Tony Du’s Blog

Hi all,
I just got a new phone. Well to be exact, i canceled my old contract and make another new contract with T-mobile. So yeah, i got a new phone - the BlackBerry Pearl

Unfortunately, i can’t keep my old phone number unless i change to a different providers. So my new phone number is : (646)309-1573 , write it down and save it if you plan to contact me in the future because i dont think i can remember or have the time to call everyone to tell them that i have a new number.

Merry Christmas 2006 everyone!

My family had secret santa and it was super fun. The images can be found here

My Family (Everyone said someone is missing … :(. Baby, i wish u was here)

Highlight of the moment:
Chi Hang

Chi Quynh

Me

The gifts:
Me to Mom: Ann Taylor sweater

Me to Dad: Perry Ellis shirt and pant

Hang&Terry to Mom: The limited sweater

Hang&Terry to Dad: Express sweater

Quynh&Thang to Mom: Another Ann Taylor sweater

Quynh&Thang to Dad: Levis Jean

Me to Chi Quynh: iPod nano white with engraving

Chi Quynh to Chi Hang: Some boot (i dont know the brand)

Chi Hang to Me: Skechers shoe and Gap pant

Terry to anh Thang: Audi car collection and Nordstrom gift card

anh Thang to Terry: Diesel Shoe

I’m so excited. I have been way from home for more than 4 months. I’ll be home on Sat and will get back to Seattle on Jan 02, 2007. I can’t wait play secret santa with my family and go to new year eve in NewYork city with Chrissy. Yey!

time go by so fast, yet so slow…
one year full off baby-ness

I love you baby..

I found this little hack after reading a Digg article. The real link to the tutorial video is at metacafe. All i do here is take those information and put it here on my webpage so i can reference it later quickly.
Anyway, by default, internet browser such as IE and Firefox are optimized for dial-up connection. This hack increase the simultaneous connections per page for faster browsing

For IE:
1) Go to Start -> Run
2) Type “regedit”
3) Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Internet Settings
4) Check to see if you have “MaxConnections Per1_0Server” and “MaxConnections PerServer” registry key
5) If you have those key listed then right click on them -> modify -> Change value to 10 (decimal). If you dont have these key listed then right click -> new -> DWORD values -> name them “MaxConnections Per1_0Server” and “MaxConnections PerServer” respectively and assign both with value 10 (decimal)

6) Close registry editior and try using IE, u’ll see significant improvement

For Firefox

1) On address bar type “about:config”
2) on filter type “network”
3) Scroll down and look for “network.http.pipelining”
4) If it’s already set to “true” then you’re good, otherwise double click on it and set it to true
5) Look for “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”
6) Double click on it and set the value to 8. (Note: this is different from the turtorial i read. In the tutorial, he said to set the value to 10. However, firefox can only handle 8 pipeline so there’s no reason to set it above that. This info is from mozilla knowlegde base site)
7) on filter type “nglayout”
Look for “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set the value to 0 (This value is the amount of time (ms) the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves. The default value is 750 ms, which means Firefox waits about 1 sec before receiving the data and drawing it on screen)
9) Again, if you can’t find this string then right click -> new -> string -> name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set the value to 0.
10) Now use your Firefox and you should see some improvement.

Happy surfing!