Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-07 Thread Dave McGuire
using. So in my case, this is a strawman. A complete > reinstall just takes a couple of hours too and I can mass reinstall if I have > to for that is what I do when I get a whole new batch of desktops. If you've figured out how to make Windows machines reliable, you'll have be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-07 Thread Dave McGuire
irusing, etc etc. Nobody that I've moved to Linux or OS X has ever needed any support of any kind past about the second day of use. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] asterisk, was Re: [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-07 Thread Dave McGuire
stuff in that? It might be; I'm not certain. I did the work several years ago...they either used it, or someone re-did it. Also did you have a share in this: http://www.thrallingpenguin.com/articles/asterisk-solaris.htm? No. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] asterisk, was Re: [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-07 Thread Dave McGuire
On 06/07/2013 04:07 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: > Thanks for sharing your story. > > Are you/were you responsible for the work at > > http://www.solarisvoip.com/ No, I had nothing at all to do with that. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New

[OpenIndiana-discuss] asterisk, was Re: [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-07 Thread Dave McGuire
hat company made things go down the wrong path, and they basically stopped communicating with me. Never paid me, either. As far as I know, the code was never integrated into the main Asterisk codebase. My next task was to tackle the device drivers for their hardware, but obvious

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-06 Thread Dave McGuire
how computers >> are") have long been tired of Windows and its crap. > > That's great Dave. Over here, the move has been to not Linux but to Unix in > the form of Mac OS X. Well at least it's UNIX, and not some Windows toy. It's a step in the right direction,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-06 Thread Dave McGuire
less tolerant of garbage. But here, even the "business" types (who don't know any better, and who thing crashing and viruses are "just how computers are") have long been tired of Windows and its crap.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-06 Thread Dave McGuire
esktops is still a pipe dream. Nah. I see it (and use it) on desktops all over the place. Every company I've worked for in the past few years has moved to, or is in the process of moving to Linux for desktops. Sorry! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-06 Thread Dave McGuire
This is the view from someone who is just outside the OI/Illumos community, but who runs Solaris (primarily 10) on relatively recent (but not current) hardware, for myself and for clients, to great GREAT benefit. I am here to say that real work DOES get done in other-than-Fortune-500 compan

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2013-06-06 Thread Dave McGuire
it doesn't really reflect reality. SOME of it, yes, but not exclusively. But we've already established that the Illumos crowd thinks the whole world should be running on PCs...therefore Illumos just isn't the answer here. -Dave -- Dave McGuire,

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2013-06-06 Thread Dave McGuire
; better. Thank you for doing this! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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2013-06-06 Thread Dave McGuire
Apostolos Syropoulos >> Xanthi, Greece >> > > ___ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE2013.05 for x86, x86_64 EA was just RELEASED

2013-06-03 Thread Dave McGuire
http://svr4.opensxce.org/i386/5.11/ISO/ > http://svr4.opensxce.org/i386/5.11/USB/ > http://svr4.opensxce.org/i386/5.11/VHDD/ This is fantastic news, thank you! I will mirror it here as well when the SPARC release is ready. Thank you thank you thank you!! -Dave -- Dave McG

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Dave McGuire
money on it to make it worth > your while; but perhaps you could. > > It's called, entrepreneurialism. [raises hand] I'd pay for it. Much less for x86 than for SPARC, but I'd definitely pay for it for SPARC. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensingto

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE on T1000?

2013-02-10 Thread Dave McGuire
en after messing with the openboot-prom > devaliases. Hey Ray. I installed it on a T2000 and moved the drive to a T1000. Well actually I've gotten as far as removing the drive from the T2000. ;) I will attempt to boot it in the T1000 later this evening. So far, OpenSXCE looks fantas

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-05 Thread Dave McGuire
rough the years > here, let me tell you! This is very much off-topic...but toning down those attitudes is, in my opinion, a very bad idea. I believe wholeheartedly in "do it right or don't do it at all", and I believe my life, and my work, are much better for it. Just my $

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE.org Status update: Repo-Upload at letter 't'

2013-01-31 Thread Dave McGuire
d to Oracle for that hardware! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Funding Martin, was Re: OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-29 Thread Dave McGuire
tinued efforts, and would encourage others to do so as well. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss