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	<title>Ramblings of Narc</title>
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		<title>Silly WordPress, you have holes in you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve just had the marvelous opportunity of digging into WordPress yet again after, for the second time, I found some funny iframes running around on my website. The first time this happened, I cleaned up and changed permissions around so that a reinfection wouldn&#8217;t make so much work for me. The problem is, although [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2011/06/silly-wordpress-you-have-holes-in-you</link>
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		<title>New Project: Rent a Troubleshooter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a few weeks of vacillating on the subject, I&#8217;ve decided to take the plunge and start offering my services in exchange for cash. In short, I&#8217;m a very good debugger and would like to get in touch with small businesses and people that can&#8217;t afford a full-time programmer dedicated to the task, and who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2010/11/new-project-rent-a-troubleshooter</link>
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		<title>The Guild 2 Guide, Part 7: Thugs, AI, and other fun stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part 7 of the series The Guild 2 Guide. You can go back to part six (the scholar guide), if you feel like it. Welcome to the seventh and hopefully last installment of this guide to The Guild II: Pirates of the European Seas! In this part of the guide, we&#8217;ll be covering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2010/08/the-guild-2-guide-7</link>
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		<title>The Guild 2 Guide, Part 6: The Scholar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part 6 of the ongoing series The Guild 2 Guide. You can go back to part five (the rogue guide), if you feel like it. Welcome to the fourth and final class guide for The Guild II: Pirates of the European Seas! Today, we will finally get around to discussing the scholar, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2010/07/the-guild-2-guide-6-the-scholar</link>
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		<title>The Guild 2 Guide, Part 5: The Rogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part 5 of the ongoing series The Guild 2 Guide. You can go back to part four (the patron guide), if you feel like it. Okay, I admit, I lied yesterday when I said the rogue guide would be up then &#8212; to make up for it, the scholar guide will be forthcoming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2010/07/the-guild-2-guide-5-the-rogue</link>
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		<title>The Guild 2 Guide, Part 4: The Patron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part 4 of the ongoing series The Guild 2 Guide. You can go back to part three (the craftsman guide), if you feel like it. Welcome to the second class guide for The Guild 2: Pirates of the European Seas! In this post, we&#8217;ll be discussing the patron class &#8212; (at least half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2010/07/the-guild-2-guide-4-the-patron</link>
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		<title>The Guild 2 Guide, Part 3: The Craftsman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part 3 of the ongoing series The Guild 2 Guide. Here&#8217;s a link to part two, the general overview, in case you missed it. So, you wanna be a craftsman? Or maybe you just want to read about what they can do? Well, you&#8217;ve come to the right place. The craftsman class of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2010/07/the-guild-2-guide-3-the-craftsman</link>
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		<title>The Guild 2 Guide, Part 2: General Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 of the ongoing series The Guild 2 Guide. Here&#8217;s a link to part one, in case you missed it. Well, I was going to continue with the class guides, but my attention was correctly drawn to the fact that I haven&#8217;t really explained the more general parts of the game &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2010/07/the-guild-2-guide-2</link>
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		<title>The Guild 2 Guide, Part 1: Getting Started</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to what I&#8217;m hoping will be a useful and definitive guide to the world of The Guild 2, and its expansion, Pirates of the European Seas! Foreword and Game History Way back in the Internet Dark Ages of 2002, a small German developer studio called 4HEAD Studios came to JoWood Productions and pitched a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2010/07/the-guild-2-guide-1</link>
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		<title>Internets!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, I was reading this Ars Technica article and found it difficult to relate the figure of 250 GB/$250 to what I knew. So I figured it was time to do some statistics of my own! First of all, a direct comparison isn&#8217;t really possible &#8212; I&#8217;m on a proper unlimited data plan (well, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2010/04/internets</link>
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		<title>A Spot of Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holy crap, has it been that long, really? Actually, I probably shouldn&#8217;t draw attention to it, should I? I vaguely recall reading that people are irritated by this kind of thing. Hell, I dunno. There haven&#8217;t been many updates from me because I haven&#8217;t had much time for generating content, nor do I have that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2010/03/a-spot-of-fun</link>
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		<title>New Annoyance: Intermittent Internet Connections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got to travel a little bit a few weeks ago &#8212; my mother and I went to Borsec (actually, to nearby Corbu) to meet a friend of hers (who happens to have six Dachshunds, but that&#8217;s a story for another place). One thing we were warned about was the cellphone network there is spotty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2009/09/new-annoyance-intermittent-internet-connections</link>
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		<title>Quick &#8216;n&#8217; Dirty MySQL Backups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By request, here&#8217;s the script I worked up to make periodic database dumps into a directory and gzip them up: #!/bin/zsh mysql_user=root mysql_pass=your-root-password-here bk_path='/where/to/put/the/dumps' right_now=`date +"%Y%m%d-h%H"` bk_fname="${bk_path}/full-db-dump.sql" bk_gzname="${bk_path}/full-db-dump-${right_now}.sql.gz" mysqldump -u"$mysql_user" -p"$mysql_pass" --all-databases > "${bk_fname}" gzip -c "${bk_fname}" > "${bk_gzname}" Running this as a cron job every [x] hours should be pretty good for small sites, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2009/07/quick-n-dirty-mysql-backups</link>
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		<title>Здравствуйте?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting quickie: I&#8217;ve been getting a bunch (well, four so far, but far more than usual) of comments in Russian, all coming from the same IP that DomainTools says is in Ukraine &#8212; apparently, an ISP or something like that. Now, the comment text, when run through Google Translate, reads pretty innocuous, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2009/07/%d0%b7%d0%b4%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b2%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d1%83%d0%b9%d1%82%d0%b5</link>
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		<title>Derp!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[a.k.a. &#8220;Inter-dimensional vortexes? In my database?&#8221; Yah, so I screwed up. Back when I moved the Web server from one computer to another, I thought I might&#8217;ve forgotten something important, but couldn&#8217;t quite figure out what it was. Then I forgot about that, too, and everything was just fine until yesterday morning&#8230; Being that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wp.narc.ro/2009/06/derp</link>
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