Re: How2 browser cache to RAM?
From: bb (handy_9999@yahoo.com)Date: 01/23/02
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From: "bb" <handy_9999@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:58:57 GMT
"Patrick Head" <patrickhead@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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> Windows hack for Web-surfing privacy
> By Thomas C Greene in Washington
> Posted: 10/12/2001 at 01:37 GMT
>
> A way to assign the IE browser cache, cookies, typed URLs and history
> to RAM so they're never written to disk. Of course one can set your
> browser to delete the cache on exit, but there will be traces on the
> HDD; and you can block cookies or use a cookie management program, but
> blocking them makes surfing inconvenient, and cookie managers also
> leave traces on the HDD. And then there's the history, which
> catalogues your comings and goings for posterity.
>
> There is a hack about called RamSurf for Win-9x & RamSurf for
> Win-2K/XP
> This is very rough, beta material so far, but I hope our readers will
> help me polish it. I will likely re-post more refined versions in a
> few weeks' time, after going over the bug reports.
>
> An ideas where one can locate the updated version of the above or an
> alternative.
>
> Thanks.
Patrick,
The ramdisk solution is a cool idea, except that it expands memory
requirements and when ram memory runs out, windows caches to the swap file.
So unless you have a couple hundred meg of ram to host your swap file the
data is still on your hard-drive.
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