Re: [hosers-talk] how to bring back that 2400 baud feelin'

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Tom Plagge:
> > Be sure you have X compression turned on. That should save you a lot of 
> > bytes traveling back and forth.
> 
> How do you do this?

Oops, what I was thinking of is not X protocol compression, but rather ssh 
stream compression. I think it's the -C option for ssh.

As for X protocol compression, you can check whether your X server has it 
with xdpyinfo, and grep it's output for "LBX". And there's some stuff you 
can do to get it working:

http://studenthelp.itee.uq.edu.au/remote/lbx.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LBX.html

I've never tried this, so I have no idea how well it works.
  
> > Even then, however, you might be facing too much overhead created by all 
> > that indirection. I gave up on displaying on the DECstation in my office X 
> > apps running from home, even though I have DSL at home and the UW's fat 
> > pipe at my office.
> 
> But the DECstation still works, eh?  That's rad.  I have an SGI Indigo I'd
> be glad to give to you next time you come out to California.  Basically the
> same processor as the DEC, but running with opposite endianness.  IRIX has
> a native web browser that is reasonably fast, too, though the bad news is 
> that it's Netscape 4.  The good news is that the Indigo will look way cooler 
> on the desk in your office.
> -t

The DECstation works fine, but I haven't used it in a while. It's not 
terribly useful when it's not on a LAN with my other boxen. When I move in 
May, I'll haul it to my new place if there's space, and use it as a spare 
terminal.

As for the SGI, I really really don't need another computer. It would be 
fun to play with the Indigo, but there are dozens of other fun things 
queued up ahead of your Indigo right now.

-- 
J.


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