Maybe it is slow, but currently that is the price for anonymity. If you don't think waiting a few seconds here and there is worth it for being anonymous then don't use services like this. There are plenty of people who think anonymity is worth a lot more than that. If you only want to be anonymous if its convenient and without negative side effects then you are probably not one of the ones who need to be anonymous.
How about anonymous by using an open wireless network? Or use the coffee shop wireless network down the street? Or go to a library? There are many better options for being anonymous if you choose...
The question should be how slow is it compared to the speed experienced after the ISP shuts you off (or the authorities confiscate computing equipment) due to an accusation of illegal activity by the *IAA. The performance hit may seem painfully slow until compared to the slowness of 0 bps. In fact, such a system IMHO should have an easy to use toggle (desktop widget, browser plugin) so that "normal browsing" goes through the usual channels and only the limited periods of "private browsing" are experienced with full protection on. Blend in with the crowd by default and leave the security for when you really need it.
How about anonymous by using an open wireless network? Or use the coffee shop wireless network down the street? Or go to a library? There are many better options for being anonymous if you choose...
This is far from the first P2P to attempt hiding IP etc. I have not used this system, but all the others that have done (and do) the same thing end up with the same problem -- the system ends up being painfully slow to use.
Thanks for the link man. I'm sick of firefox cause of its slowness, but I was also getting sick of Chrome, so this should be a good alternative.
Does anyone have the following problems I have with Chrome?
(1) It freezes up continually, and when it does freeze up, it effects the entire computer.
(2) When accidently clicking on a PDF link the entire thing crashes, and computer freezes up.
I love chrome cause of its speed, but goddamn. The amount of restarts of my computer I've had with it I'm seriously looking for another browser (NOT firefox).
Are you using Adobe Acrobat for PDFs? That's likely your problem and not the browser.
Uninstall that crap and use Foxit PDF Reader instead.
So what about its adblock, the thing doesn't render pages correctly. From what I can tell it is a badly compiled version of chrome.
When they get it right, then I might think about using it... uninstall time.
I get some weird font smoothing occassionally on Slashdot, otherwise works perfectly for me. It's so blazing fast when I go back to Firefox I am shocked how agonizingly slow the browser is to render pages...
you do realize macs can upgrade memory and disk
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You're ignoring many things. First, upgrading the RAM is still relevant and easy to do on a PC. My work computer was choking with the 512 MB it shipped with trying to view PDFs, edit PowerPoints and have other applications open at the same time. Simple, I spent $30 on RAM and doubled it to 1 gig. There is absolutely no reason for me to have bought a new desktop, this one has the processing power necessary, and now the RAM to multitask with today's more memory heavy programs.
What about a new hard drive? HD's keep getting cheaper, maybe I want to upgrade to 500 gigs from an old 60 gig? Maybe I want to add another one for internal backup, or maybe my boss decided a RAID setup would provide better protection against HD failure and the subsequent data loss?
At home I can get by just adding RAM and replacing the video card every few years. Sometimes you want to add another drive in the bay, maybe something proprietary or card specific, maybe you want to take your DVD read and CD RW to a DVD-RW. Pretending there's not a lot of circumstances in which upgrading is the best option is foolish, and this applies both in the office and at home.
I don't own any Macs, but as the subject says, all macs can upgrade ram,and almost all macs have easy hard drive upgrades. As for extra hard drives,USB external drives work great for most people
The only thing at all correct in your post is your comment about upgrading the video card...
I've heard so much about Chrome on Slashdot, but nothing about Iron.
According to the Wikipedia page on Google Chrome:
SRWare Iron is a release of Chromium software that explicitly disables the collection and transmission of usage information.[30]
The Wikipedia page further details the information collected by Chrome.
Any comments?
Yes, Iron is great! I love that it has a built in adblocker too!! I am leaving the slowness of Firefox (seriously, why is Firefox so damn slow to render pages!!)
Seriously, if you want to avoid ageism become a sub-specialist. Becoming yet another programmer, network engineer, etc is a doomed career path as you age (well without luck).
But, become an expert in a sub-specialty field is a "real" profession. For example, security experts are worth their weight in gold no matter what the age, or experts in financial IT systems, etc etc.
Linux i assume. Unfortunately I just don't care for Linux on the desktop (too much of a pain in the butt). Otherwise, Macs maybe do this now? (not in my experience...)
Unless you've dedicated CPUs on the peripherals and one primary CPU core per process thread, you are fundamentally running on serial hardware and will have non-zero latency as one task switches out. OS/2 (half an OS?) is no different. You can't overcome the limitations of a fundamentally stupid hardware design.
If you mean "obvious to the user" halt, then OS/2 is still no better than many other OS'. You may remember a difference, but then PS/2 systems were not exactly running multi-megabyte web browsers, RDBMS' and 128 KHz 5.1 audio at the same time. Software has grown faster than mainstream hardware. If you were to run modern loads on an old Warp system, you'd kill it.
