I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem? Thanks Jim
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40 at ocellaris.net> wrote:> ? ? I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has > already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing > up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running > firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. > When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined ?to think it's > the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?Jim, Is it stock firefox? What are you browsing with it at when it freezes?
From: Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40 at ocellaris.net>> ? ? I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has > already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing > up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running > firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. > When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined? to think it's > the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?I've had "many" temporary whole desktop freezes due to Firefox being overloaded. Not sure who is the culprit... Gnome? Xorg? NVidia driver? Guess nothing in the bios or lnux logs? You could try another browser for a while and see if there are no more freezes... JD
John Doe wrote:> From: Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40 at ocellaris.net> > >> ? ? I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if thishas already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined? to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?> > I've had "many" temporary whole desktop freezes due to Firefox beingoverloaded.> Not sure who is the culprit... Gnome? Xorg? NVidia driver? > Guess nothing in the bios or lnux logs? > You could try another browser for a while and see if there are no morefreezes... I wouldn't say "many", but yes, it does. It also does things like slowing to a crawl, and then there's when I allow something via noscript, and refresh the page... and then have to refresh and restart the streaming media that's running in another tab. mark
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Jimmy Bradley wrote:> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40 at ocellaris.net> > Subject: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up > > I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has > already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing > up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running > firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. > When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's > the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?I've noticed something similar on Centos 5.6 when using Firefox. I traced it down to the Firefox flashplayer plugin - something called npviewer.bin If I upload a picture to www.tinypic.com and then highlight the text to copy the picture's url, right clicking on the highlighted text causes Firefox to freeze, and swapping desktops is very slugish. Killing npviewer.bin unlocks the system again. Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Friday, August 26, 2011 02:54:11 PM m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> As the guy in the original story asked, why would you want to embed a > flash video in a freakin' spreadsheet?Intriguing. As to why, well, probably for the same or similar reasons as you'd embed into a powerpoint presentation. I can see some utility in video cells in a spreadsheet for certain things. I know, it's alien to the 'unix way' that we all know and love, but businesses like to have packaged 'things' that just have everything you need in them. Embedded app data inside other apps files is a seriously common technique in business; and it's fairly old tech, at least dating to OLE way back when. Once to can embed a generic OLE object, there will be a user out there that starts thinking up wierd and wonderful ways of presenting data with such embedding. Instead of a 'notes' cell documenting the reason for, say, a manufacturing line failure or success you could have a video documenting same, and all within the spreadsheet. Yeah, I wouldn't do that, but I know businesspeople who would in a heartbeat.