Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Fwd: Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-09-24 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
bInterval = 0xa } Please tell me if it the fingerprint scanner would work. Thank you Sivasubramanian Muthusamy Thank you Sivasubramanian Muthusamy On 7/4/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 03:14, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: Dear Gaopeng

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-07 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
developers have to do a lot of complex work in order to give the user a compuer that is plain, easy and utterly simple. Thanks for your comments. Sivasubramanian Muthusamy ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-07 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to have the option to use Solaris without having to learn the details. By the way, I agree with you. Where we (perhaps) disagree is the means to get to the point of using Solaris without having to learn the details. And on further thought, I think

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-07 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Open Solaris developers have to do a lot of complex work in order to give the user a compuer that is plain, easy and utterly simple. And what about users rolling up their sleeves and helping out? Or is everything just to be delivered on a silver platter? Users might help Open Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-07 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Users might help Open Solaris by giving a feed back, by telling them what they want. That would be great help, and beyond that, if you want users to roll up their sleeves and help out, no, that is not going to happen. That can never happen. Yes, the user wants it all delivered on

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-06 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Ian Collins, This isn't the place to discuss the shortcomings of Solaris 10, many of these have been addressed in Solaris Express and other OpenSolaris based distributions. Let the past rest and look to the future. I have seen looked at developer editions, some of the most recent

[osol-discuss] Fwd: Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-06 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
On 8/4/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/4/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 23:08 -0700, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: My post was in a certain manner of expression. On rapid reading, ux-admin and other readers thought that i

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Ggendel, My hope is that Indiana will make quick work of catching up with Linux distributions like Ubuntu and can then set it's sights on a real desktop solution. Indiana shoots up my expectations. I wouldn't just hope that Indiana will 'catch up with Linux, I would rather instigate

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Gary Gendel wrote: For example: why install Sendmail if the user only uses Thunderbird as a mail client? . It is these types of details that keep the system complexity up plus confound and confuse the home user the bulk of UNIX users ... relied upon Sendmail ... Sendmail has also

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
The desktop for a common user vs a corporate revolves around plug and play, Yes, it must be plug and play. Some technical executives I have talked to tend to believe that Solaris is already plug and play, it is not. Ian, the DVDs that I tried in one of the most recent releases of Nevada did

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
My hope is that Indiana will make quick work of catching up with Linux distributions like Ubuntu Is that what Indiana would aspire for ? Catch up with Ubuntu Pathetic. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
The networking tool in OpenSolaris is okay No, it is not OKAY. Try configuring Internet in Windows XP, look at the kind of easy questions asked. Look at the help file menu that pops up in the unlikely even that the internet fails to configure If the task is desktop, you need to begin by

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-05 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
What nonsense, if you are going to criticise something, check out the current version first. Ian Ian, you sound so easily irritated. And to tend to defend Sun, Solaris and Open Solaris. You could be so defensive in a Press Meet, not in a develper forum, you might want to hear more and more

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
My post was in a certain manner of expression. On rapid reading, ux-admin and other readers thought that i did not understand the basics of how elaborate the O/S is or that I did not understand the purpose for built in measures such as the time taken to shut down the system. The post was on

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Ian, I am more talking about Solaris 10, Version 11/06, but I have also been exposed to more advanced developer versions. The shut down feature is not the only difficulty that I am talking about. I am talking about identifying such irritants for the common man, who is the Master by

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Ian Collins, This isn't the place to discuss the shortcomings of Solaris 10, many of these have been addressed in Solaris Express and other OpenSolaris based distributions. Let the past rest and look to the future. I have seen looked at developer editions, some of the most recent

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
and installs, asks a few questions in a manner that I understand. This, among other things, is the kind of ease that i am talking about. All I have done is to throw a few questions, DELIBERATELY, as an uneducated, un-coperative reader. Sivasubramanian Muthusamy. This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Carlsonj, Thanks for your positive comments. On remarks such as Do you even care to understand I am not deterred. This probably had to do with my manner of expression, which was that of an irrational user. It is just a posture that I adopted to emphasize greater targets for ease of use

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Sun wouldn't use Gnome if you would try to position Solaris as desktop OS. William Dear William, If Sun wouldn't use a GNOME, what would it use in Solaris if positioned as a Desktop O?S ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
To the powers that be, Why not? I assume it is the lack of resources, but then isnt this market worth the investment? Anil PS : Mac OSX, now offcially a Unix, has shown that one can be adapted for the avg Joe User. I don't think it is the lack of resources, it is just that Sun's

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Mathew, No, I have not decided on Solaris 10 11/16. I have also been exposed to the most recent developer editions. Indiana sounds promising. Agreed. But if you want to help Indiana - its probably best that you help out, it is a community project after all. I have already

[osol-discuss] Announcing the first of the Open Solaris Rewards Program...

2007-08-04 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Hello, What will do with it ? I will tell you later. The computer is built with an obsolete processor that I managed to find, with a RAM from yesterday that I managed to find. The processor is a 333 MHz processor and the RAM is DDR I, 256 MB. I wish I could find a 128 MB ram, but I did not

[osol-discuss] An open reply to the Open letter to the Solaris Community

2007-08-03 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Wussboy, I am a total newcomer to the open source community, I am here as a person who grew up with Microsoft Windows, as a person who still admires Windows ( I have not used Mac ) for its ease of use features. With this background, WITH ADMIRATION FOR THE EASE OF USE OF FEATURES OF

[osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-03 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
By standalone I mean a computer that is not part of a LAN, not even on a peer-peer connection, but one that gets on to the Internet. I have a desktop with Sun Solaris and I have this problem. Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network with a thousand users or more. I need to

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-07-18 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
with you by giving you a real time feedback on the process of making this device work. Sivasubramanian Muthusamy India. On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fingerprint Authentication == Project Overview: - The biometrics

[osol-discuss] Solaris Projects for Students

2007-07-18 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
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[osol-discuss] Fwd: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-07-18 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
with you by giving you a real time feedback on the process of making this device work. Sivasubramanian Muthusamy India. On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fingerprint Authentication == Project Overview: - The biometrics