I can't speak to whether it is the load (it was a normal p90 Dell type computer). All I know is that I could do these basic tasks and to me, the user, no halt occurred which is all that matters to me.
The simple question of "Does the computer stop me from work while it does something or not?" If I can keep working, then I am happy and don't care if it is "really" multitasking or not.
OS/2 STILL multitasks better than Windoze
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Ah OS/2 an amazing OS in many ways.
I remember on a Pentium 90 being able to actually WORK in an imaging application, while I was simultaneously both printing a document and copying a floppy disk.
All current OSes seem to momentarily halt to do one task or another even today.
Link to Single Page Version of Article
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The wish of many users comes true: We integrated an Adblocker in Iron!
With a filterlist so nearly all online-advertising can be blocked. A working list can be downloaded here and just has to be copied to the Iron folder (e.g: C:\Program Files\SRWare Iron\). Note: You must first get the latest version of Iron you can find under "Downloads".
So Iron is the first Chromium based webbrowser worldwide which has an adblocker included.
And... SRWare Iron has a proper installer - per default it installs in "C:\Program Files", which is where applications belong.
Unlike Chrome - which installs itself in "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\...." - argh - duh.
Wow, this is very promising! Thanks for the tip! Trying it out now!
Edit your hosts file (theres even one for Windows), and put in all adservers to redirect to localhost. There. No ads, similarly, no extra bloat from Adblock. Plus, it works on whatever, e-mail, browsers, etc.
Thanks for the tip. But this has been discussed before on slashdot the problems with the privoxy and host file mechanisms.
Thank you. Lately the mods have been nailing me for no reason, I don't get it... oh well, serves me right even for being a tiny bit negative towards an apple product on slashdot:)
It has great documentation and with NoScript I feel safe everywhere on the Internets.
You "no script" people are so funny with your need to Slashdot brag about using the internet without scripts. Yes, we get it, you're so amazing! The internet without scripts, wow that's so neat!
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Maybe it is slow, but currently that is the price for anonymity. If you don't think waiting a few seconds here and there is worth it for being anonymous then don't use services like this. There are plenty of people who think anonymity is worth a lot more than that. If you only want to be anonymous if its convenient and without negative side effects then you are probably not one of the ones who need to be anonymous.
How about anonymous by using an open wireless network? Or use the coffee shop wireless network down the street? Or go to a library? There are many better options for being anonymous if you choose...
The question should be how slow is it compared to the speed experienced after the ISP shuts you off (or the authorities confiscate computing equipment) due to an accusation of illegal activity by the *IAA. The performance hit may seem painfully slow until compared to the slowness of 0 bps. In fact, such a system IMHO should have an easy to use toggle (desktop widget, browser plugin) so that "normal browsing" goes through the usual channels and only the limited periods of "private browsing" are experienced with full protection on. Blend in with the crowd by default and leave the security for when you really need it.
How about anonymous by using an open wireless network? Or use the coffee shop wireless network down the street? Or go to a library? There are many better options for being anonymous if you choose...
This is far from the first P2P to attempt hiding IP etc. I have not used this system, but all the others that have done (and do) the same thing end up with the same problem -- the system ends up being painfully slow to use.
Oh well, maybe THIS one will not be?
Using the 3.1b3 firefox. Pages are instantly rendered in Chrome, Firefox takes forever. I see this on multiple computers.
Javascript performance doesn't matter, its the engine rendering speed that is the differentiator.
Thanks for the link man. I'm sick of firefox cause of its slowness, but I was also getting sick of Chrome, so this should be a good alternative.
Does anyone have the following problems I have with Chrome?
(1) It freezes up continually, and when it does freeze up, it effects the entire computer.
(2) When accidently clicking on a PDF link the entire thing crashes, and computer freezes up.
I love chrome cause of its speed, but goddamn. The amount of restarts of my computer I've had with it I'm seriously looking for another browser (NOT firefox).
Are you using Adobe Acrobat for PDFs? That's likely your problem and not the browser.
Uninstall that crap and use Foxit PDF Reader instead.
So what about its adblock, the thing doesn't render pages correctly. From what I can tell it is a badly compiled version of chrome.
When they get it right, then I might think about using it... uninstall time.
I get some weird font smoothing occassionally on Slashdot, otherwise works perfectly for me. It's so blazing fast when I go back to Firefox I am shocked how agonizingly slow the browser is to render pages...
I just used that, went to the Slashdot Home page and began scrolling up and down, which made my computer lagged. CPU usage spiked heaps.
It's a good idea, and I hope they can improve it, but for now, it's not as good.
So alas I will continue to run both Chrome (for gmail and gcal) and FireFox (for everything else).
Weird, works perfectly for me.
Srware Iron is Chrome compiled without all the Google spyware crap and it has adblock built in.
I LOVE IT! Firefox (all versions) is sooooo slow compared to Chrome/Iron.
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
You're ignoring many things. First, upgrading the RAM is still relevant and easy to do on a PC. My work computer was choking with the 512 MB it shipped with trying to view PDFs, edit PowerPoints and have other applications open at the same time. Simple, I spent $30 on RAM and doubled it to 1 gig. There is absolutely no reason for me to have bought a new desktop, this one has the processing power necessary, and now the RAM to multitask with today's more memory heavy programs.
