Month: August 2010

Often if you have a long-loading page, you’ll want to stream the content as it arrives. Firefox does a great job of aggressively rendering content, but other browsers like Google Chrome and IE don’t. A typical workaround for this is to first “wake up” the browser, then periodically flush the output buffer – this has… Continue reading Google Chrome doesn’t like to stream

I run several websites on a leased VPS box and use WinSCP to SSH in. Suddenly a few days ago I got locked out, and got only “Connection Timeouts” when I tried to log in. First I figured this was due to my Norton Internet Security firewall suddenly getting confused. But disabling it, and the… Continue reading What to do if your ISP decides to block outgoing SSH requests