| Don't settle for light speed; take Safari to ludicrous speed
Being the default browser installed with an operating system has its advantages; just ask Internet Explorer on both the Mac and PC side. Yes, IE once shipped as the default choice for Mac users too, back in the dark days of OS 8/9. And it was fast, too, faster than anything else available at the time. Today, Apple's browser of choice is Safari, based in part on the open source KHTML codebase and enhanced regularly through Apple's WebKit project. It's pretty fast, too, but not always. Sometimes, Safari can slow to a crawl depending on a variety of factors such as cache size or network congestion, or even how many tabs you have open at once. Sure, you could (and should!) switch to a better browser, but what if you don't want to? MacFixit has an answer. Today's front page is devoted largely to a guide to speeding Safari back up, including some common and not-so-common fixes.
Published Mar/Apr 2007
As spring re-emerges, countless travelers contract a chronic case of wanderlust. They recuperate from cabin fever by seeking what lies beyond hearth and home. It’s also spring break time when families begin looking for a getaway of one week or less to forget about school and work.
This spring, one of the country’s most popular destinationsOrlandowill welcome visitors with events, great attractions and good deals.
The faithful standbys
The usual drawsWalt Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorldremain popular and shouldn’t be missed. Other allures include Gatorland, WonderWorks (an interaction attraction), the aviation-themed Fantasy of Flight in nearby Polk City, Ripley’s Believe It or Not Orlando Odditorium and the Orlando Science Center.
Uganda: Nothing Surprising in Recent Violence
The recent outbreak of violence during which members of the Asian community and their businesses were attacked has spawned some interesting myths and a fair amount of hypocrisy as the wave of indignation has gathered pace. Perhaps the biggest myth is that, save for the 1972 mass expulsion, nothing of the sort has happened before. One commentator captured this view nicely: "racism is beginning to show its ugly - and deadly - fangs" (see Mary Karooro Okurut's Government Must Crack The Whip On Racism, Violence, Daily Monitor, April 17). Police boss Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura went hyperbolic, claiming that the violence was 'un-African' and 'un-Ugandan'. .
Swedish Ambassador speaks out on power sector upgrading
The business community still nurses the brunt of endless poor supply of electricity by the Tanzania Electricity Supply Company Limited (Tanesco).
In this interview Swedish Ambassador to Tanzania Torvald Akesson explains among other things that giving Tanesco full autonomy and stopping interfering with its activities would provide a sustainable solution to electricity supply problems in the country.
Q. Understandably, Sweden has been financing the power/energy projects in Tanzania. What is the current status of the project (s)?
A. We have been providing institutional support and capacity development to different institutions: First, we supported Tanesco`s four years management contract now expired.
We are now shoring up Tanesco`s management in the transition period and discussions on new modalities for support were ongoing.
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