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	<title>Jonathan Buys</title>
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	<description>Kinda Scruffy!</description>
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		<title>This Should Be Default</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m crawling out of my cave to make a quick point before I get back to coding.  In Cocoa, if you want to have your window shown when you click on its icon in the Dock, you need to add this method to the app delegate:


- (BOOL)applicationShouldHandleReopen:(NSApplication *)theApplication
       [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/651</link>
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		<title>Managing Nagios Configs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t have a very big Nagios installation, comparatively anyway, but it is big enough to find that the default layout for configurations is insane.  I tried using the provided layout, until I wound up with single text files with thousands of lines in them. This made it very hard to do individual customizations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/647</link>
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		<title>Blizzard 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


100_1931, originally uploaded by jonbuys.



Iowa got its first big storm of the winter season yesterday, and as of right now its still going on.  We couldn&#8217;t go anywhere even if we wanted to.  We got about 13&#8243; of snow so far, but the wind gusts up to 50mph are the big problem.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/646</link>
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		<title>New SysAdmin Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My answer to a great question over at serverfault.

First off, find your logs.  Most Linux distros log to /var/log/messages, although I&#8217;ve seen a couple log to /var/log/syslog.  If something is wrong, most likely there will be some relevant information in the logs.  Also, if you are dealing with email at all, don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/631</link>
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		<title>SLES and RHEL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comparing two server operating systems, like SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), needs to answer one question, &#8220;what do we want to do with the overall system&#8221;? The version of Linux running underneath the application is immaterial, as long as the application supports that version. It is my opinion that we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/629</link>
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		<title>Writing about Jekyll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing an article for TAB about my new blogging engine, Jekyll.  I&#8217;ve taken most of the reliance on the command line out of dealing with Jekyll on a day to day basis, and instead have a few Automator workflows in the scripts menu in the Mac menubar.  It&#8217;s a great setup, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/621</link>
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		<title>The Unix Love Affair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been times when I&#8217;ve walked away from the command line, times when I&#8217;ve thought about doing something else for a living.  There&#8217;s even been brief periods of time when I&#8217;ve flirted with Windows servers.  However, I&#8217;ve always come back to Unix, in one form or another.  Starting with Solaris, then OpenBSD, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/614</link>
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		<title>Slowly Evolving an IT System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are going through a major migration at work, upgrading our four and a half year old IBM blades to brand spanking new HP BL460 G6&#8217;s.  We run a web infrastructure, and the current plan is to put our F5&#8217;s, application servers, and databases in place, test them all out, and then take a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/605</link>
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		<title>Teach A Man To Fish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a general rule, I really don&#8217;t like consultants.  Not that I have anything against any of them personally, it&#8217;s just that as a whole, most consultants I&#8217;ve worked with are no better than our own engineers and administrators.  The exception that proves this rule is our recent VMWare consultant, who was both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/602</link>
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		<title>Regarding OS Zealotry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I found myself in the unfortunate situation of defending Linux to a man I think I can honestly describe as a Windows zealot.  I hate doing this, as it leads to religious wars that are ultimately of no use, but it&#8217;s really my own fault for letting myself be sucked into it.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/600</link>
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		<title>Design and Flattery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve changed the theme of my site here, and it&#8217;s possible that the design might look familiar to you.  Its intentional, it should remind you of Daring Fireball.  I&#8217;m using the &#8220;Plane Jane&#8221; theme from Jim Mitchell Design, and it&#8217;s described as &#8220;A nice grey theme with a very small amount of inspiration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/594</link>
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		<title>Personal Rules for Cocoa Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Understand every line of code written in my apps
Do not use frameworks (see rule 1).
Do not copy and paste code (see rule 1).
Add lots of comments so I remember what I was doing at any given time.
Manage memory as I go, don&#8217;t wait until I&#8217;m nearly finished and then go and &#8220;clean it up&#8221;.
Roadmap the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/587</link>
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		<title>Ping from Cocoa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the features of Servers.app is that it pings the host and shows a little indicator for it&#8217;s status: green is good, red is dead.  Getting that little feature in here was not quite as easy as I thought it would be.  After searching the Apple documentation for what seemed like years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/580</link>
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		<title>Servers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d share a little about the hows and whys of the application I&#8217;m developing for the Mac.  As I&#8217;ve said before, I&#8217;m a systems administrator during my day job, where I work in a cloth covered box.  The box is very nice, it&#8217;s quiet, and I have plenty of opportunity to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/574</link>
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		<title>The Last Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had it.  I&#8217;m fed up, and I&#8217;ve had enough.  This is the last year.  This is the last year I wonder what I&#8217;m going to do with my life.


