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	<title>Glen Bowes</title>
	<link>http://www.bowesit.com/blog</link>
	<description>BETTER COMPUTER NETWORKS</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Wireless N</title>
		<link>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/06/06/wireless-n/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time in computer stores. Far too much time in fact.

On one of my excursions recently I noticed the proliferation of wireless &#8220;N&#8221; products that are popping up on the high tech vendors&#8217; shelves. And I&#8217;m not sure what to make of it.

Wireless networks have of course been around for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux Becoming Mainstream?</title>
		<link>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/05/09/linux-becoming-mainstream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pre-installed Linux has been available on servers for some time now but for the first time ever, a major manufacturer will be offering Linux pre-installed on consumer products. Dell announced late in March that it would be offering Ubuntu Linux 7.04, codenamed &#8216;Feisty Fawn&#8217;, on selected desktops and notebooks.
You can love or hate Dell but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traffic Shaping a la Bell</title>
		<link>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/04/08/traffic-shaping-a-la-bell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/04/08/traffic-shaping-a-la-bell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks, “traffic shaping” has hit the news with Bell being in the midst of trying to limit peer-to-peer file sharing on its network. Traffic shaping is a technology that limits how much bandwidth (bandwidth can be loosely thought of as the speed of an Internet connection) a certain application can use.
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security in Depth</title>
		<link>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/04/07/security-in-depth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When people hear the word &#8220;security&#8221; in the context of a computer, they inevitably think of measures taken to prevent hackers from getting in. The truth of the matter is that security really means the protection of data and equipment as a whole. The idea of a hacker sitting behind a computer screen feverishly scanning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Vista and XP Service Packs</title>
		<link>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/03/25/windows-vista-and-xp-service-packs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/03/25/windows-vista-and-xp-service-packs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has had a staggered release history but as of last week, it is finally available for download from Windows Update.

On February 14th, Windows Vista SP1 was released via the MSDN &#38; TechNet Plus Subscription programs, Volume Licensing, and the TechBeta program.

On March 18, Microsoft released Windows Vista SP1 to Windows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Email</title>
		<link>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/03/12/white-house-email/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/03/12/white-house-email/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For most of us, the delivery and backup of email is something we never think about and has no immediate consequence on our daily lives. We receive email, send email, and what happens out there in the &#8220;cloud&#8221; to make it all work doesn&#8217;t concern us in the least. But it really is worth knowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Pakistan Hijacked YouTube</title>
		<link>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/02/26/how-pakistan-hijacked-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/02/26/how-pakistan-hijacked-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 24, 2008 in response to a government order, a Pakistani ISP (Internet Service Provider, a business that provides access to the Internet such as Bell, Cogeco, and IAW) PieNet, began blocking access to a YouTube video that apparently contained blasphemous content. Unfortunately the block affected more than just Pakistan and some estimates are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vista Service Pack 1</title>
		<link>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/02/12/vista-service-pack-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/02/12/vista-service-pack-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was about a year ago that I wrote about Windows Vista’s release and spelled out my belief that while there would be some “bumps on the road”, they would be short lived and likely wouldn’t amount to much. I argued that Windows XP had suffered few problems that I could recall when it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL and Silentbanker</title>
		<link>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/01/29/mysql-and-silentbanker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/01/29/mysql-and-silentbanker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really having a bad week with the news that Sun has bought MySQL and this Silentbanker Trojan thing appearing out of nowhere. I mean as far as MySQL goes, something just seems out of sorts when a giant like Sun gobbles up a &#8212; for the most part &#8212; open source database product like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little SaaS</title>
		<link>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/01/15/a-little-saas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/01/15/a-little-saas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glen</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bowesit.com/blog/2008/02/05/59/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet really is changing the way we do just about everything. Don&#8217;t ask me why but some days ago I had a hankering for hummus (a chick pea spread for those unaccustomed) and it was a breeze to find a recipe online.

In fact it was so easy that allrecipes.com let me create an account, [...]]]></description>
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