For those of you who I have not told about this. Here is what to do to speed up browsing in Firefox. This will only work on broadband connections. 1. Open a new tab in firefox and type in about:config 2. In filter type pipe and you should have 3 results. Double click the top… Read more →
An article from Tech Radar says French technology company Bell Labs have revealed they have managed to break the record for data transfer. They managed to optically transfer 16.4TB/s over a distance of 2550km. That’s 100 HD movies EVERY SECOND! What would the download limit be on this… kinda puts test to the ‘fair usage… Read more →
An article reports that today Firefox announced that it had reached a milestone of 500 million downloads of the open-source browser. I think that’s great. I love the whole open-source ethos but I am in a quandary, can you make any money from open-source software? Not that I’m a money hungry tycoon, but Microsoft are… Read more →
I know how tempting it is to set up a fake Facebook page and then message your friends with all kinds of abuse or stalker-like behaviour, but have you ever stopped to think what the ramifications could be? Well a Moroccan computer engineer certainly didn’t, although he did sign up to Facebook as Prince Moulay… Read more →
A planned meeting by the FCC has been announced to tackle the problem of ‘traffic shaping’ – the process of ISP’s dictating access to certain websites, services (such as peer-2-peer) and bandwidth – which is apparently in violation of the ‘net neutrality’ policy employed by the FCC. “The issue of net neutrality has come to… Read more →
Reading this article on El Reg, it made me chuckle. The overall weight of it seems to be that a court judge has ordered a site to be taken down because of nefarious content (no surprise there) and in response to that, the site remains up (no surprise there either). What is surprising is the… Read more →
Hello World! This is a very apt phrase at the moment as I have been learning php and the first thing it was used for is to echo “Hello World!”. It is also appropriate as I have managed (after much tweaking) to use WordPress and my own domain to host my own blog… so to… Read more →
Here’s one more reason not to go with ADSL. I thought Tiscali were a great ISP but it turns out they’re the same as all the rest. The part I’m worried about is “…Tiscali has indicated it wants to place a full block on peer-to-peer applications…” They say “…at peak times during the evening.” but… Read more →