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	<title>Yet another web log</title>
	<link>http://blog.philippheckel.com</link>
	<description>Life, Linux and other things</description>
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		<title>Aware Context API (ACAPI) &#8211; Using the sensors in Java ME</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The capabilities of cell phones increased dramatically in the last few years. While in the old days most mobile phones were primarily used to make phone calls, modern smart-phones are mostly all-round devices. With the possibility of accessing the Internet and the availability of various sensors (e.g. location or noise), mobile applications have become interactive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philippheckel.com/2010/08/22/aware-context-api-acapi-using-the-sensors-in-java-me/</link>
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		<title>Hybrid Clouds: A Comparison of Cloud Toolkits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few years, the importance of the Internet has risen constantly and made it indispensable for businesses and most individuals to be on-line around the clock. One of the greatest drivers of this development was and still is the shift of the traditional one-to-many Web to an advanced, participatory version of the Word [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philippheckel.com/2010/05/08/hybrid-clouds-comparing-cloud-toolkits/</link>
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		<title>WP-UN: WordPress version update notification with cron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress is a very popular open-source blog software and is used widely throughout the Internet. However, with great success comes great attack potential: like any other wide spread open-source software, WordPress is target for frequent hacking attacks and spam-bots. All the more important is it to always update the distribution to the latest release. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philippheckel.com/2010/01/29/wp-un-wordpress-version-update-notification-with-cron/</link>
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		<title>How to: Postfix as mail relay with greylisting support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greylisting is a very efficient technique for fighting spam and can reduce the spam messages in your mailbox by more than 90%. It uses the fact that most spammers only try delivering their spam-mails once, whereas real mail transfer agents (such as the ones regular e-mail service providers are using) try delivering each message up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philippheckel.com/2010/01/28/how-to-postfix-as-mail-relay-with-greylisting-support/</link>
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		<title>Dell Latitude E6400: the Ubuntu fan and noise problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, my 4 year old laptop (HP nx8220) decided that it was time to retire and refused to switch on a couple of times. Even though it works most of the time, I can&#8217;t rely on it anymore and will therefore look for new notebooks in the next week. On my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philippheckel.com/2009/09/21/dell-latitude-e6400-the-ubuntu-fan-and-noise-problem/</link>
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		<title>Extract text from PDF files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adobe&#8217;s Portable Document Format (PDF) has reached great popularity over the last years and is the number one format for easy document exchange. It comes with great features such as embeddable images and multimedia, but also has rather unpleasant properties. The so called Security Features represent a simple Digital Rights Management (DRM) system and allow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philippheckel.com/2009/08/09/extract-text-from-pdf-files/</link>
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		<title>Simsafe: Simple command-line password safe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays, it appears to me as if almost everything in the big and fancy world of IT comes with the need to sign up and create an account. Every little online tool, every social networking site and of course every instant messenger account. System administrators hits it even harder: The setup of a server machine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philippheckel.com/2009/04/07/simsafe-simple-command-line-password-safe/</link>
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		<title>KadS: a secure version of the Kademlia protocol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are various peer-to-peer protocols out there. All of them focus the decentralisation of storage and other system resources. Most implement a distributed hash table (DHT) to store information. That is, each node of the network only holds a small part of the hash table but is able to locate and retrieve any requested entry. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philippheckel.com/2009/03/16/kads-a-secure-version-of-the-kademlia-protocol/</link>
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		<title>Server Virtualization with VMware Infrastructure (vSphere)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few years, the Internet has become increasingly important in various fields of our lives. Not only personal households have discovered the nearly endless possibilities of the Web, but also companies found many different ways of gaining revenue through the online world. Most of the global players and many medium-sized IT companies have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philippheckel.com/2008/11/01/server-virtualization-with-vmware-infrastructure-vsphere/</link>
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		<title>Unison &amp; multiple hosts: &#8220;Warning: inconsistent state.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As some of you might know, Unison is this great tool that allows bidirectional synchronisation of two hosts, &#8211; no matter which operating system they&#8217;re running&#8230; Well, at least the well known ones are supported. Since Unison can also be used to sychronise more than two hosts, it&#8217;s perfect for big amounts of data that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.philippheckel.com/2008/10/25/unison-and-multiple-hosts-warning-inconsistent-state/</link>
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