     This is the last year I watch on the side lines as others, people I know, live the life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/561</link>
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		<title>Macs, Netbooks, and Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean when an entire community springs up around hacking together a product that is not otherwise available?  Apple has been adamant that it is not interested in the netbook market, but according to the many users who are breaking Apple&#8217;s EULA and installing OS X on Dell Minis, the market is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/554</link>
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		<title>Jim Sanford</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
               My Mama said if I’d be good, she’d send me to the store.
               She said she’d bake some gingerbread if I would sweep the floor.
  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/552</link>
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		<title>DiggBar This</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve put a lot of work into this site.  I&#8217;ve put thought into how I want the URLs to look, how the layout should feel, and since the site has my name on it, I wanted it to be good.  I created a custom theme for the site which will purposefully only work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/547</link>
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		<title>NKOTB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was younger, 20 years ago or so I suppose, the New Kids On The Block (NKOTB) were synonymous with cheesy pop music that was taking over our airwaves.  They weren&#8217;t just a pop boy band, they were The pop boy band.  I remember the thing was that if you were a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/545</link>
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		<title>Spit and Polish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After spending a week with Linux as my sole computer, I find it very refreshing to come back home to my Mac.  FedEx says my wife&#8217;s PC should be here tomorrow, so she can go back to Word 2007 and I can have Mactimus Prime back.  It&#8217;s not that I didn&#8217;t enjoy working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/463</link>
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		<title>Tough to Turn Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using Linux for nearly a decade now.  I first had a guy I met in a Navy school install it on my old IBM desktop.  Back then, it was very hard to find the right drivers, and just about impossible to get on the Internet, seeing how almost every modem that shipped with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/459</link>
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		<title>Adamo: Apple Pushes the Industry Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I almost feel sorry for the other hardware manufacturers.  No matter what they do, no matter what they come out with, they seem to be forever following in Apple&#8217;s footsteps.  Such is the case with Adamo from Dell, a clear shot at the MacBook Air.  

Adamo uses the same machined aluminum manufacturing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/457</link>
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		<title>Communications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ask any mechanic, machinist, or carpenter what the single most important thing that contributes to their success is, and what they are bound to tell you is &#8220;having the right tool for the job&#8221;.  Humans excel in creating physical tools to accomplish a certain task.  From hammers to drive a nail to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/443</link>
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		<title>Macs and Cats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, never leave your MacBook open while there are cats around who would like nothing better than to sleep on your keyboard.  You&#8217;ll come back to find your Mac speaking every item you select, Spotlight beachballed, and strange double options in the Finder menu:



A reboot seems to have cleared everything up, but I&#8217;ve no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/439</link>
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		<title>Hopes and Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[singlepic=84,320,240,,center]

When you are ten years old, the world is massive, unimaginably gigantic, full of wonder and mystery, full of magic and hope.  Scary at times, brilliant at others.  She wants to be a ballerina, a dance teacher, a scientist, an archeologist, an astronomer, to find the lost ark, to save sick animals.

She wants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/435</link>
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		<title>Shell Script Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My co-worker and I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon going through a former employee&#8217;s shell scripts to try to determine what they were and what he was trying to do.  The script worked, for a while, but there were several mistakes.  The mistakes were not in strict syntax, they were in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/419</link>
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		<title>Systems Administrator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From time to time I&#8217;m asked by members of my family or friends of mine outside the tech industry what it is that I do for a living.  When I respond that I&#8217;m a sysadmin, or systems administrator for Linux and UNIX servers, more times than not I get the &#8220;deer in the headlights&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/417</link>
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		<title>A Work in Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I decided that I was not going to use anyone else&#8217;s theme on my site.  It happened after I stumbled across another site using the exact same theme as mine.  Unavoidable really, as long as you are using someone else&#8217;s theme.  So, the decision was to either stop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/409</link>
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		<title>Wallpaper</title>
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I went for a walk with the kids today, and found some really nice leaves and water in the runoffs.

