anyone else having trouble interacting with Sourceforge these days?

Scott Elcomb psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 25 04:31:05 UTC 2005


On 11/24/05, Scott Elcomb <psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 11/24/05, bob <fcsoft-3Emkkp+1Olsmp8TqCH86vg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > One of my project pages   https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpl comes up
> > about every third time I try.      I know I'm still dialup but this is
> > ridiculous.
> Here's what I see when calling up your page:
>
> [selcomb at thisbox selcomb]$ wget -O tmp.out http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpl
> --19:36:20--  http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpl
>            => `tmp.out'
> Resolving sourceforge.net... done.
> Connecting to sourceforge.net[66.35.250.203]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/html]
>
>     [  <=>                                ] 30,538       109.24K/s
>
> 19:36:20 (109.24 KB/s) - `tmp.out' saved [30538]

>From home:

[selcomb at psema4 selcomb]$ wget -O tmp.out http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpl
--snip--
    [  <=>                                ] 30,538        62.13K/s
 23:16:02 (62.13 KB/s) - `tmp.out' saved [30538]

Certainly takes a while to get rendered in Mozilla though - about 10
seconds all told (using a 3M connection on a P3-700, 256M w. Gnome and
Mozilla [FC1])

It's been a few months since I've been to SF.  My first full-blown
webdev project taught me a number of things, but most importantly that
a site shouldn't be weighed down with unecessary features and media -
not if it hinders usage at any rate.

Maybe OSDL wants everybody to upgrade?  ;-)

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