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join:2005-01-12
India
| Re: Of course techies aren't going to care! Most times I am using Opera which has a convenient Image toggle and Author Mode / User mode toggle on the tool bar.
Opera also has a easy to edit personal bar which holds all my daily visit hosting control panel access, forums and email access pages.
More convenient features from Opera:an easy to edit magic wand to auto insert username and passwords.
One click to open all links in a browser. For example I can open ten forums or open ten pages of a portal all at one go.
And Opera lets you import IE favourites and save them in a html file. I open this html file, see the link I want to visit and click on it. LOL
Only problem is there are some sites which are not browser compatible with Opera. Like Gmail for instance. | |
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BonezX
Basement Dweller
Premium
join:2004-04-13
Canada | Re: Of course techies aren't going to care! you done being an advertisement ? | |
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BPL PRO
@optonline.net
| Penn STATE STUDY REPORTS BPL CAPABLE> 1gbps speed fyi: from UPLC.ORG, JAN.18, 2005
INDUSTRY: PENN STATE STUDY REPORTS BPL CAPABLE OF 1 Gbps SPEEDS
Imagine BPL speeds of 1 Gigabit per second. A Penn State professor says BPL is not far off today, even though speeds now are only in the order of 2-3 Mbps. Professor Mohsen Kavehrad, Director of Penn State’s Center for Information & Communications Technology published an AT&T-funded study which developed a computer-simulated power line transmission model that came close to achieving these speeds under ideal conditions. Prof. Kavehrad stated "if you condition those power lines, they're an omnipresent national treasure waiting to be tapped for broadband Internet service delivery, especially in rural areas where cable or DSL are unavailable." He concluded that junctions and branches in the U.S. overhead grid cause broadband signals to reflect, resulting in degradation and decreased transmission capacity. "The signal can bounce back and forth in the lines if there is no proper impedance matching," said Kavehrad: "The bouncing takes energy away from the signal and the loss is reflected in the ultimate capacity." Under their model, the researchers said repeaters would be placed every 0.62 mile and power lines would have to be modified to reduce interference to data signals. Kavehrad believes that these engineering issues can be resolved, but that interference issues must also be addressed. A copy of the study is available on the UPLC website. | |
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AtomicZero
join:2004-11-24
West Palm Beach, FL | not really...no. | |
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@qwest.net | techies never have or ever will care about the customers that pay their salaries, why? customers are a dime a dozen, techies are not. damn, don't we just love the obvious. | |
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GO BLUE1
Greed Is Good
Premium
join:2004-03-08
IN YOUR MIND | START PAGE i could care less
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rodoke
join:2003-10-28
Carbondale, IL | Re: START PAGE You could? 'Cause I know I don't care at all ;^) | |
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| SoulBrewGone
join:2005-01-01
Emporia, KS | You mean you could not care less. | |
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techwench
I Work For Food
Premium
join:2003-06-26
Sherman, TX
| Hell and No I hate heavy start pages. I like my browser to start up and not have to wait 60 seconds for a page (which I'm probably not going to look at anyway) tick and load and tick and...still waiting.
I used to use my.yahoo.com, but since they "revamped" (read: bloated) it, I quit using it, and now just have my homepage set to the yahoo mail login screen.
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs:
| Re: Hell and No said by techwench  :I hate heavy start pages. I like my browser to start up and not have to wait 60 seconds for a page (which I'm probably not going to look at anyway) tick and load and tick and...still waiting. I used to use my.yahoo.com, but since they "revamped" (read: bloated) it, I quit using it, and now just have my homepage set to the yahoo mail login screen. I couldn't agree more. The Comcast portal is moving towards an entirely flash-driven layout which takes decades to re-render on my older Pentium III 533.
Granted, I don't use such old computers (usually they just accumulate dust around here), but for the majority of people who are more than 2 upgrade cycles behind, it'll be slower than grandma on a cold day.
To each his own. Some people can't do without these portals.
Mine is about:blank. 
