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		<title>Home telephone wiring in NZ</title>
		<link>https://nzlamb.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/phone-wiring-in-nz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to perform some work on my home phone line including running new cable to a newly installed patch panel. I was suprised to notice that the existing cable had simply been twisted onto the incoming cable pair so this was quickly remedied. Anyway, the incoming cable contained a single pair comprising of yellow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nzlamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11323591&amp;post=451&amp;subd=nzlamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HTC Wildfire S factory ROM update</title>
		<link>https://nzlamb.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/htc-wildfire-s-factory-rom-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzlamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A relative recently purchased a shiny new HTC Wildfire S from eking.co.nz. The phone itself is fantastic and I&#8217;ve had pretty good service from that site, however this particular Wildfire S turned up installed with a Chinese ROM, version 1.35.707. This version has loads of applications specific to China that cannot be removed and waste [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nzlamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11323591&amp;post=432&amp;subd=nzlamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clarion and McIntosh parts</title>
		<link>https://nzlamb.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/clarion-and-mcintosh-parts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzlamb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Car audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clarion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had somebody refer me to PacParts who turn out to be an excellent source of spares for Clarion and McIntosh car audio. Parts include laser pickups, spindle motors, tuner modules, LCD/VFD displays, knobs and more. Unfortunately they only ship to the US, however there are many companies around who offer international parcel forwarding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nzlamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11323591&amp;post=424&amp;subd=nzlamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clarion CeNET &#8211; a first glance</title>
		<link>https://nzlamb.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/clarion-cenet-a-first-glance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzlamb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Car audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CeNet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m keen on reverse engineering at least some aspects of the Clarion CeNET bus in order to hook other gadgets to my car stereo. CeNET is a proprietary interconnect used by Clarion on many of their car audio products over the last ten years. It uses a proprietary 13-pin square DIN style connector that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nzlamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11323591&amp;post=407&amp;subd=nzlamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vertical collapse on Storage System portable PC</title>
		<link>https://nzlamb.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/vertical-collapse-on-storage-system-portable-pc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzlamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled across a junked &#8216;Picollo&#8217; portable PC made by Storage System Inc. This unit had a 66MHz 486 Overdrive processor and 10&#8243; Sony Trinitron SVGA display and no doubt cost a fortune in its time. Unfortunately the chassis had been partly gutted, missing the outer case and a variety of parts. The 10&#8243; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nzlamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11323591&amp;post=394&amp;subd=nzlamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Deflection PCB</media:title>
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		<title>HTC Desire and Belkin car charger</title>
		<link>https://nzlamb.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/htc-desire-and-belkin-car-charger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzlamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that my HTC Desire does not charge at full rate off my Belkin Micro USB car charger, despite it being the same rating as the original HTC wall charger (5v, 1A). It appears that the Desire obeys the somewhat recently introduced USB battery charging specification that states devices may draw up to 1.8A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nzlamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11323591&amp;post=383&amp;subd=nzlamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hauppauge NOVA-S-Plus in Lucid</title>
		<link>https://nzlamb.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/hauppauge-nova-s-plus-in-lucid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzlamb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using a Hauppauge NOVA-S-Plus DVB-S card for a while now with MythTV running on Ubuntu Hardy. I recently upgraded to Lucid and had lots of difficulty getting the card to work with MythTV. All of the required kernel modules were loaded as expected (cx88xx, etc) and the device tree showed up as expected: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nzlamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11323591&amp;post=363&amp;subd=nzlamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lucid gconf fail</title>
		<link>https://nzlamb.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/lucid-gconf-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening I encountered a weird problem when booting up Ubuntu 10.04. I simply had a black screen with a small error window saying: There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/lib/gconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256) Considering that I hadn&#8217;t knowingly changed anything last time I used the computer this seemed a little odd. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nzlamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11323591&amp;post=358&amp;subd=nzlamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eee 900 Bluetooth mod</title>
		<link>https://nzlamb.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/eee-900-bluetooth-mod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzlamb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bluetooth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally decided it was time to kit out my ancient but trusty Asus Eee 900 with internal Bluetooth. I had an old micro Bluetooth adapter lying about which came apart very easily to reveal an exceptionally small PCB. I stuck this to the motherboard of the Eee using a small piece of double sided [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nzlamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11323591&amp;post=343&amp;subd=nzlamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another reason I try to avoid Windows</title>
		<link>https://nzlamb.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/windows-install/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzlamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to replace the hard disk in my Dell Optiplex 755 with a larger model (500GB). Migrating Ubuntu was trivial; Windows Vista was not. Clonezilla did its best but I ended up running into all sorts of Windows BCD corruption issues. Most of the various repair tools on the Windows DVD failed with incredibly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nzlamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11323591&amp;post=297&amp;subd=nzlamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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