Friends page changes

[unixronin]

OK, so there's probably not that many of you who browse my friends page directly.  But if you do, or if you read my journal directly, you'll notice a change; I've now cut both of them down to 10 posts per page.

Why?  Well, LiveJournal seems to be having scalability problems again lately.  And that, combined with the steadily decreasing bandwidth of our crappy dial-up connection (we've considered switching to an RFC1149 implementation, or possibly RFC2549, for performance reasons), means I can't get more than about 10 to 15 posts to reliably load at a time.  Now, my friends page typically runs 30-40 posts a day, but between Earthlink and Livejournal, it's easier to load the page and then open two or three successive previous-page windows (or tabs) than it is to reload, and reload, and reload, and reload, hoping for the page to load at least back to the first unread post.

No certainty, indeed.

Comments

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

We-ell, I've never been to NC. But my impression is, with an RFC1149 implementation, that you might experience some intermittent packet loss due to guys with shotguns...

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Ay-ep.... bird season's coming on, there'll definitely be some packet loss....

-- Tar Heel

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, there'd be some packet loss. But the retransmission overhead could scarcely be worse than what Earthlink and Sprint are conspiring to offer us laughably labelled as "service".

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Nope. Ain't enough to eat on one of them birds. And yes, this is speaking as someone who grew up in the boonies of Eastern North Carolina. Maybe if we were sending packets to DC or something.

Those crazy Norwegians

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Bergen Linux User Group actually implemented RFC1149 (http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/)

Crazy Norgies.

Re: Those crazy Norwegians

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Ålt for Nørge!