Re: [osol-discuss] dtcalc grabs mouse and won't let go

2010-09-29 Thread Rich Burridge
On 09/29/10 09:07, Mike DeMarco wrote: And the internal calculating engine in gnome-calculator is the same one as that in dtcalc. Mike, I too would be interested in why you don't consider it comparable. Comfort mostly. I have used dtcalc since the mid 90s and it fits like a old glove. I am us

Re: [osol-discuss] dtcalc grabs mouse and won't let go

2010-09-29 Thread Rich Burridge
On 09/29/10 07:33, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Mike DeMarco wrote: ... I have not been able to find a comparable scientific calculator to use. gnome-calculator does not meet your needs? That and xcalc are the two I know of available in opensolaris. And the internal calculating engine in gnome-c

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-09 Thread Rich Burridge
O.k. :) Guys, I can't understand indeed why the people waiting Indiana Release 2010.x just haven't built any release they like from Mercurial repository? AFAIK OpenSolaris building process is straightforward (sure, if you CAREFULLY follow the building instructions), moreover, BFU process has

Re: [osol-discuss] Can anyone tell me what the Container Packages are now called?

2010-06-04 Thread Rich Burridge
On 06/04/2010 04:54 AM, Knut Anders Hatlen wrote: On 06/ 4/10 01:28 PM, Sean . wrote: I can't seem to find them I've tried pkg install SUNWs10solaris pkg install s10c pkg install SUNWs10brand and every one returns Creating Plan /pkg: install: The following pattern(s) did not match any p

Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-24 Thread Rich Burridge
On 05/24/10 14:34, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Rich Burridge wrote: Try to create a gnutar archive from that directory and unpack it with solaris tar, and check if all files are copied ok: (cd / ; /usr/gnu/bin/tar cf - usr/share/doc/libsigc++-2.0 ) | (cd /tmp ; /bin

Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-24 Thread Rich Burridge
On 05/24/10 11:50, Jürgen Keil wrote: I don't type pathnames longer than 100 characters, which is 20 characters wider than a normal page. Try again with a path name> 100 chars and check what happens. I did verify a failure with Indiana build 134 But I don't use that on my syste

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

2010-02-20 Thread Rich Burridge
M. Gomez wrote: What mean "rge" and "urtw" ? the rtw is "realtekwireless" i guess? but why the "u"? and "rge" what is "r", "g" and "e"? Realtek Gigabit Ethernet ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Exuberant Ctags

2010-01-25 Thread Rich Burridge
Henry Jen wrote: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ Certainly one can self-build it, but I am still wondering if there is a package for OpenSolaris in IPS? developer/tool/exuberant-ctags Version 5.7 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] OT

2009-12-04 Thread Rich Burridge
Thommy M. Malmström wrote: Don't know where to ask this so I try here. I found a Java application on http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/demos/ which I launced with Java Web Start on my laptop running OpenSolaris 2009.06 b125. It downloaded and started a screen with a black circle but nothing m

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Samba packages to use and, what do Usr, Kernel, Root packages me

2009-03-28 Thread Rich Burridge
casper@sun.com wrote: I remember those days very well; the 2.x PROM (wasn't even OpenBoot PROM back then) couldn't handle / slices greater than 1GB, so if you stuck a 9GB disk inside of an IPX or an SS1+, you were forced to split / and /usr. Pwow, I feel old now. Nah, in the old

Re: [osol-discuss] 2Q: Changing user uid and going from DHCP->statis IP address.

2008-08-07 Thread Rich Burridge
To answer my own questions: Rich Burridge wrote: > 1/ I'd like to be able to use rsync to copy my local home directory > (/export/home/richb) to my networked home directory (/home/richb). > The problem is that when OpenSolaris 2008.05 was installed it didn't > offer me

[osol-discuss] 2Q: Changing user uid and going from DHCP->statis IP address.

2008-08-07 Thread Rich Burridge
Hi, I'm running OpenSolaris 2008.05 updated to build 94. I'd like to do two things: 1/ I'd like to be able to use rsync to copy my local home directory (/export/home/richb) to my networked home directory (/home/richb). The problem is that when OpenSolaris 2008.05 was installed it didn't