Re: BGAN Optimized Laptops

2015-09-11 Thread Mark Milhollan
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Matthew Petach wrote: >Just wanted to clear one point up... > >The web is *not* a "push" model; it's a "pull" model. Mostly true, yet there's that little bit that makes it not total truth. HTTP/2 has push, where instead of waiting for a browser to decide which elements to f

Re: BGAN Optimized Laptops

2015-09-10 Thread Eric Tykwinski
Matt’s totally correct on the browser requesting the info, so it’s up to the client to decide what to download even obfuscated javascript links. My question would be how far can compression take you for something like Opera which does some compression in browser with a caching server? I figure a

Re: BGAN Optimized Laptops

2015-09-10 Thread Matthew Petach
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > ... > > Someone told me that there is a way for the browser to say > to the web server, send me only the parts of the web page I > request. For example, send me everything but the flash and > images. Being a browser wuss I thought the web ser

Re: BGAN Optimized Laptops

2015-09-10 Thread Mark Foster
On 11/09/2015 1:49 p.m., Roland Dobbins wrote: On 11 Sep 2015, at 8:14, Scott Weeks wrote: For example, send me everything but the flash and images. This is a preference setting on most Web browsers. Lynx works well for this, too, on *NIX systems, if the users can use a terminal. Equiv

Re: BGAN Optimized Laptops

2015-09-10 Thread Roland Dobbins
On 11 Sep 2015, at 8:14, Scott Weeks wrote: For example, send me everything but the flash and images. This is a preference setting on most Web browsers. Lynx works well for this, too, on *NIX systems, if the users can use a terminal. Equivalent for email clients - headers-only, only downl

Re: BGAN Optimized Laptops

2015-09-10 Thread Scott Weeks
--- rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: From: "Roland Dobbins" On 11 Sep 2015, at 2:38, Scott Weeks wrote: > Anyone use or know how these work with the satellite networks? All the features this supposedly has which makes it optimized for constrained-bandwidth environments, one can accomplish with any *N

Re: BGAN Optimized Laptops

2015-09-10 Thread Roland Dobbins
On 11 Sep 2015, at 2:38, Scott Weeks wrote: Anyone use or know how these work with the satellite networks? All the features this supposedly has which makes it optimized for constrained-bandwidth environments, one can accomplish with any *NIX, including OSX (LittleSnitch provides a nice GUI

BGAN Optimized Laptops

2015-09-10 Thread Scott Weeks
Anyone use or know how these work with the satellite networks? http://www.groundcontrol.com/BGAN_Optimized_Laptop.htm Off list is fine... scott