Subj : seeking pure and simple
To : Dennisk
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu May 14 2020 07:39 pm
On 14/05/2020 6:27 a.m., Dennisk : August Abolins wrote:
DK> Win Me? Oh, I still feel the scars from that OS, and I didn't
DK> even use it, just provides a little support for it. I moved to
DK> Linux in 2000, gradually.
I was a bit out of the loop when WinME rolled out, so I was unawares of some of
the problems people reported about it. But I was in the market for a new 486 pc
to replace an aging 386 and WinME came along with the package from a local shop.
I applied all the tweaks and reg fixes that I eventually learned about. The
system was quite smooth-running after that. It was up 24/7 for most of the time
as it was the gateway server to my router/dialup to supply access to the
internet from a couple of other computers I used at home.
AA>> I managed to overcome that limitation by installing Ubuntu. The
AA>> pc worked reasonably well for a couple years after that. But
AA>> the max 2GB ram proved to be a limitation after a few more
AA>> Ubuntu updates. And again, the browser program was the first
AA>> sign of "not good enough".
DK> An alternative was simply to never update your OS, which is what
DK> I did. It did mean not updating browsers, and software as well,
DK> but I was able to use Red Hat Linux 7.3 up until 2009 on a
DK> 700MHz machine with 384M RAM. I don't do that now, as its
DK> probably not a good practice.
Actually, the last Ubuntu I had on the ex-WinME machine was "ok". I even
thought of rolling back a version. But the task seemed daunting. I don't
remember the CPU speed of the pc, but it was just not performing as snappy with
the mp3 processing and browsing as I wanted anymore. Keep in mind, I was still
on dialup for my internet. So experimenting with other distros was not going to
work. I received the original Ubuntu from their free rollout of CDs.
AA>> I don't know what they're doing on Facebook, but it takes at
AA>> least 15 seconds to load the main page while it takes another
AA>> 15 secs for all the tracking shit to settle down..
DK> I think part of it is that the HTTP protocol wasn't designed to
DK> handle small packets of traffic going back and forth...
Ah.. yeah. I can't really do anything and get a proper keyboard response until
all that activity has stopped.
DK> FB is horrible design. I joined because someone was too lazy to
DK> simply send e-mails.
Same here. Mostly, my cousins. One likes to use PicCollage. I hate that! The
combined picture is too small to appreciate the individual pics. It's probably
just fine on her 43" screen. :( Some people shouldn't be allowed to use a
computer, imho, :/ People using FB have no sense of computer bandwidth and
efficiency, not to mention privacy (but that's a whole different story).
DK> A good example of design is the D Language
DK> Forum at forum.dlang.org. It's web based, simple and FAST.
YES, very! It loaded in a snap. Navigation seems instantaneous. Nicely done.
Something like that for echomail on the web (to replace the current offerings)
would be very nice.
DK> But
DK> better still, it's actually a front end to an NNTP backend, so
DK> you can use a newgroup reader to access it as well. Good use of
DK> existing technology to solve a problem. This is the way it
DK> should be done.
I like the nntp option too. (See below.) Nicely conceived.
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