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	<title>Eric Covener's Journal</title>
	<link>http://www.misers.org/blog</link>
	<description>A million dollar ideas</description>
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		<title>Unbelievable success fixing car</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i miraculously was able to fix my jammed (all the way pushed up to the steering wheel, of course) electric drivers-side seat with my own two little hands.  Electrical snafu aside, The honoroable engineers at toyota made each of the 4 14mm nuts in it&#8217;s own uniquely challenging orientation. 
I felt like a combination [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2010/03/unbelievable-success-fixing-car/</link>
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		<title>gnu ld has a built-in support for wrapping a function call</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t have to do this yourself with LD_PRELOAD, although it doesn&#8217;t really save you much!
       --wrap=symbol
           Use a wrapper function for symbol.  Any undefined reference to symbol will be resolved to "__wrap_symbol".  Any undefined
   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2010/02/gnu-ld-has-a-built-in-support-for-wrapping-a-function-call/</link>
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		<title>at com.ibm.lex.lap.lapimport.LAPConstants.(LAPConstants.java:53)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[at com.ibm.lex.lap.lapimport.LAPConstants.(LAPConstants.java:53)
.. means install libXp before using IBM JRE 1.4.2
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		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2010/01/at-com-ibm-lex-lap-lapimport-lapconstants-lapconstants-java53/</link>
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		<title>Something unconvincing in this PR response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2010/01/20/president_ranks_within_top_10.aspx
Penn State President Graham Spanier is one of the highest paid public university presidents, according to a recent report &#8212; but rankings can be deceiving, officials said.
The ranking, published by The Chronicle of Higher Educa-tion, lists Spanier as receiving the sixth-highest base salary at $620,000 for the 2008-09 academic year. Ohio State University President E. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2010/01/something-unconvincing-in-this-pr-response/</link>
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		<title>Weird DNS delay beaten</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My DNS had been pretty laggy lately, on the order of seconds, and playing on he command line with /usr/bin/host it would always hang between grabbing the A record and all the MX info.
I told my router to ignore the DNS servers in the DHCP response, and instead uses googles 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 servers.  Zippy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2010/01/weird-dns-delay-beaten/</link>
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		<title>Trying to move full-time to Chrome on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Move to chrome is looking more and more likely to succeed. 

 My most important greasemonkey script runs natively in chrome (chrome downloads and installs them as if they were compiled into their own extension already)
 Chrome supports the same syntax for quick searches, although it doesn&#8217;t let you add them from right-click on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2010/01/trying-to-move-full-time-to-chrome-on-linux/</link>
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		<title>768-bit RSA key brute-forced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/07/rsa_768_broken/
The team managed to factor the 232-digit number that RSA held out as a representative 768-bit modulus from a now-obsolete challenge. They spent half a year using 80 processors on polynomial selection. Sieving took almost two years and was done on &#8220;many hundreds of machines&#8221;. Using a single-core 2.2GHz AMD Opteron with 2GB RAM, sieving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2010/01/768-bit-rsa-key-brute-forced/</link>
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		<title>Fix is in for Little Genius game show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/backstage_error_scraps_quiz_show_sJe8oL2jywmh8tnstE0RVO&#8221;
 FOX is pulling &#8220;Our Little Genius&#8221; off the air &#8212; and will reshoot the entire series to avoid the appearance that the young contestants may have had help with the answers.
&#8220;I recently discovered that there was an issue with how some information was relayed to contestants during pre-production of &#8216;Our Little Genius,&#8217; &#8221; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2010/01/fix-is-in-for-little-genius-game-show/</link>
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		<title>Another loon taken off a flight to detroit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Man threatening to `kill all the Jews&#8217; taken off Miami flight, arrested

An Ohio man who became loud and disruptive aboard a flight from Miami to Detroit &#8212; at one point shouting &#8220;kill all the Jews&#8221; &#8212; was removed from the airplane and taken into custody by Miami-Dade poli
Although if you really were about to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2010/01/another-loon-taken-off-a-flight-to-detroit/</link>
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		<title>LED traffic lights too efficient</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34436730/ns/us_news-life/

MILWAUKEE &#8211; Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don&#8217;t burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm — a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death.

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		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2009/12/led-traffic-lights-too-efficient/</link>
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