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		<title>Mega Upload Innocent Customers To Lose Their Data!!!</title>
		<link>http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/mega-upload-innocent-customers-to-lose-their-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read this with horror: “MegaUpload has received a letter from the US Attorney informing the company that data uploaded by its users may be destroyed before the end of the week. The looming wipe-out is the result of &#8230; <a href="http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/mega-upload-innocent-customers-to-lose-their-data/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gscomputing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21238641&amp;post=85&amp;subd=gscomputing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmmm… The new lock screen – So far so good. I have played with the Developer Preview that was released last year in time for the “Build” conference. I installed it first on my HP laptop and my initial reaction &#8230; <a href="http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/windows-8/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gscomputing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21238641&amp;post=80&amp;subd=gscomputing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Ammunition Against Cloud Services</title>
		<link>http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/more-ammunition-against-cloud-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gsivill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[megadownload]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t like to say told you so, but …. told you so! http://www.extremetech.com/computing/114803-megauploads-demise-what-happens-to-your-files-when-a-cloud-service-dies There are a lot of good people who used MegaUpload for legitimate purposes who have now lost access to their data.&#160; I just hope that they &#8230; <a href="http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/more-ammunition-against-cloud-services/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gscomputing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21238641&amp;post=60&amp;subd=gscomputing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has Microsoft Lost Its Way With Development Environments And Tools?</title>
		<link>http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/has-microsoft-lost-its-way-with-development-environments-and-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gsivill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[developers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably know if you know me, as much as I do IT Consultancy and Support, the other big thread to my daily work is application development.&#160; I have been deep in programming work for the last 6 months &#8230; <a href="http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/has-microsoft-lost-its-way-with-development-environments-and-tools/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gscomputing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21238641&amp;post=54&amp;subd=gscomputing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple The Biggest Threat To The Internet</title>
		<link>http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/apple-the-biggest-threat-to-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 23:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gsivill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia put into words what I have been thinking for a while about Apple (This excerpt from Andrew Charlesworth’s piece on Wales’ speech at Bristol University on 13th Jan 2011): “The debate is a highly &#8230; <a href="http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/apple-the-biggest-threat-to-the-internet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gscomputing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21238641&amp;post=51&amp;subd=gscomputing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VMware Cloud Goes Down</title>
		<link>http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/vmware-cloud-goes-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 13:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gsivill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet more woes for Cloud suppliers, this time VMware it appears an initial outage was fixed and then whilst the company was trying to figure out a procedure of how to prevent the outage occurring again in the process of &#8230; <a href="http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/vmware-cloud-goes-down/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gscomputing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21238641&amp;post=50&amp;subd=gscomputing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What happens to data when your cloud provider evaporates? &#8211; Computerworld</title>
		<link>http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/what-happens-to-data-when-your-cloud-provider-evaporates-computerworld/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gsivill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally I think the rest of the industry is catching up with me! What happens to data when your cloud provider evaporates? &#8211; Computerworld This is what worries me about people who hurtle headlong into new technologies before they are &#8230; <a href="http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/what-happens-to-data-when-your-cloud-provider-evaporates-computerworld/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gscomputing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21238641&amp;post=49&amp;subd=gscomputing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now it&#8217;s Amazon&#8217;s EC2 that proves my point!!</title>
		<link>http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/now-its-amazons-ec2-that-proves-my-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gsivill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[avoid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my continuing rant about keeping away from the cloud, Amazon have just proved my point as their EC2 cloud storage system went down taking a number of web sites with it.&#160; This outage was covered on Network World: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/042111-amazon-ec2-zones.html?hpg1=bn &#8230; <a href="http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/now-its-amazons-ec2-that-proves-my-point/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gscomputing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21238641&amp;post=48&amp;subd=gscomputing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dust&#8211;PC Killer</title>
		<link>http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/dustpc-killer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gsivill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cleaning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently did an overhaul on one of my client’s PCs and as usual found a load of dust inside the machine. (It’s very important that I state up front that this is true of pretty much every PC I &#8230; <a href="http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/dustpc-killer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gscomputing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21238641&amp;post=46&amp;subd=gscomputing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cloud&#8211;An Example Of My Distrust of Cloud Computing</title>
		<link>http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/the-cloudan-example-of-my-distrust-of-cloud-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gsivill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from my previous rant about Cloud Computing and why I am not enamoured with it, today we have the news that Google managed to trash about 150,000 accounts (initially it was reported as 500,000 but then got revised &#8230; <a href="http://gscomputing.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/the-cloudan-example-of-my-distrust-of-cloud-computing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gscomputing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21238641&amp;post=24&amp;subd=gscomputing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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