I got a new Dell D420 laptop last week. (It’s plane friendly size 0, and 7hour battery life and stunning screen made it a no brainer) I’ve been running ubuntu Feisty Herd 5 since day one. It was an absolute breeze to install, upgrade to XGL and add just about every 3D desktop tweak [...]

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wp-cache with gzip compression without hacking:

One of the things I find annoying with wp-cache is that it’s not gzipped so the user experience of wordpress is helped by quicker first byte content delivery with almost zero overhead but hindered by slower page completion times.

Adding this line to “.htaccess” compresses all php output

php_value output_handler “ob_gzhandler”

I’m fairly [...]

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Adrian Fawcett(COO) is leaving Punch Taverns (9300 pubs) to work for General Healthcare, the people who own the BMI chain of private hospitals. Brief story.

Fixed price laser surgery for people with beer-goggles issues will be next on the menu

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“You’ve been spotted using your mobile phone whilst driving and you have been traced through your car registration”
The number to call is 07666000###. At the end of the call ~5minutes the message ends:
“You’ve been had, HA HA!!”

Sounds like the usual prank calls but they usually involve a premium rate number, and that’s what got me [...]

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