So fess up, what sort of wind powered 386 silicon are your running? Does it have a colour screen? I used to surf the net like a troglodyte on a 166 MHZ Pentium running Netscape 4.5 and a 2 or 4 gigabyte drive. It used to do all that I wanted. I eschewed sound and real player, even flash macromedia and the like as affectations. We surfed the web like a fallen women covers the back alleys in the waterfront district, and emailed every thomaso, dickless and harried in the world wide planet.
Now in these modernized times, I utilize firefox mozilla with a 1000 Megaherz Athlon on a, 'gasp', ten thousand million-byte, 6500 RPM, super EIDE drive, with a 16 speed CD-Writer, the KDE-GUI, 128 megabytes ram, sound -- all under Slackware 9.1 -- it has all the bells and whistles, Baby.
It is hard to keep up to Apple Quick-Time and all the latest Real Player movie versions that come out about once a month -- but the computer and 15 inch G-52 monitor cost me a total of 500 Canuck pesos. And it never needs re-booting. The system stays as a silent witness to the wonders of silicon durability with its one great monotonic eye unblinking 24-7 for months at a time, sans viri, worms or blue screens mortuus.
Confession: I also run a 1.5 ghz, 2 meg cache, Centrino, Win 2000 Laptop, with 802.1b/g wireless -- but it is just for show. It doesn't do anything more useful than impress Bay Street luddites that you are a "hacker".
ADSL is getting faster. Sympatico still has laughable email tools and anemic storage, but with Linux I get 100 kilobytes per second download speed or better. That is about as fast as 1.2 megabit ADSL is supposed to run. I can download 100 megabyte files with ease in a few minutes.(10 to 15 at most) That should take you a 3.8 hours on a 56 K modem but I doubt that it would ever work.
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