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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
