Ken,

Interesting. With Arachne 1.7r3 on my 386 with a 56k US Robotics
Sportster I get complete images. Of course with a twenty second
cycle time I only get a moment to view the image before it is
replaced with a new download. Arachne shows just a blank screen
during the downloads.

But what's the utility of this site? I don't get it especially.
Why show live images of a street corner in Portland, Oregon to
the world?

I wonder if the people crossing the street there have any idea
they are being observed and recorded?

Of course there are cameras everywhere now. So much for the right
to privacy. We are being watched.



On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:27:57 -0700 (PDT), Ken Martwick wrote:

> I did a browser comparison yesterday using a camera image
> of a street scene which is updated every twenty seconds.
> The URL is http://www.oregonlive.com/officecam/.
> My computer is a 100 Mhz Pentium, but the modem is only
> 14,400 bps.  With Arachne v.1.66, I could see every one
> of the images, though for only a brief period.
> Using Netscape v.3.04 in BasicLinux, many of the images
> only loaded partially, though occasionally there would
> be a complete image.  Finally, using Netscape v.4.51 with
> Slackware Linux v.7.1, at no time was an image visible.
> I expected v.4.51 to be slow, I thought v.3.04 would be
> faster than Arachne.
> Ken Martwick





Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan, USA
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

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