Re: [osol-discuss] eSATA works fine?

2011-03-07 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode &q

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express is out

2011-02-06 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
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Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express is out

2011-02-06 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
list >> opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > > ___ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Sterling, Virginia USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express is out

2011-02-05 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
7;s freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Sterling, Virginia USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] gcc:not found

2010-12-19 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Pic

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-09 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
e as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro, Tennessee USA _

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix wiki spammed

2010-11-26 Thread Alex Sims
Sorry if I confused a few folks. I was looking up about eee on opensolaris and moved the spam out the way, then got rid of at least the front door pages spam. Alex -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick question about the future

2010-10-30 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesbor

Re: [osol-discuss] // napp-it WebUI + NAS-appliance Online-Installer with OpenIndiana support

2010-10-13 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
rst freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead"

Re: [osol-discuss] virtual windows on a hot Osol machine

2010-10-12 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
" ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re

Re: [osol-discuss] // napp-it WebUI + NAS-appliance Online-Installer with OpenIndiana support

2010-10-12 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
27; With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first tim

[osol-discuss] FreeNX on OpenSolaris - any tips on compiling?

2010-09-24 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
dden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10,Oracle Solaris Express new license

2010-09-22 Thread Alex Chris
With no moving parts and no local operating system to manage, Sun Ray Clients provide a cost-effective, highly functional thin client alternative to desktop and laptop computers and reduce many of the problems associated with traditional desktop deployments. http://www.kintek.com.au/";>Web Desi

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenIndiana - a new OpenSolaris Distribution!

2010-09-09 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
I'll be looking forward to trying it out. Wish I could make it to the unveiling... :) -Alex Smith, Server+, Network+ On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 17:53, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > On Tuesday 14th September, we will be unveiling OpenIndiana – an > exciting new distribution of

Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble formating usb external hard drive.

2010-08-03 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
on Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] OT: Oracle VDI questions

2010-07-17 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
e, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The 5 stages of Opensolaris withdrawal

2010-07-17 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
ed by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye OpenSolaris

2010-07-15 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Less pathetic posing, please. You said you were leaving "for good". You don't need to ask site administrators to remove you from the mailing list: you can do that yourself. Can't you even figure that much out? It's sad to see this common, transparent dodge and gesture of protest employed on thi

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye OpenSolaris

2010-07-15 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
gpatrick wrote: > thus my decision to leave for good. It's nice to read about a positive development in this forum for a change. If other Oracle shills/apologists (a.k.a. trolls) follow your example, the signal to noise ratio of this forum will soon be back to a tolerable level. There may yet

Re: [osol-discuss] More negative press: Oracle maintains silence on OpenSolaris' future

2010-07-14 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Well, whether or not you want press, good or bad, Phoronix has picked this up: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQxMA -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] More negative press: Oracle maintains silence on OpenSolaris' future

2010-07-14 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
kgunders wrote: > Corporations want to enjoy the benefit of being a 'legal person' but don't > want to pay the requisite dues. This is completely correct. Unfortunately, given that American society tolerates corporations unilaterally renouncing their obligations to pay their employees their pe

Re: [osol-discuss] More negative press: Oracle maintains silence on OpenSolaris' future

2010-07-14 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
What is the benefit of OpenSolaris for Oracle? The same as the benefit of Fedora for Red Hat: as far as I know, that was always the idea. However, because of its commercial success, Oracle has evidently attained a level of arrogance so high that it is incapable of understanding business models t

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
dclarke wrote: >I have no love for that python disaster called IPS. I think that conceptually, IPS is very good. Of course, it's silly to implement system software in an interpreted language like Python. In time, if OpenSolaris survives, hopefully someone will rewrite pkg in a more appropriate

Re: [osol-discuss] More negative press: Oracle maintains silence on OpenSolaris' future

2010-07-14 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Negative press is good. Maybe if Oracle gets enough negative press, it will start behaving responsibly and with a modicum of civility, instead of like an abusive, autistic, sociopathic spouse. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Sims
I've stopped holding my breath. The question of when the next major release of OpenSolaris would come out was asked at an Sun-Oracle Briefing in Adelaide today. The answer from Angus MacDonald, Chief Technology Officer, ANZ Systems was "Quarter 4". However he didn't say which year :-) -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle has Linux video codecs, so codecs for OSOL?

