221; Error Messages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d recently made a bunch of changes to my company&#8217;s server build scripts, making changes that automatically generate system builds for a variety of operating systems and CPU architectures. We use PXE Boot to boot servers, then install images from a central install server which is running OpenSUSE 11.1. After I made the changes I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://earlruby.org/2010/08/eliminating-pxe-boot-missing-parameter-in-config-file-error-messages/</link>
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