I mentioned in my previous post the irony of Microsoft being a major sponsor of the up coming Philippine Open Source Conference 2004. I was reminded by a post in a mailing list PH-Cyberview:
Sun Tzu Art of War
Keep your friends close
Keep your enemies closer.
I don’t get it: I thought Microsoft’s against open source?
But look at the official website of the up coming Philippine Open Source Conference 2004. Scroll down to the sponsor logos and you’ll see Microsoft Development Network (MSDN) in the middle of sponsors like Redhat, Suse and Linux Solutions!
The irony nga naman.
If you are a Firefox enthusiast, you’re on the right track, man! You just joined the “dump-the-IE-now!” movement. :D
Here’re some tips I got from a mailing list. I have it applied to my firefox config and it sure does make my browsing more enjoyable.
You can make firefox as fast as opera with a little tuning. heres how:
1) look for the profile folder
On Windows XP/2000, the path is usually
>C:Documents and Settings[User Name]Application
>DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.xxxwhere xxx is a random string of 3 characters.
On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually
>C:WINDOWSApplication
>DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.xxxOn Linux, the path is usually
~/.mozilla/firefox/default.xxx/.On MacOS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Application
Support/Firefox/Profiles/default.xxx/.2) create user.js file and paste this code :
user_pref(“browser.cache.memory.capacity”, 65536);
user_pref(“browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl”, true);
user_pref(“browser.xul.error_pages.enabled”, true);
user_pref(“content.interrupt.parsing”, true);
user_pref(“content.max.tokenizing.time”, 3000000);
user_pref(“content.maxtextrun”, 8191);
user_pref(“content.notify.backoffcount”, 5);
user_pref(“content.notify.interval”, 750000);
user_pref(“content.notify.ontimer”, true);
user_pref(“content.switch.threshold”, 750000);
user_pref(“network.http.max-connections”, 32);
user_pref(“network.http.max-connections-per-server”,
8);
user_pref(“network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy”,
8);
user_pref(“network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server”,
4);
user_pref(“network.http.pipelining”, true);
user_pref(“network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”, 8 );
user_pref(“network.http.proxy.pipelining”, true);
user_pref(“nglayout.initialpaint.delay”, 750);
user_pref(“plugin.expose_full_path”, true);
user_pref(“signed.applets.codebase_principal_support”,
true);3) reload firefox
4) profit!
I have noticed that Friendster now runs under PHP. Previously, they were using Java Server Pages (JSP) . I don’t know if I’m just under the impression that PHP is really better than the rest — but I do see an increased level of performance of the site. Friendster does run a lot faster now! Can you check it out for me if you are experiencing the same?
Just another PHP success story. If the creators of Friendster will later release the reasons why they shifted, JSP, or ASP for that matter, will never know who hit them. PHP rules!
