Re: [osol-discuss] prices for new Sparc T3 series and their sold onoracle store

2010-10-28 Thread Glen Gunselman
There are a few benchmarks at the usual place for what is now called SPARC T-series http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/performance-scalability/sun-sparc-enterprise-t-servers-078532.html At this point in time there isn't a lot of call for 128 hardware threaded servers, and not very many OS's

Re: [osol-discuss] Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-06 Thread Glen Gunselman
hzmonte, I can't offer any help with reporting Solaris bugs but I will sympathize with you. I have only been working/supporting Solaris for about 3 1/2 years. I have not personally experienced the golden age of Solaris support but from searching the forms (over the last 3 years) it appears

Re: [osol-discuss] Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-06 Thread Glen Gunselman
Alan, You must be thinking about times past. In the past year to 18 months, using GOLD support contract, after support could not help me with a problem (this has happened more the once - I don't remember which time I pushed) I suggested filing a bug report. I was told that neither they nor

Re: [osol-discuss] Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-06 Thread Glen Gunselman
Ian, I tried usenet a few years back. If you ask a question that they feel is too simple - they insult you. If you ask a question that they feel requires more sys admin experience than you have - they insult your company. If you ask a question that's too complex - they insult you. It's a

Re: [osol-discuss] Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-06 Thread Glen Gunselman
but it was about using Blastwave with Solaris 9. The first reply that I received said that these discussions were not for Solaris. I did receive other replies and some help, but that was some time ago. Thanks, Glen James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/6/2008 12:04 PM Glen Gunselman writes: I can't

[osol-discuss] Re: How can I prevent [Blastwave]pkg-get from

2007-04-27 Thread Glen Gunselman
I did not file a bug report. I did try to contact the cfengine maintainer through the Blastwave interface. I did not receive a reply or acknowledgment. I did register at http://www.blastwave.org/mantis (and I see my id (GlenG) and password still work). The parts related to cfengine looked

[osol-discuss] How can I prevent [Blastwave]pkg-get from upgrading a package?

2007-04-26 Thread Glen Gunselman
I need to install cURL from Blastwave, but pkg-get gives me the dependancy ... not up to date error. I used /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -c|grep -v 'Not installed' and I know that to upgrade all will break cfengine. How can I prevent pkg-get from upgrading a package? thanks, Glen Gunselman Systems