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		<title>JeOS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For better or worse, we are starting to put Ubuntu JeOS images into production in our network.  Starting off, we will only put these systems in for our non-IBM services, no WebSphere or DB2, as IBM doesn&#8217;t officially support this configuration yet, but for everything else, JeOS looks like a perfect fit.

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		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/384</link>
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		<title>Rota</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was June of 1996 when I arrived in Rota. The Spanish sun was bright as I stepped off the creaky military aircraft, and I realized that this day would hold a lot of firsts for me.  Today, I was going to meet my ship.

This was the day for which I had been preparing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/372</link>
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		<title>The GI Hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In December 1995 I was halfway through boot camp, a time called service week.  Service week was when the recruits went to work in the galley.  Some served food, other mopped the floor, and still others handed out miniature boxes of cereal.  My name was chosen alphabetically for assignment to the GI [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/367</link>
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		<title>Consulting in Coralville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2007 I spent two months working as a network engineer for a small tech consulting company. The work there was amazing. They had built a long range, city-wide wireless network, and were providing broadband to rural areas. They were also providing a &#8220;one stop shop&#8221; for everything IT for small businesses in town. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/252</link>
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		<title>First Things First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My phone went through the wash today.  Turns out it happened first thing this morning.  I really should be more careful about cleaning out my pockets before throwing something in the washing machine, but to be honest, I never liked that phone to begin with.  It had a faulty battery, and a faulty USB charger, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/201</link>
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		<title>Cocoa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer I decided to dive into programming and give it everything I&#8217;ve got.  For months, I would get up at 5 and pour through the Hillgass book, every page, every challenge.  I&#8217;d revisit it at night, after the kids were in bed, and code till I couldn&#8217;t stay awake any more.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/185</link>
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		<title>The Sorry State of &#8220;Enterprise&#8221; Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been unlucky enough to be working with quite a few pieces of so called &#8220;enterprise&#8221; software, the worst of which I&#8217;ve been working with lately is called the Tivoli Workload Scheduler.  TWS is, at its core, a glorified cron.  It is a scheduler, you can create jobs, or scripts, and have them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/180</link>
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		<title>Visual Thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ability to visualize a complex system is key to a real understanding of it.&#160; To me, this applies to computers and technology.&#160; To Daniel Tammet, this applies to numbers and letters, on a far, far more vast scale.&#160; Daniel is a savant, an extraordinary person who pushes the boundaries of what we believe we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/151</link>
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		<title>New Years Day</title>
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I love January 1st.  It&#8217;s not that this day is really any different from any other day, other than having the day off.  Its the mental association that goes along with the start of a new year.  The calendar restarts, and it seems like a fresh clean slate to build the rest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/106</link>
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		<title>Songbird Media Player</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Songbird is a very young product with a very bright future. The Mozilla based media player has come a long way since first releasing a beta, unfortunately to unseat the ruling titan iTunes, Songbird still has a very long ways to go. Songbird is open source, packed with features, and seemingly infinitely expandable through various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/96</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? [Christmas] came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled &#8217;till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn&#8217;t before. What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/94</link>
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		<title>MobileMe is not a Blogging Platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d try OSZen on MobileMe yesterday, to see if I could consolidate even more of my online accounts.  Unfortunately, the limitations of both iWeb and RapidWeaver became quickly apparent.  I pointed 1and1&#8217;s DNS servers at MobileMe, and uploaded an iWeb site.  I liked the theme, but the first thing that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/47</link>
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		<title>The Coffee Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had this coffee cup on my desk at work for the past year or so now.  It&#8217;s just a plain white cup, with the Ubuntu logo on it.  I got it from CafePress.  I loved it, for one, because the Ubuntu logo is great.  Best Linux logo out there.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/41</link>
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		<title>Scanning Images in Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife has recently gone back to college, and, seeing as she&#8217;ll need it much more than I do, I gave her my shiny, beloved MacBook.  As compensation, I&#8217;ve got her old PC, running Ubuntu, which looks great on my 22 inch monitor.  How long this will last, I don&#8217;t know.  I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/33</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been nine years since I first installed Linux on a computer of mine. It didn&#8217;t last long back then, since I actually wanted to use the computer for surfing the web, sending email, and playing games. Linux has come a long way since then, and now it&#8217;s a reliable desktop system at work. However, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/31</link>
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		<title>The Linux Box and Upgrading Java</title>
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		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/29</link>
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		<title>Build Something Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What would it take to change computers?  What would it take to build something truly revolutionary in a time where most of the design philosophy of a computer is taken for granted?

