Re: slow loading browser homepage

2013-09-13 Thread Joseph Areeda
Hi Tom, I'm not sure how to find it in XP either especially when DHCP is involved. I have been meaning to set up an XP VM maybe that will get done soon enough to be of some help. It's not uncommon for home routers to act as a local DNS server but I suspect it may be misconfigured and what's happ

Re: slow loading browser homepage

2013-09-13 Thread Joseph Areeda
One more thing: Firefox will display what it's doing in the status line at the bottom, I think "looking up google.com" will be displayed during the name resolution operation. Joe On 09/13/2013 04:36 PM, Joseph Areeda wrote: > My first guess is a DNS issue are they both using the same DNS serve

Re: slow loading browser homepage

2013-09-13 Thread Joseph Areeda
My first guess is a DNS issue are they both using the same DNS server as their first choice? 6 to 8 sec smells like a timeout on the first lookup. Just a SWAG that has bit me before. Joe On 09/13/2013 11:46 AM, Tom Rosmond wrote: > I run a dual boot (SL 6.4/Windows XP) workstation. SL is 64 bi

Re: slow loading browser homepage

2013-09-13 Thread Taylor Woods
I use a few security add-ons to speed up my browsers on Firefox, Chrome and IE as well : Ghostery for trackers (helps speed up page loads plus block tracking sites which you wouldn't image are watching you), works on Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera and Safari Mask Me (kind of the same but also masks e

Re: slow loading browser homepage

2013-09-13 Thread Taylor Woods
I had an issue on Firefox 17 not being able to update to current release and getting browser compatibility warning on certain websites "please upgrade to newer browser or use Chrome". Sent from the Samsung Galaxy S4 of Taylor Woods I run a dual boot (SL 6.4/Windows XP) workstation. SL is 64 bit,

Re: slow loading browser homepage

2013-09-13 Thread Bruno Pereira
Is the SL system booting from the same disk as Windows XP is? Bruno Pereira On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Tom Rosmond wrote: > I run a dual boot (SL 6.4/Windows XP) workstation. SL is 64 bit, XP is > 32 bit. I have Firefox and Konqueror browsers on SL; Firefox, IE, and > Google Chrome on

slow loading browser homepage

2013-09-13 Thread Tom Rosmond
I run a dual boot (SL 6.4/Windows XP) workstation. SL is 64 bit, XP is 32 bit. I have Firefox and Konqueror browsers on SL; Firefox, IE, and Google Chrome on XP. For all browser choices I notice that when my browser home page loads (Google.com for all cases), the XP load times are very quick (<

Re: yum update failure for 6x x86_64 - [Errno 14] Downloaded more than max size

2013-09-13 Thread Taylor Woods
I continue to get this same error, I am sure it's pointed to the right direction, but it only pops up on some updates and new program downloads: GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl I thought I made adjustments accordingly, should it make

Re: yum update failure for 6x x86_64 - [Errno 14] Downloaded more than max size

2013-09-13 Thread John Lauro
Sounds like you did the update in the middle of or an only partially complete sync, or the sync didn't finish and so primary.sqlite.bz2 is newer or older than other parts of the repo. Make sure your rsync runs cleanly, and then try again. Does your rsync have --delete-delay --delay-updates ?

Re: yum update failure for 6x x86_64 - [Errno 14] Downloaded more than max size

2013-09-13 Thread David Sommerseth
On 12/09/13 17:21, Paul Jochum wrote: > Hi All: > > This morning, I am trying to perform a "yum update" from our rsync'd > copy of the Scientific Linux 6.x x86_64 repo, and ran into the following > error: > > [root@lss-desktop01 yum.repos.d]# yum clean all > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit