AJagucki.log

Decrease page loading times in Firefox by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time.

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 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.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This
means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. 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.

If you are on broadband you will load pages MUCH faster now. If you are stuck on dialup still, you will do more harm than good with this tweak.

"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."
--Mahatma Gandhi

I wrote a small tool to eliminate the copying/pasting/editing involved in creating phone number scan lists. In addition, you can generate the numbers for your scan randomly.

ScanGen v0.4 by Caustiq <http://caustiq.esoteriq.org>
  A tool for handscanning a block of phone numbers.
  Generates a list of phone numbers within a specified range,
  in either random or sequential order.

Usage: scangen [-r | -s] [-a NPA] [-e NXX] BLOCK-START BLOCK-END

Mandatory Options:
  -a NPA                Area code
  -e NXX                Exchange

Other Options:
  -r                    Generate the list randomly
  -s                    Generate the list sequentially
  -o file               Output to a file

Examples:
  Generate randomly for 503-228-9XXX, then output to rnd.txt

        scangen -r -a 503 -e 228 9000 9999 -o rnd.txt

  Generate sequentially for 503-246-(8500 to 9200), output to
  standard out

        scangen -s 8500 9200 -a 503 -e 246

scangen-0.4.tar.gz

And if you want to sort your randomized scan after your number discriptions are added, just use sort. It comes with coreutils which is standard with most *nix distros.

sort -n random > sorted

"It is...fruitless to question and debate early design decisions; better solutions are often quite obvious in hindsight. Perhaps the most important point was that someone did make decisions, in spite of uncertainties."
--Niklaus Wirth

Welcome to The Caustiq Protocol.

TCP. Also known as the Transmission Control Protocol. Here I'll be posting updates to programming projects I am working on, source code of said projects, interesting technology news, and maybe even the occasional blogesque post. But the main aim of this site is for my programming projects. If you came here looking for the esoteriq forums, use the link on your right. We're (buchan and I) going to buy esoteriq.org pretty soon here, so you'll be able to hit up the forums through forums.esoteriq.org, and this site through caustiq.esoteriq.org.

The plan this winter break is to do all the shit that I wanted to do during fall term. I have been itching to make use of my programming abilities, beyond my pointless CLI based course assignments. So I picked up a couple new books to do just that. Sitting under my coffee here is 'C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3' which is written by the boys at Trolltech themselves. "Not only the best book on Qt I have ever seen, but also the best book presenting any programming framework." --Matthias Ettrich (he's the fucking founder of KDE btw). So I'm looking forward to that. I also picked up 'Learning PHP5'. All you need to know is that it's published by O'REILLY. So that covers the geek side of things. Whatever else happens will happen when it does. This weekend though... Nestor got a new car, so we're gonna go war driving in downtown Portland, and also hit up some concerts we saw in the Willammette Weekly.

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
--Albert Einstein