Part of the problem is that the people who design hardware and the
commercial software live and work in places with hi-speed internet
access, and six figure incomes to pay for it.
To some extent, I feel like a beachcomber in a digital world, alone,
playing with whatever washes up, while they are on the cruise ships
and have no clue as to how a person can do anything useful without a
computer that is networked in a multi-user workspace. Cheeze.
This message is in plain ascii. Like a lotta folks, I've been reading
plain ascii for twenty years, I like it, and because of all the practice
with the plain vanilla IBM font, can read it at 500 - 1000 words/min.
Fancy websites loaded with graphics, and worse yet, moving banners,
take too long, like a pig thru a python, thru my rural UTP Telco lines,
and annoy the shit out of me. I wish there were a pulldown menu that
would tell me how many meg a given site is, so I can logoff and go
someplace with the real content, like this ascii, that I'm looking for.
.zipped ASCII compresses so much, that you could take everything that
Shakespeare ever wrote, and back it up on a single 1.4meg floppy. When
I consider the wasted bandwidth clogging the lists and backbones, and
what real content that is, I simply shake my head and sigh.
This is one of the few places with rather more content, even including
the recent snafu. I might like to see mention made of websites which
consider the bandwidth problems of those of us with bleeding edge
access and hardware. It is one of the reasons I switched to Google is
that their homepage is simple and comes up quickly. Simtel for the
same reason if I'm looking for software.
Are any of the weather sites simple?
With regard to flea and gray market hardware buyers, dont get anything
less than a 486. There is so much 486 stuff for sale out there, that
unless you are adding to an antique collection, the bang for the buck
is several orders of magnitude better. I've seen 486 mthbs for 20$.
I tried Linux on a 486 with a VLB SCSI (adapter @ 10$) and because the
SCSI is so much faster than IDE, got 586 levels of performance.
uncopywritten- do what you will with it.
-- Arachne V1.68, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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