Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 07 August 2006 11:17 pm, Hugh McIntyre wrote: > Overall I have to agree that cdrw wins on ease of use with "cdrw -i > file". Kind of surprising that it doesn't even require cdctl or cdadm to make it work. (pulling tongue out of cheek;-) -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
> > Nobody needs to do this (nor is reading the man-page actually required > more than once): The cdrecord-CLI itself does provide _enough_ > self-documentation. > > Looks like you missed a smiley there, Why?? > if you haven't then I'm sorry you > are so narrow minded I do have a problem wit

[osol-discuss] Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Unless you're working on vi no one could remember (& be sure about your memory) of any of those options. Typically, you simply open another x-term, do a help command option, e.g., "cdrecord --help", then copy and paste the intended option(s) in your CLI. (Every couple of years or so, O'Reiley

Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL (was: Re: Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!

2006-08-08 Thread Calum Benson
On 7 Aug 2006, at 13:46, Joerg Schilling wrote: As long as I (partially together with Erast) remain the only person who tries to respond to these claims, Debian will be really successful with this kind of CDDL treatement. Alvaro Lopez from our team in Ireland has certainly spent some time

Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL

2006-08-08 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Mon 08/07/06 at 17:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Monday 07 August 2006 03:47 pm, Christof Pintaske wrote: > > CDDL is an OSI approved open source license > > (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php). What other criteria are > > there to make an open source license a good open source

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Hugh McIntyre wrote: Overall I have to agree that cdrw wins on ease of use with "cdrw -i file". But the good news may be that almost the only issue with cdrecord is the need to specify dev=a,b,c. And to use -scanbus before this to find the device. I too hate to jump in to the detailed d

[osol-discuss] Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 integration status

2006-08-08 Thread Martin Schaffstall
On 7/27/06, April Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a very brief status for those who are interested... The ksh93 project team is currently working out the final details on the PSARC case for the ksh93 integration project. The expectation is that it will be submitted for an open PSARC review

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Rob McMahon
Joerg Schilling wrote: The very fact you have to read the cdrecord man page in depth is the issue. This is strange, it seems that you did not realize that it is not possible to use cdrw without reading it's man page. The CLI from cdrw seems to be even worse than the one from cdrecord.

Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL

2006-08-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Mon 08/07/06 at 17:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Monday 07 August 2006 03:47 pm, Christof Pintaske wrote: >> > CDDL is an OSI approved open source license >> > (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php). What other criteria are >> > there to make an open source license a good open

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Day at Tech Days

2006-08-08 Thread Teresa Giacomini
Joerg Schilling wrote: Teresa Giacomini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would be willing to speak in Petersburg or Prague ;-) BTW: I did already speak in February in Prague in the Sun office. Jörg Cool Joerg. I'm still collecting names. Is there something specific you would be

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is definitely not. I guess that you just did read the man page for cdrw > > many times but did not do the same for cdrecord. > > Well I did use it without ever reading the man page (and neither you are > I can prove otherwise :-)). I know that wi

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread James Carlson
Joerg Schilling writes: > > Well we will just have to disagree on that, for me cdrw(1) is very > > simple and its list of options is just right > > for me; even though I hardly use any of them. > > For me cdrw is very non-intuitive. Cdrecord on the other side works completely > intuitive and it d

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
> I'm done, I'm going to continue using cdrw(1) because it does what I > need and doesn't confuse me. I will never use cdrw because it confuses me. Cdrecord is easier to use. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni)

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread John Plocher
Can we move this discussion off to a smaller distribution? (Maybe just Joerg, Alan, Darren and James?) It has moved from a clearly opensolaris-wide topic (Nexenta!) to a rehash of CDDL-vs-GPL and now has degenerated into a usability design review and marketing bake-off between two CD/DVD writ

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Eric Enright
On 8/8/06, Hugh McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PS: on my system at least, cdrecord seems to win in the always-important "not burning coaster DVDs" stakes though, unlike cdrw, which dies at the start for some reason. So I'm grateful for this, but it would certainly be nice not to have to spe

