'Fox Newz
Just some quick information on a little Firefox trick I discovered online.
Taken from the "Tech Support Guy Forums"
We found a way to boost browser performance in Firefox (and Mozilla) to a level you literally won't believe? The update takes two minutes, requires no add-ins or purchases, and blows your hair back when you surf even the most dog-slow Web sites.
To boost Firefox, simply do the following after launching your browser.
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar (no spaces) and hit Return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
--network.http.pipelining
--network.http.proxy.pipelining
--network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request at a time to a Web page. When you enable pipelining, the browser will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. (This tells the browser to make 30 requests at once.)
3. Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before acting on received information.
Okay. That's all it takes.
I've tried it, and I'm liking it. I don't have much else to say about it, though. Happy browsing.
Jeff Gannon: Quivering, Slavering Eros
For those of you who aren't privy to the details of this story, I'm referring to the impostor journalist who managed to secure a pass to White House press conferences - nevermind the fact that his news organization was but three days old at the time, and he applied for his press pass under an alias. Could it be because he was working for the ultra-right wing news organization Talon News at the time? Some might dismiss that as unnecessary speculation; irrelevant celluloid easily stripped away with Occam's Razor. However, it's pretty apparent to anyone who can connect two dots with a straight line that there's more at work here: this man, regardless of his political bent, is an impostor who gained access to the president under an alias.
Either Homeland Security have taken a vacation, or there was some level of complicity in assisting this partisan hack to pose as a real journalist. Dot-connectors prefer the latter train of thinking, since it is more in line with the duplicitous, manipulative behaviour one might come to expect from this administration.
Some might remember this man's unflinchingly biased question, directed at George W. Bush, about how the president plans to deal with a Democratic party whose members are apparently "divorced from reality". For purely political purposes, Gannon (or James Guckert, if you prefer reality) masquerades as a hard-right homophobe; however, he's also the registrar of multiple internet domains dedicated to the wholesale exploitation of the masculine form.
Daily Kos and AmericaBlog, where the story surfaced.
U.S. Politics Today has a compact body of links.
Link takes on Gannon with his quiver of Silver Arrows.
Taken from the "Tech Support Guy Forums"
We found a way to boost browser performance in Firefox (and Mozilla) to a level you literally won't believe? The update takes two minutes, requires no add-ins or purchases, and blows your hair back when you surf even the most dog-slow Web sites.
To boost Firefox, simply do the following after launching your browser.
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar (no spaces) and hit Return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
--network.http.pipelining
--network.http.proxy.pipelining
--network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request at a time to a Web page. When you enable pipelining, the browser will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. (This tells the browser to make 30 requests at once.)
3. Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before acting on received information.
Okay. That's all it takes.
I've tried it, and I'm liking it. I don't have much else to say about it, though. Happy browsing.
Jeff Gannon: Quivering, Slavering Eros
For those of you who aren't privy to the details of this story, I'm referring to the impostor journalist who managed to secure a pass to White House press conferences - nevermind the fact that his news organization was but three days old at the time, and he applied for his press pass under an alias. Could it be because he was working for the ultra-right wing news organization Talon News at the time? Some might dismiss that as unnecessary speculation; irrelevant celluloid easily stripped away with Occam's Razor. However, it's pretty apparent to anyone who can connect two dots with a straight line that there's more at work here: this man, regardless of his political bent, is an impostor who gained access to the president under an alias.
Either Homeland Security have taken a vacation, or there was some level of complicity in assisting this partisan hack to pose as a real journalist. Dot-connectors prefer the latter train of thinking, since it is more in line with the duplicitous, manipulative behaviour one might come to expect from this administration.
Some might remember this man's unflinchingly biased question, directed at George W. Bush, about how the president plans to deal with a Democratic party whose members are apparently "divorced from reality". For purely political purposes, Gannon (or James Guckert, if you prefer reality) masquerades as a hard-right homophobe; however, he's also the registrar of multiple internet domains dedicated to the wholesale exploitation of the masculine form.
Daily Kos and AmericaBlog, where the story surfaced.
U.S. Politics Today has a compact body of links.
Link takes on Gannon with his quiver of Silver Arrows.
