Date   : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:12:35 +0100
From   : mark@... (Mark Usher)
Subject: [OT] bbcdocs website problem

Would a few of you be kind enough please to see if there are still problems
looking at the PDFs. I want to be sure it is fixed.

-Mark

On 28 Jul 2010,@17:05, Rick Murray <rick@...> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Rick Murray, eeePC901 & ADSL WiFI'd into it, all ETLAs!
> BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
> E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...
> 
> 
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