Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-16 Thread Mark Phalan
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:30 +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote: > Hi Doug, > > I have SXDE. Does that mean the build env is already set up on my box? > You definitely don't need the CBE to build vim 7. IIRC it simply built out of the box with no problems. Just download it and try the usual configur

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-16 Thread Mark Phalan
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 16:29 +0700, Doug Scott wrote: > Mark Phalan wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:30 +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote: > > > >> Hi Doug, > >> > >> I have SXDE. Does that mean the build env is already set up on my box? > >>

Re: [osol-discuss] sshfs for solaris

2007-04-19 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:42 -0700, Jan Hendrik Mangold wrote: > I am trying to get sshfs compiled for solaris, but I can't get it to work. > Has anybody had any success doing this? Does it even work since it relies on > FUSE? I would prefer to use NFS via ssh, but my server does not support NFSv4

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-23 Thread Mark Phalan
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 18:03 +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: > Manish Chakravarty schrieb: > >> Sure. CBE is a good thing. However in some situations it can be > >> overkill. Solaris nevda/express contains all of the necessary > >> dependencies already - IMO the quickest/easiest way to vim happiness is

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the proper forum to discuss alternate filesystems?

2007-04-24 Thread Mark Phalan
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 03:04 -0700, Brian Gupta wrote: > Understanding that ZFS is the world's most advanced filesystem, there are > times when other filesystem types are needed. > > In particular I am wondering if there is any work done or planned to start > supporting additional file systems. F

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the proper forum to discuss alternate filesystems?

2007-04-24 Thread Mark Phalan
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 12:34 +0200, Mark Phalan wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 03:04 -0700, Brian Gupta wrote: > > Understanding that ZFS is the world's most advanced filesystem, there are > > times when other filesystem types are needed. > > > > In particular I a

Re: [osol-discuss] FlashPlayer 9 on SXDE on Laptop...It's Been a Long Time Coming!

2007-07-12 Thread Mark Phalan
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 23:17 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > > Does about:config only list flash 9,0,47.0? > > > > Casper > > > > Did a "flash" filter on aboutLconfig nothing of pertinence came out. > Casper probably meant "about:plugins". -M ___ o

Re: [osol-discuss] Windows switcher: Wine for Solaris ( DC++ )?

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Phalan
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 01:55 -0700, Orvar Korvar wrote: > I am trying to migrate totally to Solaris Express community build 67, and I > want DC++ however, in some DC++ hubs they only allow certain DC++ clients > from the Windows environment. (For bittorrent I use the java klient Azarus > which I

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Mark Phalan
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 23:02 +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: ... > > > 2) kde (much more powerful, lightweight and usable than gnome, IMO) > > Someone has built 3.5.7 but unfortunately they seem to live under a > giant size bolder - ignoring that x86 is now a viable target. > You're probably refer

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 00:21 +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 14:08 +0200, Mark Phalan wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 23:02 +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > ... > > > > > > > 2) kde (much more powerful, lightweight and usable than gnom

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Mark Phalan
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 18:03 +0530, S h i v wrote: > On 8/8/07, Frank Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But that's far from what you want. You're not developing a kernel driver, > > a UN*X utility of a fix/enhancement to libc. You're "simply" requesting > > (some) (Open)Solaris distributions to

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 00:34 +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: ... > > The way I read it, I would still need to travel to hell and back with > the laundry list of GNU stuff I would need to install along with heaps I don't think thats really the case. Yes, there is some GNU stuff missing but most of it

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-28 Thread Mark Phalan
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 19:12 +0200, Frank Hofmann wrote: > Hi, > > sorry opensolaris-discuss, this originally bounced. Trying again. > > We're proposing a generic "fs-discuss" for OpenSolaris. > This would be great! +1 -Mark > > Thanks for opinions/remarks, > FrankH. > > > On Fri, 16 Jun 2

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining Error Return Status when using rsh remote command execution

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Phalan
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 20:44 +0800, Steven Sim wrote: > Hey Gurus; > > FORGIVE me if this is not the place to post this small scripting issue. > > I wish to run the following Korn shell command in a script > > rsh -n -l "cksum " > > if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; > > fi > > The above would not succe

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:08 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> How does Solaris load up its tasks and know when to say "stop, no more > >> please"? > >> > > >> > > I agree that Solaris will continue to take on the abuse, > > It doesn't seem to keel over as quickly as linux d

Re: [osol-discuss] Booting Solaris into trusted mode?

