Re: [osol-discuss] Single sign on equivelent for OpenSolaris

2007-08-23 Thread UNIX admin
> I am wondering whether anyone has thought about the > possibility of OpenSolaris acting as a replacement > for a Windows domain controller. Typically the > response to this would be to use Samba but as we all > know configuring samba as a PDC or BDC is an overly > convoluted process well beyond t

Re: [osol-discuss] Single sign on equivelent for OpenSolaris

2007-08-23 Thread Jason King
On 8/23/07, Ché Kristo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am posting this to [i]discuss[/i] as it covers topics across a few > communities. > > I am wondering whether anyone has thought about the possibility of > OpenSolaris acting as a replacement for a Windows domain controller. > Typically the re

[osol-discuss] Single sign on equivelent for OpenSolaris

2007-08-23 Thread Ché Kristo
I am posting this to [i]discuss[/i] as it covers topics across a few communities. I am wondering whether anyone has thought about the possibility of OpenSolaris acting as a replacement for a Windows domain controller. Typically the response to this would be to use Samba but as we all know confi

[osol-discuss] standing up to life, and to my promises

2007-08-23 Thread Martin Bochnig
Hello everyone, I'm back on this planet. I have to catch up with my Inbox (n-hundred unread Megabytes now). I'm looking forward to entering back into OpenSolaris's microcosm. And to live up to the rest of my promises that I could not continue working on for over three months. MartUX will stand u

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone seen the SXCE downloads ?

2007-08-23 Thread Jing Tian
sorry, it's stephen lau's topic i've got the wrong name Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone seen the SXCE downloads ?

2007-08-23 Thread Jing Tian
go to announce and find steven lau's "sxce nv70 is available", there will you find the links good lunk This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Transfer Large File Using Multiple TCP Connections

2007-08-23 Thread Yu Xiangning
Dennis Wecker wrote: > On 23/08/07, *Yu Xiangning* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Hi OpenSolaris and HPC folks, > > I wonder if there is any existing efforts in the OpenSolaris or HPC > community to make OpenSolaris better support applications to transfe

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Server on nv_69

2007-08-23 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Pardon? its just a matter of, when running the > console isnallation, when > on detection of an existing installation, request for > it to be upgraded > rather than a clean install. > > Matthew > Not true. I have personally installed over a couple of hundred SXCE instances based on the iden

Re: [osol-discuss] What about SIGs for OpenSolaris?

2007-08-23 Thread Darren . Reed
Brandorr wrote: >On 8/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>What is a SIG? Special Interest Group. >> >>Why should we consider SIGs for OpenSolaris? >> >> > > > >>At present the only level of abstraction that we have in >>the OpenSolaris community is that of communitie

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-23 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
> Well, lets start up the conversation again. It might be a good time to move the discussion to a more appropriate forum, perhaps desktop-discuss. -Artem ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-23 Thread Brian Cameron
Jörg: > I did make the paranoia code portable in 2002 (2 years before libcdio was > created) and I did get the permission from Monty to make my libparanoia LGPL. > > I did change the license for cdda2wav from GPL to CDDL as agreeed with Heiko > Eißfeldt. > > The easy usability of libparanoia

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matthew/Artem: > > Yes, if sound-juicer is having trouble ripping files, then this is likely > because the CDDA plugin we use (cddasrc) is not very sophisticated. We > have been using this basic cddasrc CDDA plugin since Vermillion devel build > 62. >

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >>> Is the b70 re-spin being released today? >> >> Hi Al, >> Sorry, I don't know. Another team takes care of the respins and posting >> them up to SDLC. > > I know that I filled in a survey that asked about both snv_70a and snv_70b > so therefore anytim

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-23 Thread Sara Dornsife
Shawn Walker wrote: On 23/08/07, Keith Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: wasn't conveniently located near their offices, such as, I don't know, the midwest :) I think it makes the most sense to locate it close to wherever the largest con

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-23 Thread Brian Cameron
Matthew/Artem: Yes, if sound-juicer is having trouble ripping files, then this is likely because the CDDA plugin we use (cddasrc) is not very sophisticated. We have been using this basic cddasrc CDDA plugin since Vermillion devel build 62. Previously we were using the GStreamer libcdio plugin (

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-23 Thread Sean Sprague
Shawn, > I would like to hope someday that Sun might consider having one that > wasn't conveniently located near their offices, such as, I don't know, > the midwest :) London would suit me fine ;-) Regards... Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > > Dennis Clarke wrote: Is the b70 re-spin being released today? >>> Hi Al, >>> Sorry, I don't know. Another team takes care of the respins and posting >>> them up to SDLC. >> >> I know that I filled in a survey that asked about both snv_70a and snv_70b >> so therefore anytime soon I expe

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone seen the SXCE downloads ?

