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	<title>Mike Gerwitz</title>
	<link>http://www.mikegerwitz.com</link>
	<description>Free Software Developer</description>
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		<title>Beauty From Treetops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will grow higher&#8230;
I will grow stronger&#8230;
My life with be brighter..
My life will be sounder..
My hopes resemble reason.
Don&#8217;t let me flounder.
Soon I&#8217;ll look up.
The world will be beautiful.
My thoughts will be shaken&#8230;
My will will be weakened&#8230;
All will feel against me..
Nobody will guide me..
But I&#8217;ll be my own guide.
I&#8217;ll stand by my own side.
Watch me grow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2010/02/06/beauty-from-treetops/</link>
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		<title>False Freedom in Wordpress Themes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always had one major issue with some of the &#8220;free&#8221; Wordpress themes out there &#8211; the encryption of footer data. I&#8217;ve seen countless themes licensed under the GNU GPL that violate the very principles for which it exists.
Someone took the time to make their theme available under the GPL &#8211; that&#8217;s an excellent, noble [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2010/02/06/false-freedom-in-wordpress-themes/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft: Hijacking Your Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read this story on Slashdot:
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers
The idea is that Microsoft wants to create a system whereby it will gather physical statistics on a user and alter the game play around those characteristics. For example, as the article mentioned, an obese player may be cut off from playing. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2010/01/03/microsoft-hijacking-your-data/</link>
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		<title>Grub 2 Hangs on Boot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When BETA testing Ubuntu Karmic (9.10), I noticed that the whole boot process wasn&#8217;t so fast. This was primarily due to Grub 2 hanging for nearly 35 seconds each boot.
I haven&#8217;t the time to figure out what Grub is trying to do in that amount of time, but I did notice a solution. I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2009/11/01/grub-2-hangs-on-boot/</link>
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		<title>ssh-copy-id and sshd port</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For security purposes, I don&#8217;t run sshd on the default port (22). This gave me some problems when attempting to use the command ssh-copy-id. Ideally, you&#8217;d expect the following to work:

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ssh-copy-id -p XXXX -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub username@host

However, that didn&#8217;t do anything but output an error:
Bad port 'umask 077; test -d .ssh &#124;&#124; mkdir .ssh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2009/10/07/ssh-copy-id-and-sshd-port/</link>
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		<title>gnome-screensaver: What happens when you can&#8217;t unlock your PC.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an issue that has irritated me enough that I feel I should post my work-around. On Ubuntu (I&#8217;m not sure since what version &#8211; I&#8217;m currently using 9.04 Jaunty), I&#8217;ve noticed that every once in a while, gnome-screensaver would hang when I tried to log back in. Let me clarify a little. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2009/10/01/gnome-screensaver-what-happens-when-you-cant-unlock-your-pc/</link>
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		<title>compgen -d: No such file or directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while, I was having a problem on my Ubuntu server. After creating a user, I noticed that tab completion didn&#8217;t work properly. In fact, it went so far as to output an error:

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		<link>http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2009/08/25/compgen-d-no-such-file-or-directory/</link>
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		<title>PHP Extension Writing: Namespaces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m fairly new to PHP extension writing. I&#8217;ve just gotten into it in order to optimize some existing PHP 5.3 code for my WebKernel project. However, there was one fundamental problem that I could not find the solution to anywhere online &#8211; how do you define a function within a namespace!? WebKernel used namespaces extensively, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2009/06/21/php-extension-writing-namespaces/</link>
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		<title>Mother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Society nurtures their young and guides them into a set of values that are acceptable. Values and beliefs that are allowed and are surely &#8220;the right thing&#8221;. Society does a job to shelter from outside influence, its members protecting each other from the &#8220;danger&#8221; of exploration and thought. At a glance, society seems wonderful. Stable. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2009/02/06/mother/</link>
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		<title>Defend Your Liberties &#8211; Speak Against ACTA!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a proposed enforcement treaty between United States, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Mexico, with Canada set to join any day now.&#8221; &#8211; More information here
The name of the treaty sounds innocent enough, but what are they not telling you? This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/12/21/defend-your-liberties-speak-against-acta/</link>
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