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Speakeasy alternatives



David Kramer wrote:
> Google just announced something even better!
> http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

This has been tried before: it always fails for lack of a stable flow 
control algorithm. The last time I used it, I had to flush buffers after 
every startup, even though it pulled the chain-loader performance down, 
or risk intermittent overflows.

Bill
P.S. Don't even _think_ of piping the output to /dev/null!

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