How do I disable the new Chrome Print Preview feature?

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For some strange reason Google have made the Print Preview in Chrome mandatory in the latest update. While there is no setting option to disable the print preview you can do it with a program launch switch –disable-print-preview.

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Install LightTPD, Mysql and PHP5 on UBUNTU (LLMP)

There is nothing better for web development that having your own local web server to test your web pages on before uploading them to a live server. As a Linux user, I have many choices including Apache2 and Lighttpd. I chose to use the latter of the two, because it is more lightweight and I do not need any of the fancy features offered by Apache2. Of course, a good web server is not the only application a web developer needs. a MySQL database and PHP5 support are almost always required. This whole setup is usually referred to as LLMP (Linux, Lighttpd, MySQL, PHP) and there is already an excellent tutorial that guides one through installation on Ubuntu. However it includes too much detail, and many people (including me) that already know what they need, and just want to know the commands to install everything. So I decided to compress the tutorial into one short blog post.

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