Opera caches a lot, that's why navigation is so fast. I've tried setting up Firefox in the same way - it works, but slower than Opera. IE8 might, but that's blocked by the firewall and isn't allowed out at all.
Fair point. Probably because a lot of us linux users gave up with Windows in a fit of pique and therefore don't know what works or not ;->
Now that's just bollocks Dennis. Linux is quite capable of CPU speed governing, idle disk spin down and screen blanking provided the hardward supports it.
I'm stuck with dial-up and the best thing I did was switch to Firefox with the add-ons: AbBlock Plus, NoScript and Flashblock. They kill most of the crap on websites speeding them up lots. Flash in particular is a real killer of download speed.
I can sympathise with the OP. Some major websites are unusable due to being completely written in Flash or just take way too long to load - so I just ignore those sites and go elsewhere. You would have thought that some of these big companies would have the knowledge that they are driving customers away due to their bloated unusable websites.
Best price sure, but surely not best performance. Win98 can dial up multiple phone lines, either 2 of yours or just maybe sharing with a neighbour or 3. I'm trying not to be amused at the thought of using 98 for a mediumband service, but it might be a useful option. Turning off alot of the website junk like animations and blocking ads is a big help of course, but as sites get ever more bloated dialup must be a nightmare.
I dont know your situation, or who's prepared to pay what, but ISTR reading about a homebrewed laser link that brought a decent data rate to a small area once.
NT
How sweet. Dennis open his mouth and the shit runs down his chin, as usual.
xxx. Turning off alot of the website junk like animations
When I used my mobile phone as a modem (9k theoretcial maximum!) I used to turn off images in Internet Explorer, only downloaded them if I really had to.
Sites *should* have ALT text for blind people on submit buttons etc.
[g]PS can you get 3G on any of the mobile networks, check it out on friends' phones
One PC is still going to be better than one PC plus a Linux box just to run squid.
MBQ
There isn't much difference between linux and windows with regards to what open source will run. basically if a piece of OSS is any good someone will have put it on windows as there isn't much to stop them.
How does running another machine with squid and linux on it not use more energy?
If I misread that I apologise. I assumed the OP was running a dedicated old PC in the corner just to handle dialup and routing to one or more random machines around the house/workshop/whatever. But to be fair, he didn't actually say that.
It was a reasonable assumption; that's the sensible way of doing it.
Which means TNP and dennis won't be doing it that way.
No: actually what is there is a DSL router that doesn't do ADSL but acts as a switch for three PC's all attached to laser cutters and CNC wire machines. One also has a modem.
Its old and clunky, because the laser cutter software won't install on anything much newer than XP. And that machine is nearest the phone socket.
Nah, he stands on his head so it goes back up his nose.
Does the software need some bare-metal hardware access that a VM can't provide? Just a thought; "old and clunky" makes me think it was designed to work with much slower machines than modern ones - which in turn means that any performance hit of running within a VM shouldn't be an issue.
cheers
Jules
Probably. Not sure there's not a special card in it. And accompanying driver.
Just a thought; "old and clunky" makes me think it was designed
That's true, but I don't control that setup, cos I am rarely there, so its best left the way the person who does, understands.
Next time I am there, I will check.
That's OK, its easy to read something that isn't there. At least you aren't like some of the foul mouthed posters here.
Here's that well known expert huge talking cr@p as usual. It would be positively silly to run an old PC for that purpose. The saving in electricity would easily pay for a brand new netbook to do a better job or even buy an ethernet to dial up/isdn router like the one I used to have when I was with Demon internet. Of course huge wouldn't even know that they existed being the expert he is.
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