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version="0.92"> <channel><title>Take 2</title><link>http://lynema.org</link> <description>Thomas Lynema&#039;s Weblog</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:42:47 +0000</lastBuildDate> <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs> <language>en</language> <item><title>The Sprint, Samsung Moment, BestBuy, and Android Experience</title> <description><![CDATA[I am finally a cell phone owner.  It took about 9 months before something that could justify the exceptional expense that cell phones cost.
The experience of buying and owning a cell phone involves several parties.  The parties involved are the reseller, the service provider, and the phone itself.  I&#8217;m going to break these 3 part [...]]]></description><link>http://lynema.org/2009/12/23/the-sprint-samsung-moment-bestbuy-and-android-experience</link> </item> <item><title>Take 4</title> <description><![CDATA[I post way too infrequently.   It seems like every 4th post is about how I had some sort of elaborate hardware failure.  So let me tell you about my most recent one.
Roughly a month ago, my NFS requests started failing.  This was odd.  The server was still happily running along, but, after further investigation, totally [...]]]></description><link>http://lynema.org/2009/12/12/take-4</link> </item> <item><title>The Real Madden Curse is the Game</title> <description><![CDATA[Every three years for the past decade and a half, I have purchased and played the latest installment of the Madden football franchise.
The game is one of the most popular games released every single year.  It is the only game that you can buy that features real NFL football and players.  This is due to [...]]]></description><link>http://lynema.org/2009/10/03/the-real-madden-curse-is-the-game</link> </item> <item><title>Jamaica Vacation Pictures</title> <description><![CDATA[For friends and family, our vacation photos have been posted.  Check them out here.
]]></description><link>http://lynema.org/2009/08/19/jamaica-vacation-pictures</link> </item> <item><title>My Television is a Glorified Computer Monitor</title> <description><![CDATA[Its been about 4 years since I first had a computer that was dedicated to running media on my television.  At the time, it was a rare thing to do.  The resolution on TVs wasn&#8217;t that good, streaming video wasn&#8217;t as mature as it is today, and storage was more expensive and less available then [...]]]></description><link>http://lynema.org/2009/07/18/my-television-is-a-glorified-computer-monitor</link> </item> <item><title>Making a Slide Show That Looks Good in a Time Crunch</title> <description><![CDATA[For those who just want to grab the applications and go try out PictoMio and Picasa, and make sure you are running on a Microsoft platform.  Linux users are in the cold on this project.  Sure, there ways of doing this on Linux, but nothing as quick as the apps listed above.
The requirments for this [...]]]></description><link>http://lynema.org/2009/07/11/making-a-slide-show-that-looks-good-in-a-time-crunch</link> </item> <item><title>The Sprint Palm Pre Experience</title> <description><![CDATA[The Palm Pre came out recently, and I had to get one.  Or two, depending on if you count the returned ones.
It took 5 hours and 8 visits to 3 different Sprint stores to come up with nothing.
The Pre has a lot of things going for it.  WebOS is excellent.  I never had an issue [...]]]></description><link>http://lynema.org/2009/06/17/the-sprint-palm-pre-experience</link> </item> <item><title>Adventures in Motherboard Failure</title> <description><![CDATA[The last piece of hardware that I expect a failure from is the motherboard.  There are no moving pieces, not much wear and tear.  Plus, I spent $250 on the last board.  It was an AW9D-MAX; top of the line when it was purchased.  I would expect it to last more than 2 1/2 years [...]]]></description><link>http://lynema.org/2009/05/28/adventures-in-motherboard-failure</link> </item> <item><title>Is Security a Feature?</title> <description><![CDATA[Updating a computer is quite straight-forward.   Either type a command or click a couple of times,  wait, and reboot.  When the computer restarts, everything is back to the way is was.  Right?
Well, the truth is that this may not always be the case.   Case in point, my last Cent OS 5 update.  Without getting into [...]]]></description><link>http://lynema.org/2009/04/18/is-security-a-feature</link> </item> <item><title>Finally, an OpenSolaris DomU under Linux</title> <description><![CDATA[This is something I&#8217;ve wanted to do for a while now.  I finally found put the time to it and found a really good tutorial.  For people wanting to do the same, check out http://www.neuhalfen.name/drupal/node/3.
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