Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread James Mcphee
It was just announced that Oracle is buying Sun. This is not a drill. How is this going to play out for Java and MySQL? -- James McPhee jmc...@gmail.com --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscrib

Re: Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
And VirtualBox, and Open Solaris... ET James Mcphee writes: > It was just announced that Oracle is buying Sun. This is not a drill. How > is this going to play out for Java and MySQL? > > -- > James McPhee > jmc...@gmail.com --- PLUG-discu

Re: wireless problem

2009-04-20 Thread Dazed_75
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > I'm having a problem connecting with encryption enabled. > > My setup is a Desktop and a Dell latitude laptop both running Ubuntu > 8.04 and both running wicd (at the moment). The desktop is hard wired to > the Linksys WRT54GL router. So

Re: More Firefox weirdness

2009-04-20 Thread Dazed_75
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 12:13 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > FF3 is VERY buggy. -jmz > > > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM, stu w wrote: > > > Greetings All, > > >Paying bills today, which I normally do online, and have never > ru

Re: More Firefox weirdness

2009-04-20 Thread Dazed_75
BTW, although that article talks about people using betas and nightly builds and having problems, the point about using many add-ons remains even for a release version. I have seen other articles saying that. This article just happened to come along today.

Re: Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread Andrew "Tuna" Harris
Excerpts from James Mcphee's message of Mon Apr 20 04:52:33 -0700 2009: > It was just announced that Oracle is buying Sun. This is not a drill. How > is this going to play out for Java and MySQL? > Why did they buy Sun? Is that all these rich people do? "Hmmm... *fingertip-touching in front of o

Re: More Firefox weirdness

2009-04-20 Thread der.hans
Am 18. Apr, 2009 schwätzte stu w so: Greetings All, Paying bills today, which I normally do online, and have never run into a problem with Firefox on Ubuntu 8.10. After logging off from APS, I got a pop-up asking me to take a survey for APS. I clicked on it, and it was a nightmare from m

Re: More Firefox weirdness

2009-04-20 Thread Dazed_75
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 18. Apr, 2009 schwätzte stu w so: > > Greetings All, >>Paying bills today, which I normally do online, and have never run >> into >> a problem with Firefox on Ubuntu 8.10. After logging off from APS, I got >> a pop-up asking me to ta

Re: Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread Stephen
thats rather extreme for a simple /. fame... i have a feeling they have a number of ideas of what to do with the whole of it. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris wrote: > Excerpts from James Mcphee's message of Mon Apr 20 04:52:33 -0700 2009: >> It was just announced that Oracle

RE: Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread Bob Elzer
Oracle bought the Sun ? Wow, maybe they can do something about global warming, Turn the Temp down a little, stop all those sun spots. Huh, Hmmm, Oh, NEVERMIND -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]

Re: More Firefox weirdness

2009-04-20 Thread Matthew A Coulliette
Would this be a cookie issue? There are cookie manager add-ons for Firefox. After I installed one, I just goto: Tools=>Page Info=>Permissions=>Set Cookies. Then choose between Use Default, Allow, Allow for session, & Block. I know the back button not working is a cookie issue. I had Firefox set t

Re: Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread Al Tobey
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:52 AM, James Mcphee wrote: > It was just announced that Oracle is buying Sun.  This is not a drill.  How > is this going to play out for Java and MySQL? I've been quite fond of OpenSolaris lately.What I really hope they do is license ZFS and Dtrace for GPLv2 so Linux

Re: Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread Stephen
seeing ZFS and dtrace in the Linux world would be amazing.. but seeing more of the linux world in opensolaris would be equally amazing... and having a full UNIX server to build an optimized oracle for would be interesting to. the mind spins with geeky dreams On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Al

Fw: Re: Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread keith smith
If Java slips that might put Flex in place to become the next big language.  Keith Smith --- On Mon, 4/20/09, Al Tobey wrote: From: Al Tobey Subject: Re: Oracle buys Sun! To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 1:36 PM On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 a

Re: Fw: Re: Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Let's hope that doesn't happen. Flex is a very limited language, and doesn't really have architecture to be expanded to cover the immense breadth of what Java covers (particularly the server-side and mobile spaces, which is 90+% of all Java). Fortunately Java 7 is already under GPL and dual-ho

