[lopsa-tech] Google Docs performance issues

2011-06-09 Thread John BORIS
Recently I started using Google Docs in work since I was going to multiple sites and needed a common place for stuff. Heck that is what it is best suited for. Each of these sites sits behind a firewall and they are on different speed connections. Some are on Fiber and other are on Comcast business

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google Docs performance issues

2011-06-09 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:24 PM, John BORIS jbo...@adphila.org wrote: Recently I started using Google Docs in work since I was going to multiple sites and needed a common place for stuff. Heck that is what it is best suited for. Each of these sites sits behind a firewall and they are on

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google Docs performance issues

2011-06-09 Thread Tom Limoncelli
Which browser is being used? Over time more and more of Google Docs is pushed down to the browser, therefore the speed of your JavaScript interpreter is becoming very important. Tom ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google Docs performance issues

2011-06-09 Thread John BORIS
Tom, I am using MSIE 8 while the other machines have used that version and earlier versions. Someone replied off the list and mentioned the java interpreter might be the issue. It looks like that is one issue which is getting exaggerated with some of the network latencies we have here. So I guess

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google Docs performance issues

2011-06-09 Thread Brent Chapman
It's JavaScript performance that's potentially the problem, not Java. They aren't at all related, except through an unfortunate similarity in name; they're about as related as C and csh are, as languages (i.e., not very). As far as I know, Google Docs doesn't use Java at all, but it makes heavy

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google Docs performance issues

2011-06-09 Thread Tom Limoncelli
If you have a person that must use IE for some reason, you can install this plug-in so that pages that request it are silently rendered with Chrome. http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/ Tom On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:17 PM, John BORIS jbo...@adphila.org wrote: Brent, Thanks.

[lopsa-tech] Cfengine 3 Intro - Portland, June 18

2011-06-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
Portland is hosting this year's USENIX conference. One of the presenters -- Aleksey Tsalolikhin, alek...@verticalsysadmin.com -- made us Portland locals an outstanding offer to introduce us to Cfengine version 3 the weekend following this year's USENIX conference. Introduction to

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google Docs performance issues

2011-06-09 Thread John BORIS
Tom, That worked just fine. I am not thorigh testing it at our other sites but out of the box it looks like that code did the trick. Thanks Tom Limoncelli t...@whatexit.org 6/9/2011 3:30 PM If you have a person that must use IE for some reason, you can install this plug-in so that pages that