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Kazaa Is Spyware. Gator / Claria Is Spyware.
I'm testing Gmail's spam filters: Broadbandreports1@gmail.com
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Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28
| The Contrary, Of Course...NOT having a "bandwidth intensive ISP start-page" is what's important to me as a broadband customer.
Google works fine.
So does about:blank.
Anyone bothering to pay big fees for broadband knows what they're paying for -- fast surfing and fast downloads.
Even the AOL converts realize that 1 MB home pages are a waste of their lives.
At least, I hope so.
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| DavidJWood
Premium
join:2001-10-12
UK | Re: The Contrary, Of Course... about:blank for me
I want my browser to open quickly so that I can go to where I want to go. I tend not to make much use of Favorites either - I'm a quick typist and modern browsers have a MRU list.
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Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28
| Re: The Contrary, Of Course...Exactly, me too, re: the typing and MRU autocomplete.
Actually, I haven't bothered to change my browser's default page in a while; I've been lazy enough to leave up »www.mozilla.org/start/1.7/ It's kind of interesting when they change it every once in a while.
My first visit after that is usually to Google or DSLR, but I haven't felt the need to change the home page.
In a way, I guess I'm just as much a sheep as all those IE users with MSN home pages! Yikes.
I have seen crazily bloated Earthlink start page on others' machines. I can't believe it's actually SLOWER than the first versions of the Earthlink start page that emerged years and years ago. (They were terribly slow.)
The worst part is that many people think they have to WAIT for the damn thing to finish loading before they can do anything! I'm talking nearly a minute.
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Anon_Name
@ibm.com
| Personally... I don't find any of that crap useful... I have always had my browswers set to start up with a blank page... and because an ISP feels it necessary to put this crap up is way beyond my thinking ability.
If I want news, I go to a news site.
If I want gossip about movie stars and the such, I go to the appropriate sites.
This is just an effort to say they are offering their "End Abusers" a "Meaningful" online experience!
Yech, Pah-tooey... Mouth wash won't even get the bad taste out of my mouth! | |
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Vamp
5c077
Premium
join:2003-01-28
MD | stupid.. craming a page full of useless flash is just going to give users a slower "experience"
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Jim Gurd
Premium
join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI | Start page It's not set as my default start page but I do use it for accessing webmail. That's about it though. I generally ignore the rest. | |
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| raderator
join:2003-07-22
Conklin, NY
 ·PHONE POWER
| Re: Start page I always set Yahoo's local weather as a start page and people tend to keep it. It's very simple, elegant and quick-loading with unobtrusive ads. It puts out a pop-up once in a while but they are easily blocked by google's toolbar, Firefox or SP2. They use weather channel data.
Try it, you'll like it!
»weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USNY0124.html | |
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MalakoPlus
join:2005-01-17
l165h3 | slow I am on 3mb DLS and that Road Runner page was BRUTAL!
Its a good thing these idiots don't write real code else programs would need gigs of RAM minimum just to run properly. | |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | Re: slow Hell, I thought Comcast's page was slow!  That RR page was sad!
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| | Samwoo
join:2002-02-15
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA | Re: slow Hmm... i have a simple method of add blocking and i blocked the cookies from the comcast page. using ie...
the comcast page seems to be stuck in an infinite loop of refreshing or something. It won't load for me. | |
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Jim Gurd
Premium
join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI
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| Re: slow said by Samwoo :Hmm... i have a simple method of add blocking and i blocked the cookies from the comcast page. using ie... the comcast page seems to be stuck in an infinite loop of refreshing or something. It won't load for me. You just answered your own question. Comcast's homepage requires cookies to work or else it won't load. Set your cookies to prompt and accept the first one the site offers. The others can be declined with no problem. Once you do that then turn them off and the one persistent cookie will remain and the problem will go away. | |
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woody7
Premium
join:2000-10-13
Torrance, CA | Hmmmm......... Someone should do a survey to see who actually usees their ISP portal as a start page.....
