The folks over at VMware think so.

Great VLC tips from Lifehacker.  I want to try streaming video with someone.

I was ironically having this conversation with Scott today.  Read the article here.

Source: Matt-helps.com

“Inside the address bar type:

about:config

and then find:

network.http.pipelining

http.proxy.pipelining

and set them both to “true”.  This adjusts the pipelining settings.

Then find

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

and set it to 8, though you should feel free to play with this number a little and tweak it as you see fit – the article http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests suggests that 8 is easiliy sufficient.

Finally, right-click on any setting and select ‘new’ and then ‘integer’.   Set the name to “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” (you might want to copy & paste it) and set the value to “0″ (zero).  This removes the render delay.

And hey presto you should notice a sigificant speed increase from a simple optimization!”

Source: Softpedia

“The first alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), which is scheduled for release in late October this year, was announced a few days ago. Even if there aren’t big changes compared to the final version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, released on April 24th, 2008, the Alpha 1 of Intrepid brings a brand new theme, completely redesigned, which in time will become what everyone was expecting. Among the new features, we could notice a brand new 2.6.26 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.23.4, Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Final, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, The GIMP 2.4.6 and Pidgin 2.4.2.

For the Intrepid Ibex, the development team will prepare an unbelievable desktop, with amazing performance, that will work on mostly any computer (be it a high-end workstation or an old and dusty Pentium III machine). Another major feature planned for Ubuntu 8.10 is the ability to stay connected to the Internet (wireless connections) wherever you go: “We want you to be able to move from the office, to the train, and home, staying connected all the way.” – said Mark Shuttleworth.

Without any further introduction, here is the screenshot tour of this first alpha version of Ubuntu 8.10″

If the digital photo you just uploaded looks washed out on Flickr compared to in your desktop image editor, that’s because Firefox 3‘s advanced color profile support isn’t turned on. To enable it, type about:config in Firefox 3′s address bar, then click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button. Then, in the Filter field, type gfx.color_management.enabled and set that value to true (its default value is false). Restart Firefox. From there on in, your photo colors will be richer than they were. Why isn’t this value true by default? Well, according to Mozilla, you’ll see a 10-15% performance hit using this setting, but if you’ve got a reasonably fast machine, it’ll be worth the better-looking photos. Hit the link below for an extended explanation of Firefox’s color profile support.

Source: http://lifehacker.com/396742/tweak-firefox-to-display-richer-colors