 

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about ways to make computers better.  Much of that thought is dedicated to software, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Account Pruning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a geek.  Understanding that little fact puts me a little closer to being in touch with myself, and understanding that I&#8217;ve got a habit of trying out every new service or technology that comes along.  That&#8217;s fun, but in the case of online services, I wind up with accounts all over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/9</link>
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  To enable an interface on a web server to be part of a load balanced cluster,
  we need to be able to share an ip address between multiple machines. This
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  will answer for a request for that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/302</link>
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		<title>Nagios Check Scheduling</title>
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		<title>Essentials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by Mark Pilgrim&#8217;s &#8220;Essentials&#8221; post, I thought I&#8217;d come up with my own list of essential software.


Mac OS X.  Closed source or open source, I lean towards the system that performs the best.  Simplicity, security, and reliability have made me a Mac fan for years.  I&#8217;ve tried to love Linux, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/297</link>
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		<title>Build Something Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What would it take to change computers?  What would it take to build something truly revolutionary in a time where most of the design philosophy of a computer is taken for granted?

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		<title>End of an Era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hard thing about keeping a job in the technology field is that it is constantly changing.  Just this past summer $WORK fired several mainframe workers who could not keep up.  They got stuck on one technology that they knew how to operate, and failed to evolve when the field did.  Now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/294</link>
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		<title>Grad School is (not so) Expensive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking into going to grad school again, mainly because I just can&#8217;t sit still.  All I can say is holy crap is grad school expensive!  Since I live close to Ames I&#8217;ve been looking at Iowa State, and since I still have to work full time I&#8217;ve been looking at their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/293</link>
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		<title>Writing and Mail Annoyances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran into yet another snag trying to write a software review for some Windows antivirus software last night.  I have XP loaded in a VirtualBox VM to test software for the reviews.  I thought it&#8217;d be a pretty good set up, test each piece of software in its own clean environment, then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/290</link>
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		<title>Poor Web Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just spent the past 10 minutes trying to get this article I wrote for BrightHub posted using their online writers application.  I&#8217;m not sure what language they are using, or what platform the site is running on, but I tried Chrome, Firefox, and finally, out of desperation, Internet Explorer 7, all with the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/289</link>
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		<title>New Apple Hardware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot to think about in the new MacBook line.  The aluminum MacBooks are unquestionably what I wanted in the white MacBook that I have now: sturdy construction, fast graphics, and a sleek powerbook look to them.  Apple has further blurred the line between their professional and consumer line, something they started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/134</link>
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		<title>Changes in Zen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Up until my post about graduating from college, my writing online has been almost entirely technical.  Over the years I&#8217;ve gone from writing and developing content online with the intent of making a living off of it, to writing because its something that I enjoy doing, and something that I believe I need more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/288</link>
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		<title>System P</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The more I learn about IBM&#8217;s P-Series UNIX systems, the more impressed I am.  I&#8217;ve been a very harsh critic of them in the past, but that may have just been my ignorance of the platform.  The P is, no doubt, expensive&#8230; however, when you look at what it can do, and at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/285</link>
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		<title>Goodbye Cocoa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some times, things come easy to me.  I&#8217;d like to think that I&#8217;m somewhat blessed in that way, especially when it comes to various forms of technology.  Back in the Navy, I found I had a knack for telecommunications, and I found that I could grasp the flow of the circuits through various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/283</link>
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		<title>Development Environments and Software Quality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In OS X, there is a small collection of very high quality software.  This is a fact, and there is really no debating it.  Mac software that was developed specificly for the Mac is generally  well crafted and performs as advertised, every time.  In compairison, in Linux, there is a very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/282</link>
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		<title>Moving to Ubuntu: F-Spot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in my last post that I was giving up my MacBook so my wife could go to college, and (until I can justify the cost of another Mac) that leaves me with her Linux PC.  After the first few days of using Linux at home,as opposed to managing Linux servers at work, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/281</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu Scanning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife has recently gone back to college, and, seeing as she&#8217;ll need it much more than I do, I gave her my shiny, beloved MacBook.  As compensation, I&#8217;ve got her old PC, running Ubuntu, which looks great on my 22 inch monitor.  How long this will last, I don&#8217;t know.  I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/280</link>
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		<title>On Graduation Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is more personal than anything I&#8217;ve posted here on OSZen, and probably more than anything I ever will.  The focus of the blog is still technology, but I thought I&#8217;d share this achievement with the world.

