Re: [indiana-discuss] best laptop for Indiana ;)

2009-10-15 Thread Ken Mays
>I need to buy a new laptop, could you give me some hints >about models? I run of course opensolaris (dev branch) and I develope >under JavaSE and JavaEE (using NetBeans and glassfish). Hi Luca, You can go hi and low really. I like the HP Mini 110 Mi Edition which cost about $280 USD. Works fine

Re: [indiana-discuss] osol-1002-XXX-sparc.iso

2009-10-15 Thread Alok Aggarwal
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Frank Middleton wrote: On 10/14/09 20:21, Dave Miner wrote: A directly bootable AI image that can install without a boot server of any sort is almost ready to integrate. That is really good news! Will there be an escape to the shell so it can be used for rescue? Since

Re: [indiana-discuss] Virtualbox and ctrl key

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Mellinger
I can then use the right Ctrl-t (or any key), but still can't use the left one. I shut down both VirtualBox and my VM and restarted just to be sure that something wasn't cached on startup. I could probably live with the right only ctrl for Firefox but Emacs will sure feel quite a bit different.

Re: [indiana-discuss] Virtualbox and ctrl key

2009-10-15 Thread Sean Sprague
Michael, I'm using OpenSolaris and VirtualBox. I'd like to be able to use the control key but it doesn't seem to get captured properly. When I hit Ctrl-n, for example, while in Firefox in a VirtualBox (seamless or regular mode), I get N's in the address bar. Just a very vague thought, bu

[indiana-discuss] Virtualbox and ctrl key

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Mellinger
I'm using OpenSolaris and VirtualBox. I'd like to be able to use the control key but it doesn't seem to get captured properly. When I hit Ctrl-n, for example, while in Firefox in a VirtualBox (seamless or regular mode), I get N's in the address bar. -Mike

Re: [indiana-discuss] osol-1002-XXX-sparc.iso

2009-10-15 Thread Frank Middleton
On 10/14/09 20:21, Dave Miner wrote: A directly bootable AI image that can install without a boot server of any sort is almost ready to integrate. That is really good news! Will there be an escape to the shell so it can be used for rescue? Since it is quite possible to install Open Solaris fr

Re: [indiana-discuss] osol-1002-XXX-sparc.iso

2009-10-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ivar Janmaat wrote: > Sun customers have invested many man years in installation and software > configuration scripting based on JET and jumpstart. > So SXCE was a perfect way of protecting this investment until the AI > team has finished a better alternative. Are these enterprises actually active

Re: [indiana-discuss] how to discover if a CPU has VT-x or AMD-V cap

2009-10-15 Thread Luca Morettoni
On 10/15/09 04:23 PM, Luca Morettoni wrote: As a subject, is possible to discover if a CPU has the hardware virtualization features (VT-x or AMD-V) with a simple shell command? (or by checking boot messages...) found: http://blogs.sun.com/JoeBonasera/entry/detecting_hardware_virtualization_sup

Re: [indiana-discuss] how to discover if a CPU has VT-x or AMD-V cap

2009-10-15 Thread Enrico Maria Crisostomo
This is the easiest way I found: http://thegreyblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-determine-if-your-cpu-is-hvm.html Hope this helps, Enrico Sent from this locked up thing called iPhone... On Oct 15, 2009, at 16:23, Luca Morettoni wrote: As a subject, is possible to discover if a CPU has the har

[indiana-discuss] how to discover if a CPU has VT-x or AMD-V cap

2009-10-15 Thread Luca Morettoni
As a subject, is possible to discover if a CPU has the hardware virtualization features (VT-x or AMD-V) with a simple shell command? (or by checking boot messages...) -- Luca Morettoni | OpenSolaris SCA #OS0344 Web/BLOG: http://www.morettoni.net/ | http://twitter.com/morettoni jugUmbria founder

Re: [indiana-discuss] osol-1002-XXX-sparc.iso

2009-10-15 Thread Ivar Janmaat
No reason to wonder ?! Although AI from a technical point of view is a good thing to develop, the road to AI is unexplainable to Enterprise users. Every discussion I have seen about it is technical but nobody seems to have analysed what the economic impact is for Enterprise customers. Sun custom