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rodoke
join:2003-10-28
Carbondale, IL | I couldn't agree more Since I didn't use my last two ISPs' webmail (Mediacom and Charter, FWIW), I didn't even know they had such pages. | |
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You Suck
| Re: Hmmmm......... As if taking a survey is going to reveal anything we don't already know?
Hey pal.... Don't bogart that joint, share it with the rest of us!  | |
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kycomcastuser
| Flash More isn't necessarily better. Too many animations, fluff, spinning objects - objects flying into view - pictures in motion, all fluff. Almost like who can make the coolest webpage, as opposed to ease of use. Doesn't do anything for me. | |
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rodoke
join:2003-10-28
Carbondale, IL | I also like pages that KISS with programs like Flashblock, such distractions are almost invisible to me. | |
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Chameleon
Premium
join:2004-11-24
Virden, IL | Simple I have DSLR as my homepage for work and home. | |
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noadplz
join:2004-04-09
USA | Would it add to the "invisible" download caps? With bandwidth intensive start-page, if you open the browser 10 times a day or 300 times a month, wouldn't it affect the "invisible" download caps that many providers seem to have? Just a thought.. | |
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rodoke
join:2003-10-28
Carbondale, IL | Re: Would it add to the "invisible" download caps? Ignoring the other problems with the parent, I'm willing to bet that the type of people who spend a lot of time on such portals wouldn't know such caps exist. | |
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footballdude
Premium
join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO | google I use Google as my start page. Because it loads instantly and I sometimes use it. Beautiful simplicity. | |
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| averagedude
join:2002-01-30
Mesa, AZ | Re: google Same here - Google. | |
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
Premium
join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA
| Depends on what it is Comcast's content is completely worthless, tiny windows of videos no one gives two squirts of piss to see...but if it were better content, by it's definition it would be worth it.
Like most entertainment, it depends on what it is. The question shouldn't be so much do we like high bandwidth portals, but do we like the common "Comcrap like" bandwidth sucking portals. If the latter is the question the answer is no.
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pmw2
@cox.net
| High Spee Home Pages about:blank is what I use. The only problem I've ever encountered with that, is one time when an IT support person where I work got confused when the corporate intranet homepage didn't come up automatically on browser startup. I eventually had to intervene after she'd rebooted twice and was about to reinstall O/S, to "fix" the problem. The incredulous look on her face when I showed her how anyone can change the "homepage" to anything they wanted, was priceless. Still, she couldn't understand why I wanted a blank page.
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Vvian Kalyss
join:2003-10-14
Stage 5.0
clubs: | Re: High Spee Home Pages Haha, priceless. | |
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| | DONKEYKONG01
join:2003-03-21
Metairie, LA
|  Re: High Spee Home Pages
Have a brain? use it and use it well, stop letting others run our life the way they like.
You sound like a 5 yrs old who mind's is plain and simple.
hahaha, whatever man you a real clown.
EDIT: DAMN DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THIS GUY IS A TROLL
MY BAD " ??? | |
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xirian
Premium
join:2003-01-26
Beacon, NY | Useless For me, its useless. Right now my startpage is www.google.com/firefox, simple and does what I need. It would be nice if isps would offer discounts if you didnt want the email/start page/etc crap with your service, but thats just me dreaming. | |
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ozamora
join:2004-06-07
Boca Raton, FL | simple page and light.
I always configure mine to open on google.com | |
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jozy123
Premium
join:2004-12-21
Tucson, AZ
1 edit | HTML? Just like "Capitalist" I use a simple HTML table, I save the logos (.jpg & .gif's) of frequently visited web pages and insert them into the table with the appropriate hyperlink. | |
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powerage66
Premium
join:2004-01-06
Seminole, FL
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| my 2 cents On the rare times I open IE it goes to Verizon's portal, which is not too bad, but then again I don't use the MSN software that comes with it, which I'm sure has plenty. Firefox I have it set to acdcpower.net, where I moderate the asylum/forum, that site has a little flash but adblock takes care of that problem. | |
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