Impressions of Netscape 6
I'll be back in a bit. With preliminary impressions of Netscape 6. My notes on it are at work, but I'll give you the overall. I'm thinking C+. It worked OK for me and it was fast. There were things...
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Looks like we've hit the wall. Some times during the day, this P-120 just isn't keeping up well, and last night when I experimented with setting up forums, the speed was acceptable locally but really...
View ArticleBias is good?
Blekko could be an idea whose time has come. It’s a search engine with bias. The idea is, you punch in what you’re looking for, and include a slash term to bias the search in a particular direction....
View ArticleIf you have a web site, don’t forget Google webmaster tools
I’ve been messing with Google’s webmaster tools. I definitely wish I’d looked at them a lot sooner. You sign up, prove you own the web site (I inserted a meta tag), and then they start putting...
View ArticleThanks for the memories, Altavista
For as long as I can remember, my home page has been about:blank. But for a good chunk of the 1990s, I would have done well to set it to altavista.digital.com. Most people remember Altavista as the...
View ArticleWhat happened to Digital Equipment Corporation?
Digital Equipment Corporation was perhaps the second most important computer company in history, behind IBM. Its minicomputers challenged IBM, and, indeed, Unix first ran on a DEC PDP-7. DEC’s Alpha...
View ArticleImpressions of Netscape 6
I'll be back in a bit. With preliminary impressions of Netscape 6. My notes on it are at work, but I'll give you the overall. I'm thinking C+. It worked OK for me and it was fast. There were things...
View ArticleJust the bang, and the clatter, as the server hits the wall
Looks like we've hit the wall. Some times during the day, this P-120 just isn't keeping up well, and last night when I experimented with setting up forums, the speed was acceptable locally but really...
View ArticleBias is good?
Blekko could be an idea whose time has come. It’s a search engine with bias. The idea is, you punch in what you’re looking for, and include a slash term to bias the search in a particular direction....
View ArticleIf you have a web site, don’t forget Google webmaster tools
I’ve been messing with Google’s webmaster tools. I definitely wish I’d looked at them a lot sooner. You sign up, prove you own the web site (I inserted a meta tag), and then they start putting...
View ArticleWhat happened to Altavista
For as long as I can remember, my home page has been about:blank. But for a good chunk of the 1990s, I would have done well to set it to altavista.digital.com. Here’s what happened to Altavista. Most...
View ArticleWhat happened to Digital Equipment Corporation?
Digital Equipment Corporation was perhaps the second most important computer company in history, behind IBM. Its minicomputers challenged IBM, and, indeed, Unix first ran on a DEC PDP-7. DEC’s Alpha...
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