On Saturday 25 June 2005 07:22 pm, Josef Lowder kindly wrote:
> Where do y'all look for news on the web?
>
> I generally scan the headlines at usatoday.com, and it provides
> a pretty good overview, but everybody seems to be so enamored
> with pretty graphics that web pages take way too long to resolve
> for dial-up users (and most news websites seem to be in varying
> degrees of radical, liberal, left-wing extremist for me).
>
> So, I'm looking for some alternate news sites to check out.
>
> Suggestions?
>

www.DrudgeReport.com loads fast and has a long list of links to wire 
services, newspapers and other news outlets. You can try a bunch of 
them from there and see what you like. Drudge is anything but radical 
left-wing. And he has a sanity-saving link to Dave Barry ;-)

I'm on dialup and here's what I use to surf faster:

In Konqueror and Opera I can turn graphics off. Konqueror also lets me 
block animations if I choose to keep graphics turned on. Opera has an 
easy toggle switch for graphics, right by the address bar. It's 
easier to use than Konqueror's. And there's always the Links browser. 
If you have it, open a shell and type "links" w/out the quotes.

You can also go to: 

http://remember.mine.nu/ 

and download a hosts file for a workstation. They come as zipped or 
text files. Open the file, copy and paste it into /etc/hosts. It'll 
block out at least 95% of the ads. If you find it's blocking 
something you want, you can comment out the corresponding line in the 
hosts file. 

Except for not liking to do long downloads, I can usually surf fast 
enough with my $8.25/mth dialup account that I see no need for 
broadband. Which is good, since I can't get it where I live.

HTH,
Siri Amrit

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