Get Firefox 10 on PowerPC macs

[Topcat]

Re: Get Firefox 10 on PowerPC macs

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My e5520 Xeons actually boot XP in about 18 seconds from power-on to logged in and ready to use.....8 cores and 24gb of RAM help.

I remember my last system though....netburst xeons with 2gb RAM, and to add insult to injury, a SCSI RAID controller.... When you hit power on that, by the time it rolled through POST, then the SCSI init, and then XP, a good couple minutes have passed....and by then I had forgotten what I even turned the computer on for...

[shovenose]

Re: Get Firefox 10 on PowerPC macs

^ When you have a Core i5 running XP, the bootup time is under 30 seconds, so I don't have a problem shutting my rig down when It's not needed. Besides, when you get >$300/month power bills, you have to do all you can to save power.

Whatever.

I like 7, I'll stick with 7.
You like XP, stick with XP.

[toastygoodness]

Re: Get Firefox 10 on PowerPC macs

7 starts up faster no all my machines than xp.
arch starts up faster than anything else. but really, i shut down because of power bills as well. not all of us live in the middle of nowhere :P

[Scenic]

Re: Get Firefox 10 on PowerPC macs

and I'm known to have 30 or so tabs open at once.

Add a 1 in front of the number of tabs and you get what I'm usually looking at (average).

Then again I don't run it 24/7, that's unnecessary and idiotic.

I never turn my main system off or reboot it, unless it's necessary (updates, drivers, etc.). All I do is mute the sound and turn the monitors off when I go to sleep.
It doesn't consume as much power as you might think (speedstep clocking down the CPU, similar thing for the GPU) and because all fans are 120mm at 5V in idle, it's quiet too. Loudest parts are the HDDs.

Are you talking about the browser or the system?! I'd imagine you wouldn't run the browser 24/7....you have to sleep some tiime...

I leave the browser open most of the time (unless I'm playing a game) so I can just continue where I left off immediately.

I also hate waiting for computers to boot....so I just turn the monitor off...and when I want to use it, turn the monitor on and away I go. I do turn my office machines off though, except 'FrankenServer".

Same here. Main PC is on 24/7 with just the monitors and sound being turned off, all others get shut down when I don't use them for anything (test installs, hardware testing blah blah).

Server wise.. well.. I rented a dedicated server a while ago simply because the internet connectivity here sucks. I'm too far out in the boonies to get anything faster than DSL 6MBit/640KBit, unless I go for cable with insane pings (horrible for gaming) and even worse upload (50MBit down, 512KBit up .. does that make sense to anyone!? )

[shovenose]

Re: Get Firefox 10 on PowerPC macs

50Mbps down, 512Kbit up? REALLY? LOL!

[Uranium-235]

Re: Get Firefox 10 on PowerPC macs

my parents get 6mbit uverse and we have no gaming problems, thats actually very good compaired to crap DSL 1.5/256

30/512 is superb. now when you say 'for gaming', you mean playing or serving? cause that is kinda crap for serving, need something over 3mbps up at least

[shovenose]

Re: Get Firefox 10 on PowerPC macs

Even my crap (non-u-verse) AT&T DSL is 6/768 (but usually more like 2/600 when it's even working at all)

[Scenic]

Re: Get Firefox 10 on PowerPC macs

30/512 is superb.

nope.avi
It's a disgrace having such a ridiculously slow upload in this day and age. It isn't 2006 anymore..

now when you say 'for gaming', you mean playing or serving?

I meant playing. Friend of mine has 25MBit/384KBit (yes I know it's ridiculous) cable, and the lowest ping he gets is ~150ms. Nope.. that's not overseas. Within Germany.

They're trying really hard to screw you over here. Advertising 25-100MBit download speed without mentioning the ridiculous upload at all. Or having traffic limits only mentioned in the fineprint.

25MBit/384KBit, 50MBit/512KBit and 100MBit/1MBit ? Seriously?! fuck that..

There are some ISPs who offer proper upload speeds (T-Com ; VDSL 25MBit/5MBit or 50MBit/10MBit) but the prices are pretty steep (if it's available in your region) and if you hit the traffic limit of 100GB per month (seriously?!), they throttle you down to 6MBit/512KBit.

Fiber Optic connections? You wish.. next to nothing available for affordable prices and even those only in the really big cities.

Germany is pretty much a 3rd world country when it comes to internet connectivity..

that is kinda crap for serving, need something over 3mbps up at least

I'm currently hosting a 10 player minecraft server 24/7 on my 640KBit upload, and I'm having no issues at all. Even a MTA server runs fine.

I'm planning to move it to my dedi server though.. for obvious reasons

[Agent24]

Re: Get Firefox 10 on PowerPC macs

I don't know what you're worrying about!

I only just got ADSL2+ last year, which is a HUGE improvement over the 2Mbit/128kbit I had previous to that.

Have yet to complain about download speeds, most things come through in a matter of a few minutes.




They're looking at rolling out VDSL2 soon... (already soft-launched apparently) and fibre optic is coming - sometime