Why can't these web developers get into their heads that not everyone has a 1 megabit pipe?

...or a dual-core processor? I am stuck with a box with a 1.15 GHz single-core, 32-bit AMD Athlon and 512 MB RAM. Also, it has choked on the recent interactive Google logos, which if I remember correctly, at one point even caused my browser to freeze!

From http://christian.legnitto.com/blog/2010/06/09/heads-up-the-next-firefox-platform-version-is-1-9-2-6-instead-of-1-9-2-5/:

Firefox 3.6.4 [...] has a platform version of 1.9.2.4. The version number 1.9.2.5 is currently being used by Fennec. We’ll be taking fixes above and beyond that version, so the next platform version Firefox will use will be named 1.9.2.6. We will keep the version numbers coherent by naming it Firefox 3.6.6 (essentially skipping over 3.6.5).

First, I tried to do an upgrade normally with Update Manager. I stopped it because due to a slow Internet connection, it was taking too long. Then, I decided to do a fresh install. Before this, Windows XP was on the 35 GB hard disk, and GNU/Linux was on the 16 GB hard disk. I decided to move Windows to the 16 GB HDD and GNU/Linux to the 35 GB HDD, because I store my data on the GNU/Linux partition and I was running out of free space with the 16 GB HDD.

I backed up my data to the Windows partition, installed a new installation of Windows XP on the 16 GB HDD, moved my backup there, then used UNetbooin to install Xubuntu 9.10 on the 35 GB HDD.

It installed perfectly fine. The only major problem I had was that GRUB2 could not boot into Windows "out of the box". I eventually got it to boot into the Windows partition, but then I ran into problems with Windows itself booting. As of this writing I am still trying to fix it. Also, there has been a problem with the swap partition not activating automatically at boot (I must activate it manually with swapon), but I uncommented a line in /etc/fstab and I will see if it worked at next reboot.

The improvements I noticed were:

• It takes only about a minute to boot
• Login/XFCE startup is faster
• Halt/reboot takes only about 10–20 seconds

So far, I am satisfied with Karmic.

I never experienced that with Cox Communications. They must not have done that in Tulsa...

Add Windstream to that list.

I was able to opt out of it, though...

You could try spoofing your UserAgent string to make it think you are using Windows. Then it will display the download link for Windows users.

TwoTrees Shelterbelt blocks archive.org. I have also occasionally seen it block the Google cache.