This post on Hack-A-Day has instruction for getting to FireFox’s “advanced” configuration page. You can then make changes so that network pipelining is turned on, i.e., the browser will then make HTTP requests in parallel, greatly speeding up performance if you have sufficient bandwidth to handle the multiple requests.
I’ve set the number of parallel [...]
One unexpected side-effect of living in a car-centric city that gets a lot of snow is that people don’t do a good job of clearing the sidewalks. Down W. 6th Street and St. Clair, one of Cleveland’s premiere night life spots, there are wide stretches of ice and packed snow in front of restaurants [...]
This past week’s New Republic’s cover article was Peter Beinart’s “A Fighting Faith”, a post-election call for American liberals to confront Islamic totalitarianism, or else fade into irrelevance. Though these ideas have been floating around for a while, at least in general, this is a significant article, as it comes from one the flagship [...]
I really should be reading all those books in the unread pile, now that I have some free time. But I’ve instead been sucked into Far Cry, which I picked up just before Thanksgiving. The single-player mission took a bit less than a week, but I’m deeply engrossed in the multiplayer, in particular [...]