We have received several questions about this product and whether we will be moving to this new operating environment. There are several reasons for this. Perhaps the most important is that this operating system is best viewed as a replacement for Windows NT, a network operating system used to run servers. Because we use Novell's NetWare operating system, an alternative to Windows NT, upgrading to W2K would not benefit us. As always, IS staff will follow the developments as new software becomes available, and will move to new platforms as soon as it makes sense for us to do so.
Web browsers use caching to save bandwidth and reduce access time.
When you call up a page from a server somewhere on the web, your browser stores a local copy on your computer. If you request that page again, the browser saves time by displaying the local copy instead of requesting the page again from its the remote server and waiting for it to be delivered. The problem is that when new versions of pages are posted by their authors, your browser may continue to show you the old, local copy instead of the current, correct one from the server.