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 that to a 10 close the browser and restart. It is faster I have tried it in both Linux and Windows.

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

Source: The Internet Makes Us Naked

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 in the United States to impose strict regulations on the fast-growing sites, which are a virtual hangout for millions of American teenagers.

“There is no such thing as a fool-proof, magic bullet system,” Blumenthal said, “but this one provides a much greater degree of security for children and it empowers parents to protect their children.”

His office said 10 to 20 other U.S. states were considering similar legislation.

Source: yahoo news

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 of a pub but from the comfort of their home computer or laptop.

“We liked to go after a long day at work to a bar and hang out and have a few drinks,” said Bill Lee, 36, a freelance marketer from San Francisco who was one of the three founders.

“When we moved apart we couldn’t do that anymore so we wanted to recreate that online.”

Lee said CherryTAP, which now has over 700,000 users in the United States and Britain, was different from other social networking sites as you did not need to have a network of friends already. It also did not take advertising.

Instead CherryTAP has just launched “happy hours,” where users pay $100 to sponsor an hour-long session, with their name appearing at the top of the site and other users raising their glasses to toast them.

Warning: Cat lover’s are not going to like the image on the main page.

Source: yahoo news

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 Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, and Novell Evolution so that mail, contacts, and calendar items can be synchronised from these to the ZCS server. It can also be synchronized to many mobile devices. ZCS makes use of many existing open source projects such as Postfix, MySQL, and OpenLDAP.

Also works with Mepis folks just in case you are wondering, Baldy.

 

Technorati tags: Linux, Software

Source: How To Install Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) On Ubuntu

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, is to make regular backups. It is surprising how many people who have years worth of valuable files have few or none of them backed up.

Source: Hands on: Linux disaster recovery

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 Ubuntu Release Names, five this week, and the rest next. Read em and weep!

Source: Fun with Ubuntu — Top Ten Next Names, Part 1

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 recording your sporting activities. It is not bound to a specific kind of sport — you can create categories for any sport type, such as cycling, running, swimming, or tennis. Once you have a category, you can use it to log the time you spent doing that activity.

The main advantage is a good overview of your exercises and you can easily create diagrams and statistics for specific time ranges and sport types.

All the application data is stored in XML files. So it should be easy to access it with other tools or to write importers and exporters for other applications.

If you own a heartrate monitor with a computer interface you can display the recorded exercise files and evaluate the diagrams with the integrated PolarViewer application.

Source: linux.com

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 be students or unemployed, with an assumption that they work on open source in place of a real job.

 

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Source: Open source CRM: Tips and techniques

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 very long time when dealing with public-key auth.

 

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Source: SSH with GSSAPI or public keys slowdown