OT: EBay UK search hanging

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri Jun 18 10:58:07 2004

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 08:18, Stan Barr wrote:
> > Have you tried Konqueror, or Mozilla? Why do you use Opera?
>
> Opera is quicker.

That and their commitment to standards compliance. That and the small
footprint. Plus I used to use Opera on Windows quite a few years ago, so
I've pretty much stuck with it since then. Not saying there aren't other
good browsers out there too, but it does just what I need (except when
EBay UK causes problems!)

> > Which GUI do you use? I tried Gnome but KDE is better in every way IMHO.
>
> Don't use Gnome or KDE, they slow this old machine* down too much, I use
> Afterstep on bare X.

I used to like Afterstep a lot. Nice and quick, but slick with it.

I've got Gnome on this desktop machine (Redhat 9) but I do want to try a
comparable KDE setup. Gnome seems slow as hell at times (despite this
being a 1GHz machine with heaps of memory). I just can't justify
switching over to KDE as everything's nicely set up here, even if it is
a little clunky sometime. Maybe I'll schedule it for next disk crash :-)

I too use Openoffice for docs and Evolution as a mail client (although I
run that from the fileserver with the desktop comp just acting as a
remote display).

Only thing I use Windows for is occasional use of Paint Shop Pro, and
sometimes boot into DOS to do some 3D work with Autodesk's 3DStudio
(which must be over ten years old now I think)

cheers

Jules
Received on Fri Jun 18 2004 - 10:58:07 BST