2007-08-23 Thread andrewk9
Using the "download" link at the top of the page, I get directed to the build 70 downloads OK. Although this may be because somebody fixed it in the intervening period ;-) Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-dis

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-23 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 13:13 -0400, Brandorr wrote: > On 8/23/07, Sara Dornsife <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Because we are at a university, we may not have the phone lines > available. > > We are investigating. We are also looking into video taping the > sessions. We > > can then post those

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Server on nv_69

2007-08-23 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 10:11 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > > Unfortunately many authors seem to live under a major > > rock. There isn't > > much Sun can do about it. > > > > Matthew > > > > Actually Sun publishes this book and Sun's company logo prominently > displays on the book cover. Sun's

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> Is the b70 re-spin being released today? >> Hi Al, >> Sorry, I don't know. Another team takes care of the respins and posting >> them up to SDLC. > > I know that I filled in a survey that asked about both snv_70a and snv_70b > so therefore anytime soon I expect that the

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Stephen Lau
Al Hopper wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Stephen Lau wrote: > >> Dennis Clarke wrote: I've fixed the link. Unfortunately there seems to be periodic bursts of SDLC b0rkiness >>> >>> b0rkiness ? surely you mean b0rk3d . >> >> it seems to b0rk on and off. i'm not sure as to the corre

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Stephen Lau wrote: > Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> I've fixed the link. Unfortunately there seems to be periodic bursts of >>> SDLC b0rkiness >> >> b0rkiness ? surely you mean b0rk3d . > > it seems to b0rk on and off. i'm not sure as to the correct conjugation > of 'b0rk', so i w

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
>> Is the b70 re-spin being released today? > > Hi Al, > Sorry, I don't know. Another team takes care of the respins and posting > them up to SDLC. I know that I filled in a survey that asked about both snv_70a and snv_70b so therefore anytime soon I expect that the new SXDE to be released .. so

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> I've fixed the link. Unfortunately there seems to be periodic bursts of >>> SDLC b0rkiness >> >> b0rkiness ? surely you mean b0rk3d . > > it seems to b0rk on and off. i'm not sure as to the correct conjugation > of 'b0rk', so i went with 'b0rkiness' as in 'flakiness'

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Stephen Lau
Dennis Clarke wrote: >> I've fixed the link. Unfortunately there seems to be periodic bursts of >> SDLC b0rkiness > > b0rkiness ? surely you mean b0rk3d . it seems to b0rk on and off. i'm not sure as to the correct conjugation of 'b0rk', so i went with 'b0rkiness' as in 'flakiness' >> that ca

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > I've fixed the link. Unfortunately there seems to be periodic bursts of > SDLC b0rkiness b0rkiness ? surely you mean b0rk3d . > that causes our scripts that attempt to auto-update the > sxce_dvd URLs to go haywire. I've tried to make it more robust now - > hopefully it stands up better no

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-23 Thread Brandorr
On 8/23/07, Sara Dornsife <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because we are at a university, we may not have the phone lines available. > We are investigating. We are also looking into video taping the sessions. We > can then post those after the event. If anyone has any other ideas of how we > can br

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-23 Thread Keith Bierman
On Aug 23, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Sara Dornsife wrote: Because we are at a university, we may not have the phone lines available. Seems like most universties have phones. If not, cell phones often work ;> Barring that, assuming there is internet connectivity, a softIP solution should work (o

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Server on nv_69

2007-08-23 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Unfortunately many authors seem to live under a major > rock. There isn't > much Sun can do about it. > > Matthew > Actually Sun publishes this book and Sun's company logo prominently displays on the book cover. Sun's people had every right to dictate what should be included in this book.

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-23 Thread Sara Dornsife
Because we are at a university, we may not have the phone lines available. We are investigating. We are also looking into video taping the sessions. We can then post those after the event. If anyone has any other ideas of how we can broadcast. Open IRC channel? Please let me know. I live in Au

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Alan Burlison wrote: > http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2007/08/launching_the_adobe_reader_on.html > > "It's time to get the ball rolling for the much awaited blog for Adobe > Reader on Unix platforms. The purpose of this blog is to provide a > platform for developers and the u

Re: [osol-discuss] Transfer Large File Using Multiple TCP Connections

2007-08-23 Thread Dennis Wecker
On 23/08/07, Yu Xiangning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi OpenSolaris and HPC folks, > > I wonder if there is any existing efforts in the OpenSolaris or HPC > community to make OpenSolaris better support applications to transfer > large files using multiple TCP streams. that may not exactly ans

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-23 Thread Keith Bierman
On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: wasn't conveniently located near their offices, such as, I don't know, the midwest :) I think it makes the most sense to locate it close to wherever the largest contributor population exists. Maximally increasing the costs of attendance f

[osol-discuss] trying to login with Solaris LDAP client.

