Found some useful tools lately to speed things up on my end:

Opendns – for a safer, faster and smarter internet. I have configured both naga.gov and techtribe to point to their DNS servers.
Swiftfox – an optimized Mozilla Firefox build for Linux.
Ubuntu system tweaks via automatix

Speed bumps indeed!

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I joined Ubuntu Philippines Team just recently and I was inspired to know that there are already bicolanos on the team (Zak and Irvin), both are actively involved in advocating Ubuntu and FOSS in general. I also was able to meet other Ubunteros from different parts of the archipelago virtually via irc.freenode.net’s #ubuntu-ph channel.
The team is still small, only a handful of volunteers but it’s great to know that they’re doing their share to advance FOSS in the country.
I hope …

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