I'd have to agree, I was one of the consultants brought in to build msn.com and eu.microsoft.com at Telehouse Europe in London on behalf of MS. I can say for certain that the virtual host homepages.msn.com was never part of our spec. I don't know where it does live, but for the main MSN sites and for eu.microsoft.com they run as a Microsoft only site.

Of course it would have been easier building the sites with Apache *8^)

It's a downer when you have such an inflexible brief to work with :)

Cheers People

Tony Holmes Heterogeneous Networking Consultant Don't forget to remove the NOSPAM

----- Original Message ----- From: James Green jg@cyberstorm.demon.co.uk To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [alug] Too funny to be true

On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Malcolm Locke wrote:

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Sorry guys, but this one just has to be shared, I spotted it on www.theregister.co.uk:

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I think MS are finally getting the message :)

Microsoft do not run this service. It is under agreement from, erm, whomever they bought it off (obviously). The homepages service, while supported by MS, is actually phisically independant.

James.

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At 09:26 AM 7/19/99 +0100, you wrote:

I have an old Pentium 75 with 1gig HD and 24M RAM running RedHat 5.2. I used to run fvwm95 as my windows manager but I wanted to try the KDE development tools so I loaded KDE instead. However, it is incredibly slooow. For example, it takes about 2.5 minutes to load from typing startx and you can see each individual icon get drawn in the file manager.

Could be your video card - what are you using BTW? How much memory does it have and what screen resolution are you running at?

Regards,

Martyn

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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote:

I have an old Pentium 75 with 1gig HD and 24M RAM running RedHat 5.2. I used to run fvwm95 as my windows manager but I wanted to try the KDE development tools so I loaded KDE instead. However, it is incredibly slooow. For example, it takes about 2.5 minutes to load from typing startx and you can see each individual icon get drawn in the file manager.

At first I thought it was a memory thing as I appeared to be using about 8M of swap space so I upgraded to 80M of RAM but it made no difference at all.

Ant suggestions?/

Ian Ian Thompson-Bell

I have found that the biggest brake on performance with KDE is the window manager, kwm. I now use windowmaker instead of kwm and the performance has increased considerably. You do lose some of the functionality of the KDE window manager, but it is well worth the sacrifice. It is also worth mentioning that you dont need the whole of kde installed to run kde apps, just the kde and qt libs.

Malc

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