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LinkedIn – Facebook for Adults

Time sinks: Facebook Twitter Stumbleupon I find LinkedIn is less of a time chewer, of course you can have many hours of fun updating your profile to include just about every facet of work experience you've been through. Creative writing :). I'm noticing LinkedIn...

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32 bit Apache on Windows 7 x64 Error

Problem C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin>httpd.exe Syntax error on line 62 of C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apa che2.2/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf: SSLSessionCache: Invalid argument: size has to be >= 8192 bytes Cause...

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Gallery 3 Super-Large Thumbnails

Problem: The G3 RC2 Gallery, in album view, displays random `thumbnails' that are full sized. (e.g. the size of the real photo). Cause I am trialling Gallery 3 RC2 hosted on Dreamhost shared hosting. I think the way Gallery 3 generates thumbnails is that it takes the...

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Roof Restoration

Our humble timber cottage has an old tin roof. We can't afford to get it replaced at the moment but have gotten it pressure washed and painted in Shale Grey Colour. So now we are waiting for Google Maps to update it's...

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Back to Ubuntu 10.04

I have for several months been giving Fedora 13 a go as my primary OS. Fedora is what it is— A beta release for a product that will be rebadged and released when it's finished. As a distribution it's not really playing in the same league as Ubuntu. The polish...

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Bluefish for Windows

Attempting to install Bluefish on Windows XP Pro SP3 I went here http://code.google.com/p/bluefish-win/ Which sent me to here http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluefish/files/ Which gave me a download link here...

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