2007-08-23 Thread Daniel Pérez del Campo
Hi, First of all, sorry for my english. I'll try to be clear. I have an OpenLdap server running in a Linux debian 2.6.18-3-k7 with this slapd.conf: include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /usr/local/e

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-23 Thread Sara Dornsife
I am very pleased to announce the first OpenSolaris Developer Summit to be held in the Bay Area on October 13 and 14th, 2007, sponsored by Sun Microsystems. This Summit, held at University of California, Santa Cruz, is not a conference with presentations or exhibitors, but an in-person, collabo

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug ID : 6470071 - Studio compiler wrapper ksh script fails with syntax errors intermittently

2007-08-23 Thread James Carlson
Dennis Clarke writes: > > > Dennis Clarke writes: > >> is there any way to get just a wee bit more information from that? > > > > The actual bug isn't all that interesting or related to ksh. > > oooh ... I thought it was ksh ( ksh93 ) related and thus quite apropos these > days when one considers

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Stephen Lau
Gueven Bay wrote: > And from the > Download Center (http://www.sun.com/download/) > -> > Solaris Operating Systems > (http://www.sun.com/download/index.jsp?cat=Operating%20Systems&tab=3&subcat=Solaris%20Operating%20Systems) > -> > Solaris Express Developer Edition > (http://www.sun.com/software/

Re: [osol-discuss] one login at a time for each user?

2007-08-23 Thread andrewk9
The method we use is to add some "special sauce" to the users .profile file. The following code works for ksh: if test "$LOGNAME" != "special" then set -- `who | grep -v "\`who am i\`" | grep "^$LOG "` [ -n "$*" ] && abort "$1 is already logged on at $2" fi where "special" is the name of a user

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug ID : 6470071 - Studio compiler wrapper ksh script fails with syntax errors intermittently

2007-08-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke writes: >> is there any way to get just a wee bit more information from that? > > The actual bug isn't all that interesting or related to ksh. oooh ... I thought it was ksh ( ksh93 ) related and thus quite apropos these days when one considers the work Roland is doing. thanks !

[osol-discuss] Anyone seen the SXCE downloads ?

2007-08-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
A number of people on the IRC channel last night were asking where the download links have gone to and what is going on at OpenSolaris.org with respect to those download links. I don't know. After all .. I'm just a community guy. What do I know right? So I point them here : http://www.bla

[osol-discuss] Transfer Large File Using Multiple TCP Connections

2007-08-23 Thread Yu Xiangning
Hi OpenSolaris and HPC folks, I wonder if there is any existing efforts in the OpenSolaris or HPC community to make OpenSolaris better support applications to transfer large files using multiple TCP streams. Anyway, here's some thoughts I put together: Basically we may provide a user-land libr

Re: [osol-discuss] one login at a time for each user?

2007-08-23 Thread UNIX admin
> Thanks to the advanced resource management tools on > OpenSolaris this is > actually possible: > http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/limiting_users_to_on > e_login Ahhh, I've done this before! But back then, it was just playing around. That particular approach requires unorthodox thinking, I'll

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Casper . Dik
>Please calm down. Making personal attacks on execs at other companies >isn't going to help us one jot. It may also be very demotivating; please encourage. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Alan Burlison
Frank Hofmann wrote: > If that's not encouraging to you, feel free to go back sulking in your > cave ;) but personally, I take it as a great sign of things to come ! > > Good news indeed :) My sentiments entirely :-) -- Alan Burlison -- ___ opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Alan Burlison
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > I find it bloody rich about Adobe crapping on about opensource - no one > wants a damn thing opensourced of theres, we want their damn products on > Solaris x86 - its just that damn simple. Keep the code closed, I and many > others don't give a toss about the status of the

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: [ ... acroread/UNIX blog ... ] > Setting up blogs mean jack if they don't actually produce some damn > results - damn I hate it when companies think that with a blog and a > few hollow words that they can create a so-called 'community'. Less > blathering

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Alan Burlison
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > Setting up blogs mean jack if they don't actually produce some damn > results - damn I hate it when companies think that with a blog and a > few hollow words that they can create a so-called 'community'. Less > blathering more programming and compiling. Take a deep breath

