Seeing that it’s 100 years now since Einsteins “miracle year” The Economist has written a piece outlining some of his theories and what he accomplished. An excerpt: IN THE span of 18 months, Isaac Newton invented calculus, constructed a theory of optics, explained how gravity works and discovered his laws of motion. As a result, [...]
Entries from December 30th, 2004
You have the right to unpimp your ride
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments · Cars & Tuning
Seems like the fellas from West Coast Customs (pimp my ride) got fined $16.000 by the goverment for safety violations. I wonder however the goverment found out…. More info here. For those of you who don’t like registering, here is the full article: ========= Custom Rims, Yes; TV in Steering Wheel, No By DANNY HAKIM [...]
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The kings salary open for all to see
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments · Middle East
The BBC reports that in an unprecedented move the king of Morocco’s salary has been published. It seems that the guy earns a modest $45.000 / month. That’s less than a typical Fortune 500 CEO earns and certainly less than some other Arab kings & sheikhs earn. This is a very bold move for an [...]
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Put Firefox on speed
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird
Seems that the fellows at forevergeek.com have written a little tutorial to make Firefox faster. It basically comes down to setting it to pre-emptively cache more data while you’re surfing: 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 Normally the browser will make [...]
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