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Joerg Schilling writes: >> > Well we will just have to disagree on that, for me cdrw(1) is very >> > simple and its list of options is just right >> > for me; even though I hardly use any of them. >> >> For me cdrw is very non-intuitive. Cdrecord on the other side works >> completely >> intuitiv

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Hugh McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, people may complain "what about the scan time on a system with > hundreds of drives". I think the same complaint may have been raised > during cdrw development, but the ease of use argument won out, as well > as "well in that case, specify dev=

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, John Plocher wrote: Can we move this discussion off to a smaller distribution? +1 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Plus: cdrecord is more than just the 'cdrecord' binary itself. Don't forget > the other tools (including 'readcd') and libs (libscg) shipping with it. > 'readcd' is very important! Do not forget mkisofs and cdda2wav. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for the "hard to memorize" options of cdrw, I use all of about 3 in the > absolute worst scenario, and I usually don't specify speed or device, it > actually knows without me telling it. > > -i = image > -p = speed Why is there a need to use the non-i

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that I even suggested that cdrw(1) be reimplemented using the > cdrecord library/binaries. > > This isn't about how good the individual programs are at putting the > bits onto or getting them off of CD/DVD media. For me this *is* ONLY a > UI is

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Can we move this discussion off to a smaller distribution? (Maybe just > Joerg, Alan, Darren and James?) It has moved from a clearly > opensolaris-wide topic (Nexenta!) to a rehash of CDDL-vs-GPL and now has > degenerated into a usability design review and marketing bake-off > between two CD/D

Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL (was: Re: Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alvaro Lopez from our team in Ireland has certainly spent some time > talking to the Debian guys about their CDDL issues, too (most > recently at Debconf in Mexico, IIRC). Do you know about what he was talking with Debian people and what results he co

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Matt Ingenthron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here in the El Segundo office, the service guys have wrappered cdrecord > with a script to avoid the scanbus and device stuff on a shared system > for writing discs. Despite that, I still use cdrw, because it works and > I'm so lazy I don't even bot

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling writes: > > > Well we will just have to disagree on that, for me cdrw(1) is very > > > simple and its list of options is just right > > > for me; even though I hardly use any of them. > > > > For me cdrw is very non-intuitive. Cdrecord o

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I want to burn a bloody DVD then I should type : > > cdrecord foo.iso This is whyt cdrecord allows you to do since a long time. If you like to know it exactly: longer than cdrw exists This is why I cannot understand why people claim that they h

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-08 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Darren J Moffat wrote: ... I'm actually starting to think that Nexenta's /usr/sun isn't that bad an idea and maybe even Solaris should have that. That would mean that I could do things like this: PATH=/usr/sun/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin That would mean that on Nexen

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-08 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Moinak Ghosh wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Wasn't there an effort between the Nexenta and Belenix teams to start a centralized, "cross-distro" project? My take was that they wanted to try and share (centralize?) certain source-level tasks/outputs, such as having common patch d

Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL

2006-08-08 Thread Stephen Harpster
Might want to check this out: http://blogs.sfbay.sun.com/roller/page/OpenSourceNews/20060808#CDDL_recommended_by_OSI Calum Benson wrote: On 7 Aug 2006, at 13:46, Joerg Schilling wrote: As long as I (partially together with Erast) remain the only person who tries to respond to these claims

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No disrespect to Jörg, but FWIW I wholeheartedly concur. (I really don't > > like the -longoptionname nomenclature, as used by find(1)). > > This is really strange, so you like the hard to memorize options f

Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL

2006-08-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Might want to check this out: > http://blogs.sfbay.sun.com/roller/page/OpenSourceNews/20060808#CDDL_recommended_by_OSI > > Calum Benson wrote: internal link ? its a big 404 out here -- Dennis Clarke ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL (was: Re: Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!

