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		<title>KB2412171 breaks Outlook 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/12/29/kb2412171-breaks-outlook-2007</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to what some people would have everyone believe, Microsoft don&#8217;t screw up very often.  However, when they do screw up, they seem to screw up with style. This Christmas I was off work from 18th Dec to 28th Dec inclusive &#8211; quite a long time and also a bargain, at only 5 days of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A strange problem with Outlook 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/09/20/a-strange-problem-with-outlook-2007</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening Outlook started bouncing emails back to me with with the following message: None of your e-mail accounts could send to this recipient. The recipient was a hotmail.co.uk address, and the problem only occurred for this address; other hotmail.co.uk addresses were fine.  What&#8217;s more, my mail server logs showed that Outlook didn&#8217;t even try connecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HTC Sync v3.0 and Outlook</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/09/06/htc-sync-v3-0-and-outlook</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/09/06/htc-sync-v3-0-and-outlook#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[htc desire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I posted on the frustrations of trying to send MMS messages using an HTC Desire that syncs with Outlook. In a nutshell, the HTC Desire won&#8217;t send an MMS message to a contact number containing spaces, and Outlook forces a space immediately after the country code in any contact phone number.  Thus, when you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Linux isn&#8217;t ready</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/03/07/why-linux-isnt-ready</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/03/07/why-linux-isnt-ready#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[samba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of people around who will happily slate Microsoft (sorry, that should be Micro$oft), Windoze, and Internet Exploder.  The majority of these people will, unprompted, extoll the virtues of Linux. I won&#8217;t lie, I like Microsoft.  I think Windows is the best all-round family of operating systems available.  And I use Internet Explorer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAID 0: exit stage left</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/02/20/raid-0-exit-stage-left</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As soon as RAID controllers started being built into affordable motherboards, I decided using RAID for my home PC was a good idea.  For the last 6-7 years, I have used RAID on every PC I have built. There are several RAID configurations.  RAID 0 (striping) utilises two or more identical hard drives, and splits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netgear DG834G and NAT loopback</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/10/26/netgear-dg834g-and-nat-loopback</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/10/26/netgear-dg834g-and-nat-loopback#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[firmware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 18th April 2010: Netgear have since released a firmware update for the DG834Gv4 which supports NAT loopback.  It took them long enough! Yesterday I made the decision (read: mistake) to update my Netgear DG834G router (hardware v4, firmware v5.01.09) to firmware v5.01.14 &#8211; and, as is the way with these things, it brought trouble.  After the upgrade I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning the hard way</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/10/09/learning-the-hard-way</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/10/09/learning-the-hard-way#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Techie Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backup]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I started seeing software failures on the Linux server.  Although they were infrequent they were frustrating, to say the least, and would sometimes require me to find a workaround through configuration. There were no serious problems, but these failures started becoming regular.  I realised it was because I was running Fedora [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comes in threes</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/19/comes-in-threes</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/19/comes-in-threes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bad luck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue screen of death]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ups]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They say that bad luck comes in threes. I don&#8217;t know who They are, but why did They have to say it? Why not twos? Or &#8220;bad luck comes accompanied by no other instances of bad luck whatsoever&#8221;? Anyway, following the tragic and catastrophic failure of my UPS, and the terminal affliction suffered by my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPS-a-daisy</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/14/ups-a-daisy</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/14/ups-a-daisy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Techie Stuff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[power cut]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=407</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About a week ago, I noticed that the display on the UPS protecting the computers in the office indicated it was charging. Strange, I thought, seeing as I hadn&#8217;t noticed a power cut. The UPS emits a rather loud second-long beep every four seconds during any power loss, and I was surprised I hadn&#8217;t noticed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Popular pages</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/07/popular-pages</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/07/popular-pages#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This website is a sort of personal project, rather than a proper blog &#8211; the reason I make this distinction is because I usually don&#8217;t have anything interesting to say; at least, nothing that would be of any interest to anyone who doesn&#8217;t know me. Much like being able to tell (but not necessarily care) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After 200m perform factory reset</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2008/10/12/after-200m-perform-factory-reset</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2008/10/12/after-200m-perform-factory-reset#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bluetooth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard reset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ipaq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[london]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tomtom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/2008/10/12/after-200m-perform-factory-reset/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, just as we were starting out on a car journey into deepest, darkest London, my iPaq 2790 decided it would refuse to connect to my TomTom GPS receiver. Having worked perfectly less than 2 weeks ago, it was now complaining about lack of memory. Specifically, &#8220;The Bluetooth Radio failed to turn ON due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hardcore HTML</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2008/09/08/hardcore-html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2008/09/08/hardcore-html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kvetch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[theme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visual studio 2005]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never really had any cause to write large posts using WordPress, except for my NSLU2 guides &#8211; and even then the built-in WYSIWYG editor was good enough, albeit a little clunky and requiring gentle persuasion every so often. But after changing blog themes the other day, I realised the NSLU2 pages were actually quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never simple</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2008/05/27/never-simple</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2008/05/27/never-simple#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 13:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[draytek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethereal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[router]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tcp port 80]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the weekend I decided to make a major update to the photo gallery, since a large number of photos weren&#8217;t up yet. Although a bit clunky, the gallery software I was using (Gallery2) did the job nicely &#8211; and it even has an accompanying desktop app which lets you upload photos en masse. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bleeding edge&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/11/20/bleeding-edge</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/11/20/bleeding-edge#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[64-bit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office 2007]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new PC has been giving me a hard time recently. And it&#8217;s my own fault. When I built it, I decided it should have a 64-bit processor. Of course, that&#8217;s 32 bits more than anyone actually needs at the moment, but it&#8217;s the way forward. Allegedly. I also decided I should try out Windows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idiot proof?</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/11/04/idiot-proof</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/11/04/idiot-proof#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Techie Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a 250GB USB hard drive on which I &#8216;back up&#8217; different types of media that I regularly use with my PC; MP3s, images of magazine cover disks, images of game disks, images of all the software I&#8217;ve ever bought. And, of course, all the license keys and serial numbers. That way, I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK computer?</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/10/31/ok-computer</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/10/31/ok-computer#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Techie Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[64-bit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently emerged from the other side of building a new PC, an act which proved to be rather more painful than could have been reasonably expected. I&#8217;m experienced enough to know what I&#8217;m doing&#8211;I built my first PC when a 30 MB hard drive was more than adequate for a home computer&#8211;but this time [...]]]></description>
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