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	<title>Ben Ruset</title>
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	<description>Sysadmin, etc.</description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Account Provisioning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I gave an interview with VPNHaus (part 1) (part 2), regarding account provisioning in the enterprise. I'm writing this as a follow-up to the interview to discuss the issues in greater detail. First of all, account provisioning is probably one of the most crucial but utterly boring parts of IT. From [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.benruset.com/2010/06/30/thoughts-on-account-provisioning/</link>
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		<title>Clean Server Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the better part of today going through the server room and cleaning out years of accumulated junk that had been thrown in there. Highlights include: 100+ DLT backup tapes, all headed to the degausser on campus 30 heavy gauge power cables from various servers Norton Internet Security 2004, never opened Office 2000 Tons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.benruset.com/2009/11/05/clean-server-room/</link>
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		<title>Productive at Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days I've setup Dell Openmanage and finished tweaking our install of IPMonitor. Now, when a service goes down or there's a hardware failure I'll get an email notifying me. You'd think that this would have been setup before, but my predecessor apparently just scheduled weekly walkthroughs of the two datacenters to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.benruset.com/2009/11/02/productive-at-work/</link>
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		<title>New stuff at www.BenRuset.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just made a quick page for www.BenRuset.com. Has a nice minimalist feel to it. The picture is of my Touareg (the 'egg) at the Forked River Mountains.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.benruset.com/2009/10/21/new-stuff-at-www-benruset-com/</link>
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		<title>Linux-like bash prompt in OSX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who use bash on our MacOSX boxes as well as Linux (at least RedHat systems) and are annoyed that OSX's bash prompt doesn't look like Linux's, adding these lines to your .profile will fix it. This will enable color for ls as well as change the actual prompt to match RHEL's. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.benruset.com/2009/09/18/linux-like-bash-prompt-in-osx/</link>
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		<title>Book Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just asked to write the forward to another book. Going to have to get cracking on that this week. Goes into print really, really soon.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.benruset.com/2009/09/16/book-forward/</link>
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		<title>iTunes U is Pretty Awesome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick blog to bring people's attention to it. iTunes 9 has been released and Apple is trying to get people to check out the material in iTunes U. For those who don't know, these are lectures from various universities in "podcast" form. I put the word "podcast" in quotes since they seem to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.benruset.com/2009/09/15/itunes-u-is-pretty-awesome/</link>
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		<title>2007 NJ High Res Orthos &#8211; now on maps.njpinebarrens.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Doug over at the NJ State Office of Information Technology I was able to come up with a valid connection string for the new WMS server at the NJOGIS. I've added the new 2007-2008 high resolution orthography to maps.njpinebarrens.com. Enjoy, if you're into that sort of thing!]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.benruset.com/2009/04/15/2007-nj-high-res-orthos-now-on-mapsnjpinebarrenscom/</link>
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		<title>Win2k3 Server Migration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At work I have a Windows 2003 server running on a Dell Poweredge 2650 that's just fallen out of warranty. I have a brand new Dell Poweredge 2950 that I want to bring up as a replacement. The thing is, I don't want to have to manually create the 200+ file shares, 400+/- local groups, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.benruset.com/2009/04/08/win2k3-server-migration/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the year winds down I figured it would be a good time to make a new blog post. I have been rather lax about posting here, spending most of my time on Facebook instead. In a few days I will be starting my new job as a Senior Sysadmin for Facilities IT at Princeton [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.benruset.com/2008/12/31/goodbye-2008/</link>
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