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	<description>Technical Insanity</description>
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		<title>Windows Automatic Updates pulled under control&#8230; but this time it&#8217;s personal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In every Microsoft operating system since windows 98 (It was installed as an extra, remember?) there has been Windows Update&#8230; the application. It sits there in your system tray and reminds you every 2 minutes that you have one update to install that affects something you never use, then waits for you to go get a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viperfang.net/2009/12/windows-automatic-updates-pulled-under-control-but-this-time-its-personal/</link>
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		<title>Akismet Spam Counter Widget for Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All I wanted was a way to place the number of comments Akismet has saved me from placed in a sidebar is a form which blands with my blog. But none was available!
I was because of this I decided to write one, at this point &#8216;Akismet Spam Counter Widget&#8217; was born. Yeah, original name I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viperfang.net/2009/07/akismet-spam-counter-widget-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Windows Automatic Updates under XP &#8211; silence the beast.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows Automatic Updates. Such a small piece of software that&#8217;s meant to save you time and keep you system up to date with little to no inconvenience to the user, and yet it is all but convinient.
How often have you been working on your system and you keep getting a little window bugging you to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viperfang.net/2009/06/windows-automatic-updates-under-xp-silence-the-beast/</link>
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		<title>Dynamic APT Sources list selection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Edit 20/05/2009: Realised I didnt attach a licence to this little project, so let it be the lastest version of the GPL, which at present is v3.   
Before I start this, it should be known I am relatively new to shell scripts, and while this may not be the best method by any means, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viperfang.net/2009/05/dynamic-apt-sources-list-selection/</link>
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		<title>Windows XP: Themes that were added.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are more themes turning up that are officially from microsoft that are fully signed, meaning you don&#8217;t need to modify you windows XP install to use them, but were made instantly available to everybody for various reasons.
1) Royale Style (MCE Theme aka Energy Bliss)
This was provided with windows XP Media Centre Edition only, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viperfang.net/2009/05/windows-xp-themes-that-were-added/</link>
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		<title>Portal Remixes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some really tallented people out there that have made some brilliant remixes to the song &#8220;Still Alive&#8221; which occures at the end of the game &#8220;Portal&#8221; from Valve. Partially to bring them together, and partially to make sure they dont go missing, I have put them together here. If you are the author [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viperfang.net/2008/11/portal-remixes/</link>
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		<title>NICs and Electronics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the idea of finding some boot roms, for some NIC&#8217;s that lack them, Ive been raiding a box of old computer equipment. As I didn&#8217;t have that much time I grabbed every chip that was in a socket,  below is what I found!



Type
Manufacturer
Model
Qty
Notes


eprom
ISSI
is27hc01045
2
128K (1 megabit)


eprom
STMicroelectronics
m27c256b
3
256K (2 megabit)


eprom
National Semiconductor
nmc27c256q25
1
256K (2 megabit)


eprom
Macronix International
27c256-15
2
256K (2 megabit)


eprom
Advanced Micro [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viperfang.net/2008/10/nics-and-electronics/</link>
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		<title>Rockbox 3.0 is out, but no Creative Zen Vision:M support!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have the 30GB model of this brilliant little player.
The sound quality is good and the battery life is brilliant. It does not, however, play OGG, FLAC or SID files. It is because of this that I decided that I would like to run rockbox on it. This seemed like little more than an idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viperfang.net/2008/09/rockbox-3/</link>
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		<title>Victorian Clock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve picked up a Victorian mantle clock. I know nothing about them, except I love clockwork movements.
It does have 1 small problem&#8230;. it doesn&#8217;t run.
The movement has &#8220;(L.T.M)&#8221; stamped onto it around the rim of the face that is covered by the case. &#8220;9150&#8243; is also visible there as well as on the pendulum and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viperfang.net/2008/09/victorian-clock/</link>
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		<title>Network Attached Burner (NAB)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I thought this would be a little bit of fun aswell as a bit educational. I have some parts lying around, and I wanted to give this a shot. I want this system to be able to:

Burn ISO images of single layer DVD
Burn the contents of a folder to DVD
Duplicate discs
Create ISOs of discs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viperfang.net/2008/09/network-attached-burner/</link>
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