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	<title>Dan's View</title>
	<link>http://danb-uk.net</link>
	<description>My wanderings and geekery</description>
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		<title>ShoutCast Stream Meta script</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using the following python script you can pull the meta info from a playing stream. The headers variable will contain the Radio Name and other things, and the meta&#8217;s returned will include the currently playing track.
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Example output:
dan@x ~/ $ ./get_icy_name.py
{'headers': {'icy-genre': 'Techno Drum and Bass', 'icy-notice2': 'SHOUTcast Distributed Network Audio Server/Linux v1.9.93atdn', 'icy-pub': '1', 'icy-br': [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danb-uk.net/2010/03/shoutcast-stream-meta-script/</link>
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		<title>Overground Re-route</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing I am glad of with London transport, especially around where I live is the ability to take a different route in the case of one&#8217;s primary route being screwed. As this morning, the Piccadilly Line has severe delays so I have re-routed onto the overground to Paddington. Even got a seat!
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		<link>http://danb-uk.net/2009/12/overground-re-route/</link>
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		<title>Tube Crush</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here I am again on my journey home on the Piccadilly Line. I catch it from Piccadilly Circus so am used to the influx of tourists who don&#8217;t know fully what they are doing, I can handle that. What is more annoying is the stupid commuters who just don&#8217;t consider the people around them.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danb-uk.net/2009/12/tube-crush/</link>
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		<title>$1bn aid for healthcare in the 72 poorest countries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you feed money in to a developing countries health care system, what happens when you stop feeding money? This is in reference to the $1bn that the governments of the UK, Norway, Netherlands and Australia will be giving to the GAVI for the worlds 72 poorest nations.
Does the country have a high enough GDP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danb-uk.net/2009/09/1bn-aid-for-healthcare-in-the-72-poorest-countries/</link>
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		<title>The issues with noisy systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I felt like I completely failed at my job. I was &#8216;on shift&#8217;, therefore I was supposed to be keeping an eye on all of the systems at my work and their health. Yet I failed to notice an issue &#8216;that was glaring me in the face&#8217; for over 3 hours, due to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danb-uk.net/2009/09/the-issues-with-noisy-systems/</link>
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		<title>Wasted BogoMIPS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So last week I screwed up in a royal fashion. I caused 1 core on 12,000 servers to be running at 100% with a zombie process. In conversation with a friend he asked &#8220;So how many BogoMIPS were you wasting?&#8221;, of course I had to find out.
So I grepped out the first core on each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danb-uk.net/2009/05/wasted-bogomips/</link>
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		<title>whois?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If your ISP has registered with the appropriate databases, our servers are updated on a regular basis so you will have to wait until the next refresh to gain access.&#8221;
Would you interpret that to mean they are using whois lookups on IP addresses/blocks to check its location for limiting content to certain contries?
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		<link>http://danb-uk.net/2009/04/whois/</link>
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		<title>Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So is it a test? No. It is something I have been pondering for a while. It never really gives me anything, it just provides me with something to-do, but it apparently could cause some illness. What I hear you say! Like all the other things that might cause illness? Well I don&#8217;t know if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danb-uk.net/2009/04/testing/</link>
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		<title>Unbuffered patch for aircrack-ng</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If like me you like to pipe things around in the shell then when I looked at aircrack-ng I wanted to script using it. Therefore I wrote a simple patch for the current version that disables buffering to allow the stdout/err to act like they are writing to a log file so good for timely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danb-uk.net/2009/04/unbuffered-patch-for-aircrack-ng/</link>
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		<title>Use ssh ControlMaster to improve speed of connection time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often work on many machines and end up with multiple sessions to each. Therefore I finally got around to checking out the ControlMaster and ControlPath configuration of ssh. I added the following to my ~/.ssh/config which is for a virtual machine I use on my laptop, so no network issues in play.
Host vm
 Hostname 192.168.100.101
 User [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danb-uk.net/2009/04/ssh-controlmaster/</link>
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