2006-08-08 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 18:03 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alvaro Lopez from our team in Ireland has certainly spent some time > > talking to the Debian guys about their CDDL issues, too (most > > recently at Debconf in Mexico, IIRC). > > Do you

Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL

2006-08-08 Thread Stephen Harpster
G. It is! I didn't realize that. Sorry.. Simon, is there a reason why this is internal-only? Dennis Clarke wrote: Might want to check this out: http://blogs.sfbay.sun.com/roller/page/OpenSourceNews/20060808#CDDL_recommended_by_OSI Calum Benson wrote: internal

[osol-discuss] How to mute internal speaker

2006-08-08 Thread Raymond
Hi, I use Ultra 10 running Solaris 10, whenever I reboot the machine, the audio output is reset to internal speaker. I can run sdtaudiocontrol in X to mute the internal speaker, but it's annoying to do it every time. Is there a command to achieve the same thing via a script , i.e. when the machi

Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL (was: Re: Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alvaro Lopez from our team in Ireland has certainly spent some time > > > talking to the Debian guys about their CDDL issues, too (most > > > recently at Debconf in Mexico, IIRC). ... > Not off-hand, although I'm sure he's probably blogged about any

[osol-discuss] Utility Syntax Guidelines - references to ARC cases

2006-08-08 Thread John Plocher
Rich Teer wrote: * See the "Utility Syntax Guidelines" in Chapter 12 of the XBD section of the SUSv3. As well as the following PSARC cases (note that the URLs will change soon - the "/testbed/" part will go away): PSARC/1991/031 - getopts/POSIX/SUS http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc

Re: [osol-discuss] How to mute internal speaker

2006-08-08 Thread Victor Latushkin
Hi Raymond, please have a look here http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/vl?entry=turn_the_bell_off_on Hope that helps, Victor Raymond wrote: Hi, I use Ultra 10 running Solaris 10, whenever I reboot the machine, the audio output is reset to internal speaker. I can run sdtaudiocontrol in X to mu

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is really strange, so you like the hard to memorize options from cdrw? > > The only cdrw options I've used are -i, -M, and -C (and -i is by far the > most often one I use). They are hard to memorize even if there are only a few of them. -C is not need

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 08 Aug 2006 at 08:47AM, John Plocher wrote: > Can we move this discussion off to a smaller distribution? (Maybe just > Joerg, Alan, Darren and James?) It has moved from a clearly > opensolaris-wide topic (Nexenta!) to a rehash of CDDL-vs-GPL and now has > degenerated into a usability de

[osol-discuss] Re: How to mute internal speaker

2006-08-08 Thread Raymond
Sorry it doesn't help. The problem is when I play audio files, the sound is coming from the internal speaker. I want to disable this, however mixerctl command does not support it, it only displays the status of the device and various fields in audio_info_t structure. Why couldn't they just add a

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
> "Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Plus: cdrecord is more than just the 'cdrecord' binary itself. Don't > forget the other tools (including 'readcd') and libs (libscg) shipping with > it. > > 'readcd' is very important! > > Do not forget mkisofs and cdda2wav. > > Joerg

[osol-discuss] Re: How to mute internal speaker

2006-08-08 Thread Raymond
OK, turns out that running '/bin/audioplay -p headphone' disables output to the internal speaker. This is something I could put into my .profile when I log in. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course not. > I just wasn't 100% sure they were invented and written by you. mkisofs and cdda2wav are not written and invented by me but that are part of cdrtools and I am currently the only official maintainer of both programs. Jörg -- EMail:[

Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL

2006-08-08 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Nils Nieuwejaar wrote On 08/08/06 21:44,: On Mon 08/07/06 at 17:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 August 2006 03:47 pm, Christof Pintaske wrote: CDDL is an OSI approved open source license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php). What other criteria are there to make an open

[osol-discuss] Project page for the PowerPC port

2006-08-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
Derek : What does it take to get the page at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/power_pc/ to also be at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/power_pc/ Just a symlink ? I can not think of a reason to duplicate info. It would be best to just have one page that lives u

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to mute internal speaker

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Gress
Raymond wrote: Sorry it doesn't help. The problem is when I play audio files, the sound is coming from the internal speaker. I want to disable this, however mixerctl command does not support it, it only displays the status of the device and various fields in audio_info_t structure. Why couldn'