alexander Posted November 23, 2005 Author Report Posted November 23, 2005 yeah rootkits are nasty things, and problem is that they are really hard to catch running on your computer, but rendering them useless is a matter of changing a few things :evil: ... Quote
Southtown Posted November 26, 2005 Report Posted November 26, 2005 translation for computer scinece section:Linux save the end user :evil:LOL :eek: RootKit Revealer didn't flag any discrepencies, but I'm still experiencing pauses in ff/moz/ns. I keep scanning with numerous AV trials, but nothing. Not even CPU spikes. The browser(s) also occasionally lock. I'm gonna start backing up bookmarks, music, and photos now. I'm tired of messing with it. When I get around to calling my ISP and ensure they do Linux, I can just scrap XP. Quote
nkt Posted November 27, 2005 Report Posted November 27, 2005 I've had some problems with FF pausing. How many tabs have you got open? I find mine starts to mis-behave around 30, unless there is a lot of flash or pdfs or whatever open in the other tabs, then it's more around 20. That's with a lot of other stuff open too, though. Mind you, can you imagine running 20 ie windows? :) Proxify is the proxy tool I use. It's very nice, but I wish it maintained a remote list somewhere, copying by hand is a pain! Adblock works *so* well for me it's incredible. The only ads I allow are Googles. Didn't work for my other half, she lost all sorts of important things, even just after installing it, and she then had to remove it to be able to browse properly. Really odd, it was. I also run a script blocker that stops Javascript on a site-by-site basis, which is nice. Single click to enable/disable, and lets you turn it on for a session, then it's off next time you visit that site, etc. Quote
Southtown Posted November 27, 2005 Report Posted November 27, 2005 I've had some problems with FF pausing. How many tabs have you got open?Usually just 5 or less in each window. I can have 3 - 5 windows open at a time. But the pauses come right away 1 window, 1 tab. Mind you, can you imagine running 20 ie windows? ;)Yes, I can... :) I also run a script blocker that stops Javascript on a site-by-site basis, which is nice. Single click to enable/disable, and lets you turn it on for a session, then it's off next time you visit that site, etc.Is that a moz plugin? That sounds useful. Quote
nkt Posted November 27, 2005 Report Posted November 27, 2005 Adblock is a FireFox plugin. http://adblock.mozdev.org/ I'd probably check I was running the latest version of FF if you are having the halting problem. Not reading about Turing are you? :) Seriously though, I haven't had that issue (much) since I upgraded from 1.0.5 to 1.0.7. I get it once or twice a day now, where before it was making the machine unusable! One thing I have noticed is that FF can get upset if the internet connection disappears. Quote
Southtown Posted November 27, 2005 Report Posted November 27, 2005 Sorry for hijacking, alex. Hope you don't mind. Adblock is a FireFox plugin. http://adblock.mozdev.org/Does that block js? I'd probably check I was running the latest version of FF if you are having the halting problem.FF 1.0.7 then 1.5/MOZ 1.7.x/NS 8.0 (all pause occasionally) I tried the mouse driver update suggested by mozilla.org, but no dice. Now I'm gonna try uninstalling all moz based browsers and reinstall FF 1.5, because sharing profiles with NS is said to be bad. Not reading about Turing are you? :) Seriously though, I haven't had that issue (much) since I upgraded from 1.0.5 to 1.0.7. I get it once or twice a day now, where before it was making the machine unusable! One thing I have noticed is that FF can get upset if the internet connection disappears.1) What's Turing? and 2) you get FF pauses, too? Quote
alexander Posted November 28, 2005 Author Report Posted November 28, 2005 no, no, South, Adblock blocks ads in forms of images and flash, scrit blocker, NoScript, or whatever that plugin is called blocks JS... Quote
alexander Posted November 28, 2005 Author Report Posted November 28, 2005 South, you have the weirdest bugs, it could be because of some soft that you run, I mean something like McAffee and NAV, problems there slow the entire system down... Quote
Southtown Posted December 2, 2005 Report Posted December 2, 2005 South, you have the weirdest bugs, it could be because of some soft that you run, I mean something like McAffee and NAV, problems there slow the entire system down...I'll keep ya posted. :naughty: But yeah, there's more to it than the moz/ff/ns freeze thing, apparently. Quote
alexander Posted December 8, 2005 Author Report Posted December 8, 2005 well, let us know when you figure it out... Quote
Southtown Posted December 17, 2005 Report Posted December 17, 2005 formatted. defaulted bios. still happening. now using Opera. any tips on hwdiags? Quote
alexander Posted December 19, 2005 Author Report Posted December 19, 2005 i got an idea, lets see if it is hardware related, why dont you download a KDE dvd or an ubuntu live cd, pop it in, reboot into the environment, and try using firefox from there in the same manner, and see if it freezes your machine (delays are to be expected though, you are running from a cd, but nontheless it should run ok if everything is fine, or spew out errors into syslog... Quote
Southtown Posted December 19, 2005 Report Posted December 19, 2005 Thanks for the tip. I'm in process of installing Ubuntu, in hopes I can migrate totally. Burned the ISO, and just gotta get around to it. Quote
Southtown Posted December 20, 2005 Report Posted December 20, 2005 k, we're rockin now I get to install FF. Quote
alexander Posted December 23, 2005 Author Report Posted December 23, 2005 I would have said i told ya so, but i did..... Quote
Southtown Posted December 23, 2005 Report Posted December 23, 2005 Runnin' it FF 1.5 now, no probs yet. :eek2: I've tried migrating a couple time before, but could never get everything working. Distros are just getting too easy these days. HAHA Quote
alexander Posted December 23, 2005 Author Report Posted December 23, 2005 no, ubuntu aims at easiness, try gentoo, still debian-based, you would be surprized at how little you know about your system, there is a lot of difference between a user friendly distro vs a power user system... especially in performance... here let me give you an example:can you, without running these, tell me what the following lines do? cat /proc/cpuinfo | less !!:0- awk '/^cpu/ {print $4}' | grep "^[0-9].[0-9]" Quote
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