Comments on: Thoughts on rural computing in Botswana http://www.g9labs.com/2009/02/15/thoughts-on-rural-computing-in-botswana/ Andrew Hao’s thoughts on design, Web development, and anything shiny. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:31:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Richard Braddock http://www.g9labs.com/2009/02/15/thoughts-on-rural-computing-in-botswana/comment-page-1/#comment-1160 Richard Braddock Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:06:38 +0000 http://www.g9labs.com/?p=922#comment-1160 Hey Andrew, You might be interested in some graduate work I did a few months back. This particular piece is about using Opera Turbo as a proxy which will optimise imagery et al before it hits your ISP. The only problem is that they don't spread out the servers in the correct geographical location for everyone! http://up-stream.co.uk/2009/05/opera-turbo-testing/ I proposed an alternative which is loading a proxy (which is in a good geographical location for you - maybe a VPS web server if you have one) and using the RabbIT open source proxy software which will compress imagery on the fly. An interesting technical argument anyway I think. http://up-stream.co.uk/2009/05/rabbit-web-proxy/ Hey Andrew,

You might be interested in some graduate work I did a few months back. This particular piece is about using Opera Turbo as a proxy which will optimise imagery et al before it hits your ISP. The only problem is that they don’t spread out the servers in the correct geographical location for everyone!

http://up-stream.co.uk/2009/05/opera-turbo-testing/

I proposed an alternative which is loading a proxy (which is in a good geographical location for you - maybe a VPS web server if you have one) and using the RabbIT open source proxy software which will compress imagery on the fly. An interesting technical argument anyway I think.

http://up-stream.co.uk/2009/05/rabbit-web-proxy/

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