[Planning] Fwd: LinuxBazis search engine

[Dan Kegel]

Christopher Smith wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> 
>>Y'know, he has a point.  LinuxToday runs a lot of Microsoft
>>ads these days.
> 
> 
> More power too them. If Microsoft is increasingly having to advertise
> into the Linux space, I think they'll have to spend more dollars to get
> the same return. Too me it just seems like an indicator that Linux has
> mutured at least within the broader developer community.

Yep.  But I do worry about LinuxToday running Microsoft's
phony linux ads (the "Linux Reference Center" one in particular).
It's deceptive.

>>But the main reason I'm annoyed at them
>>is the big animations... they don't work well when running
>>Mozilla over a remote X connection over ssh from Ottawa :-)
> 
> Look at using NX instead of standard X forwarding:

I should also have tried ssh compression or lbx.

> For that matter... *don't run your browser remotely*!! ;-)

Heh.  I did switch to pine, it was much easier.
But I do like a good stress test.  One
*ought* to be able to run a browser remotely,
and it's fun to see where the problems are.
(Hint: never try to drag and drop with mozilla
email on a < 10Mbit/sec standard remote X connection.)
- Dan

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