Firefox Add-ons
My currently installed Firefox Add-ons;
Archive for the ‘IT’ Category
Limiting SYN connections in Windows XP SP2 – Event ID 4226
Well, here’s something I hadn’t spotted before, and in retrospect it makes a lot of sense: Microsoft introduced a cap on the number of SYN (half-open connections) for TCPIP.SYS to 10 in XPSP2. Yes, that would explain the slower P2P and Fasterfox browsing then…
David Kaspar’s blog post describes the symptoms, how to demonstrate that there is a problem using the event log, and links to a patcher which raises the cap to 50 connections. The tone of the post starts off a little hystericaly, but settles down into a good description of the issue and the fix.
UTW URL rewrite problem
Various solutions to this problem are discussed on the UTW forum.
Domesday 1986
I have found it – and it finally works – the 1986 Domesday Project rescued from laser disc and available on the web here.
Somewhere in there is an article written by Christopher as a child – I vaguely remember something about canals, but I haven’t found it yet.