In May of 1995 I should have graduated from high school in the rocky mountains of Montana.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/279</link>
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		<title>The Linux Box and Upgrading Java</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a general rule, I really don&#8217;t like to go outside of the box when it comes to Linux. And by that, I mean that I don&#8217;t like going outside of what is provided by what ever distribution you are using, be that SLES, Red Hat, or Ubuntu. A lot of people put a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/277</link>
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		<title>Learning to Fly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, learning Cocoa in Mac OS X.  I&#8217;m pouring all of my time into a new project.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll have a mock up here soon, but right now, I need to concentrate on the task at hand.

I&#8217;ll be back :)

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		<title>Open Formats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is another old article I found while digging around looking for something else.  I thought I&#8217;d post it here.

Using sustainable formats on OSX, or&#8230; The Best of Both Worlds!

Remember the early days of networking&#8230; before TCP/IP became the standard protocol?  Well, neither do I, but I&#8217;ve read about it.  That&#8217;s years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/276</link>
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		<title>wsu &#8212; gksu for Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[wsu is a simple little utility that let&#8217;s you run another application with elevated privileges on Windows, much like sudo on Linux, and its GUI wrapper gksu.  My good friend, Matt Paulauskas is letting me distribute it here on OSZen, and he is releasing it as open source under a BSD license.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/40</link>
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		<title>The Master Craftsman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Master Craftsman works methodically, not slowly, not hurriedly.  He has mastered the basics, and knows the essence of his craft.  He has moved to a point where he can define his own methods, and doesn&#8217;t need to explain them to anyone, unless someone is wise enough to ask.  The Master Craftsman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/36</link>
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		<title>Creative Uses for Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where I spend my days ($WORK), we have multiple monitoring systems for just about every service on every server that we have.  Many of these are Nagios, some are built in, and others are SiteScope.  All of the systems generate email alerts that either go to our pagers, our email, or both.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/32</link>
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		<title>My Optimized Windows Workflow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love Linux, I really do.  Compared to the older UNIX systems like AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris (who is trying really hard to catch up) Linux is head and shoulders above the rest.  The main reason for this is that a lot of really smart people also love Linux, and try their best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/274</link>
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		<title>Contextual Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My personal browser of choice has almost always been Omniweb.  Omniweb and I went through a tough time for a while when it (she?) was crashing frequently and generally having a tough time of it.  The Omni Group has once again straightened things out, and she (yea, I&#8217;ve decided Omniweb is a she) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/30</link>
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		<title>Starting Over (and over, and over&#8230;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife wanted me to read something that she was writing the other day, so I sat down at her laptop on our table and read through it. While I was there, I happened to glance at her email, an old hotmail account, and noticed that she has emails going all the way back to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/26</link>
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		<title>Segmentation Fault, Episode 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
9:00 AM Matt: Yo
9:01 AM me: hey, how&#8217;s it going?
9:02 AM Matt: Good, you?
9:03 AM me: not bad, we are about to go clone a linux system with clonezilla