2010-06-30 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Why are you responding to OP, when you obviously want to respond to me? (Now you're going to think I'm belittling you...) OP, whom I responded to in the message that has raised your ire, has 870 posts on this site. Thus, he hardly qualifies as an OpenSolaris newbie, so i didn't find it necessar

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle has Linux video codecs, so codecs for OSOL?

2010-06-30 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
It plays fine, although in full screen mode, MPlayer didn't exit and I had to kill it using pfexec. That's never happened to me before. I built MPlayer myself, about a year ago. To be honest, with snv_134, I've had trouble getting some applications to build that built under earlier releases of

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle has Linux video codecs, so codecs for OSOL?

2010-06-30 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Ogg video? I don't think I've ever run across that: why would someone use the Ogg container instead of Matroska for video? Mplayer plays videos with Vorbis audio inside mkv files fine for me. If you can direct me to a sample of Ogg video, I can try playing it on my system to tell you how well i

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle has Linux video codecs, so codecs for OSOL?

2010-06-30 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
It is simply TRUE that "If you use OpenSolaris, you should know how to build applications from source." Building applications from source is part of Unix culture. Notice I didn't say one MUST know how to do this. And accordingly, I provided information about where to obtain already built binari

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle has Linux video codecs, so codecs for OSOL?

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Thanks for correcting me! That's what I had in mind. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle has Linux video codecs, so codecs for OSOL?

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Why are you worried about video codecs? If you use OpenSolaris, you should know how to build applications from source. The last time I tried, MPlayer, the best video player IMO, which comes with all the video codecs you might need, built under OpenSolaris. (There used to be an IPS repository wh

Re: [osol-discuss] You're invited : Oracle Solaris Day, June 28th,

2010-06-24 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinvestment_from_Israel "Disinvestment from Israel is a campaign conducted by religious and political entities which aims to use disinvestment to pressure the government of Israel to put "an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories captured during

Re: [osol-discuss] Any idea of why snv 134 won't accept 'set brand=native' in zonezfg command?

2010-05-28 Thread Alex Bisoyannis
Native brands work only on normal Solaris, not OpenSolaris. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Henry Pepper wrote: > Hi > > I'm running snv 134 on x86. > I've run > -- > zonecfg -z test > create > set zonepath=/zones/test > set brand=native > verify > -- > > I get: > -- > test: unknown brand. > >

Re: [osol-discuss] articles about opensolaris demise becoming annoying

2010-04-20 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
It's called Schadenfreude, a not uncommon human emotion, and sensationalism. Headlines about "demise" are going to get more hits than articles about the delay of a release due to showstopper bugs. I think things will calm down once 2010.1H gets released. It will be interesting to see how much a

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-16 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> The bad attitude of the official discussions here causes heise to snear. > Sorry, it is in german: I read German. The article is largely about Oracle's lack of openness. Nothing in the article leads me to believe that people expressing on this forum their unease resulting from Oracle's failure

[osol-discuss] pkg.sun.com

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Bisoyannis
Hi all, Is pkg.sun.com down? I am trying to add the extra repo, but I cannot reach th elogin page for some hours now. Thanks. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Gosling resigns from Oracle

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
This was predicted a year ago here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/21/oracle_sun_open_source/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> CERN now uses (not at all yet, but going there) ZFS just for the obvious reasons! They produce massive data, and need that data to be correct Just out of curiosity, do you know under what OS CERN uses ZFS? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-discuss] onnv 135 MIA? Skipped or delayed? (knock, knock) Is this Mic turned on?...

