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Archive for March 9th, 2007

Speedup Firefox

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Thanks to the Buzz Out Loud gang for this tip. In Firefox type in the address bar, about:config and hit enter.
In the filter area type network and hit enter.
Scroll down to the line, network.http.pipelining click on that to make it true and then the very next line down is,
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, click on the 4 and change [...]

The Internet Makes Us Naked

Friday, March 9th, 2007

 
When we can no longer pretend that we behave the way our cultural expectations say we should, perhaps it’s time to adjust those expectations. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
Real good read about the past and present of the internet and how it affects us in our private lives (read sex), Baldy

 
Technorati tags: Personal
Source: The Internet [...]

State debates bill on MySpace age check

Friday, March 9th, 2007

HARTFORD (Reuters) - Connecticut lawmakers debated a bill on Thursday that would require social-networking Web sites such as MySpace to verify users’ ages and force minors to obtain parental consent before posting profiles.

Intended to protect children from sexual predators, the bill proposed by state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal would be the first of its kind [...]

Three surfers find a new way to drink — online

Friday, March 9th, 2007

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three U.S. surfing friends whose jobs moved them to different cities have come up with a way to continue their weekly drinking session — in an online pub that even has happy hours.

The founders of CherryTAP claim to have set up the Internet’s first online pub that gives users the nuances [...]

How To Install Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) On Ubuntu

Friday, March 9th, 2007

 
This guide shows how to install the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) and 6.06 (Dapper Drake) server systems. Zimbra is a full-featured, open source collaboration suite - email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring. It has a feature-rich AJAX web interface and is compatible with clients such as [...]

Hands on: Linux disaster recovery

Friday, March 9th, 2007

 
The time you come to realise just how dependent you have become on your computer is when things go terribly wrong. Your partitions won’t mount, your files seem corrupt or, worst of all, your entire hard drive seems to have become unreadable. The first and most obvious piece of advice, as anyone would tell you, [...]

Fun with Ubuntu — Top Ten Next Names, Part 1

Friday, March 9th, 2007

 
Ubuntu enjoys giving it releases funny animal names. There have been “warty warthog”, “hoary hedgehog”, “breezy badger”, “dapper drake”, “edgy eft”, and the coming “feisty fawn.” Well, with nothing better to blog about this week, I’ve decided to provide my suggestions for names. So for this week, and next, I will present my Top Ten [...]

Tracking your sport activity with open source software

Friday, March 9th, 2007

If you’re a FOSS enthusiast who keeps fit by exercising or playing sports, it’s time you used an open source application to track your activities. With these programs you can get a good overview of your exercises or create diagrams and statistics for specific time ranges and sport types.

SportsTracker is a good place to start [...]

Open source CRM: Tips and techniques

Friday, March 9th, 2007

 
Who Creates Open Source? A consistent question regarding open source is, “Who writes open source software?” A second, often-unasked question is, “Why would anyone work on open source?” Many people don’t understand why someone would program without financial compensation, because they view programming as unfulfilling drudgery. Alternatively, many people believe that open source developers must [...]

SSH with GSSAPI or public keys slowdown

Friday, March 9th, 2007

 
As of this morning, I found that ssh logins into my Debian etch boxes were monumentally slow. Using the -vvv switch it looked like the problem was down to a very long wait for gssapi-with-mic authentication. Trying with the -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no switch on the command line helped, although some boxes were also pausing for a [...]

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