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Phalan
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 19:08 +0100, Josh Hurst wrote: > How can I boot (Open)Solaris into the Trusted Solaris mode? > > Josh You might find information here helpful: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/tx/ -Mark > ___ > openso

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: PRESTO - Automatic Printing Configuration

2007-01-10 Thread Mark Phalan
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 22:17 +0100, Jan Spitalnik wrote: > Hi, > > Dne pondělí 08 leden 2007 21:47 Norm Jacobs napsal(a): > > Inside of Sun, we have been looking at and discussing some of this for a > > while now and we have posted information about this in the OpenSolaris > > Printing Community

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-01-31 Thread Mark Phalan
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 16:56 -0800, Stephen Harpster wrote: > Ugh. Here's the de-HTML'ed one Sorry. > > In the last few months I've seen more and more speculation about the prospect > of dual-licensing OpenSolaris under GPLv3. In November > Jonathan very publically asked Rich if he would

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Chroot users to their home directory

2007-02-07 Thread Mark Phalan
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 18:17 -0800, Matty wrote: > I haven't heard back from anyone, and was curious if the folks at Sun could > comment (or forward the original message to someone who could) on the bugs > listed in the original message? > You might find this interesting: http://blogs.sun.com/j

Re: [osol-discuss] Enemy Territory

2007-02-14 Thread Mark Phalan
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 00:14 -0800, Tony Albers wrote: > Hi! > Spending night after night at boring hotels etc. I have to be able to run > some sort of game on my laptop. Presently i run ubuntu on it, because I play > wolfenstein enemy territory sometimes. > > Is it at all possible to run linux b

Re: [osol-discuss] What does it take to get a NIC driver into OpenSolaris as part of the core tree?

2009-09-16 Thread Mark Phalan
On 09/16/09 09:04 AM, Henry Pepper wrote: Hi Having a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300D I'm interested to know what it would take to get the Marvell youkon NIC driver into the core distribution of OpenSolaris? Looks like that was integrated a couple of days ago: Author: Barry Harding Repository:

Re: [osol-discuss] About the pkg manager on default desktop

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Phalan
On 10/11/09 06:21 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Michal Pryc writes: [...] Harry, Icon on the desktop is invoking: gksu packagemanager whoops... I missed that... thanks Which de facto is calling pfexec. So it looks like your privilages are broken. Here is what I have for my user migi: # c

Re: [osol-discuss] About the pkg manager on default desktop

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Phalan
On 10/12/09 12:21 PM, Mark Phalan wrote: On 10/11/09 06:21 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Michal Pryc writes: [...] Harry, Icon on the desktop is invoking: gksu packagemanager whoops... I missed that... thanks Which de facto is calling pfexec. So it looks like your privilages are broken

Re: [osol-discuss] About the pkg manager on default desktop

2009-10-13 Thread Mark Phalan
On 10/12/09 08:29 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: Mark Phalan wrote: I would warn strongly against doing that. "Primary Administrator" basically means root. NOT something you want to have associated with your local user. The fact that OpenSolaris assigns the "Primary Administra

Re: [osol-discuss] NTFS Fuse speed?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Phalan
On 02/ 6/10 12:39 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: I tried the ntfs-3g driver on OpenSolaris and it was dog slow, I got like 100kb/sec. Is this Fuse driver faster? If you are using it, which read/write speed do you get? Is it like 30-40MB/sec or is it 100kb/sec? http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Projec

Re: [osol-discuss] err, sorry __/__ Re: OpenGrok / documenting ON's history

2007-09-19 Thread Mark Phalan
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 22:13 +0200, Martin Bochnig wrote: > > Martin Bochnig wrote: > >> Yes, of course is there OpenGrok. > >> Maybe my formulation was a bit rude. > >> But a repository for all the archives would IMO be a nice thing, in > >> parallel to OpenGrok. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> %m > > A

Re: [osol-discuss] help a solaris newbie

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Phalan
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 10:14 -0700, Stefanos Klironomos wrote: > So, if I do something that messes the X server up, and gui tools are no > longer available, what is the quick-n'-dirty way to fix things? I'm asking > because I already did that, and the only thing I could do was a hard reset. > Kil

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Does Project Indiana have a logo ?

