note to self....

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Saturday, February 18, 2006

Anonet and OpenVPN

Creating a Backboneless Internet?

Anonet quickstart

OpenVPN - an Open Source SSL VPN

posted by 0x0000 # 05:06

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

RFID

Slashdot | Cellphone Could Crack RFID Tags:

One of those cheap little multiband radios that tunes 13.56 MHz would be handy for detecting tag readers at a distance then. -comment #14723497

100% organic matter RFID chip developed in Korea, costing only 0.5 cents -(#14723366)

posted by 0x0000 # 14:58

How to turn off the Firefox 'new tab thumbnail feature'

Q: How to shutoff the new tab thumbnail "feature" when you've got images. 16x16 thumbnails of 4000x4000 images are nothing but a waste of CPU time and a visual distraction.

A: type about:config in the address bar, then change browser.chrome.image_icons.max_size to 0

[from slashdot comment]

posted by 0x0000 # 10:01

Firefox Memory Leak Workaround

From a comment on the Slashdot discussion Firefox Memory Leak is a Feature (bracketed info is from other posts in the same thread) - these steps describe how to turn off the memory intensive tab history caching Firefox is doing:

[0. type 'about:config' in the Location bar to get the configuration settings page]

1. set browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to "0"

2. It does (try opening a huge Fark photohop thread, huge as in multiple hundreds of pictures, see Firefox ramp up to 600 or 700Mb ram consumption, close the fark tab, see firefox' ram usage drop dramatically to regular ram usage levels)

[more info at >mozillazine]

[some posts suggest this may not be available in versions before 1.5]

Labels: firefox

posted by 0x0000 # 09:39