My cat bit one of my fingers last weekend when I tried to remove her from a stand-off with my other cat. (She's never bit before).  I went to an urgent clinic on Tuesday after it showed signs of infection (swelling and redness) and was prescribed antibiotics and had a tetanus shot. It's been about 30 hours since the first dose and the finger has swollen further at the site of the bite. I'm assuming it's going to burst at some stage so is it better to go back to the clinic for them to drain the site or let it occur naturally? And how long long does it take the antibiotics to work?
thanks

This is fun. I got 5 out of 6...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizzes...e-not-real

It appears HP is getting more and more aggressive with the registration of their products and forcing people to create an account just to use their printers.

Ive been working on this printer for someone that I set up a few months ago, it is an HP laserjet m110w and one of their more cheaper consumer models. At the time I was able to install it with no issues, but today the user contacted me to say that it was not printing. When I looked at the computer, all the drivers were gone. I thought that was a bit odd and I doubt anyone using it had uninstalled the driver.

Anyway, I went to HP to download the latest driver, this one is supposed to be the full offline driver package, but note how it says "HP easy start" on the file name despite it being labelled for offline use.
https://support.hp.com/nz-en/drivers/sel...l/30190476
"Installation Software and Full/Basic Driver-Supports print and scan functionality only"

Now perhaps I have to disconnect the LAN from the internet to force it into installing the driver without an account(I cant as i was working through teamviewer), but im sure in the past there has always been an option to skip registering (in small print in the corner) when installing the driver package.
But this time round it is basically forcing me to register and says that you have to create an account to use this product. (it now seems to be called HP+ when it was running the install)

In the end I just used 7-zip and extracted the driver out of the installation package and could run the manual setup from the files it contained, but the printer would now say out of paper (with a fully loaded tray), but it was communicating successfully.

I thought I would log into the printers web interface through the browser and there was this message:

"Check your account. A problem has occurred with your HP account and you will be unable to print very soon unless the issue is resolved. To learn more, open the HP Smart app or visit www.hpsmart.com and sign in to your account."

Now the weird thing is that this message seems to be related to HP instant ink subscriptions or something along these lines. Either way I know there has never been an account created to begin with, and a quick google search is showing people with the same issue and only being told to sort out their ink subscription that they never had or want to ask for. I suspect this could be a reason for the out of paper message, but I think I might need to physically look at the printer and perform a factory reset and then reconnect it

I dont recommend people purchase HP consumer printers anyway, but it seems a common theme with many products these days that they ever force users to register an account to use their products or at the very least make it difficult to do so without.

But with luck, Biden may be able to halt this particular piece of idiocy.

 I wonder how many dead woman might satisfy these control freak zealots who call themselves pro lifers when what they are is nothing of the kind; they are pro forced birth.


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/10...rtion-pill


"The administration of United States President Joe Biden has filed an emergency motion to stay a decision that would suspend the sale of the abortion pill mifepristone, as part of an ongoing legal dispute that could affect access to reproductive healthcare for millions of Americans.



ÔÇ£The courtÔÇÖs sweeping nationwide relief was especially unwarranted given the balance of harms: If allowed to take effect, the courtÔÇÖs order would thwart FDAÔÇÖs scientific judgment and severely harm women, particularly those for whom mifepristone is a medical or practical necessity,ÔÇØ the DOJ stated.



ÔÇ£This devastating ruling has no basis in law and will ban the most common method of abortion in EVERY single state,ÔÇØ Wyden tweeted on Friday, calling on the Biden administration to take strong action to override the ruling.





Mifepristone was approved by the FDA in 2000 as the first of two pills used in medication abortion, along with the drug misoprostol.
There is a strong scientific consensus that the pills are safe to use, and they account for more than half of all abortions in the US. Mifepristone is also used to treat CushingÔÇÖs syndrome, and misoprostol to prevent ulcers.


Already, some Democrat-led states, including Massachusetts and Washington, have announced that they would build emergency stockpiles of abortion medication.

Quote:The disclosure of highly classified material already represents WashingtonÔÇÖs worst national security breach in many years, including details about┬áUkraineÔÇÖs lack of ammunition, US┬áintelligence collection methods┬áused against Russia, and embarrassing evidence pointing to US spying on close allies such as Ukraine, South Korea and┬áIsrael.┬á
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...k-analysts

I have a problem that when I move the cursor around the screen something makes everything, usually, become quite smaller. Sometimes it also makes everything a lot larger. A small circle with a handle appears with a cross in the centre and when I click on it, it says the percentage of magnification or otherwise. It also has the word "reset" and when I click that it returns to normal.

I thought that it may be something that has switched on and needs to be switched off, but a fortnight ago I bought a new laptop and it is happening on that one as well.

It does not cause any problems but it is annoying. 

I am hoping that someone will be able to tell me how to switch it off.

Thank you very much.

This is scary stuff and I first heard about this on the TV the other day, now look at this!

https://dailyclout.io/eat-your-vaccines-...his-month/

Scott Newgent, who featured on what is a woman speaks out against this evil industry where all they care about is the money.
You won't hear these stories with our woke media.
What better a person to listen to than someone who actually has undergone this treatment to begin with!

With Windows you can use the "Graphics Command Centre" to adjust colour, contrast, and saturation. How can I do this in Linux?

I have been trying to set up WSL (Windows Linux support) using Ubuntu. When I try to activate it I get an error message:-
Error: 0x80370114 "This operation could not be started because a required feature is not installed!"
Has anyone got an idea as to what they are referring to? The WSL has been installed, and so has the Ubuntu.