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20 Jan, 2010

Swine flu vaccine, is it safe?

Posted by: admin In: hints & tips| life & family

Informational pages on swine flu vaccination in the UK

find the fastest DNS nameserver for your computer to shave those precious milliseconds off your DNS resolution time

Fotowall is a graphics application for creating simple mixes from multiple images with text manipulation and easy image transformation and combination; these post shows how to compile and install on [K]Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic).

How to configure the quicklaunch plasmoid (aka widget) so as to fix a problem with missing icons and other issues.

Gah! I’ve upgraded to 9.10; then on a subsequent reboot I was “slimming down my system” more on that later and have messed up “mountall” causing it to error on boot in standard and recovery mode. Won’t boot, not even to a console.
Mountall error gives status 127
I’m sure I’m guilty of this but I wish [...]

Solved: Fixes flickering flash videos (eg YouTube) in both Opera and Firefox



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