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	<title>Wibble&#039;s Blog</title>
	<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog</link>
	<description>Musings of an IT professional</description>
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		<title>Failing hard disk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a small shock this evening when I noticed that one of the iSCSI mounts to my lab servers was not working as expected. I could see a folder structure but no data in the folder. I have had issues in the past because the iSCSI mount is a dynamic disk (Yes I know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2010/03/07/failing-hard-disk/</link>
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		<title>Publishing scripts to Monitoring Exchange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I start to write/modify more checks and scripts for monitoring applications in Nagios/Opsview I have decided to share these as much as possible with the community so they can enjoy, and if necessary, improve the scripts I have written. I have decided to use the MonitoringExchange.org website to host my scripts (as well as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2010/03/02/publishing-scripts-to-monitoring-exchange/</link>
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		<title>Nagios/Opsview: Check Symantec AV Definitions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning whilst deploying a modified version of the Symantec Anti-Virus check from MonitoringExchange.org I noticed that on my 64-bit hosts that the check was not returning the correct data and instead of the expected output I was receiving the following error code:
check_av.vbs(51, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Type mismatch: 'strValue'
Initially I thought this could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2010/03/01/nagiosopsview-check-symantec-av-definitions/</link>
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		<title>Website Migrated and Theme issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst trying to make the home page and blog page look the same I managed to break the wp-admin section of my blog. Thanks to the guys at Loho.co.uk they have migrated my whole site to a new platform where I can administer the site more efficiently and I have been able to remove the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2010/02/21/website-migrated-and-theme-issues/</link>
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		<title>Making Windows Mobile work with Self-Signed certificates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you try to synchronise a Windows Mobile PDA with Exchange Direct Push using SSL and the certificate is not issued by a Certification Authority (CA) that is in the PDA&#8217;s trusted certificate list then the device will not activate. Most commonly I have come across this with SBS servers that use the default self-signed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2010/02/11/making-windows-mobile-work-with-self-signed-certificates/</link>
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		<title>AdminSDHolder groups and Send As</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looked at an issue a colleague had today where the SendAs permissions for a user were being removed automatically from a their account causing issues with their PA not being able to send email as they had configured it. The problem here was that the user in question was in one of the protected AdminSDHolder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2010/02/10/adminsdholder-groups-and-send-as/</link>
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		<title>ESXi enabling SNMP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I wrote an article about how to monitor the health of an ESXi server (link here) and I wanted to explain a bit more about my findings with SNMP on an ESXi host.
My goal with the monitoring was to use the check_dell and check_hp commands I have found for Nagios/Opsview to monitor the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2010/02/10/esxi-enabling-snmp/</link>
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		<title>Monitoring ESXi Server health using Nagios/Opsview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of a project I am currently working on I have a requirement to check that my clients&#8217; infrastructure is working to the best of its ability. Whilst we perform regular checks to ensure the sites are running as expected we don&#8217;t currently have an easy way to check the health of the ESX [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2010/02/09/monitoring-esxi-server-health-using-nagiosopsview/</link>
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		<title>Variation on a classic drinking game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had a few friends over for a quiet night in, a few drinks and a bit of home cooking. Once we had eaten and realised that the collection of games all seem to date back to when I was 10 (think Outburst and Pictionary Junior) we had another look in the cupboard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2010/01/24/variation-on-a-classic-drinking-game/</link>
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		<title>Backup Exec 12.5 DFS File Restores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[for the first time in Backup Exec you can redirect the files you restore from the Volume Shadow Copy of the DFSr folders]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2009/10/16/backup-exec-12-5-dfs-file-restores/</link>
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		<title>Backups â€“ They really are important</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
You really cannot appreciate the need for a solid backup solution until you need to restore that crucial piece of business critical data. Whether itâ€™s a whole server or just one word document it is always important to know that the files are available to be recovered. There is no single solution that works in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2009/06/14/backups-%e2%80%93-they-really-are-important/</link>
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		<title>HOWTO: Build an open source monitoring solution &#8211; Part1 Build the Server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
No matter what size of network you are responsible for you should always know what is happening with it to make sure any issues are rectified as soon as possible and hopefully with minimal disruption to your users. Obviously the needs of a small company are different to those of a large corporation and in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2009/03/30/howto-build-an-open-source-monitoring-solution-part1-build-the-server/</link>
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		<title>The Apprentice: Drinking Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst following the lead up to the start of the new Apprentice series on BBC last night I noticed one of the twitterers had posted an idea about a drinking game to make the show a bit more interesting (http://twitter.com/norfolkdaysout). Whilst watching the show I thought about it a bit more and thought that this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2009/03/26/the-apprentice-drinking-game/</link>
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		<title>Giving this blog a purpose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having spent a long time ignoring this blog or simply linking to amusing things on the net that I found through sites like stumbleupon.com I think its time to try and focus what I am writing about and see if I can get a good set of useful articles written.
Having thought about it for about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2009/03/25/giving-this-blog-a-purpose/</link>
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		<title>27 inspiring top notch programming quotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a brilliant post that I stumbled across this morning. My favourite two quotes are:
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. &#8211; Edsger Dijkstra
and
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2009/03/23/27-inspiring-top-notch-programming-quotes/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Confused Turtle has sex with boot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stumbled across this this morning and its just amusing. Well worth a watch
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		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2009/03/21/video-confused-turtle-has-sex-with-boot/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress -&gt; Twitter test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello World!
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		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2009/03/15/wordpress-twitter-test/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been a while</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Considering the last time I wrote here was some time in 2007 I thought i should let you know whats been going on&#8230; that is if anyone still reads this  
Im still working at the same company in London, still have a house in Cyprus, am still single  
What has changed is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2009/03/15/its-been-a-while/</link>
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		<title>Coming home from Cyprus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I didn&#8217;t realise I hadn&#8217;t written a post for quite as long as I had!
 I have been really busy with work and other bits and pieces but am currently waiting to come back from Cyprus and get back to work.
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		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2007/09/02/coming-home-from-cyprus/</link>
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		<title>Bon Jovi @ The O2 &#8211; 24th June 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a briliant night &#8211; the O2 is an awesome venue with great acoustics and excellent views. The photos and videos from the night are being put on the net and I will post links to the majority of the videos here.
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		<link>http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2007/06/25/bon-jovi-the-o2-24th-june-2007/</link>
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