 Matt: Sweet
 Clonezilla is great
9:04 AM me: yea, I like it
 Matt: I have a share on one of our servers just for clonezilla images
 me: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/272</link>
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		<title>OSVids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing online since around 2000, starting with a geocities site.  After that, I had a 50megs.com site that offered gasp 50 Megabytes of online storage! (Just noticed, they still do!)  After a couple of years, I noticed a company named 1and1 that was offering three years of free hosting and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/20</link>
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		<title>Segmentation Fault, Episode 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt&#8217;s a good friend of mine from back in the military.  Now he lives in Maine, and I live in Iowa, but thanks to Google Chat we keep in touch, and continue our extremely geeky conversations.  I thought it might be fun to share some of our conversations here, under the equally geeky [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/16</link>
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		<title>Linux is not for MacBooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently gave Linux my second, and final, serious shot at running it full time as my primary operating system on my MacBook.  This time, it lasted all of three days before I dug out my Leopard install disk and began the long migration back to OS X.  To preempt any questions on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/271</link>
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		<title>5 Things Windows does better than Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a repost, because&#8230; well, its my blog.  I&#8217;m still waiting for the Ubuntu release that can say, yes&#8230; this is the one.  Now I don&#8217;t have to worry about ever going back to Windows because everything (and I mean everything) works.  Till then&#8230;

Everyone loves to bash Windows, and for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/270</link>
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		<title>Writing and Word Processing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine is having a heck of a time with his new MacBook.  He&#8217;s a recent convert to Macs, and as a philosophy student he spends a lot of time in Word.  When he first bought his shiny new MacBook, he was surprised to find out there was no word processor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/269</link>
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		<title>Forgotten?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I have not forgotten about the blog.  I&#8217;ve just been very, very busy.  I&#8217;ll get back to it soon.

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		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/268</link>
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		<title>Agility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To create the perfect datacenter, what would you recommend?  For me, the perfect datacenter would be based on agility.  We would be able to add new capacity when needed, and reallocate resources whenever needed, quickly and easily.  We would be able to backup everything, securely and easily, off-site.  We would use, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/267</link>
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		<title>The Little Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was out in the data center and decided to boot into Linux to get some work done on my Dell laptop.  I was busy populating our internal wiki with hardware and OS data from our servers (how many dimms, what size, kernel level, etc…), which is a lot of work, lots of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/266</link>
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		<title>Shackles and Chains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Software licensing is one of the biggest expenses of high-end server systems.  The vendors charge you not only to use the software, but they charge you for how efficiently you want to use the software as well.  IBM, for example, charges a different license fee for AIX determined by how many cpus are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/264</link>
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		<title>Oranges and Oranges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago Linux Magazine published an article written by Scott Granneman comparing Mac OS X Leopard and Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.  I’ve been torn between these two systems, and their respective predecessors since they came out, so the article was of great interest to me.  As a matter of fact, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/8</link>
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		<title>10.5.2 Broke my Yojimbo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I updated to Mac OS X 10.5.2 last night, as did %80 of other mac users, and now Yojimbo is refusing to launch. 

Looks like we are going to need an update soon. Yojimbo is an excellent example of a closed source application using an open source, well documented data storage medium.  Yojimbo uses SQLite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/263</link>
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		<title>No Fail Diet Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, does anyone really need to know how to loose weight these days?  No matter what super plan you choose, it always comes down to eat less an exercise more.  There is no secret formula, and there is no magic pill that will help you achieve the body that you want.

Here&#8217;s another truth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/260</link>
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		<title>9/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I slept. The world changed all around me, and I slept.

My wife woke me up in a shaking, excited voice, &#8220;Jon, get up! Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center!&#8221; I remember thinking that she must have been watching a movie of some sort, and I dozed off again. A few minutes later, I got up, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/259</link>
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		<title>Folktale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, lived a beautiful princess in a shining white castle.  The princess would dance and sing along the pearl white halls of the shining white castle.  Yes, she would never walk, or stroll, or simply mosey along, No!  The princess would jump and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/258</link>
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		<title>Change and Blessing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the 23rd, at 9:17 AM, we were blessed with our fourth child, Jacob.  Jacob and his Mom are home now, after a few days stay in the hospital at the University of Iowa.  Jacob is strong and healthy, waking every few hours to eat and burp and have his diaper changed.

&#60;

p>The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathanbuys.com/257</link>
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