Alive today, and I'll stay that way!

I just spoke to my relative. That went well. Well not exactly, but you know what I mean (you means me) . I think he knows what happened, thanks to dad. Poor dad spoke to him in all honesty I guess, but the fact of the matter is that he knows what I think. Which makes things a lot easier and clearer. Anyway it seems as though things will be OK now regardless of what transpired. Life is back to normal. The new week waits for me with open arms and a smiling face. I'm a happy man.

Time and tide hath never waited for one

The DST scandal

Heh heh, I know fer sure that blood in your veins must be runnin along really fast considering that this title resembles a very popular episode captured on MMS involving the misadventures of a couple of sprightly youngings. But.... for the self proclaimed geeks out there, this is an exciting time when a slow old bureaucracy fraught with conflicting thoughts that are powerful enough to cancel each other out moves eventually along the way to progess (no-one has ensured that it won't step back :)) and embarks on a perilous journey to change time itself!

Naah, no-one has yet found a way to time-travel (or no-one has publicised it yet) but good ol' Indiana - the midwest of the midwest is finally switching timezones and surprisingly, is implementing DST! Now, why might you ask, did you need to know this singularly uninteresting piece of information that is obscured within singlularly uninteresting prose. Well...... :) I dont know.

All I know is that this time change thingy is making stuff a little too difficult for me. Changing timezones on all the few hundered machines in the lab, prepping for a DTS (gawd, another acronym!) presentation thats been pushed ahead due to this fiasco and working on 3 sumissions for next week... Do I need time? Nope. I'm cool... I'm cool [the sound of thudnerous rage ensues, accompanies by the sound of crashing glass] (dude, it happens in the movies - crashing glass I mean).

Hmm... singularly uninteresting week :)

Speed up Firefox!

Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar 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 to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it 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 means it will 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 it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

I was also reading somewhere (I don’t remember where now.. I restarted Firefox to check out the above changes) that you shouldn’t make the last “nglayout” change on OSX for some reason. But give it a try– you’ll like it! Of course this also increases the load on a given webserver as it gets more simultaneous requests per browser, but I’d say that the the speed improvement is worth it.