- 1. [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:27:38 -0500
- OK, since we're on computers, I have a real problem with Java applications. Anything written in Java takes forever to load, and boy am I sick of seeing their stupid little coffee cup for minutes at a
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00093.html (8,212 bytes)
- 2. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: PJ McGarvey <pj_mcgarvey@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:35:43 -0400
- No idea on that one, but possibly a different browser could improve the situation. Firefox 3 is much better than IE (imho) and faster. Maybe reinstalling Java? I've seen various versions not play nic
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00094.html (8,979 bytes)
- 3. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: Battmain <battmain@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:50:02 -0700 (PDT)
- That's probably going to be the machine. :) Jscript is still available on the MS website and I think the current version is 5.6 and it is compatible with XP. I last checked a month ago. FWIW, I have
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00096.html (8,096 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:24:58 -0700
- Haven't tried it myself, but a friend swears that Linux runs orders of magnitude faster than Windows on those old machines. If you don't need any special-purpose applications (like games or such), t
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00097.html (8,387 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:29:20 -0500
- The same thing happens on the 2GHz P4 I built 2 years ago. The slowness is in the initial Java start-up, which takes under a minute usually, but on some websites several minutes (really). Booting of
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00098.html (11,942 bytes)
- 6. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:48:23 -0500
- Actually, I "downgraded" to Win2K when I got this machine, as it came with XP Home. I had had a series of warrantee repairs with my previous Dell and they finally sent me this machine that was a mode
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00099.html (11,041 bytes)
- 7. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:57:54 -0400
- When you start a java applet that's on a website, you have to down load the applet. If it's big, that can take some time, if you or they have a slow or overloaded network connection. Are any of these
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00100.html (8,189 bytes)
- 8. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:02:20 -0500
- Here's the NWS site I visit whenever I want real-time local radar. Once it's running, downloading new maps for a different area, different view, etc., still takes some time, particularly when looping
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00101.html (8,813 bytes)
- 9. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: Pat <Pat@HorneSystemsTx.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:39:48 -0500
- It took my machine on a 3 Meg wisp 45 seconds to come up from the time I clicked your link. Xp SP2, AMD Sempron processor, 1.6 GHz, 768 MB ram, 59 processes running. Peace, Pat Thusly spake Karl Vace
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00102.html (9,840 bytes)
- 10. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:19:00 -0700
- I just barely caught the coffee cup logo you're talking about on a 2.6GHz P4 w/1.5gig RAM and a 5Mbit (down) cable modem. About 5 seconds total from clicking the link to the end of the first refresh.
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00103.html (11,755 bytes)
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