If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0

I decided to take it upon myself to setup a Squid Cache Proxy using the latest Ubuntu distro (10.04, at time of writing). If you are following this then you can be up and running in under 5 minutes . It’s the finer details that will consume your time but that obviously depends on the scenario that you’re setting this in. Once the basic settings are set then I’ll briefly show you how to customise the Error Pages .
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In this case when trying to start an OS within Hyper-V, I was getting the error message “Virtual Machine Could Not be Started because Hypervisor is Not Running”. I was running a Hp ProLiant DL385 G5 with an AMD 2356 CPU and the OS was Windows Server 2008.
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A nightmare when it happens, I started panicking for a moment but all hail, a simple solution is at hand. This works with the iPhone 3GS: Hold the ‘Home & on/off Buttons’ for approx 20-30 seconds and the phone will hard shutdown, then switch it on as normal. Phew!

I can’t see many others getting much from this post apart from myself. This is basically how I’ve tweaked my WordPress site template (Piano Black) to better suit my needs. Consider it as a point of reference for myself, if it helps others, then it helps
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On my WordPress (self hosted) site I’ve noticed a lot of people using the URL field on the comments box to link to a lot of pointless sites, therefore I felt it necessary to remove the option all together. I’m not yet sure how fool proof this is but only time will tell and if it needs improving I’ll look into it at that point. So long as your comfortable with editing the Appearance *.php files then this is a piece of cake
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With over 50, 000 websites adding the ‘Like’ button within the first week, I saw this as something that simply needs to be added to my WordPress site to stay up with the web trend. I had a mess around with the plugins and didn’t really like my WordPress plugin list building up, so I decided to do it manually as I have previously throughout this site. This is no more difficult than my other WordPress post for adding share buttons, please refer to this post for more information
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