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		<title>How Not to Build a Fence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, we hired Capital Fence to replace the deteriorating old fence around our yard. They&#8217;re a popular fence company here in the DC/MD/VA area, so I assumed they&#8217;d do a reasonable job. It wasn&#8217;t until they were building the fence that I learned that They just stick the posts in the ground, with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.djmnet.org&amp;blog=4417278&amp;post=629&amp;subd=dmacnet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Cable Service from Surges</title>
		<link>http://blog.djmnet.org/2012/02/09/protecting-cable-service-from-surges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found out a few months ago that cable TV/Internet service is supposed to be grounded at the entrance to the building. I learned the hard way, when during two storms, the Comcast Business cable at my office was hit by surges (I suppose from lightning strikes somewhere exposed upstream). The surges killed our cable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.djmnet.org&amp;blog=4417278&amp;post=589&amp;subd=dmacnet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using Removable Drives on Windows</title>
		<link>http://blog.djmnet.org/2011/04/10/using-removable-drives-on-windows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few months, I&#8217;ve been using USB and Firewire hard drives (and flash drives) on Microsoft Windows more than I used to. Getting them to work well is not as simple as it is on MacOS X. Below I refer to running the Computer Management console. You can run it by right-clicking My [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.djmnet.org&amp;blog=4417278&amp;post=556&amp;subd=dmacnet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Monster Cable That&#8217;s Worth the Price</title>
		<link>http://blog.djmnet.org/2011/03/05/a-monster-cable-thats-worth-the-price/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just paid $25 for a 7 foot USB cable and don&#8217;t regret it. Huh? Generally I consider Monster brand cables to be overpriced and overhyped, no better than many other brands that are a fraction of the cost (from places like MonoPrice.com). I now believe there&#8217;s at least one exception. I have a Digidesign/Avid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.djmnet.org&amp;blog=4417278&amp;post=549&amp;subd=dmacnet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solving Snow Leopard Crashes on a 24&#8243; iMac</title>
		<link>http://blog.djmnet.org/2011/02/03/snow-leopard-crashes-on-a-24-imac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 24&#8243; iMac (early 2008, Core2 Duo 2.8GHz) came with MacOS 10.5 Leopard and worked great with it. When 10.6 Snow Leopard came out, I upgraded to it, and thereafter the iMac started crashing 1-3 times a week. The screen would turn black, or gray, or striped. It wasn&#8217;t totally dead, which would suggest a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.djmnet.org&amp;blog=4417278&amp;post=521&amp;subd=dmacnet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buying SATA Hard Drives</title>
		<link>http://blog.djmnet.org/2011/02/01/sata-hard-drives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a few recommendations on purchasing hard drives for desktop or laptop computers. I don&#8217;t have much recent experience with enterprise-class drives (SCSI, SAS, Fibre Channel, etc.), so I won&#8217;t speak to those. It&#8217;s weird how things change. In the ATA/EIDE days, I swore by Seagate and Samsung hard drives. IBM/Hitachi made &#8220;Deathstars&#8221; (several [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.djmnet.org&amp;blog=4417278&amp;post=505&amp;subd=dmacnet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One of the Most Influential Books I&#8217;ve Read</title>
		<link>http://blog.djmnet.org/2010/12/30/one-of-the-most-influential-books-ive-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While reflecting on what has contributed to the way I think, I realized that one of the things that influenced me most is a book a lot of people haven&#8217;t heard of. I recommend it to anyone who&#8217;s serious about thinking about life. It&#8217;s not very long. It&#8217;s called The New Testament Documents: Are they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.djmnet.org&amp;blog=4417278&amp;post=495&amp;subd=dmacnet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making DVD File Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a VIDEO_TS folder, which is the files to make a video DVD, and you&#8217;re using a Mac, how can you create a playable DVD? There are a couple of free programs I like for this. Both iDVD and DVD Studio Pro, among other programs, can create video DVD title set files (VIDEO_TS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.djmnet.org&amp;blog=4417278&amp;post=486&amp;subd=dmacnet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Flash to MP4</title>
		<link>http://blog.djmnet.org/2010/05/25/from-flash-to-mp4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 18:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about saving some Flash videos from YouTube, Vimeo (videos without a download link), and other sites for playing on iPods and other platforms that don&#8217;t support Flash video. Since most Flash video these days uses the h.264 codec, it should be possible to de-multiplex the .flv file to extract the video and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.djmnet.org&amp;blog=4417278&amp;post=474&amp;subd=dmacnet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Electronic Image Destabilizing</title>
		<link>http://blog.djmnet.org/2010/01/21/electronic-image-destabilizing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you understand all the automatic settings on your electronic equipment? Recently, I was reminded to not assume that the current settings are appropriate, when one of them did the opposite of what it was supposed to. I was shooting video of a mini-conference in which a lot of the footage was of one person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.djmnet.org&amp;blog=4417278&amp;post=453&amp;subd=dmacnet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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