On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:46:57 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can tell the difference in browsing speed on my machines if my > ISP's network gets congested, with Mozilla or Firefox. If browsing > slows down to anywhere near dialup speeds I can ping the local > gateway for a couple of minutes and see latencies that are > consistently much higher than normal every time. I don't have all > that fast of a connection, 3 mb/s, or very fast machines, 1ghz > Pentium 3's on my old servers. 3 milibits/sec? :))) Come on, 3Mb would be ~360 kB/s! Of course you see the difference to dial up speeds, that's almost 100 times faster!!! > The reason I wouldn't run a gui by default is that these old machines > don't have a lot of memory in them, and a gui eats a lot of resources > so I only use one occasionally and then shut it down after I'm done > using it. I prefer using a cli most of the time because it's more > flexible and powerful in many respects than a gui, but some things, > like a browser, just seem more natural as a graphical interface to > me. Maybe it's because I didn't start computing with DOS or Linux, > but with a gui. If all you need is browsing, the fastest start you can get is xinit with your browser instead of an xterm (I don't remember what config file to change, maybe .xinitrc?). But you won't be able to run anything else. A more flexible solution is to use some minimalistic window manager (fluxbox, ... or even icewm). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
