[PLUG] Some sites which simply don't show on my Ubuntu desktop

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 12/09/2009 02:17 PM, Manish wrote:
> I am generally happy with my switch to Ubuntu few months ago. But I am
> quite annoyed with few issues that I am not able to resolve.
> 
> I am not able to open few sites, typically Wordpress blogs, ICICI
> websites, and many https websites. I can open them without any problem
> on my Vista laptop working on same broadband connection. Does anyone
> know why this happens, and moreover how can it be fixed?
> 
> The other minor annoyances include frequent garbling of screen that
> forces me to either restart or if I am lucky, I manager to log-off and
> then log-in to see that stuff. Typically it messes up system bar on top
> and status bar at the bottom. 
> 
> BTW, I am using 9.04, Jaunty distro of Ubuntu. 
> 
> Any pointers, help would be highly appreciated!

    echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale  and check

Rahul