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catsidheSinus infection. Sinus headache was so bad this morning, I thought I was about to start throwing up. Distinctly unpleasant.
I am on horse tablets of Amoxycillin and something called ‘Clavulanic Acid’.
And thanks to a “please think of the children” moral panic, where the risk/benefit analysis was done by insane lobotomised monkeys, products like Pseudoephidrene with Codeine are simply no longer made. Excruciating sinus headache? Better hope that Pseudoephidrene with anti-inflammatories will do the job, or else Phenylepherine with Codeine, because that's all that's available. Turns out, it doesn't do the same job, and I've been headachy and vaguely nauseous all day, because I might take my twenty tablets of Pseudoephidrene and make a couple of moles of speed with it.
In the meantime, I have tripped over a bug in Xorg, whereby X stops passing mouse clicks and keypresses to its clients. Mouse still moves, but clicks do nothing. Keyboard still does something, but nothing gets passed to clients. (Switching to virtual consoles works, because this is outside of X proper, and when in the console everything works, because this has nothing to do with X. But nothing works inside X any more. And it seems that in Ubuntu 9.04 (in all desktop manager versions), they helpfully turned off CTRL+ALT+BKSP. (it can be restored, apparently, by typing sudo dontzap --enable), but luckily, logging on to a virtual console and sudo /etc/init.d/[kg]dm restart still works. Still ugly, but less bad than a hard restart. The chatter in the bug tracking communities says something about an IRQ conflict involving the NVidia driver, but that doesn't help me.
I am on horse tablets of Amoxycillin and something called ‘Clavulanic Acid’.
And thanks to a “please think of the children” moral panic, where the risk/benefit analysis was done by insane lobotomised monkeys, products like Pseudoephidrene with Codeine are simply no longer made. Excruciating sinus headache? Better hope that Pseudoephidrene with anti-inflammatories will do the job, or else Phenylepherine with Codeine, because that's all that's available. Turns out, it doesn't do the same job, and I've been headachy and vaguely nauseous all day, because I might take my twenty tablets of Pseudoephidrene and make a couple of moles of speed with it.
In the meantime, I have tripped over a bug in Xorg, whereby X stops passing mouse clicks and keypresses to its clients. Mouse still moves, but clicks do nothing. Keyboard still does something, but nothing gets passed to clients. (Switching to virtual consoles works, because this is outside of X proper, and when in the console everything works, because this has nothing to do with X. But nothing works inside X any more. And it seems that in Ubuntu 9.04 (in all desktop manager versions), they helpfully turned off CTRL+ALT+BKSP. (it can be restored, apparently, by typing sudo dontzap --enable), but luckily, logging on to a virtual console and sudo /etc/init.d/[kg]dm restart still works. Still ugly, but less bad than a hard restart. The chatter in the bug tracking communities says something about an IRQ conflict involving the NVidia driver, but that doesn't help me.