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	<title>Space Station Lambda</title>
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	<description>Leslie P. Polzer on code, music, literature, design and free software business.</description>
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		<title>Paktahn 0.9 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s out! Major highlights: Support for AUR updates: pak -Su --aur Support for .tar.xz packages Support for custom Paktahn directory More details can be found on Brit&#8217;s blog. To upgrade or install just use the quick installer.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.viridian-project.de/2010/05/19/paktahn-0-9-released/</link>
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		<title>Paktahn 0.8.3 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a precursor to 0.9 which will contain much desired features like AUR system upgrades we decided to release 0.8.3 which contains a bunch of bug fixes: Version comparison no longer fails on provider packages (#8) Reinstallation works properly again (#7) Trying to install or get pkgbuilds for non-existent packages is handled correctly (#5 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.viridian-project.de/2010/01/24/paktahn-0-8-3-released/</link>
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		<title>Paktahn 0.8.2 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Merry christmas everyone! It must be christmas of course since Paktahn 0.8.2 is now out as promised! ;D As it often happens in software development it&#8217;s a little later than originally expected, but there&#8217;s a lot of good stuff that has made it into this release. Highlights fixed arch=(any) case (reported by magus) proper error [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.viridian-project.de/2010/01/10/paktahn-0-8-2-released/</link>
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		<title>Paktahn Quickinstaller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a one-liner that will install Paktahn. It will add the Paktahn binary repository to /etc/pacman.conf and run Pacman to install Paktahn. wget -qO- http://viridian-project.de/\~sky/paktahn/quickinstall.sh &#124; sudo sh You just need to paste this line into a terminal. Review the script here, it&#8217;s very simple: http://viridian-project.de/~sky/paktahn/quickinstall.sh]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/10/04/paktahn-quickinstaller/</link>
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		<title>Paktahn 0.8.1 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The next version of Paktahn is ready. Just sync-install your Paktahn package; rc testers will have to remove and reinstall explicitly. New users should refer to the original blog post for instructions. Changes Bug fixes * fixed x86_64 package building/installation * fixed case when $EDITOR also had args in it (e.g. &#8220;emacsclient -l&#8221;) * throw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/10/04/paktahn-0-8-1-released/</link>
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		<title>Paktahn 0.8.1 release candidate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi folks, Paktahn 0.8.1 is ready but has only been tested by me, so here&#8217;s a prerelease for you to run and help find bugs: http://viridian-project.de/~sky/paktahn/rc/paktahn-0.8.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Changes: * package removal support * support for provider packages * support reinstallation of packages * throw an error when the user attempts to build an AUR package as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/09/28/paktahn-0-8-1-release-candidate/</link>
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		<title>Announcement: Paktahn, a successor to yaourt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[This post is geared towards ArchLinux users. It might confuse you if you're not part of that audience.] yaourt, the popular Pacman wrapper, doesn&#8217;t seem to be maintained anymore and has quite some problems (e.g. UI nits, security issues, huge shell codebase). And people are starting to get tired of it because basic things stop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/09/19/announcement-paktahn-a-successor-to-yaourt/</link>
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		<title>Whoops! Something went wrong. Please try refreshing the page.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a Twitter user then chances are you&#8217;ve seen this message. Here&#8217;s a rant based on it. The Twitter web interface allows you to take a look at older tweets in bunches of about a twenty each. And every time you want to fetch a new batch you have to click on the large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/07/29/whoops-something-went-wrong-please-try-refreshing-the-page/</link>
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		<title>POSIX thread priority and policy handling in Common Lisp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The POSIX threads interface allows user applications to manage scheduling policies and priorities. Certain threads can be made to wait in favor of other threads (priority), and the order of execution for threads of equal priority can be specified (policy). Below is a humble example interface to access this API. &#40;asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op 'cffi&#41; &#160; &#40;defpackage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/07/25/posix-thread-priority-and-policy-handling-in-common-lisp/</link>
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		<title>SBCL: Getting started with mmap()</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The POSIX mmap() system call provides a convenient way to access a file&#8217;s content. Basically you just tell the kernel that you want a specific file accessible in memory. This shifts the responsibility for efficient and organized file access from your application to the kernel. In the meantime you simply work with an in-memory array [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/07/24/sbcl-getting-started-with-mmap/</link>
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