In my experience (I'm in China), that's not really an indication. The "great firewall" seems to be constructed in various parts, and they don't always do the same things at the same times.

There, fixed that for you.

"The Nationalists" usually refers to the KMT - the party that were defeated in the civil war by the communists, and fled to Taiwan.

To be fair, I think you should refer to the "deranged Chinese Nationalists" AS WELL AS the "deranged Chinese Communists". Please be a little more inclusive. Thank you.

Do you mean NIMBYs?

Agreed, I've seen my fellow Aussies type/write the same thing. :(

He *does* use the word "gorgeous" a lot (but that's as close as he gets to saying anything is "sexy").

Well, horns are no longer effective. It's time for everyone to replace their horns with loud, digital recordings of screeching tyres.

You mean, don't forget not to mention the Dalai Lama? :)

Hi from Beijing. Not using a proxy, not using an SSL tunnel. Not blocked.

Maybe he's saying that browsing and file operations appear slow to the user because of all the extra metadata, hi-res icons and what-not being processed.

Remember that on the Mac filesystem, files have various forks - resource fork & what-not. If the Mac is working with a non-HFS filesystem, it saves all this extra data into other hidden files on the filesystem. Each file may have one (or two or more?) hidden files (non-HFS) or forks (HFS) associated with it.

Extra processing &/or transfer time for these files/forks might be what the GP is talking about.

Well, I'm unclear on whether the discussion is about whether Macs in general are slower reading/writing network shares than other systems... or if the network filesystem (and implementation thereof) is the issue. My comments presumed that the complaint was the former, not the latter.