2010-04-02 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> We were promised de-dupe would be available a couple months after we first purchased the units in December of 2008. I'm surprised that Sun sales reps were pushing OpenSolaris as enterprise-ready, given the analogy often made, which I accept, between RHEL : Fedora and Solaris 10 : OpenSolaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] Why are prices for Solaris 10 OS support not on Oracles Web pages? (Quit asking these questions here)

2010-04-01 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
I'm very sorry, I intended but forgot to apologize in advance to technical employees of Sun/Oracle. This post is certainly not directed to you. But, to be fair, this is not a technical list. "Compilers", for example, is a technical list. This, in contrast, is "OpenSolaris General Discussion. All

[osol-discuss] Why are prices for Solaris 10 OS support not on Oracles Web pages?

2010-04-01 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Before anyone says that the place to discuss this is the Oracle forums, with some difficulty, I found [url=http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=844&start=0]the appropriate forum[/url]. But it seems to be much less active than the OpenSolaris forums. There is [url=http://forums.sun.com/threa

Re: [osol-discuss] Codeina popup

2010-04-01 Thread alex T
raised this issue to attention. Thanks to whom can post a solution. Regards Alex ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] An idea for spreading the word

2010-03-30 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
And Linux-Branded Zones in particular. If you want to demonstrate Linux running in a Solaris Zone to a bunch of Linux users, you might find this of interest: [url=http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_in_a_branded_zone]Installing Arch Linux in a branded zone[/url]. >From

Re: [osol-discuss] An idea for spreading the word

2010-03-30 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
If you are a BSD fan, why are you lurking here, instead of spending time on BSD forums, where you might stand a chance of making a useful contribution? It's well known that there are BSD zealots out there who feel threatened by OpenSolaris and so make a habit of belittling it, so you are not pro

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-30 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> You "only" will no longer be allowed to used it. When or if-at-all Oracle might think about sueing you, is totally unclear... As I remarked earlier in this thread, judging by the Solaris 10 download pages, I understand Oracle's policy to be that the 90 day limit does not apply if you buy the

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> These forums aren't censored for content, just for fowl language, we try to > keep it civil here. I agree with Dennis Clarks warning. Yes, they are censored for foul language. This is how the post that is provoking the outrage appears if you view it in the Forums: > let's not dis Open/Solari

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> I will make an effort to have this sort of language and tone blocked and your email removed permanently. > This is unacceptable. > speaking as a businessman I certianly [sic] do. > Quite franky [sic], on these public mail lists, you will use correct english > [sic] or at least acceptable lang

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Good for you. Now, as an exercise, try to install FreeBSD Root on ZFS: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot I hear it doesn't work. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Is rxvt terminal type supported?

2010-03-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
I haven't tried rxvt under Solaris, but Sakura works fine. http://www.pleyades.net/david/sakura.php Building it requires the cmake package. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> There were some critical problems with 134, such as not being able to boot if > one disk in a mirrored boot disk dies. That's not good... I didn't know that. I have a mirrored boot disk. I guess I've been living under a false sense of security... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-26 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Yes, there's nothing necessarily wrong with a unified support policy in itself. But Oracle has also adopted the policy of not allowing users the option of paying a (significantly lower) fee to get updates without getting support. This seem to be bad business, not to mention open hostility to use

Re: [osol-discuss] Read/Write NTFS Partitions

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
t forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-23 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
And the forum's are now apparently now programmed to censor comments, although they don't even have basic functionality like displaying boldface. "I can" and "bugger" got turned into asterisks. Brilliant. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-23 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Hi Ken, Here's a post by your Doppelgänger: http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunSolve/How+Entitlement+Works?focusedCommentId=199106721#comment-199106721 > I can't seem to purchase a support contract. The only page that even lists > the ability to purchase it is broken (see dpfloyd's comment), and I

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-23 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> Suggest you read a little more thoroughly: > "In order to use the Solaris operating system for perpetual commercial use, each system running Solaris must be expressly licensed to do so. An Entitlement Document comprises such license and is delivered to you either with a new Sun system or from Su

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-23 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> 2) Solaris 10 license are changed such that you can no longer use for more than 90 days evaluation w/o "Entitlement". Again, w/o any advance notice. > 3) New Entitlements are now only available with purchase of SPARC hardware. I had a look at the licensing information that there is a link to on

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get GUI from servers without video card

2010-03-22 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
e Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot boot after power failure...