What about a new hard drive? HD's keep getting cheaper, maybe I want to upgrade to 500 gigs from an old 60 gig? Maybe I want to add another one for internal backup, or maybe my boss decided a RAID setup would provide better protection against HD failure and the subsequent data loss?
At home I can get by just adding RAM and replacing the video card every few years. Sometimes you want to add another drive in the bay, maybe something proprietary or card specific, maybe you want to take your DVD read and CD RW to a DVD-RW. Pretending there's not a lot of circumstances in which upgrading is the best option is foolish, and this applies both in the office and at home.
I don't own any Macs, but as the subject says, all macs can upgrade ram,and almost all macs have easy hard drive upgrades. As for extra hard drives,USB external drives work great for most people
The only thing at all correct in your post is your comment about upgrading the video card...
What does iron do that the chromium builds don't?
http://tinyurl.com/dysfod
I've heard so much about Chrome on Slashdot, but nothing about Iron.
According to the Wikipedia page on Google Chrome:
The Wikipedia page further details the information collected by Chrome.
Any comments?
Yes, Iron is great! I love that it has a built in adblocker too!! I am leaving the slowness of Firefox (seriously, why is Firefox so damn slow to render pages!!)
Seriously, if you want to avoid ageism become a sub-specialist. Becoming yet another programmer, network engineer, etc is a doomed career path as you age (well without luck).
But, become an expert in a sub-specialty field is a "real" profession. For example, security experts are worth their weight in gold no matter what the age, or experts in financial IT systems, etc etc.
Linux i assume. Unfortunately I just don't care for Linux on the desktop (too much of a pain in the butt). Otherwise, Macs maybe do this now? (not in my experience...)
Unless you've dedicated CPUs on the peripherals and one primary CPU core per process thread, you are fundamentally running on serial hardware and will have non-zero latency as one task switches out. OS/2 (half an OS?) is no different. You can't overcome the limitations of a fundamentally stupid hardware design.
If you mean "obvious to the user" halt, then OS/2 is still no better than many other OS'. You may remember a difference, but then PS/2 systems were not exactly running multi-megabyte web browsers, RDBMS' and 128 KHz 5.1 audio at the same time. Software has grown faster than mainstream hardware. If you were to run modern loads on an old Warp system, you'd kill it.
I can't speak to whether it is the load (it was a normal p90 Dell type computer). All I know is that I could do these basic tasks and to me, the user, no halt occurred which is all that matters to me.
The simple question of "Does the computer stop me from work while it does something or not?" If I can keep working, then I am happy and don't care if it is "really" multitasking or not.
Ah OS/2 an amazing OS in many ways.
I remember on a Pentium 90 being able to actually WORK in an imaging application, while I was simultaneously both printing a document and copying a floppy disk.
All current OSes seem to momentarily halt to do one task or another even today.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Operating+Systems&articleId=9129459&taxonomyId=89
Use SRWare Iron ... it has what you're asking for.
It's based on Chromium, but without all the bad stuff plus AdBlock and more ...
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_news.php
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php
11.10.2008: Adblocker integrated in Iron
The wish of many users comes true: We integrated an Adblocker in Iron!
With a filterlist so nearly all online-advertising can be blocked. A working list can be downloaded here and just has to be copied to the Iron folder (e.g: C:\Program Files\SRWare Iron\). Note: You must first get the latest version of Iron you can find under "Downloads".
So Iron is the first Chromium based webbrowser worldwide which has an adblocker included.
And ... SRWare Iron has a proper installer - per default it installs in "C:\Program Files", which is where applications belong.
Unlike Chrome - which installs itself in "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\...." - argh - duh.
Wow, this is very promising! Thanks for the tip! Trying it out now!
Edit your hosts file (theres even one for Windows), and put in all adservers to redirect to localhost. There. No ads, similarly, no extra bloat from Adblock. Plus, it works on whatever, e-mail, browsers, etc.
Thanks for the tip. But this has been discussed before on slashdot the problems with the privoxy and host file mechanisms.
I love Chrome, so fast!! Shame Firefox is so slow nowadays. Just wish there were adblock for Chrome and I am switching!
Thank you. Lately the mods have been nailing me for no reason, I don't get it... oh well, serves me right even for being a tiny bit negative towards an apple product on slashdot :)
Well, great update. But the Palm Pre still has more exciting functionality.
For example, I love that with the Pre conversations will switch between SMS and IM instantly and seamlessly.
and yet I get rated as a troll??
Just copy and paste it, problem solved! oh wait...
never mind.
ATT sucks suck sucks on the East Coast. It's why I won't buy an iPhone.
It has great documentation and with NoScript I feel safe everywhere on the Internets.
You "no script" people are so funny with your need to Slashdot brag about using the internet without scripts. Yes, we get it, you're so amazing! The internet without scripts, wow that's so neat!