Date   : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:05:59 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: [OT] bbcdocs website problem

On 28/07/2010 17:47, Andrew Hancock wrote:

> I hope all you folk giving advice to Bob, are going to donate some needed
> cash to help him upgrade his computer now he has SP3 and IE8!!!

Try SP3 and <anything else>.

Seriously - IE8 is sooooo slow.


> just because he couldn't download a pdf!

At least he stands less chance of being pwned, now he is using an OS 
that is actually still in support cycle. Now we ought to work on 
filtering unwanted inlines (Flash, etc).

What's better, a slower computer, or one you have to reinstall once you 
discover it's been sending your credit card info to Thailand and your 
forum/eBay/Amazon/etc passwords to Lithuania...


Trust me - once you block all the advertising and crappy scripting 
pulled in from other places, the web is suddenly a much more happening 
place. The information you're looking for appears, without the 
requirement of a few hundred Kb of advertising along with the latency of 
looking up, then connecting to, multiple servers.


Best wishes,

Rick.

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