Comments on: One week at 100Mhz: Slow is as slow does, Mrs. Blue

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:53:44 +0000

I tested it, and it´s definitely the resolv.conf change that did the trick of eliminating the elinks delay…although I´m pretty certain that DHCP will overwrite the change since it rebuilds that file every time it starts. DHCP daemons use ¨too much¨ memory and boot time anyhow.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:37:56 +0000

Actually I’ve seen that too with newer sites, on my “fast” machine too. There must be some sort of flag or end token that elinks is waiting for (if we’re talking about the same thing — a long lag late in the loading sequence). I wonder if there’s some setting that will chop that down. …

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:25:37 +0000

I’ve noticed Elinks being slow at looking up new websites, even with an 2GHz+ dual-core and IPv6 completely and utterly disabled. But (and I’m not entirely sure what went right here) this last time I fiddled with /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts, I somehow eliminated the problem, and sped up website lookups in all web browsers.

I think it has something to with

a) Manually configuring eth0, instead of relying on DHCP. However, I’ve done this in the past with little to no effect on Elinks.

b.) Commenting out the “domain” and “search” lines in /etc/resolv.conf, as well as the “nameserver 192.168.x.x” line.
I’m guessing this forces everything to go to the ISP’s nameserver first, instead of searching on the home IP, and then scanning the domain for nameservers.

Perhaps, if you use pdnsd or something similar, you should leave the “nameserver 192.168.x.x” line in there, as pdnsd seems to archive DNS addresses on your computer for faster lookup. I don’t know, haven’t tried it.

I did have DHCP set up before manually configuring everything, and I took the nameserver lines it generated when I set everything up manually.

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DISCLAIMER: All of the above are taken from personal experience and tinkering on Debian 5.01. Although this *should* work with all Linux distros, or at least those using SysVInit system, it may not for you. 192.168.x.x is a generic address, and the two x’s will be numbers specific to your computer.

No warranty is given for this info. Your mileage may vary.

By: One week at 100Mhz: X-less and not a hiccup « Motho ke motho ka botho

One week at 100Mhz: X-less and not a hiccup « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:10:59 +0000

[...] wasn’t really on my list of necessities for the week. And certain weaknesses — like sluggish Internet access speeds from certain sites in elinks — weren’t the fault of my machine really, so this didn’t affect them [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:54:15 +0000

These are good to know. I had always looked under a different part of the browsing options to find some sort of copy-link command, but didn’t find one. Thanks for pointing them out.

By: CorkyAgain

CorkyAgain — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:42:18 +0000

Elinks can also send the address of the current page to an external command. See the “Pass URI of current tab to external command” keybinding.

This feature uses the same list of external commands as the one I described before.

In the keybindings dialog, that other one is called “Pass URI of current link to external command”.

(For some reason, these are NOT next to each other in the keybindings dialog.)

While looking at this just now, I noticed that there’s also a possible keybinding for “Pass URI of current frame to external command”. I haven’t used that one myself, but it might come in handy.

By: One week at 100Mhz: Scary power failures « Motho ke motho ka botho

One week at 100Mhz: Scary power failures « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:12:26 +0000

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By: CorkyAgain

CorkyAgain — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:10:14 +0000

Good news: elinks CAN put a link on the clipboard!

In its Options Manager, use Documents/URI Passing to specify external commands to invoke when you press ‘x’ while the link of interest is selected.

If you list more than one command under URI Passing, pressing ‘x’ will popup a little menu, letting you choose which command you want to execute.

You can use this, for example, to open the current link in Firefox. That’s handy if you do most of your browsing in textmode, but occasionally want to open a page with lots of graphics or multimedia.

But more to the point, you can also have it call xclip or a similar utility to put the selected link on the clipboard.

By: Faelar

Faelar — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:59:29 +0000

You are reading about the Battle of the Somme ? Funny, I currently live in the Somme (in Amiens precisely). I never thought I should see this subject in a topic about console applications !

By: Vanity Vertigo

Vanity Vertigo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:33:21 +0000

My sojourn with console only applications seems to have gone much better than yours sounds so far. True I was using a 500Mhz computer with 384Mb of ram. But I spent it with no X and it was much longer than one week. I think I lasted about a month or so. I must say that I like screen better than any tiling window manager. The thing that ultimately brought me back to X was Flash. I need Flash for music discovery. I’m basically always listening to and finding new artists. Anyways, keep it up. ^_^