2007-11-02 Thread Mark Phalan
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 12:22 -0500, Sara Dornsife wrote: > We talked about a flying pig as a potential community mascot at the > Summit. No graphics have been created. > Sara > Please, not a flying pig! -Mark ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opens

Re: [osol-discuss] Which display manager

2007-11-23 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 10:19 -0800, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: > > No - gdm will be replacing dtlogin in the future, and > > it's available > > for use now if you want, just 'svcadm disable > > cde-login ; svcadm enable > > gdm' - though be ready for your desktop session to be > > killed as soon a

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Phalan
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 06:11 -0800, James Simonsen wrote: ... > So with the NTFS partitions I can read them just fine, but as of right now I > cannot write to them? > If you are feeling adventerous and don't value your data you could check out fuse -> opensolaris.org/os/project/fuse. We'd be ve

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2008-01-02 Thread Mark Phalan
On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 14:51 +0100, Mario Goebbels wrote: > > Its pretty trivial to get ntfs-3g to compile which gives you read/write > > support for ntfs. > > Since when's that? Pretty recently. > Last time I've tried it, it failed due to > unimplemented mount flags or whatever it was. When I'

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_86 on a MacBook?

2008-04-10 Thread Mark Phalan
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 22:33 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: > Has anyone had success installing snv_86 on a MacBook or MacBook Pro at > all? I just tried it, following many of the blogs which detailed > workarounds for the installation failure due to 6413235, but strangely I > didn't hit this? I co

Re: [osol-discuss] sharing encrypted volume between solaris and linux

2008-05-05 Thread Mark Phalan
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 09:32 +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: > Hi, > > I want to encrypt a filesystem on my portable usb disk. The problem is > that I need to be able to access data on it from Solaris as well as > Linux. > On Solaris i can use encrypted ZFS, and on Linux i can use > dm-crypt+zfs

Re: [osol-discuss] Nevada on a Macbook pro/air?

2008-09-02 Thread Mark Phalan
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 07:41 -0700, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hi all, > > just wanted to ask, what is the current state of support? > I don't use, nor have a Mac myself, but I have a friend, who's considering to > try the latest Solaris bits. He is a developer, and used Solaris sometime in > the past.

Re: [osol-discuss] Nevada on a Macbook pro/air?

2008-09-04 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 02:10 -0700, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hi all, > > thank you all for your comments! > > So to sum things up: > if I understand correctly, basically everything should work, just not > everything out-of-the box - but that shouldn't be a problem. > ...so I dare to recommend him to

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

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 22:55 -0700, Ché Kristo wrote: > I am curious as to why these packages aren't in the opensolaris IPS > repositories, is it due to patent concerns or just lack of interest on > the part of Sun? Sun is funding the FUSE effort now (previously it wasn't). FUSE will have its ince

Re: [osol-discuss] mutex_owner_running not checking for null pointer

2009-04-24 Thread Mark Phalan
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 05:37 -0700, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: > Hi, > > I was just playing around with fuse a little bit on an opensolaris box > running in a virtual box. Then I had a situation where I had an assertion > fault in my libfuse linked executable in the middle of running a rename. T

Re: [osol-discuss] OS 2009.06 Marvel Yukon NIC issue

2009-07-03 Thread Mark Phalan
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 03:09 -0700, Anon Y Mous wrote: > Arpunk, if you have a choice, I recommend not using the Myk driver. > Use the YukonX driver instead. If you read all the way through this > blog: > > > http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html > > it expla