On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> The limiting factor now is basically the web. Websites have become so 
> bloated with massive Flash animations and shoddy javascript that some of 
> them can bring your box to a crawl. Youtube is now the reason why I'm 
> trying to scrape together money for a new computer... 1.1GHz K7 with 
> 1.25GB RAM is just not up to the task of youtube anymore. (and Facebook 
> and Gmail have their bad days as well).


I find myself doing this several times per day:

pkill npviewer.bin

It helps a lot.

Mike