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Casper . Dik
>Spewing bile on this list, or on comment sections doesn't help. >Everyone knows that the past is the past. Let's focus on the future. To me , the most important thing that can come out of this is the end of endless Adobe Acrobat Reader for Solaris/x86 threads in opensolaris-discuss :-) Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Brandorr
On 8/23/07, Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > > *shrugs* As much as I would love to see Adobe listen, they don't listen. > > A company run by, quite frankly, arrogant pricks, are not going to > > listen to the lone voice in the woods - the best one can expect is

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 23/08/07, Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is also interesting > > http://blogs.adobe.com/johnnyl/2007/08/innovate_or_integrate_3.html > > -- > Alan Burlison > -- > I find it bloody rich about Adobe crapping on about opensource - no one wants a damn thing opensourced of theres,

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 23/08/07, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > Its pathetic when companies like Adobe only look at > > quarter-to-quarter > > profits rather than long term strategy. But hey, > > thats corporate America > > - explains why the credit crunch was an inevitable > > thing that

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 23/08/07, Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > > *shrugs* As much as I would love to see Adobe listen, they don't listen. > > A company run by, quite frankly, arrogant pricks, are not going to > > listen to the lone voice in the woods - the best one can expect is

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug ID : 6470071 - Studio compiler wrapper ksh script fails with syntax errors intermittently

2007-08-23 Thread James Carlson
Dennis Clarke writes: > is there any way to get just a wee bit more information from that? The actual bug isn't all that interesting or related to ksh. Instead, `make' was calling putenv(3C) and then freeing the string. That corrupts memory, because putenv actually installs the pointer itself in

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Casper . Dik
>UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Sun and other have asked (even very nicely) but >> > Adobe has not budged. >> >> Aaahhh, what exactly did Adobe say? What was their reasoning? The= >ir answer would interest me very, very much. What did they answer? > >I do not believe this. There

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the laboratiries, there are already 4 layer Blu > > Ray disks. > > They have a capacitiy of 100 GB. As the limit for > > sinfle UDF files is > > 200 GB, we are not really far away from the problem. > > Now, if *anybody* could *fix* UDF, you would be TH

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm discounting double sided discs as allowing larger > > files; I do not > > accept that dual sided players will become available > > anytime. > > I believe that I have dual-sided drive, which I got as a replacement for my > faulty NEC DVD-RAM drive. It

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Alan Burlison
This is also interesting http://blogs.adobe.com/johnnyl/2007/08/innovate_or_integrate_3.html -- Alan Burlison -- ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Alan Burlison
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > *shrugs* As much as I would love to see Adobe listen, they don't listen. > A company run by, quite frankly, arrogant pricks, are not going to > listen to the lone voice in the woods - the best one can expect is for > companies like Sun, Red Hat and Novell to donate money,

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-23 Thread UNIX admin
> In the laboratiries, there are already 4 layer Blu > Ray disks. > They have a capacitiy of 100 GB. As the limit for > sinfle UDF files is > 200 GB, we are not really far away from the problem. Now, if *anybody* could *fix* UDF, you would be THE man! Did you consider fixing/extending UDF to remo

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-23 Thread UNIX admin
> I'm discounting double sided discs as allowing larger > files; I do not > accept that dual sided players will become available > anytime. I believe that I have dual-sided drive, which I got as a replacement for my faulty NEC DVD-RAM drive. It says "DL" on it. Does that mean it's "Dual Layer"?

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > Its pathetic when companies like Adobe only look at > quarter-to-quarter > profits rather than long term strategy. But hey, > thats corporate America > - explains why the credit crunch was an inevitable > thing that was going > to occur. "corporate America" isn't any one thing - it's not o

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that's been explained (more than once) > > earlier: it's not the > > "least surprise" behavior and will confuse both the > > inexperienced users > > and the GUI. > > I disagree vehemently with you on this point! > > It was a very much NASTY SURP

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, a question and a comment: > > question: can hald (or whatever it uses) distinguish between hybrid > filesystems (sharing some or all files and file data blocks but having > different > metadata) and distinct filesystems? Seems to me that all

Re: [osol-discuss] one login at a time for each user?

2007-08-23 Thread Darren J Moffat
UNIX admin wrote: > Not that I know of. But this goes against the very principles on which UNIX > was built, namely, an OS which can be used by different people, working on > physical and virtual terminals, all at the same time. I disagree, it goes very much with the resource management princip

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-23 Thread UNIX admin
> One could argue that on a writeable medium, double > detection should lead > to a refusal to mount. On a readonly medium, though, > there can be no harm > in allowing all ways in. > Now how to find out whether a medium doesn't allow > writes ... another > problem, but again, workaround would b

Re: [osol-discuss] one login at a time for each user?

