FINALLY figured out how to get Windows XP SP3

Sorry, I thought that my next post was going to be on USB linux.

I haven’t posted in a while so I thought I would. I figured out how to goet Windows XP SP3 Update. The download on the ‘Windows Download Center’ is a hard to find link and it’s also broken. When I go to WindowsUpdate, I click ‘Custom Update’ so that I know what is coming onto my computer and what is  being optimized. You can’t do that with Windows XP SP3. All you have to do is click ‘Express Update’, because for some reason it isn’t available through the ‘Custom’ button I always choose. I can’t believe it held me back for like 3 weeks.

Starting to write the big how-to

Well, I can now verify that the instructions that I linked to in my last post worked, ( Posting it through USBLinux right now. Oc8 ) However, these instructions use the terminal a lot, and most normal people avoid using the terminal when they can . ( Although in my opinion it’s still much more efficient, and makes you look smart . ) I think it was really well put together.

The guide will be using a SANDISK SD CARD, NOT THE USB DRIVE I’M POSTING FROM, BUT IT SHOULD WORK FOR ANY KIND OF PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICE,

Starting to work on the USB Persistence 8.04 Ubuntu!

They finally did it!

I will write a nerdhow screenshot-version. (c: W00T! I am excited to get a bootable persistent linux in my pocket. Who isn’t?

Also, I might be getting a wiki via PBwiki soon…

Here’s a link if you want your own. Looks like pretty good warrez.

Spambots continue to function more efficently and so does my browser

I continue to get ~900+ spam a day for reasons unknown. Maybe the wordpress staff will do something about it. I still think it’s from the little ‘possibly an announcement’ post.

Atleast ASKIMET catches everything.

Cool wikihow page that I blogged with some code google gave me:

How to Make Firefox Load Pages Faster

from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit

Firefox is cool, and it can be tweaked to load broadband pages extra fast. Here’s how.

Steps

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
2. 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.
3. Alter the entries as follows:
4. Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
5. Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
6. Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 8. This means it will make 8 requests at once. There is no point setting it higher then 8 as it is capped at 8 max. [The default value for this setting is 4]
7. 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 receives.
8. If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

Tips

• Alternately, you could install Fasterfox, an extension which does some of this automatically, and makes tuning easier.
• To alter the entries, double-click on the one you wish to alter
• For more information on Firefox Tuning see the Firefox Tuning sticky thread at the independent MozillaZine forums.
• Also the MozillaZine Knowledge Base on Network entries in about:config and what they do.
• You can also run Firefox in your RAM (no reading from the HD means faster Firefox) by following this article.
• If you have problems like slow down, pages not loading or images loading weird, just undo the tweaks in about:config

You can also do this in the Internet explorer browser, In opera an alternative is: go to opera:config and go to performance. Then change the max number of connections to 32

Warnings

• Take note that doing this can actually make certain pages run SLOWER.

Related wikiHows

• How to Change the Language of Pages in Mozilla Firefox

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