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		<title>No new users.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to the fact that I got automated spam bots attempting to start an account here several times per day, Hometown Computer is now closed to new users.]]></description>
		<link>http://hometowncomputer.net/?p=323</link>
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		<title>Forget Facebook, be careful of Google.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via CrunchBase Crosspost from www.benjaminleach.com This is a response to http://blog.brokep.com/2010/04/24/facebook-owns-us/ In this post, Brokep (full disclosure, former admin of The Pirate Bay and founder of Flattr) states that Facebook has gained too much power over not only our online lives, but offline as well. We put our friends, and those we once brushed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classes starting soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming soon to Central Maine: Mini-seminars from Hometown Computer! We will address the following topics: Facebook eBay Email Microsoft Office &#38; alternatives Adobe Photoshop &#38; alternatives Web Development Financial Management and more! Leave a comment and let me know what else you&#8217;d like to see covered. These will be 2-3 hour sessions, once every week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hometowncomputer.net/?p=317</link>
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		<title>Rural Maine &amp; High Speed internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia I went to fix a computer today for HP, they sent a network card to the client. This client lived in the country, 4 miles from the nearest DSL node, and had dial-up internet. She had told the tech on the phone she had dial-up several times, but apparently this was beyond [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hometowncomputer.net/?p=314</link>
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		<title>Apple computer survives road trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia An acquaintance of mine put his MacBook on top of his car yesterday leaving church. He proceeded to drive over 20 miles, doing errands and heading home. When he got home, the computer was no longer on top of the car. Today, the local police brought his computer back to him unharmed. I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hometowncomputer.net/?p=312</link>
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		<title>Goodbye Vista</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia My last vista machine said goodbye this morning, when it was introduced to a cup of coffee by my 18 month old son. Needless to say, they didn&#8217;t take to each other very well. I rushed to the local Walmart, where I knew they had a Compaq computer for $348. They were out. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 Woes (And also Atheros/Brodcom)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via CrunchBase About a week ago, I started getting the Blue Screen of Death ( a first since installing Windows 7 in early October of 2009) on a daily basis. I have an HP dv7 laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, in case you&#8217;re wondering. The file to blame was athrx.sys. After a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hometowncomputer.net/?p=307</link>
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		<title>Forget the machines, it&#8217;s a real person this time.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by Fantt via Flickr Ok, for a while, I&#8217;ve neglected this blog, and had it pull content from Yahoo! Answers automatically. I&#8217;m disappointed with the quality of the posts, and for that, I apologize. It is more important for me to have quality posts than several poor posts per day, I think. I&#8217;m back, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hometowncomputer.net/?p=305</link>
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		<title>Is There A Windows 7 Learning Software For Spanish People?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mother wants to learn how to use a computer and she only speaks spanish&#8230;Im currently running windows 7 but if theres one for xp then ill have no problem installing that in my second hard drive.]]></description>
		<link>http://hometowncomputer.net/?p=304</link>
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		<title>Can I Boot Windows 7 From A Flash Drive Without Installing It Or Making A Partition On My Computer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there a way (and if so, how?) to run Windows 7 (whatever beta it&#8217;s in) on my computer from a flash drive? I don&#8217;t want to install it on my computer because I don&#8217;t have a disc burner to back up my files, so I&#8217;d like to try it out by booting off of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hometowncomputer.net/?p=303</link>
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