How To Speed Up Firefox
Sunday 14th Oct 2007 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 08:11PM
I'm always a bit dubious about claims to altering your settings in applications will bring some magical extra performance, but this one really seems to work. Try it out for yourself and see if your Firefox flies too.
Feeling exhausted after a good 6 hour Halo 3 marathon session! I've not had a good blasting like that since the old days of Halo 2.
Ubuntu boot Up time
Thursday 11th Oct 2007 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 09:26AM
At the moment my laptop takes just over 2 minutes too boot up Ubuntu, I've been looking through the forums though and it appears that under a minute is a reasonable time. Apparently it could be my wireless card that is delaying the boot, this fix has been offered that I'll have to play around with tonight:
Edit /etc/network/interfaces and replace everything in the file with:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Update: This worked really well, my laptop can now cold boot and be on the internet with Firefox & aMSN running also in around 1 minute 5 seconds, fast enough for me!
Dual Boot Vista & Ubuntu
Monday 8th Oct 2007 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 10:11PM
Well I'm about to take the plunge into installing Ubuntu (Linux) onto my laptop and get it to dual boot with Vista. Probably end up destroying the thing, but we'll see.
Anyway, this is the tutorial I'm following.
Update: I had problems with getting Ubuntu detecting the Vista partition on my Dell Inspiron 6400, it seems this problem occurs quite a bit. However I've now come across this post that will hopefully help.
Update 2: I went with the install and it worked beautifully! So I now have a dual booting Vista + Ubuntu setup. I quickly started to miss the MS fonts on the system though, but I soon found a quick fix for that too. Along with a list of free killer apps!
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