Speed up Firefox

I found this neat article on "hack a day" that will speed up Firefox on broadband connections.

I haven't been able to notice a tremendous difference, but here's the text from the tip with some slight modifications by me:

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 by double clicking on the entry:

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.

Welcome to the world: Abigail Kalea Rymer

I want to welcome my daughter Abigail Kalea Rymer into the world. She was born Dec 15th, 2004 at 1:31am EST. She weighed 6lbs 8.4oz and measured 19.5 inches long.

Just as I figured...

Just as I figured. After the music industry lobbied so hard for the DMCA, made examples of poor teenagers who just wanted to listen to their favorite artists and sued them for thousands, guess what?!

Monday (12/6/2004) a survey of recording artists revealed that the internet has padded their pockets. 43% of the artists said that peer-to-peer networks actually helped promote their work!

Creativity should be free to express itself... viva la restistance!

Robojo Speaks

My friend Robert Jones just started a new blog. His rants are entertaining to say the least!

URL: Robojo Speaks