More Tsunami Pictures

Karin Svard runs towards to sea to warn her sons, Filip, left, Anton and Viktor as the first of six tsunamis hit Hat Rai Lay beach.AFP

Miraculously the people in this amazing photo survived! From the BBC story:

A Swedish tourist who was pictured running into the Asian tsunami to save her family survived the catastrophe, as did her children, it has been revealed.

the world showed a desperate Karin Svaerd heading into the waves as other tourists fled.

On Sunday the 37-year-old policewoman told the press she survived by grabbing hold of a palm tree on the Thai beach.More amazing stories of survival, including the Svaerd family, in The Sydney Morning Herald.

This post previously featured photos from this site, but it turns out that the photos are NOT from the recent Southeast Asia tsunami. The first 3 comments are in relation the picture whose lineage is tracked at News Designer.

Originally posted by Kevin Aylward from Wizbang

Speed up Firefox

This tip will speed up your Firefox significantly, but will mainly work for broadband users. To achieve this speed increase you need to alter certain settings of Firefox to speed up page requests and the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. To edit these preferences you need to open the configuration page of Firefox by typing the following into the address bar:

about:config

This will bring up a long list of Preferences. You can filter them by typing:

network.http.p

Firefox preferences

You will need to make 3 changes and one addition:

  • Find network.http.pipelining and click on it to turn it’s value from false to true.
  • Find network.http.proxy.pipelining and click on it to turn it’s value from false to true.
  • Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequest and change it’s value to 30.
  • Finally you will need to add an extra preference. You can do that by CTRL-Clicking in an empty area and selecting New/Integer from the contextual menu. Enter the name in a pop-up window: nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set it’s value to O.

Restart Firefox and enjoy!

From little. yellow. different. Thanks Joshua!

Originally from CreativeBits

Geek Out backs Neowin’s appeal to Help Tsunami Victims

Neowin is Appealing to the masses and we stand 100% behind them and the cause:

Reuters is now reporting that 120,000+ people are dead as a result of the tsunami that hit countries on Boxing Day.
There are tens of thousand of people still un-accounted for, and the
real figure could be much much higher. Hundreds of thousands of people
are still at serious risk from disease and they desperately need your help and support. In all, as many as five million people are without homes. 

Please, spare what you can. International Aid Organisations can
make a difference. They need your donations urgently. With donations,
they can help get vital supplies like clean water and drugs to the places most badly hit.

This is a tragedy on a global scale and badly needs a strong global response. More information on how you can best help can be found here. You can donate direct to Sarvodaya, a charity dealing with one of the worst hit countries, Sri Lanka, via Paypal, here. Another Sri Lanki based charity accepting Paypal donations is Karuna.

View: Hub of Information : Tsunami relief @ Google | Constantly updating coverage of the tragedy
Video: Amateur Videos of Tsunami coming in 1 | 2 | 3
View: Photos Packs 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 (Hosted at Cryptome.org; contain graphic images)
View: Donate via Paypal – Sarvodaya(Sri Lanka) | Karuna(Sri Lanka)
Screenshot: Scale of the damage : before and after at Banda Aceh Sat. Photos

Source: Neowin

Originally posted by Doobie-Won from GEEK OUT