Author: Pete Galati
Date: 07:21:25 01/02/00
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On January 02, 2000 at 10:03:47, Eelco de Groot wrote: > >On January 02, 2000 at 03:05:14, Pete Galati wrote: > >>The problems must differ from person to person, and time to time, right now it >>works great, but earlier it was driving me nuts being so slow. I used to see >>people complaining about it's speed when it usually worked ok for me, I just >>figured that they were in too much of a hurry. >> >>After seeing it loading measages earlier (Saturday) I start to understand some >>of their frustration I guess. >> >>Pete > > It just took me six minutes to reach this page after being connected with ISP, >Internet Explorer pre-loaded. Can I claim this as a record? Probably, I'd have steam coming out of my ears by 6 minutes. Sometimes it goes >even slower but sometimes much faster too. In my case I think some of the stored >browser information is corrupted because also colors don't change anymore when I >have looked up a message. For some reason I'm still using the 386 33 MHz (On >loan from my brother-in-law, but he doesn't want me to buy it from him) here so >can I now claim to have the slowest machine in CCC on-line? Posibly, now I run into 2 machines that are slower than my 586-90, and I used to think that I was the slowest here when people are talking about 450mhz computers all the time. I don't understand why your brother in law wouldn't want you to buy something that he should probably give you for free. Anyway it still >works and that is most important. I wouldn't know what to do if my harddisk >bailed out on me now like Enrique's did..- my sympathies, Enrique -! > >I better go transfer some stuff to new computer too, bookmarks/favorites, all >those HP48 programs I downloaded before Eric Rechlin's excellent site >disappeared -does anybody know where he went?- and install the spreadsheet I >got from my brother-in-law as a Christmas-present. Better start some studying >too.. > >Those oliebollen with raisins tasted very good, do people have that somewhere >else in the world? > > I just received a copy of the new issue of "Computerschaak", quotes in ancient >Greek, references to Vergil and epicurean philosophy, where are my dictionaries? > > Eelco You must be on the other side of the big pond, we don't seem to get computer Chess magazines here in the USA (that I know of) Pete
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