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		<title>HowTo Fix: MacBook Pro and Dell 2711 DisplayPort Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dandesousa.com/?p=1031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I chose to get the Dell U2711 mostly due to PC compatibility and price advantages over the Cinema Display. However, having a MacBook Pro I wanted to also connect it to  my nice display. I ordered a Mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable and all worked fine until one day it didn&#8217;t. The screen was black and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HowTo Fix: Slow SSD Boot Times in Mac OS X</title>
		<link>http://dandesousa.com/2012/03/07/howto-fix-slow-ssd-boot-times-in-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dandesousa.com/?p=1027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently bought a ssd for my macbook pro and noticed after installing and reformatting, the boot times were slow &#8230; about as slow as my hdd or even slower. If you have an SSD, you can except boot times around 15 seconds or so. If you are encountering boot times of 35+ seconds, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identity and The Transporter Problem</title>
		<link>http://dandesousa.com/2012/03/04/identity-and-the-transporter-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[star trek]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dandesousa.com/?p=1002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a discussion with some colleagues at work about Star Trek and the Transporter Problem. I&#8217;m sure if you stumbled across this article, you likely understand what the Transporter does on Star Trek. The problem is the question of whether or not such a device, one that makes you disappear and reappear somewhere else, actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Type Hiding With &#8220;Template Impl&#8221; Pattern</title>
		<link>http://dandesousa.com/2012/03/04/type-hiding-with-template-impl-pattern/</link>
		<comments>http://dandesousa.com/2012/03/04/type-hiding-with-template-impl-pattern/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dandesousa.com/?p=1011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently encountered an design requirement for a library which required relatively fast handling of certain callbacks. I wanted, if possible, to avoid any vtable lookups introduced by virtual function calls. The scenario goes like this: There exists a class called Connection. Connection will receive data from the network and handle certain message events (it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I switched from Rackspace to Amazon EC2</title>
		<link>http://dandesousa.com/2012/02/22/why-i-switched-from-rackspace-to-amazon-ec2/</link>
		<comments>http://dandesousa.com/2012/02/22/why-i-switched-from-rackspace-to-amazon-ec2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rackspace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webhosting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dandesousa.com/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been a happy rackspace customer for a long time (almost 3 years by my estimation). I&#8217;ve had a number of various sized servers, mostly for hosting source code and managing this and some small web sites / blogs. I never really had any complaints with Rackspace, until recently when I had huge a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Litecoin (LTC): An alternative to Bitcoin (BTC)</title>
		<link>http://dandesousa.com/2011/12/12/litecoin-ltc-an-alternative-to-bitcoin-btc/</link>
		<comments>http://dandesousa.com/2011/12/12/litecoin-ltc-an-alternative-to-bitcoin-btc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dandesousa.com/?p=895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I found myself enchanted with the idea of bitcoin; which as you probably already know, is a digital currency. The interesting part about it is that there is actually a market for bitcoin where real cash can be exchange for the virtual currency and back. Basically what happened is that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Boost.Python] Calling back into python from native C++ threads</title>
		<link>http://dandesousa.com/2011/12/11/boost-python-calling-back-into-python-from-native-c-threads/</link>
		<comments>http://dandesousa.com/2011/12/11/boost-python-calling-back-into-python-from-native-c-threads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dandesousa.com/?p=891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I came across a particularly frustrating problem dealing with a boost python wrapper around a library which is calling python functions from native c++ threads (boost threads in this case). The problem was that some calls to release the global interpreter lock would cause python to through fatal errors and segmentation fault, despite seeming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate Home Media Center Solution [Spoiler: Plex!]</title>
		<link>http://dandesousa.com/2011/11/05/the-ultimate-home-media-center-solution-spoiler-plex/</link>
		<comments>http://dandesousa.com/2011/11/05/the-ultimate-home-media-center-solution-spoiler-plex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dandesousa.com/?p=876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this article, I cover my opinion on currently the best media center option for managing local content libraries, and my thoughts on the state of digital video distribution. I do not condone any mention of piracy in the article and any references are merely for illustrative purposes regarding this rather opinionated article . Feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing jQuery tablesorter natural sort plugin as text sort</title>
		<link>http://dandesousa.com/2011/11/04/jquery-tablesorter-natural-sort/</link>
		<comments>http://dandesousa.com/2011/11/04/jquery-tablesorter-natural-sort/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dandesousa.com/?p=833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been doing quite a bit of web programming lately and was recently trying to figure out how to get the jquery plugin &#8216;tablesorter&#8216; to perform a natural sort. For those not aware of what natural sort is, it is the way in which human beings tend to sort things intuitively (hence the prefix [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Installing and setting up tmux on Mac OS Lion</title>
		<link>http://dandesousa.com/2011/10/06/installing-and-setting-up-tmux-on-mac-os-lion/</link>
		<comments>http://dandesousa.com/2011/10/06/installing-and-setting-up-tmux-on-mac-os-lion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dandesousa.com/?p=825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using a lot more command line tools at work and i&#8217;ve gotten accustomed to a certain setup. Tmux is an updated BSD version of screen, a terminal multiplexer. Sadly, Mac OS does not ship with this out of the box. Fortunately it is pretty simple to install. On my latest version of Mac [...]]]></description>
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