[Chicago] [OT] Is it just me ...

[Warren Lindsey]

I recently experienced a similar issue but this was bandwidth related.
 Being very far away from home and any available wifi or even cellular
reception, I was forced to connect to the net using this ancient
technology called "dialup"  After connecting at 56k or perhaps 33.6k
and hearing the old scratchy handshake, I was on the net again.
Loading www.google.com took over a minute.  Redirecting from
google.com to www.google.com then my personalized google homepage with
ajax widgets took quite a bit of time.

Gmail and Google.com both have the options of plain html, but
sometimes it can take a while just to get to a place that allows you
to make that choice.

It may be interesting to compare utilization across bandwidth
providers before and after the wide adoption of ajax.

-Warren

On 10/9/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> ... or is my poor old laptop having to work harder and harder to just "surf
> the web"?  This AJAX technology has permeated everything.  On the one hand,
> web sites can clearly be more interactive.  On the other hand, the minimum
> system parameters necessary to simply browse the web seems to have gone up a
> lot in the past six months or so.  I have an 800MHz PowerBook G4 w/ 1GB of
> RAM, not state-of-the-art of course, but not a P3 either.  Just sitting
> there viewing Gmail (which has no stupid flashy ads or other eye candy)
> seems to consume about half my CPU.  What's it doing while it's just sitting
> there?
>
> Does this have any ramifications for OLPC with its rather modest CPU?  What
> about computer recycling in general?  Browsing the web and reading email
> (often through the web) seem to be the most common uses for home computers.
> if I donate a compuetr to some organization what are the chances it will
> actually be useful to someone?
>
> Skip
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