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		<title>I have moved to CloudFlare</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilkka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had been using FreeDNS. I liked how they were offering a free DNS service. Of course it being free, there was a downside. You had to share your domain with other users. Basically if somebody wanted to create a &#8230;<p class="read-more"><a href="http://darkball.net/index.php/2012/02/i-have-moved-to-cloudflare/">Read more &#187;</a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Me and Dropbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilkka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been using Dropbox since 2009, so I&#8217;m no stranger to it. I am using it to share random files and screenshots with friends, but there is one thing that bugs me when it comes to Dropbox. There is &#8230;<p class="read-more"><a href="http://darkball.net/index.php/2012/02/me-and-dropbox/">Read more &#187;</a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Checklist for formatting your computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilkka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure there are lists like this on the Internet already, but I wanted to create my own list and publish it. Things you want probably to back up: Digital photos, remember to check all user profiles if you have &#8230;<p class="read-more"><a href="http://darkball.net/index.php/2011/12/checklist-for-formatting-your-computer/">Read more &#187;</a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Could not determine your IP address on Invision Power Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilkka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you encounter &#8220;Could not determine your IP address&#8221; error message after installing Invision Power Board on your localhost or shared hosting and you don&#8217;t know what to do, continue reading. Open up a file called ipsRegistry.php at *IPB rootdirectory*/admin/sources/base/ipsRegistry.php. &#8230;<p class="read-more"><a href="http://darkball.net/index.php/2011/11/could-not-determine-your-ip-address-on-invision-power-board/">Read more &#187;</a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Laptop randomly bluescreening</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilkka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My laptop has been suffering from random BSODs lately and I, as any normal computer user, would want to get them fixed. Windows created dump files from these bluescreens, so I had to use Google to find a program that &#8230;<p class="read-more"><a href="http://darkball.net/index.php/2011/11/laptop-randomly-bluescreening/">Read more &#187;</a></p>]]></description>
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