Launching Firefox Quickly: XP and Windows 2000

If you’re like me, a considerable amount of your computing experience takes place within Firefox.  I have a couple of old, slow computers, however, for which the actual loading speed of Firefox itself is problematic.  Either can keep up fine with web content, and their connections are fast, but Firefox itself can take a surprisingly long [...]

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Stupid Gentoo Tricks

What initially attracted me to Gentoo is its sometimes-elegant portage system, which is Gentoo’s version of a package manager — one of the things that distinguishes Linux flavors from one another.

Portage suffers from a sort of chicken-egg conundrum in that portage and all of its files and dependencies are themselves managed by portage, which means that [...]

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Unusually Talented Cats

When I lived and worked on a goat farm in western Massachusetts, we had two cats:  the house cat, “Pzzat”, whose role, like most cats, was to lounge around the house and exude softness and warmth.  The second cat, “Barnyardette,” or “Barny,” for short, lived in the barn and had a more useful role — to [...]

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