CentOS

I find the xdvik on centos 7 to be annoyingly slow (it render almost line by line when i visit new page). This results in a one second or two or three to display to whole page. Luckly the system responds immediately when i hit enter to visit the next page. If not I cannot navigate the 200+ page file...

With the latest yum update, I hit this: $ uname -a Linux centos73-mell 3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 13 22:55:44 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ xmgrace --> Broken or incomplete installation - read the FAQ! $ rpm -qva | grep grace grace-5.1.23-4.el7.x86_64 This seems to have be...

mahmood: You mentioned slow boot of ubuntu. I had the experience that LinuxMint (Debian derived, same as ubuntu or MX Linux) that its /etc/fstab has a hardcoded SWAP UUID line. So when you install a new OS that reformats SWAP, you might incur TWO 90 secs in two places during booting. I wonder the sa...

Downloaded firefox-52.8.0esr.linux-x86_64.sdk.tar.bz2 or firefox-52.8.0esr.tar.bz2 Tried both. Hit ./firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/someone/Downloads/t/firefox-sdk/bin/libmozgtk.so: libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM Give up. Just...

okay, I have a CentOS with FF 52.8.0 (64 bit). Everything works perfectly so far. Seems like I have no choice but to stay with 2.6.32-754.el6.x86_64 until the computer die then (or something breaks..).. All other CentOS box with FF60+ is making me losing productivity. Web base dropbox not connecting...

Curiously I found "which" command to fail in one occasion.. Decription: pwd command gives 277 characters (I tend to give a slightly long name for each directory and love to work with subdirectories to help me to navigate through trees, so far no major problem. Even my Fortran program has a default o...

<r>With the latest firefox, I can no longer "automatically" open an attached pdf file in an email. Previously I was able to <br/> view the pdf files since the Open with seems to tied to acroread.<br/> <br/> Now, I do not how to configure to use /usr/bin/acroread to make the new firefox to open pdf f...

ah.. suddenly remember chrome is not an option for CentOS 6.x.. it just cannot be installed.

yum update yesterday on July 16.
Firefox is now 60.1.0

But when I use it to compose an email in Office 365 and try to attach files, firefox just crashes. Tested two times.

May have to install chrome to do what I need to do...