On 25 March 2011 13:32, Largo splat...@proinbox.com wrote:
Gabriel de la Cruz wrote:
You should have as much fear as if you are using linux.
Someone who is using a commercial Linux distro like RedHat is
protected by the company that sells it, ie RedHat in this example.
The vast majority of
On 20 March 2011 07:13, Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote:
I agree it's not a major issue given the massive problem posed by the
browsers plugins. I was trying to point out that you really can't protect
the user from their own ignorance. If someone lacks the wits to log out
On 15 March 2011 14:03, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Apostolos Syropoulos asyropou...@yahoo.com writes:
The least I would expect from people to do is a basic google search
before posting.
Is this guy serious or just one of those guys that always says
something like this.
Depends.
On 15 March 2011 15:41, Gabriel de la Cruz gabriel.delac...@gmail.com wrote:
Sea turtles, newly hatched on a beach, will automatically move toward
the ocean. A joey climbs into its mother's pouch upon being born.
Honeybees communicate by dance the direction of a food source without
formal
On 15 March 2011 15:52, David nonot...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Totally new to Solaris Thought I'd try Open Indiana live DVD inside a VM.
Question: How do I configure the package manger/updater to use an http proxy?
The package manager may be something of a moving target -- I don't
On Thursday, 27 January, 2011 16:45, Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca said:
I've just completed writing a spec file to build an IPS package for
the ISC DHCP server. I haven't made any changes to the source for
this product, and don't want to. That should all be done upstream.
The man pages
On Wednesday, 26 January, 2011 13:31, ann kok oiyan...@yahoo.ca said:
Hi
I am trying crontab cron1.txt and have error as
root@opensolaris:~/ann# crontab cron1.txt
0 0 * * 7 /root/ann/deletelog.sh /dev/null 21
crontab: error on previous line; number out of bounds.
crontab: errors
On Wednesday, 26 January, 2011 13:31, ann kok oiyan...@yahoo.ca said:
Hi
I am trying crontab cron1.txt and have error as
root@opensolaris:~/ann# crontab cron1.txt
0 0 * * 7 /root/ann/deletelog.sh /dev/null 21
crontab: error on previous line; number out of bounds.
crontab: errors
On Tuesday, 25 January, 2011 13:52, Alasdair Lumsden alasdai...@gmail.com
said:
You are right though about needing more software in our repos, and this is
something we do intend to do via the OIAC project, please see:
http://wiki.openindiana.org/display/~guido/OI+Extra+Consolidation
If
Hello folks,
Neat bit of trivia -- in VirtualBox 4.0's new VM wizard, if you give
OpenIndiana as part of the VM name it automatically selects Solaris |
Solaris modern (S10U8+) as the OS type and subtype. It's nice to get a nod
from Oracle. :)
Cheers,
kjw
On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com said:
A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard
choice.
I've been running osol on this hardware:
cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+
motherboard: AOpen AK86-L (5 PCI, 1 AGP,
On Saturday, 18 December, 2010 17:04, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com said:
What is the MANPATH to the solaris cmds that there are also gnu
versions of.
/bin/ls for example
If I call man /bin/ls
I get warnings about opening a binary file, and when the man page
opens there is lots of
Gah, ignore me -- I didn't see Calum's (much better) response.
Cheers,
kjw
On Saturday, 18 December, 2010 18:06, Kevin J. Woolley k...@javabunny.net
said:
On Saturday, 18 December, 2010 17:04, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com
said:
What is the MANPATH to the solaris cmds
On Thursday, 2 December, 2010 19:20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com said:
On a new install of b147 when the gui is up I attempt to access the
timeslider tool from the System menu.
I'm asked for root passwd
Ok done.
Then the watch shows as if something is taking time start.
On Thursday, 2 December, 2010 19:31, Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org
said:
Both gcc-3.3 as well as gcc-4.x are available. I use these on OI
(actually illumos) for the working on the next Belenix releases. Apart
from a specific linking problem for one of the shared libraries, GCC
works
On Tuesday, 16 November, 2010 23:50, Nikola M minik...@gmail.com said:
Gabriel de la Cruz wrote:
Ummm S11 can upgrade from Opensolaris... maybe OpenIndiana could upgrade
As it could be read, it seems unsecured to install SolarisExpress at all,
since it kills ALL other boot environments for
On Friday, 5 November, 2010 20:46, Allan E. Registos
allan.regis...@smpc.steniel.com.ph said:
The reason is peripheral support. For packages, they have backport repos
if you want to install the latest apps w/o breaking the core. If you compile
packages from obscure sources, of course there is
On Friday, 22 October, 2010 16:06, Alasdair Lumsden alasdai...@gmail.com
said:
If people are going to make the switch from their comfort zone on Linux, we
need
to give them something equal or better. Packaging so far seems to be the most
common complaint, so we should do all we can to
On Friday, 22 October, 2010 19:37, Kevin J. Woolley k...@javabunny.net said:
Fedora 13 (current) and 14 (due in a couple of weeks) are good additions to
the
list. I'll get started, but would love some help. I'll start with CentOS
5.5 and
the Fedoras.
Things like Perl modules, PHP
Hello folks,
I've done CentOS 5.5, save for:
- most libraries (their versions are dependent on the versions of the installed
apps in many cases)
- language modules, etc.
- variants (no-x11, etc.)
- things that I recognise to be tied to Linux (and would never be built/useful
on OI)
I did the
Hello folks,
From IRC traffic I understand (perhaps wrongly) that the most up-to-date
manual pages and documentation aren't available to us due to licensing issues.
If that's the case I'd like to start putting some effort into bringing things
up to date. I've got a few questions on how best
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