Apache basic authentication not working

2009-04-20 Thread Alan Dayley
We are using the ViewVC tool[1] as a web interface for browsing CVS and Subversion repositories. Been working wonderfully for a long time. Recently we wanted to limit the access to browse the source. We want to do this with Apache's basic authentication capability. All a great plan. On Red Hat

Lighting/Sunbird/iCal howto

2009-04-20 Thread Matthew A Coulliette
To whom it may concern, Here is how you can add events from online calendars. The links included are AZloco, Fridge (Ubuntu Events), Plug (not a continuous feed, only a partial). File=> New=> Calendar=> OnTheNetwork=> Format=> iCalendar=> Location=> AZloco: (paste link in location) http://www.go

How to properly re-establish users after a reinstall?

2009-04-20 Thread Josef Lowder
A question about how to properly re-establish the two users that I had prior to reinstalling my Linux operating system (only the OS in the "/" partition)? I had to reinstall because when I tried to install Virtual Box, it screwed up my system and caused "X" to no longer work. I could get to the co

RE: Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive, in a conference call described Java as "the single most important software asset we have ever acquired." so Java is probably safe, sun hardware and OS will likely get a boost, and MySQL is likely to be spun off as a pure community project with corporate supp

Re: How to properly re-establish users after a reinstall?

2009-04-20 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 18:40 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote: > A question about how to properly re-establish the two users that I had > prior to reinstalling my Linux operating system (only the OS in the > "/" partition)? > > I had to reinstall because when I tried to install Virtual Box, it > screwed u

Re: How to properly re-establish users after a reinstall?

2009-04-20 Thread Josef Lowder
Thanks Craig. I can't imagine how this could have come about as I know that hda7 was originally specified as just "/home" But I really appreciate your response and guidance. On 4/20/09, Craig White wrote: > it appears that you have mounted /dev/hda7 as /home/joe rather than > just /home > >

Re: Apache basic authentication not working

2009-04-20 Thread Lisa Kachold
Alan: ---[begin viewvc.conf]--- ScriptAlias /viewvc /var/www/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi ScriptAlias /query /var/www/cgi-bin/query.cgi Alias /viewvc-static /var/www/viewvc AuthType Basic AuthName "Subversion ID" AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-file Require valid-user Order allow,deny Allow from all

Re: Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread Lisa Kachold
They just didn't want IBM to write SUN off at a loss - since their competing products with Redhat/JBOSS/Blades (can you say "backplane"?) are so much higher dollar ROI. A great number of enterprise web and database Oracle farms run on Sun Hardware and Sun Unix [I have built and supported them for

Re: wireless problem

2009-04-20 Thread Lisa Kachold
Sorry, The source your firmware is running has the known WPA/WPA2 encryption issues. I am fairly sure that this is not your 8.04 stack, but you might try an updated system (or a neighbors). My 8.04 behaves the same way, while my 8.10 is fine with the same settings running to the same "router".

Re: How to properly re-establish users after a reinstall?

2009-04-20 Thread Lisa Kachold
Looks like your /home partition was being equated as /hda7 - which makes sense. umount /dev/hda7 mkdir /home mount -t ext3 (or whatever it is) /dev/hda7 /home df -k vi /etc/passwd ls -al ~joe ls -al ~pattie You can change the mount point via /etc/fstab You can change the users home via /etc/pass

Re: Fw: Re: Oracle buys Sun!

2009-04-20 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:53 PM, keith smith wrote: > > If Java slips that might put Flex in place to become the next big language. ? -jmz > > > > Keith Smith > > --- On Mon, 4/20/09, Al Tobey wrote: > > From: Al Tobey > Subject: Re: Oracle buys Sun! > To: "Main PLU

Re: How to properly re-establish users after a reinstall?

2009-04-20 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 19:53 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Looks like your /home partition was being equated as /hda7 - which makes > sense. > > umount /dev/hda7 > mkdir /home > mount -t ext3 (or whatever it is) /dev/hda7 /home > df -k > vi /etc/passwd > ls -al ~joe > ls -al ~pattie > > > You can