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		<title>Buggy Digital Volume Controls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Yamaha HTR-5540 has one of those digital volume controls on it&#8230; the kind that if it&#8217;s off, you can keep turning it. The last couple years it&#8217;s started doing this thing where I&#8217;d be turning it down and it&#8217;d go +1-1+2-1+1-1+2-1. The net result after volume spasming is an increase in volume &#8211; not really what you want at the time.
I decided to take it apart and try and clean the &#8220;pot&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s not really a potentiometer, but that&#8217;s what many people would call it anyway and cleaning ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hungryhacker.com/hw/buggy-digital-volume-controls/</link>
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		<title>Fixing an Office Chair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where the hell do I put this?
Anyone that knows me knows I&#8217;m basically a hop skip and a jump from a clinical hoarding dysfunction &#8211; okay it&#8217;s probably not that bad, I really only tend to hang onto things I feel might be useful some day. It&#8217;s worked out pretty good, because that&#8217;s how most of this site came to be.
For some reason, I held onto an office chair that had the wheel broken off of it somehow. Don&#8217;t ask why, I probably won&#8217;t tell. Anyway, while reaching behind her, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hungryhacker.com/other/fixing-an-office-chair/</link>
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		<title>Buying a little more time from my Microsoft Optical Mouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love my mouse. No, I don&#8217;t think you quite understand &#8211; I love my mouse. It&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s anything special either, you can get one off of eBay for about five bucks&#8230; but of course it was about $35 when I got it, back when optical mouses were still somewhat new. In fact it&#8217;s only quite recently that most new computers came with an optical mouse.
But even so, this mouse has served me well. It&#8217;s now called the &#8220;Microsoft Optical Mouse Basic&#8220;, but back when I got it ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hungryhacker.com/hw/microsoft-mouse-fix/</link>
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		<title>lspci for Windows&#8230; Sort of&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spike on IRC was commenting about how much of a pain in the arse it is to track down drivers for unknown hardware on Windows, and how easy it is under Linux using lspci. I sat and thought about it &#8211; lspci can&#8217;t possibly pluck hardware strings from nowhere, there has to be some sort of database&#8230; and there is, and best of all there&#8217;s a web-based front end to it.
So here&#8217;s how to do it yourself in a few easy steps&#8230; first, right-click My Computer and choose properties. Then, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hungryhacker.com/os/lspci-win32/</link>
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		<title>Super-caching with TimThumb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This website doesn&#8217;t actually use TimThumb &#8211; our hack of the Arthemia theme instead uses Flickr for all it&#8217;s image hosting, so it&#8217;s just easier to hack the theme to understand how to pull different sizes of Flickr images instead.
However, we have another site that my wife&#8217;s internet services company hosts that needed to be optimized for Digg/Slashdot-style surges, and it does use TimThumb &#8211; extensively in fact.
The Problem
TimThumb does have a caching engine built in which will, if your permissions are set up correctly, prevent the thumbnail from having ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hungryhacker.com/sw/super-caching-with-timthumb/</link>
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		<title>Low-pressure Spyder with Pure Energy Regulator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I bought this el-cheapo regulator from a paintball shop, they said it wouldn&#8217;t really be suitable for low-pressure. Well, it turns out they&#8217;re wrong! According to the Pure Energy Vertical Inline Regulator manual, the default configuration is good from 550 to 900 PSI. Removal of a shim from inside the regulator body drops the adjustable range from 275 to 500 PSI &#8211; about the working range I&#8217;m thinking to be optimal for my low-pressure marker.
Removing the shim couldn&#8217;t be easier &#8211; shown in the picture to the left is ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hungryhacker.com/paintball/low-pressure-spyder-with-pure-energy-regulator/</link>
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		<title>UPnP-IGD on FreeBSD with PF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to always run either OpenBSD or FreeBSD powered routers &#8211; basically since around 2000 (before that it was Linux, but we don&#8217;t speak of those days anymore). In recent years, starting with my Cayman 3546 router I just started enjoying the simplicity that appliance-type devices offered.
Our most recent setup has been a Linksys WRT54G, which has been rather crap in it&#8217;s duties really. For some reason it&#8217;s consistently dropping packets and possibly rebooting (but with the garbage default firmware, there&#8217;s absolutely no way to tell if it&#8217;s rebooted ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hungryhacker.com/os/upnp-igd-on-freebsd-with-pf/</link>
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		<title>S/PDIF Output on Asus K8S-LA &#8220;Salmon&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I got a PlayStation 2 and found the joy of games that support Pro Logic II, I&#8217;ve had a thing for surround sound. It&#8217;s like this perverse fixation that gives me a boner every time &#8211; you haven&#8217;t played games like Need for Speed: Underground 2 or Ace Combat 5 until you&#8217;ve played them with Pro Logic II. Seriously, the effect is that dramatic.
The PS3 is even better because most games support Dolby Digital 5.1 native &#8211; the PS2 lacked the processing power to generate this signal dynamically, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hungryhacker.com/hw/spdif-output-on-asus-k8s-la-salmon/</link>
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		<title>RedStar v2 WordPress Theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I thought since we&#8217;re gearing up to re-release the site I&#8217;d spend a little time talking about our lovely WP theme. Our goal was to create a throwback to one of the earliest themes on our website, &#8220;RedStar&#8221;, which as you might guess featured a rather prominent red star.
It also, much to the dismay of others, featured some rather politically motivated photography&#8230; in fact many of our themes did. We decided that, in the interests of a wider audience, we&#8217;d do away with that &#8211; plus we couldn&#8217;t find ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hungryhacker.com/meta/redstar-v2-wordpress-theme/</link>
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		<title>Organized Chaos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello world, OrganizedChaos here.
Welcome to the new Hungry Hacker.  I will add more to this later.
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