firefox tab behaviour in opera

i switched back to opera after using firefox for some years, after researching a bit in the opera forums i modified the tabs and their behaviour to my needs:

under preferences | advanced disable show close button on each tab and set Cycle Without Showing List as cycle method w/ ctrl+TAB
i want to make the next [...]

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gentoo emerge libstdc++.la cannot find …

ok, did a emerge world, upgrading gcc from 3.4.6 to 4.1.2, then got errors about not finding libstdc++.la, what to do? there are a lot of results on the web, but most dont help it seems
there are several situations, check what the path of the non existant file is (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.la) 3 possibilities:

wrong arch (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), [...]

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The Best Word Book Ever – Evolution

A flickr user took the time to compare the 1963 edition with the one of 1991, have a look to see what has changed. interesting

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Frink

Let’s say you wanted to fill your bedroom up with water. How much water would it take? Let’s say your room measures 10 feet by 12 feet wide by 8 feet high.
10 feet 12 feet 8 feet -> gallons
552960/77 (approx. 7181.298701298701)
Frink is [...]

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amarok – linux audio player

  installed amarok and played around, except that its a rich gui – which i usually try to avoid it seems awesome, last.fm support, very cool, also some real nice features like dynamic playlists
another feature is synchronization with mp3 player, so you can eg. create a dynamic playlist with your favorite songs (highest play count) [...]

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