2010-03-19 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Thanks for that explanation of why there is no failsafe boot option for OpenSolaris. I had wondered about that, since I'd seen it in Solaris Nevada/Express. > Ok, except that the CD boot is much slower. Why is that a problem? Why should one worry about the boot time for a rescue procedure? Mos

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris article freely available at Tuxinfo

2010-03-19 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Cool! Unfortunately, there does not seem to be an English version. I can read French, but have never studied Spanish, much as I like the language... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@ope

Re: [osol-discuss] Why im not staying with Opensolaris

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
May you live long and prosper in Linuxland. You mention "the horrible audio in linux". Linux actually has two different audio systems, Open Sound System and ALSA, which are quite different. So one can't speak of "audio in linux" in general. i hear the system beep in Windows is very soothing. Yo

Re: [osol-discuss] What mean "rge" and "urtw" ?

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
ere uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] pkgadd failure - cannot be installed on this system/zone?

2010-02-12 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
h the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged.&quo

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org vs Opensolaris.com

2010-02-08 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> "ordinary" users of any thing called Foo tend to first go to "foo.com" Ha! I guess I'm not ordinary: given a choice between foo.com and foo.org, I'll always take the latter. One might think that would make me a Linux enthusiast, but I think there's something to be said for a formal organizatio

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun has set

2010-02-06 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
And what if they bought Sun because they liked Solaris and wanted to see it shine brighter? Sorry for the pun... :) On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 15:39, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: > What makes you judge so quickly that Oracle is killing off Sun? They > may keep the name, as far as we know... &g

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun has set

2010-02-06 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, S

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Well, it's a good thing that for marketing purposes, Sun starting calling SunOS "Solaris", starting with SunOS 5. If they hadn't done that, we'd have to to call Solaris "OracleOS" now! I haven't called Solaris "Sun Solaris", not even once. That even made less sense after OpenSolaris was launche

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to upgrade from b130 to b131?

2010-01-25 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
irst freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star

Re: [osol-discuss] Make Opensolaris boot failsafe

2010-01-18 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
ean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] automated installer

2010-01-11 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
ght forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoti

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is using Package Manager such a pain in the A$$?

2009-11-24 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Unlike some, I find IPS to be usable, but that doesn't change the fact that it was lunacy to implement a packaging system in an interpreted language. [url=http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell]Haskell[/url] would have been a much better choice. The [url=http://xmonad.org/]Xmonad window mana

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix for Dummies [Solved]

2009-11-18 Thread Alex
Thanks for your quick answers. Now I have understand using man. Thx Alex -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Unix for Dummies

2009-11-17 Thread Alex
Hello all, I couldn't find a answer. Who can help me What means the content in the brace at the man-pages? Where can I find the description? e.g. zpool(1M) --> 1M basename(1) --> 1 basename(1B) --> 1B file(1) --> 1 file(1B) --> 1B Thx Alex -- This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] sumary of good and bad from osol for me

2009-11-13 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
[url=http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html]The state of sound in Linux[/url] [url=http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=5]OSS is dead. Long live OSS![/url] -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opens

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make syslogger write to a fifo?

2009-10-30 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
#x27; Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone have a build of mpd/ffmpeg going?

2009-10-25 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Your post prompted me to try out mpd. It's a tremendous improvement over Thunderbird. The OpenSolaris developers should make it and gmpc the default music applications for osol: the client-server model makes mpd very Unixy. Anyway, libmad and mpd built without problems on my box running snv_125.

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone have a build of mpd/ffmpeg going?

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
ffmpeg built for me last July with configure --cc=gcc-4.3.2 --extra-cflags="-Wa,--divide" > A general "easily install GNU apps" guide would be awesome if one is out > there. My experience is that GNU apps build much more easily now under OpenSolaris than they did when I started out with it a y

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg search

2009-10-22 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
OK thanks, guess I'm too used to yum and pkg-get... :) Cheers. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:54, Shawn Walker wrote: > Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: >> >> While we're talking about pkg, I've had an issue of having to manually >> specify the full name of a packa

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg search

2009-10-22 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
'*' can be used. > > The man page for pkg explains the search syntax and provides a few examples. > > See: > > $ man pkg > > Cheers, > -- > Shawn Walker > ___ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] sshd and mech_spnego.so.1 [b124]

2009-10-15 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ssh root logins have quit working

2009-10-14 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG epi

Re: [osol-discuss] Offline installation

2009-10-05 Thread Alex Alex
Hi and thx for the reply, Do you mean there are no accessible packed binaries on the opensolaris website but only manifests for an online update or installation ? Anyway, i successfully installed several packages i needed such as gcc, but i can't find dev headers, to build a simple hello world wi

Re: [osol-discuss] Broadcom support?

