Re: [osol-discuss] zpool upgrade, zfs upgrade, risks?

2011-03-17 Thread David Brodbeck
. For that reason I tend to hang back on zpool upgrades until I'm sure the new system is stable. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Measuring average system load with millisecond resolution

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
, further increasing the parallelism of your build, although I've never used it this way myself. As a side note, distcc may also be interesting if this is something you're after. I don't know if it runs on Solaris, though, and I think it's pretty GCC-specific. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris security

2011-02-04 Thread David Brodbeck
the patches as they come out the way we do with the other OS's. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] something about solaris 11 express license(OTN)

2010-11-22 Thread David Brodbeck
nothing I've heard here has suggested that there's a discount for educational institutions. I wouldn't be buying more than a couple licenses, so I doubt they'd consider it worth their while to cut a deal with me. As it is, I'm looking at moving to one of the forked distributions. -- David

Re: [osol-discuss] something about solaris 11 express license(OTN)

2010-11-22 Thread David Brodbeck
with companies with deliberately obfuscated pricing structures, and Oracle seems to be in that category. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [b 133] Catching messages on reboot from failure

2010-10-27 Thread David Brodbeck
. Screen also lets you detach from a session and reattach to it later from another terminal, which can be very useful sometimes. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] NetApp and Oracle settle patent dispute over ZFS

2010-09-13 Thread David Brodbeck
, though. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2010-09-10 Thread David Brodbeck
trademarked letters of the alphabet (i and z, respectively); or at any rate, tried to. I don't know about that, but IBM once successfully defended a trademark on /2, as in PS/2. A company was selling a PS/2-protocol mouse called the Mouse/2. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread David Brodbeck
manager. It's a bit like Solaris's switch to IPS, except that the underlying package format stayed the same and only the management tool changed. Frankly, up2date was a bit of a pain and I wasn't sad to see it go. yum is a lot more flexible. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread David Brodbeck
else's software. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-18 Thread David Brodbeck
experience on a typical Apple machine. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!

2010-08-16 Thread David Brodbeck
, because they don't have the expertise. So someone would have to get sued and fight a lengthy legal battle to prove the patent was invalid. At least, that's my understanding. IANAL. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread David Brodbeck
multiple GPU cards installed, to provide lots of computational speed. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Paul Gress wrote: On 08/ 4/10 02:26 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Paul Gress wrote: Larry sees the profitable market as servers and databases. HPC, won't help databases. HPC (high performance computers) basically are derived from

Re: [osol-discuss] So it is true about the Media Pack

2010-08-02 Thread David Brodbeck
to a discount. If you buy your own copy at retail, you pay a lot more, because Microsoft doesn't have a business relationship with you. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] root roles security holes

2010-08-02 Thread David Brodbeck
through if you use network authentication, is all. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] root roles security holes

2010-07-30 Thread David Brodbeck
at the console they can already own your machine at will just by booting a LiveCD and mounting your filesystems. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] root roles security holes

2010-07-30 Thread David Brodbeck
LDAP -- as in several minutes of waiting to run a single command. I suspect it tries to look up userIDs via LDAP first and has a long timeout. Best to su to root in that situation. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

Re: [osol-discuss] root roles security holes

2010-07-30 Thread David Brodbeck
. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] root roles security holes

2010-07-30 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 30, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Will Fiveash wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 03:49:57PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jul 30, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Scott Rotondo wrote: Regarding the expansion of the attack surface, remember that assuming the root role requires logging in to a user account

Re: [osol-discuss] warning about mail on this list

2010-07-13 Thread David Brodbeck
) and interacting with a web interface (also often slow.) These aren't flaws with Jive specifically, but common to all web forum software. It just doesn't scale well from a user perspective. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris/Opensolaris, for a Server, or Desktop?

2010-07-07 Thread David Brodbeck
windows go up in flames or break into little tiny cubes when you close them? That stuff sold Vista but I'm not convinced of its value on a *nix desktop, other than the wow factor when doing demos. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

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

2010-07-06 Thread David Brodbeck
with OpenSolaris. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2010-07-06 Thread David Brodbeck
. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2010-07-01 Thread David Brodbeck
; last time I looked it wasn't production-ready yet, but that was over a year ago, now. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2010-06-30 Thread David Brodbeck
it. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2010-06-28 Thread David Brodbeck
easy to package up a virtual machine and its associated disk file in a ZIP archive and pass it around, that way. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] thanks to all who helped choochoo with OSOL message to Oracle/ Sun

2010-06-23 Thread David Brodbeck
that the chipset has changed and it's no longer supported. This has happened to me with SATA controllers. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] thanks to all who helped choochoo with OSOL message to Oracle/ Sun

2010-06-23 Thread David Brodbeck
make buying decisions believe it, and that's what counts.) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Software Product Map- opensolaris not included

2010-06-21 Thread David Brodbeck
distribution. Debian is the server-class version of Ubuntu, IMHO -- it has the slow release cycle people want when they're running a server. Ubuntu is to Debian what Fedora is to RHEL; a distribution with a more rapid development/release cycle for people who want the latest stuff. -- David

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-06-16 Thread David Brodbeck
Considering there was just an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw announced in 3.0.x, I hope they'll at least backport a security fix if they're sticking with 3.0.x... -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
to the domain. We have exactly this setup. We have to use the workaround of using Samba instead of the kernel CIFS server to do our CIFS shares. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread David Brodbeck
math wrong. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org