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So you still didn't open the article? :/

by maaaats 11y ago

MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Most web pages work really poorly through my Mom's earthlink dialup. In part that's due to metric fucktons of javascript, in part it's due to some problem with routing. I've spent years trying to diagnose it. I've got some theories but nothing conclusive. It seems to help if I do something like: $ sudo ping -f -c 1000 www.nytimes.com ... then repeat that for several other hosts.
- Crito 11y ago
  I am sure that in the 21 minutes that elapsed between this comment and the one left by you above it, you could have just hit the page with curl. Stop making embarrassing excuses and just read the article.
  - MichaelCrawford 11y ago
    I'm having too much fun duking it out with whoever keeps modbombing me.
    - Crito 11y ago
      "Modbombing"? Your comments have been voted down by regular users of HN. You've been here long enough to know how this works.
      - MichaelCrawford 11y ago
        In a different article, someone downvoted a comment in which I requested a reply, rather than a downvote of the parent. Tonight's activity leads me to believe my cyberstalking friend from Kuro5hin has finally turned up. It's hard to say, he's generally anonymous.
        madez 11y ago
        Don't be paranoid. Most guys here aren't evil, they just appreciate humbleness, politeness, honesty and facts. Regular users voted you down because you backed controversial claims by appeal to authority or your education. Also, you wrote comments without reading the article, which is usually considered bad here.
  - MichaelCrawford 11y ago
    While I haven't tried curl, it is common for regular web pages - blogs, articles and the like - to take quite a lot longer to download with Safari or Firefox. I can see the problem when I do a traceroute.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
  Works fine in lynx.
  - MichaelCrawford 11y ago
    Over my Mom's dialup?
    - gambiter 11y ago
      It's 2015. Your mom could probably get DSL for the same price that she's paying for Earthlink.
      - MichaelCrawford 11y ago
        She's too far from the phone office for DSL, and she is completely convinced that were she to get comcast cable, no one would ever be able to email her, ever again. Oddly she is completely cool with using webmail from cybercafes - she travels quite a lot. Mom isn't stupid, she only acts that way.
        dalke 11y ago
        You are making up fake excuses now. You've downloaded about as much text from HN just to reply to the threads here than it would have taken to read the original article. The original document is 185512 bytes. The download can be read locally in 'links' with no additional network connections. At 28.8Kpbs that's a bit over a minute. Even with a noisy connection, that's well under the 21 minute gap pointed out elsewhere between your posts. There is no reason to drag your mother's beliefs into this. Simply stop at "I don't have good internet access." All else is needlessly placing the blame or shifting the focus elsewhere ... that being your willingness to completely ignore the topic and instead name-drop your own history, connections to authority, and personal beliefs - even when they have no basis in fact.

So you still didn't open the article? :/

by maaaats 11y ago

So you still didn't open the article? :/

Most web pages work really poorly through my Mom's earthlink dialup. In part that's due to metric fucktons of javascript, in part it's due to some problem with routing. I've spent years trying to diagnose it. I've got some theories but nothing conclusive. It seems to help if I do something like: $ sudo ping -f -c 1000 www.nytimes.com ... then repeat that for several other hosts.

Crito 11y ago
I am sure that in the 21 minutes that elapsed between this comment and the one left by you above it, you could have just hit the page with curl. Stop making embarrassing excuses and just read the article.
- MichaelCrawford 11y ago
  I'm having too much fun duking it out with whoever keeps modbombing me.
  - Crito 11y ago
    "Modbombing"? Your comments have been voted down by regular users of HN. You've been here long enough to know how this works.
    - MichaelCrawford 11y ago
      In a different article, someone downvoted a comment in which I requested a reply, rather than a downvote of the parent. Tonight's activity leads me to believe my cyberstalking friend from Kuro5hin has finally turned up. It's hard to say, he's generally anonymous.
      - madez 11y ago
        Don't be paranoid. Most guys here aren't evil, they just appreciate humbleness, politeness, honesty and facts. Regular users voted you down because you backed controversial claims by appeal to authority or your education. Also, you wrote comments without reading the article, which is usually considered bad here.
- MichaelCrawford 11y ago
  While I haven't tried curl, it is common for regular web pages - blogs, articles and the like - to take quite a lot longer to download with Safari or Firefox. I can see the problem when I do a traceroute.
GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
Works fine in lynx.
- MichaelCrawford 11y ago
  Over my Mom's dialup?
  - gambiter 11y ago
    It's 2015. Your mom could probably get DSL for the same price that she's paying for Earthlink.
    - MichaelCrawford 11y ago
      She's too far from the phone office for DSL, and she is completely convinced that were she to get comcast cable, no one would ever be able to email her, ever again. Oddly she is completely cool with using webmail from cybercafes - she travels quite a lot. Mom isn't stupid, she only acts that way.
      - dalke 11y ago
        You are making up fake excuses now. You've downloaded about as much text from HN just to reply to the threads here than it would have taken to read the original article. The original document is 185512 bytes. The download can be read locally in 'links' with no additional network connections. At 28.8Kpbs that's a bit over a minute. Even with a noisy connection, that's well under the 21 minute gap pointed out elsewhere between your posts. There is no reason to drag your mother's beliefs into this. Simply stop at "I don't have good internet access." All else is needlessly placing the blame or shifting the focus elsewhere ... that being your willingness to completely ignore the topic and instead name-drop your own history, connections to authority, and personal beliefs - even when they have no basis in fact.