Browser performance in overclocked Quadras?

2002-05-13 Thread Robert J. Johansen
Dear Quadraphiles: I am currently experimenting with a Newer Tech Overdrive 50 mHz CPU upgrade for my Q 950. I am running OS 7.6.1, with 196 MB RAM. I got this gadget on eBay, unfortunately the seller had no documentation for the gadget. The Overdrive strongly resembles a Sonnet QuadDoubler: it

Re: anyone have use for quadra macs?

2002-05-13 Thread the pickle
At 15:58 -0400 on 13/05/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a follow-up to this thread from last week about j murphy, I should report that I did receive my LC 575 back panel today and so far haven't been signed up to any porn sites. God forbid anyone tell the truth about his past activities,

Re: speed of iCab (was Browser performance on overclocked Quadras)

2002-05-13 Thread Robert J. Johansen
Quadraphiles: Quoth the pickle: Are you using iCab on a dialup or broadband? I had my first experience with iCab on a 68K coupled with broadband (on a C650, without an accelerator) two days ago. It's quite literally almost as fast as a PII-266 Dell laptop that I was competing against. I

Re: speed of iCab (was Browser performance on overclocked Quadras)

2002-05-13 Thread the pickle
At 19:15 -0400 on 13/05/02, Robert J. Johansen wrote: I'm on my parish school's LAN, so it's quasi-broadband. The school's supposed to have a T-1 connection, and I know that Internet on the school's Windows boxes (P-II and III, mostly) is quite zippy. But my experience with iCab is that it is

Re: Browser performance in overclocked Quadras

2002-05-13 Thread the pickle
At 19:33 -0400 on 13/05/02, Robert J. Johansen wrote: I tried that, and the machine became slower than molasses: noticably slower than even the stock 33 mHz CPU. What if you put the stock CPU back and turn caches off? Bet it's slower then :) If it's any help, when my browsers quit and I get

Huge FAQ update

2002-05-13 Thread the pickle
Might not look like it at first but I went through the whole FAQ and updated almost everything, weeding out dead links, fixing links that have moved, etc. And on the two-year anniversary of the FAQ (technically yesterday), we have 60,000 hits. (FWIW, the counter started about six months after