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		<title>How I drastically increased battery life on my Dell XPS M1530</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ordered my Dell XPS M1530 with the &#8220;extended&#8221;, 9-cell battery in the hopes that I could run on battery power for at least three hours.  After using my laptop for a few days I realized that I had got my wish:  It ran for about 4 hours with the screen dimmed to ~75%, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://riskable.com/?p=281</link>
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		<title>How to avoid cron hell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cron is not a particularly intelligent utility.  It will run a command whenever it is set to run&#8211;regardless of whether or not the last invocation of said command completed.  So if you have a command that puts a high load on your system and it&#8217;s time for cron to execute that same command again you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://riskable.com/?p=278</link>
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		<title>How to use SSL with the Python MySQLdb module</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It took me forever to figure this out because I could find ZERO examples after like 20 minutes of googling and at least 10 minutes of reading the docs (I&#8217;m sorry but, &#8220;see the MySQL documentation for more details&#8221; is *FAR* too ambiguous).  Anyway, so no one has to go through what I did here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://riskable.com/?p=271</link>
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		<title>These are a few of my favorite things&#8230;  About Linux desktops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hardware detection I love how fast the hardware detection is.  In Windows when you plug in some new piece of hardware you have to wait for that &#8220;ba-doop&#8221; sound (and the driver to load).  It can take an especially annoying length of time when booting up with new hardware attached (especially a mouse).  In Linux [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://riskable.com/?p=261</link>
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		<title>Tip: Regular expression to match any IP address in FoxyProxy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m posting this because I know someone out there will find it useful (or at the very least, a time saver). What is FoxyProxy? FoxyProxy is a great add-on to Firefox that lets you define multiple rule-based proxy servers.  It lets you do things like define a rule that loads all URLs through a certain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://riskable.com/?p=240</link>
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		<title>The Myth of &#8220;Business as Usual&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s this idea floating around in people&#8217;s minds regarding oil that I feel compelled to dispel:  That if we just drill more oil, build more renewable/nuclear power plants, and sell more energy efficient vehicles we&#8217;ll be able to go back to Business as Usual (BAU).  It is a myth.  We&#8217;ve reached Peak Oil.  All that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://riskable.com/?p=238</link>
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		<title>My IT Best Practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all heard the term, &#8220;Best Practices&#8221; but what they entail tends to vary from person to person.  Especially in the realm of Information Technology (IT).  I&#8217;ve been involved in IT for a while now and I&#8217;ve decided to share a few of my own, &#8220;Best Practices&#8221;: Non-technical people should never be allowed to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://riskable.com/?p=237</link>
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		<title>CNN Bullshit: &#8220;Some other experts&#8221; think the job market is strong?  Oh really!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an article on CNN.com saying that in March we lost 80,000 jobs (according to the Labor Department) when I came across the following text right in the middle of the story: But some other experts said that while job losses are climbing, the job market is still relatively strong by historic standards, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://riskable.com/?p=235</link>
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		<title>The American Delusion &#8211; Diminishing supply will reduce demand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ask someone filling up their gas tank, &#8220;At what point will you stop going to the gas station to fill up?&#8221; they will respond in a confused manner, &#8220;What do you mean? No matter how much you cut back you still have to get gas sooner or later.&#8221;  Yet most Americans believe that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://riskable.com/?p=234</link>
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		<title>Is today the beginning of the permanent oil crisis?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oil hit $104/barrel today. This comes right after OPEC met to talk their usual talk about how much oil they want to pump out of the ground. OPEC is not going to increase production and they claim it is because &#8220;supplies are sufficient&#8221;. They&#8217;re blaming &#8220;speculators&#8221; for driving up the cost. What a load of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://riskable.com/?p=232</link>
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