2009-10-03 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
rodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Not a Sudoer

2009-09-26 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
ought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Sat

Re: [osol-discuss] Enabling Remote GUI Login via XDMCP

2009-09-24 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
th the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all dama

Re: [osol-discuss] HCL Updates

2009-09-20 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Dr

Re: [osol-discuss] Running 64 bit version of the OpenSolaris

2009-09-19 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Use of opensolaris

2009-09-10 Thread alex T
Martin Bochnig ha scritto: And it needs GUI tools to administer Enterprise features. ? Regards Alex ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Dual boot Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris on Sparc ?

2009-09-06 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
en, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhea

Re: [osol-discuss] ntpd can't connect to peers

2009-08-29 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
For some reason, some text got lost from the end of my post. It should have been: On the Linux box, transmits are followed by receives: transmit: at 855 192.168.1.2->174.133.44.162 mode 3 receive: at 855 192.168.1.2<-174.133.44.162 mode 4 code 1 auth 0 Whereas on the osol box, they are not: the

[osol-discuss] ntpd can't connect to peers

2009-08-29 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
I've been trying to get ntp to work, but ntpd can't connect to peers. The only way I can set my system time with ntp is by using ntpdate -u, even when ipfilter is disabled. Here is my ntp.conf file: driftfile /var/ntp/ntp.drift server ac-ntp1.net.cmu.edu server 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org ibu

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris based multiple boot environment

2009-08-27 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> What do I have to configure > to enable a multiple boot environment with opensolaris? What you did should work. OpenSolaris's GRUB reads menu.list in /rpool/boot/grub. Configuring a multiple boot environment with osol is easy, especially if you boot off different disks. Can you boot into your

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris 0906 on an Ultra 10

2009-08-14 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
; ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’

[osol-discuss] Question re: 2010.02 b118 ISO

2009-08-07 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox 3.5 for OpenSolaris, where can i get them?

2009-07-29 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
den on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill Unbreakable Linux?

2009-07-24 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> You'll see a comment on July 16th where the author of the article, Chris > Joesephes says: @system5: OK, so the author calls it a parody. I read that comment, but I didn't notice that it was by the author himself. Still, I wouldn't call it a parody. A parody typically exaggerates something,

Re: [osol-discuss] Emergency NAS Using OpenSolaris (and ZFS ZRAID)

2009-07-24 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
s were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] svc:/system/cryptosvc:default

2009-07-22 Thread alex
i use opensoalris #svcs #mantenance Jul_21 svc:/system/cryptosvc:default #svcs -xv svc:/system/cryptosvc:default cat the log find "[ Jul 20 07:54:56 Enabled. ] [ Jul 20 07:54:57 Executing start method ("/sbin/cryptoadm start"). ] cryptoadm: failed to open /dev/cryptoadm: No such file o

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill Unbreakable Linux?

2009-07-22 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
I don't think that's a parody article. As far as I can tell, the article is straight, and it makes sense to me. Since Oracle hasn't had much success grabbing market share from Red Hat, why should it put much effort into Unbreakable Linux? That's especially the case now that it owns Solaris: othe

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox 3.5 for OpenSolaris, where can i get them?

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
Just did a pkgadd -d on the package, and ran /opt/sfw/bin/firefox directly. I changed my launchers in GNOME to launch the new Firefox. The old Firefox still exists on my machine. I didn't do anything special. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Alex Smith (K

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox 3.5 for OpenSolaris, where can i get them?

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
ered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee USA ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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