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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:33:01 -0600
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 03:23:43 -0500, Paul  wrote:

>
>Yes, you could get firmware, but if the modem pool doesn't
>do V92, it hardly matters. I think a V92 would drop back
>to V90 then V.34 and so on, all the way down to 300 baud
>if you waited long enough. It's backward compatible all the
>way back to the beginning of computing. If you phoned up one
>of the old private BBSes, it could well end up running
>at 300 or 1200.
>
>    Paul

My first modem was a 1200. I used to use local BBSs. Yet, I could
connect to the BBS faster than I can now connect to many websites at
56K. Some sites cant even load anymore, especially the Media News sites.
Since they started using HTTPS on almost all sites, my speed has gone
down about 50%. Google is even worse. I used to wait maybe 10 seconds
when I clicked on www.google.com. Now I wait close to a full minute,
using Firefox.

I also used to use a browser called "Offbyone". That program would load
a webpage in it's most basic form. No scripts, no css, no crap. Just
text and pictures. But that no longer works either. It does not load any
HTTPS sites.

Add to that, almost everytime I load any webpage now, I get repeated
warnings saying "can not connect securely". Sometimes they are so bad
that I have to sit a weight on my ENTER key, to avoid having to hit the
enter key 20 - 50 or 100 times, while a page is loading. 

It just keeps getting worse and worse trying to use the web. Most of the
time I get so frustrated, I just shut off the computer. About the only
things that still work are Usenet and Email, and even my email is slower
to load than it once was. 

Personally, I think most of that security is senseless. Yea, if I am
using a site such as ebay or amazon, where I have to use a credit card,
I want security. But why is security needed to view a Wikipedia page, or
use Google? 

The entire internet is going down the shitter, if you ask me, and I have
friends who say the same. I see a day coming soon, when the only people
who can even use the www are those who have brand new compiuters running
Windows 10, and costly high speed service. And by then, the internet
will be entirely run thru facebook. 

I personally do not see myself using the internet much longer. I cant
get high speed service where I live, dont intend to buy a new computer
or use Win10, and refuse to ever allow facebook to steal my identity. On
top of that, usenet is almost dead. So, I'm moatly just paying my ISP so
I can use email. I can send a text from my cellphone and it does about
the same thing......

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