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Posted on May 19, 2010
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Alien Swarm

Posted on July 22, 2010

About the Game

Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.

Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet's surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.

Quickly speed up Mozilla Firefox

Posted on June 6, 2010

For those of you like myself using Mozilla Firefox, I recommend changing a few settings in the configuration file to speed up your browser. This will take you less than one minute.

  • Open up Firefox and type "about:config" in the address bar (no quotes).
  • Tell the browser you'll be careful and enter the settings page, watch out for dragons.
  • In the filter bar, type "pipe" (no quotes).
  • Set network.http.pipelining to true by double-clicking it.
  • Change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8 by double-clicking it and changing the value.
  • Change network.http.proxy.pipelining to true by double-clicking it.

Restart the browser and Bingo! You will notice an increase in speed because you just allowed Firefox to use multiple connections to access websites and content.  Enjoy!