Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Fwd: Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-09-24 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
wMaxPacketSize = 0x4 bInterval = 0xa } Please tell me if it the fingerprint scanner would work. Thank you Sivasubramanian Muthusamy Thank you Sivasubramanian Muthusamy On 7/4/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 03:14, Sivasubraman

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-07 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> > Users might help Open Solaris by giving a feed > back, > > by telling them what they want. That would be > great > > help, and beyond that, if you want users to roll > up > > their sleeves and help out, no, that is not going > to > > happen. That can never happen. Yes, the user wants > it > > a

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-07 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> > Open Solaris developers have to do a lot of > complex > > work in order to give the user a compuer that is > > plain, easy and utterly simple. > > And what about users rolling up their sleeves and > helping out? > Or is everything just to be delivered on a silver > platter? Users might help O

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-07 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> > I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to have the option to use Solaris > > without having to learn the details. > > By the way, I agree with you. Where we (perhaps) disagree is the means to get > to the point of using > Solaris without having to learn the details. > > And on further thought,

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-07 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
operate that computer if I knew how to tun pages in a printed book! (to exaggerate a little). System Administrators at the background do some very complex work in order to make the terminals on the front end operating smoothly. Most front end users have no idea

[osol-discuss] Fwd: Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-06 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
On 8/4/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/4/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 23:08 -0700, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: > > > My post was in a certain manner of expression. On rapid reading, &g

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-06 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Ian Collins, > This isn't the place to discuss the shortcomings of Solaris 10, many of > these have been addressed in Solaris Express and other OpenSolaris based > distributions. Let the past rest and look to the future. I have seen looked at developer editions, some of the most recent vers

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
What nonsense, if you are going to criticise something, check out the current version first. > Ian Ian, you sound so easily irritated. And to tend to defend Sun, Solaris and Open Solaris. You could be so defensive in a Press Meet, not in a develper forum, you might want to hear more and more a

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> The networking tool in OpenSolaris is okay No, it is not OKAY. Try configuring Internet in Windows XP, look at the kind of easy questions asked. Look at the help file menu that pops up in the unlikely even that the internet fails to configure If the task is desktop, you need to begin by

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> > My hope is that Indiana will make quick work of catching up with Linux > > distributions like Ubuntu Is that what Indiana would aspire for ? Catch up with Ubuntu Pathetic. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mai

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> The desktop for a common user vs a corporate revolves > around plug and play, Yes, it must be plug and play. Some technical executives I have talked to tend to believe that Solaris is already plug and play, it is not. Ian, the DVDs that I tried in one of the most recent releases of Nevada di

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> Gary Gendel wrote: > > For example: why install Sendmail if the user only uses Thunderbird as a > > mail client? . It is these types of details that keep the system complexity up plus confound and confuse the home user > > the bulk of UNIX users ... relied upon Sendmail ... Sendmail has a

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Ggendel, > My hope is that Indiana will make quick work of > catching up with Linux distributions like Ubuntu and > can then set it's sights on a real desktop solution. Indiana shoots up my expectations. I wouldn't just hope that Indiana will 'catch up" with Linux, I would rather "instiga

[osol-discuss] Announcing the first of the Open Solaris Rewards Program...

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Hello, What will do with it ? I will tell you later. The computer is built with an obsolete processor that I managed to find, with a RAM from yesterday that I managed to find. The processor is a 333 MHz processor and the RAM is DDR I, 256 MB. I wish I could find a 128 MB ram, but I did not fi

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Mathew, > > > > No, I have not decided on Solaris 10 11/16. I have > also been exposed > > to the most recent developer editions. Indiana > sounds promising. > > Agreed. But if you want to help Indiana - its > probably best that you > help out, it is a community project after all. I have

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> To the powers that be, > > Why not? > > I assume it is the lack of resources, but then isnt this market worth the > investment? > > Anil > > PS : Mac OSX, now offcially a Unix, has shown that one can be adapted for the > avg Joe User. I don't think it is the lack of resources, it is just t

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> Sun wouldn't use Gnome if you would try to position Solaris as desktop OS. > > William Dear William, If Sun wouldn't use a GNOME, what would it use in Solaris if positioned as a Desktop O?S ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Carlsonj, Thanks for your positive comments. On remarks such as "Do you even care to understand" I am not deterred. This probably had to do with my manner of expression, which was that of an irrational user. It is just a posture that I adopted to emphasize greater targets for ease of use

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
s own and installs, asks a few questions in a manner that I understand. This, among other things, is the kind of ease that i am talking about. All I have done is to throw a few questions, DELIBERATELY, as an uneducated, un-coperative reader. Sivasubramanian Muthusamy. This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Ian Collins, > This isn't the place to discuss the shortcomings of Solaris 10, many of > these have been addressed in Solaris Express and other OpenSolaris based > distributions. Let the past rest and look to the future. I have seen looked at developer editions, some of the most recent vers

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> > Ian, I am more talking about Solaris 10, Version 11/06, but I have > > also been exposed to more advanced developer versions. The shut down > > feature is not the only difficulty that I am talking about. I am > > talking about identifying such "irritants" for the common man, who is > > the Mast

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-03 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
My post was in a certain manner of expression. On rapid reading, ux-admin and other readers thought that i did not understand the basics of how elaborate the O/S is or that I did not understand the purpose for built in measures such as the time taken to shut down the system. The post was on the

[osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-03 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
By "standalone" I mean a computer that is not part of a LAN, not even on a peer-peer connection, but one that gets on to the Internet. I have a desktop with Sun Solaris and I have this problem. Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network with a thousand users or more. I need to

[osol-discuss] An open reply to the Open letter to the Solaris Community

2007-08-03 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Wussboy, I am a total newcomer to the open source community, I am here as a person who grew up with Microsoft Windows, as a person who still admires Windows ( I have not used Mac ) for its ease of use features. With this background, WITH ADMIRATION FOR THE EASE OF USE OF FEATURES OF WINDOW

[osol-discuss] Fwd: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-07-18 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
with you by giving you a real time feedback on the process of making this device work. Sivasubramanian Muthusamy India. On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fingerprint Authentication > == > > > Project Overview: &

[osol-discuss] Solaris Projects for Students

2007-07-18 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
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Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-07-18 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
with you by giving you a real time feedback on the process of making this device work. Sivasubramanian Muthusamy India. On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fingerprint Authentication > == > > > Project Overview: &