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How To Make Firefox Faster

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:42:25 GMT

clipped by: AgonOruci

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 recieves.

Tags: firefox, mozilla, browser, tweaks

Saying the Right Thing at the Right Time

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:54:12 GMT

clipped by: knslyr

Clip Source: brt.typepad.com

Saying the Right Thing at the Right Time

Jack wakes up with a huge hangover the night after a business function.

He forces himself to open his eyes and the first thing he sees is a couple
of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table. And, next to them, a

single red rose!

Jack sits up in bed and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and

pressed.

Jack looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotlessly
clean. So is the rest of the house. He takes the aspirins, cringes when he

sees a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror and notices a note on the table:

"Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to go shopping - Love you!!"

He stumbles to the kitchen and sure enough, there is hot breakfast and the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating. Jack asks,

"Son...what happened last night?"

"Well, you came home after 3 am, drunk and out of your mind. You broke the coffee table, puked in the hallway and got that black eye when you ran into the door."

So, why is everything in such perfect order, so clean, I have a rose and

breakfast is on the table waiting for me?"

His son replies, "Oh, THAT!..Mom dragged you to the bedroom and when she tried to take your pants off, you screamed, "Leave me alone, bitch, I'm married!!!".

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Broken table - $200
Hot breakfast - $5
Red Rose bud - $3

Two aspirins - $0.25

Saying the right thing, at the right time... PRICELESS

Posted by knslyr on 2006.08.11 | Permalink

Tags: humor, pride's tomb

Top 5 Greatest Movie Monologues

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:56:32 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: According to the author, the top 2 greatest movie monologues ever are:

1. Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove.

2. Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen in Network.

Can you guess the other 3 without looking? Do you have some better suggestions?

What makes a great movie monologue? Even more to the point, what qualifies as a monologue? Hamlet's soliloquy would certainly make the cut, but its origins didn't spring from film, so it's probably ineligible. Does a speech have to be a certain length to qualify as a monologue? Can it be addressed to someone who reacts or occasionally interjects something in the middle of the display?

(Via kottke.org.)

Clip Source: mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com

1. "Of course it's a friendly call." Bob Newhart made his comic reputation with his hilarious phone call routines, but none come close to touching the brilliance of Peter Sellers' President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb calling to tell the unseen Soviet premier Dmitri that some nukes have been sent toward his country by an insane American general. The movie almost consists of one gut-busting comic sequence after another, but Muffley's phone call could be the film's comic highlight and certainly belongs in the top tier of the great movie monologues.

2. "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale." You could really make a 5 for a Day (or even more) list of monologues entirely from Paddy Chayefsky script for his ever-more prophetic Network. Much of the movie consists of monologues -- from Peter Finch's much-lauded "mad as hell" speech to his less-often cited tale of a voice speaking to him in the night. William Holden gets his great exit slam on Faye Dunaway's Diana Christensen. Hell, Beatrice Straight won an Oscar for a monologue that is practically her entire appearance in the film, reacting to the news that Holden is leaving her. Still, for the purposes of this post, I'm going with Ned Beatty's great screed as Arthur Jensen (another essentially single-scene part that got an Oscar nomination) selling unhinged anchor Howard Beale on the pre-eminence of corporations over countries in this day and age -- a sentiment that seems even more true now than it did 30 years ago.

Tags: fun, interesting, movies, films, monologue, monologues, top, list, acting, actors, speech