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	<description>There Is Nothing To Fear, But Fear Itself.</description>
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		<title>Web Server benchmarks with PERL</title>
		<link>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2009/03/31/web-server-benchmarks-with-perl/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2009/03/31/web-server-benchmarks-with-perl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mambo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the last update, i&#8217;ve been working on PERL to test web server benchmark performance. So far, i&#8217;m able to download and print a page, using the below mechanism:
#!/usr/bin/perl
require HTTP::Request;
require LWP::UserAgent;
my $url = &#8216;http://192.168.50.201/index.html&#8217;;
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $ua->request($request);
$response->is_success or die $response->status_line;
my $content = $response->content;
print $content; 
I&#8217;m now looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Londonium</title>
		<link>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/12/07/londonium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mambo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uni]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/?p=244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well its been one heck of a week &#8211; i spent Wednesday and Thursday in London which was, frantic to say the least!
After arriving into town on the Wednesday i spent about 30 minutes walking around trying to find the hotel which was hidden down some random back alley but was quite plush to say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FastHost are Terrible &#8211; New Home for SMNET</title>
		<link>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/11/07/fasthost-are-terrible-new-home-for-smnet/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/11/07/fasthost-are-terrible-new-home-for-smnet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mambo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://smnet.vkernel.co.uk/?p=240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, after 3 years as www.sam-marsh.net its time for a change. Ive migrated my personal blog onto the same hosting as my technical blog, as Fasthost, my personal blog hosting provider, are terrible.
Im pretty sure they have turned the lights off, left the servers and automatic billing systems on and just f&#8217;ked off. No reply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday and New Job</title>
		<link>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/08/13/birthday-and-new-job/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/08/13/birthday-and-new-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mambo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Swindon Happenings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sam-marsh.net/blog/?p=230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last 2 weeks a few things have happened which i&#8217;ll write about! I applied for a few jobs for when i move back to Manchester at the end of this month and one of them, ICT Support Engineer at a Consultancy firm actually emailed me and asked me for an interview. After a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>V-Kernel Update</title>
		<link>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/07/29/v-kernel-update/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/07/29/v-kernel-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mambo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sam-marsh.net/blog/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[VKernel is now live with its first post, comparing Para-virtualization. I had a bit of a &#8216;mare, whereby i overwrote the SQL DB by accident and lost 3 hours worth of work&#8230; but oh well. Its up and running now and all linked in. I set up email etc and ive just finished configuring Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Codecs and Sunshine</title>
		<link>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/07/26/codecs-and-sunshine/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/07/26/codecs-and-sunshine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mambo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Techie Stuff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sam-marsh.net/blog/?p=225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Evening all.
Not a bad weekend so far &#8211; spent today in Lydiard park chilling out in the sunshine with everyone, playing rugby with raj, broom, andy li etc. Came back to mine, had chinese and now were just watching a film (too skint to go out!).
Had a technological thought (not sure if its already been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu as Desktop: Verdict</title>
		<link>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/05/26/ubuntu-as-desktop-verdict/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/05/26/ubuntu-as-desktop-verdict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 13:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mambo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, decided to install &#8220;Ultimate Ubuntu 1.8&#8243;, based upon Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), as i had a LOT of problems with my Nvidia 8800GT and Ubuntu &#8211; mainly Twinview having issues. Nvidia-config has trouble saving X to config, saying i dont have permisson, which is rather strange as i assumed i wouldnt need SU permission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu vs Windows XP and New Kit</title>
		<link>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/05/18/ubuntu-vs-windows-xp-and-new-kit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/05/18/ubuntu-vs-windows-xp-and-new-kit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 11:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mambo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sam-marsh.net/blog/?p=212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, decided to play around with Ubuntu 8.04 with the view to partitioning my existing 80GB Windows XP drive into 2 partitions and then installing Ubuntu on the new one. However, upon loading the CD and booting into the &#8220;Install..&#8221; (Alternative to Live Disc), it recommended &#8220;Shrink Windows XP and install Ubuntu&#8221;, great i thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESX&#8217;y&#8230; Everything about you&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/05/09/esxy-everything-about-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/05/09/esxy-everything-about-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mambo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Techie Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just realised &#8211; i havent mentioned anything about how i got around the ESX Storage problem.
I have VMWare Vi3 / ESX 3 Server installed on my S5000XVN Based server using evaluation licenses etc. Anyway, after updating the BIOS (you really do need to update it, its stupidly fussy), i managed to get the installer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curries Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/05/08/curries-everywhere/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vkernel.co.uk/2008/05/08/curries-everywhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mambo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Techie Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well having not blogged for nearly 2 weeks, i thought it was about time i gave a little status update! My beast machine is now a fully fledged ESX Server, using Evaluation licenses (60 Days at a time) until i get my university funded ones in a couple of months. This is running CentOS, RHEL [...]]]></description>
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