2007-08-23 Thread Darren J Moffat
Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to limit users to login just one at a time? > > I mean user X can login from anywhere (ssh,telnet,X) but when he is > logged in any other attempt to login with the username X is prohibited > and maybe > printed out a message like "This user is alre

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-23 Thread UNIX admin
> I think that's been explained (more than once) > earlier: it's not the > "least surprise" behavior and will confuse both the > inexperienced users > and the GUI. I disagree vehemently with you on this point! It was a very much NASTY SURPRISE to find out that HAL DOES NOT mount multiple file

Re: [osol-discuss] one login at a time for each user?

2007-08-23 Thread UNIX admin
> > Hi,Is it possible to limit users to login > just one at a time?I mean user X can login > from anywhere (ssh,telnet,X) but when he is logged in > any other attempt to login with the username X is > prohibited and maybe > printed out a message like "This user is > already logged in"?Best > Regar

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Martin Bochnig wrote: [...] > Beyond a few exceptions, it seems to be Adobe's > principle to only > support one or two main environments? > So maybe one should believe them, that they do not > have anything special > against OpenSolaris_x86. > Maybe just a lack of interest in widespread platfor

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sun and other have asked (even very nicely) but > > Adobe has not budged. > > Aaahhh, what exactly did Adobe say? What was their reasoning? Their answer > would interest me very, very much. What did they answer? I do not believe this. There are othe

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread UNIX admin
> Because Adobe's promise of a *Portable*-DF is not > true any longer, since > they only support WinNT_x86 / Linux_x86 and maybe > Mac{ppc|x86} users for > circa 5 years now. All the other platforms are left > out, more or less. I wouldn't be so quick to write that. As far as I know, Adobe has r

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2007-08-23 Thread UNIX admin
> Sun and other have asked (even very nicely) but > Adobe has not budged. Aaahhh, what exactly did Adobe say? What was their reasoning? Their answer would interest me very, very much. What did they answer? This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[osol-discuss] Thread Migration in CMP

2007-08-23 Thread Abu Saad
Hi, I am pretty new to Solaris. I am doing a research project and am using a full-system simulator simulating a 8-core CMP with UltraSparc CPU's. I am working on thread migrations in CMP for efficient power management. I would like to know how to control the allocation of threads to a particu

[osol-discuss] [SVOSUG] Desktop Update - *TONIGHT* Thurs. August 23rd SCA03 7:30pm

2007-08-23 Thread Alan DuBoff
A reminder that tonight is the SVOSUG meeting. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:05:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [SVOSUG] Desktop Update - Thurs. Au

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Artem Kachitchkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Artem, did you implement your replacement code the way I did propose (by > > calling > > cdda2wav)? > > > > If you did not. cdda2wav is full of tricks that allow it to work around > > typical bugs (deviations from the CD standard) and to p

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Artem Kachitchkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Question: with the loss of paranoia support, are we going to see a > > release in the future which will provide support for error correction? > > with ripping and Soundjuicer, will it be possible to keep ripping even > > after an artifact is foun

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Irene, the first place I'd look is the libcdio replacement Brian > > Cameron > > and I coded up in March (he mentioned it in > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=37801). > > Cool - thank you for the link. > > Question: with the

[osol-discuss] one login at a time for each user?

2007-08-23 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, Is it possible to limit users to login just one at a time? I mean user X can login from anywhere (ssh,telnet,X) but when he is logged in any other attempt to login with the username X is prohibited and maybe printed out a message like "This user is already logged in"? Best Regards. _

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-23 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
> Artem, did you implement your replacement code the way I did propose (by > calling > cdda2wav)? > > If you did not. cdda2wav is full of tricks that allow it to work around > typical bugs (deviations from the CD standard) and to play or extract audio > in as many cases as possible. As we

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Lars Tunkrans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dennis , I agree with you that SNV70 is not > mounting a Vista UDFS dvd correctly > > > I did a clean Install of Snv_70 on a new disc ( a > 10.000 rpm disc which contributes > > nicely to the speed of the system btw ) > > > > The

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Artem Kachitchkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The issue is that it doesn't occur with Grip - if it doesn't occur with > > grip, which uses cdda2wav, and yet, occurs with Soundjuicer, then > > something isn't quite kosher as to how soundjuicer interacts with the cd > > drive. > > > > It occu